Hikaru Shindo is like any sixth-grader in Japan: a pretty normal schoolboy with a two-tone head of hair and a penchant for antics. One day, he finds an old bloodstained Go board in his grandfather's attic an...

Heaven and earth serves as a chessboard, with living things serving as the chess pieces! Unwilling to act as a pawn, one instead becomes the player! Being defeated in this game of chess, one dies and is elim...