Following Prince of Tennis in the schedule was this other hit show from the pages of Shonen Jump. The tale of a young boy learning the game of Go from the ghost of a Heian era Go instructor to the Emperor.

I wrote about it here.

Here’s an old BBC report on the boom caused by the manga and anime:

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