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Anime about chess?

Post by Onibakun » Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:40 pm

An anime revolving around (or refering to) chess prominently...

I already gotz Code Geass. But is there any bazaar anime about Chess...fighting?

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Re: Anime about chess?

Post by Kireblue » Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:03 am

Umineko doesn't really revolve around chess, but there is a turning chessboard during the closing credits. (And another one is briefly shown during the opening credits)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZf0HdRUuZ8

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Post by CodeZTM » Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:08 am

Hikaru No Go is about a different board game, but fits pretty much your description, just with a different game.

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Re: Anime about chess?

Post by Arigatomina » Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:17 pm

Soul Hunter (Houshin Engi) has a scene with a virtual chess board. They're discussing strategy and suddenly the little chess pieces are jumbo sized and kind a cool looking.
Screencap: http://www.arigatomina.com/webpics/rand ... lchess.jpg

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Post by Kanti13 » Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:35 am

Onibakun wrote:An anime revolving around (or refering to) chess prominently...
Some animes that have a lot of chess scenes and with Chess themes (as like a metaphor for the plot) that come to mind are: Kuroshitusji, Vampire Knight, and to some extent Pandora Hearts.

You can see a bit of the chess theme in the first Vampire Knight OP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGjksV95o30
I couldn't find the Kuroshitsuhi OP, but this series has the most chess references and theme that I can think of. There's some chess stuff is in this video.

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Re: Anime about chess?

Post by Fall_Child42 » Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:09 pm

there was totally that one episode of sailor moon where mecury would play chess while she was slowly getting frozen.
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Re: Anime about chess?

Post by Kitsuner » Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:27 pm

No mention of Cowboy Bebop's episode all about chess? For shame.

Aside from that, there's some chess in Stellvia and Yugioh.
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Re: Anime about chess?

Post by TEKnician » Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:08 pm

Code Geass

There is one sequence of episodes when some dude (who can read your mind) challenges another dude (that can control your mind) to a game of chess.

Whoever wins gets to kill the other dude and take the girl whose life literally hangs in the balance, meaning, there is a scale that holds the captured pieces and it is rigged to a bomb underneath the unconscious girl hanging on a wall. This is probably the most interesting, pulse-pounding chess game I have ever seen.
Almost as hard as fighting a Holy Paladin.

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Re: Anime about chess?

Post by marthwmaster » Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:38 am

The_TEKnician wrote:Code Geass

There is one sequence of episodes when some dude (who can read your mind) challenges another dude (that can control your mind) to a game of chess.

Whoever wins gets to kill the other dude and take the girl whose life literally hangs in the balance, meaning, there is a scale that holds the captured pieces and it is rigged to a bomb underneath the unconscious girl hanging on a wall. This is probably the most interesting, pulse-pounding chess game I have ever seen.
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Just sayin'...

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Re: Anime about chess?

Post by aerotem » Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:58 pm

Code wrote:Hikaru No Go is about a different board game, but fits pretty much your description, just with a different game.
kinda what i was going to say >.>
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