Yumi Hotta

Yumi Hotta (堀田 由美, most often written as ほった ゆみ, born October 15, 1957) is a Japanese manga artist, born in Aichi Prefecture.

Quotes

• I wanted to learn Go, so I paid a go school and started to attend classes once a week with a pro. He was mean, and never let the students win the teaching games. This was frustrating to me, because I was thinking "Why am I paying to lose all the time?" I wished that I had a guardian angel or a ghost that could help me beat him really bad. It was at that moment that Hikaru no Go was born.
  • Interview at the International Go Symposium, 5 August 2012.

Hikaru no Go

Why I play go? The answer inside me is clear... To link the far past with the far future.

• All you are is the Go you play.
  • In the manga series, Akira says this to Hikaru.

• This is the universe! And I'm placing stones one by one on that. Like I'm increasing the number of stars one by one... I'm making the universe. It's like I'm a God. I'm going to become a God! On this Go Board.
  • In the anime, Hikaru says this when he plays in a Go tournament for the first time.

• To link the far past, with the far future.
  • Hikaru's reason for playing Go (Volume 23, chapter 189)