Hikaru gets a phone call asking him to enter the preliminaries to try to earn one of the three seats for Japan in the Japan, China, and Korea Junior Tournament. While discussing this with Akira, he finds out that Akira has already been chosen for the tournament and will not be taking place in the preliminaries. Now Hikaru must compete for one of the two remaining seats. Hikaru decides not to visit Akira's Go Salon until he takes his place on the team with Akira. But can Hikaru overcome his friends and new challengers including a strong player from the Kansai Go Institute. Two seats remain, and only two players in Japan will join Akira...
Tomoko Kawakami
Hikaru Shindō (voice)
Susumu Chiba
Fujiwara no Sai (voice)
Sanae Kobayashi
Akira Toya (voice)
Yumi Kakazu
Akari Fujisaki (voice)
Makoto Tsumura
Kimihiro Tsutsui (voice)
Kentaro Ito
Tetsuo Kaga (voice)
Yuu Asakawa
Yuki Mitani (voice)
Mayumi Asano
Okumura (voice)
Takahiro Sakurai
Kaoru Kishimoto (voice)
Reiko Takagi
Yoshitaka Waya (voice)
Kenichi Suzumura
Isumi Shinichirou (voice)
Yoko Matsuoka
Kosuke Ochi (voice)
Atsuko Enomoto
Asumi Nase (voice)
Wasabi Mizuta
Yuuta Fukui (voice)
Eizo Tsuda
Kouyou Touya (voice)
Keiji Fujiwara
Seiji Ogata (voice)
Rokuro Naya
Honinbo Kuwabara (voice)
Eriko Fujimaki
Shi Zhao (voice)
Satsuki Yukino
Ichikawa-san (voice)
Eriko Kawasaki
Mitani's Sister (voice)
