Yumi Hotta

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Фотография автора Hikaru no Go, Yumi Hotta (Юми Хотта)

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“LET’S PLAY GO!” An Interview With Hikaru No Go Author Yumi Hotta
When Yumi Hotta (l) was learning to play go, she got frustrated at never being able to beat the professionals who taught her. “So I thought, Wouldn’t it be great if I had a strong supernatural ally, maybe then I could beat a pro someday,” she told the E-Journal late Tuesday afternoon at the Nihon Kiin in Tokyo. The result was the best-selling manga and anime series Hikaru no Go, which is credited with renewing or sparking interest in go worldwide in recent years. “I had no idea how popular it was outside Japan until I went to the European Go Congress two years ago and met so many people who told me they learned about go through Hikaru No Go,” Hotta said, laughing. Petite and watchful, Hotta radiates a quiet calm, her movements precise and each word carefully chosen. These days, she says, she and her husband Kiyonari Hotta, a fellow mangaka (manga writer) who also worked on HNG with her, live quietly at home with two bunchos, Japanese rice birds they’re raising. “The game of go is still very interesting,” Hotta said, “and I want to keep playing,” though she now prefers the turn-based version, and says that “some of my opponents are from America.” Chuckling, she said that “The problem is that Japanese and Americans who learn go from Hikaru No Go quickly become much stronger than me.” Interestingly, Hotta told the EJ “I never intended to teach go through the manga. It’s very hard to teach a person to play go. I thought if I could show people enjoying themselves playing the game, the people who read the manga might themselves want to play.” Asked if she had a message for her many fans in the United States, Miss Hotta smiled and said “Let’s play go some day!” //May 29, 2008