Hikaru is given a phone call asking him to appear in the Japan/China/Korea Junior's Tournament but he finds out he will have to take part in a preliminary tournament to choose Japan's three contestants. Upon discussing this with Akira, he discovers that Akira has already been chosen for the tournament and will not be taking place in the preliminaries. Hikaru then decides not to visit Akira's Go Salon until he takes his place on the team with Akira. That may be tougher than originally planned...
Tomoko Kawakami
Hikaru Shindō (voice)
Sanae Kobayashi
Akira Toya (voice)
Keiji Fujiwara
Seiji Ogata (voice)
Yurika Hino
Hikaru's mother (voice)
Katashi Ishizuka
Kiyoharu Yashiro (voice)
Kenichi Sakaguchi
Hai Yang (voice)
Reiko Takagi
Ping Le (voice)
Eriko Fujimaki
Shi Zhao (voice)
