Hikaru no Go

i am late to the party... as always... and i'll skip the questions for which i'm poorly equipped to answer. because i feel like it. ^_^;;;

1- a character you didn’t care about at first but ended up loving:
i guess that's probably Ogata. at first, i really disliked him, but i've come around to finding him quite interesting.
2 - a character you wish would appear more often (or get written about more often):
3 - a character you wish would get his/her own focused episode/chapter:
well, i can't say Isumi because he got a whole arc to himself, so... i think i'll go with Nase. or Ashiwara. or Saeki. they're all characters that aren't fleshed out enough in canon, so they're ripe for fic, too. oh, and Kishimoto, too!
6 - a series you’d like to cross Hikaru no Go over with:
i've already crossed it with Prince of Tennis (though i still believe Tezuka and Kishismoto are cousins...) and KKM, but... any school-based series would work. also, i'm thinking Sangatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) would be good. shogi players and go players, or even maybe something with Kaga...
7 - an unpopular opinion about any aspect of Hikaru no Go:
ummmm... i'm not really sure... i find Touya (Akira) a lot more flawed than most of fandom, i think...
8 - Do you have any favorite platonic relationships?
let's see... Hikaru and Akari... Hikaru and Waya... Hikaru and Isumi... (Hikaru makes friends easily!) even Hikaru and Kurata! and Touya Kouyo and Morishita.
9 - if you could spend a day with a character of your choice, who would it be?
Isumi. but i have no idea what we would do.
11 - the most touching scene:
three-way tie... the moment Hikaru realizes Sai is gone / the moment Hikaru realizes that Sai is with him, in his go / the dream where Sai passes off his fan. yeah, nothing shocking there, the climax arc of the series. ^_~
12 - two characters you wish would interact more with each other:
Saeki and Ashiwara. just, so much fun, anytime they do.
15 - What are some of your favorite pairings and why?
isumi/waya - because isumi is my favorite character, and waya loves him like i do, ha.
ashiwara/saeki - because... they are so different, and somehow, Ashiwara can rattle Saeki, who is otherwise shown to be so cool
akari/mitani - i just... i feel like, even before akari has totally gotten over hikaru, she's already become focused on mitani, and he's probably jealous of hikaru for more than one reason.
16 - what made you start watching/reading Hikaru no Go:
i don't even remember who it was, but there were several people on my flist who had watched it. i had trouble d/ling it wayyyyy back in the day, though. i remember being afraid because the place i was sloooooowly downloading from was taking down episodes, and i thought i'd not be able to get it.
17 - your favourite arc:
god, so many. but i love isumi coming back from china and the whole hikaru is missing sai so he retreats from go thing. leading up the climax, isumi drawing hikaru's go back out.
18 - your favourite aspect of Hikaru no Go:
the great, great characterizations. everyone is so well-developed, even characters you dislike, you end up seeing good things about them. (except, well, the Bad Guys that sai and hikaru take down from time to time...)
19 - your favourite character design:
sorry, i'm shallow. when it comes to character design, i definitely have to go with isumi. but, i also love how the characters age, and hikaru by the end has become quite cool, too.
21 - your favourite female character:
probably Nase. but, there are a lot of good ones, even if they are all fairly minor... even Akari, i love. and Akiko, and hikaru's mom Mitsuko, and kaneko... ^_^;;;
24 - your favourite minor character:
allllllllllll of them! and Kuwabara. Kuwabara, and alllll of them!

whee!