As mentioned here, a new Go manga will be released in this month.
This is the second Go manga being released after 21 years that is on a major weekly magazine and is fully supported by Nihon Kiin. In between Hikaru no Go and this manga, there were other Go themed manga too such as Hoshizora no Karasu (2013 ~ 2016) and Gunbu no Pair Go (2021 ~ 2023).
I’ve consolidated some of the information I could find about this manga. I will try to share more information once it is released too.
Japanese Title: 伍と碁(Go to Go)
English Title: Go and Go (tentatively named by me)
Title meaning: The second Go (碁) just means Go, the game we all love. The first Go (伍) can mean the number 5 or a group of 5 people, usually used to refer to a small team in army. If you read or watch Kingdom probably you’ll have heard of it too (another nice Manga/Anime!). I guess it refers to the 5 characters that the main character has to overcome in the story. I’ll just name it Go and Go for now until somebody else can come up with a cooler name after finding out the story.
Synopsis:
The story follows Akiyama Kosei (秋山恒星), a protagonist who excelled in various fields such as baseball, soccer, and academics, but experienced a setback in the world of Go. As a high school student, he returns to the game, vowing to take revenge on the five young prodigies who once defeated him.
Author: Hasuo Toto
Go Strength: Learnt for about 8 years but hasn’t played much with people so actual strength is unclear.
Author Comments:
“I hope this manga will become one that is enjoyed by both who know Go and don’t know Go. It will be great if more people can read it!!”
Illustrator: Nakazato Haruna
Past titles include a manga called “Blast” which has 3 volumes. It is about the high school life of the main character in the Wind Orchestra Club who has no talent but has the passion for music. You can see a sample here (in Japanese).
Go Strength: Currently learning through a Go app called 囲碁であそぼ (Let’s play Go)
Supervised by:
Iyama Yuta (Oza, Gosei, Judan)
Terayama Rei 6P
First chapter planned release date:
27th Jan 2025 on the Weekly Young Magazine
First volume planned release date:
May 2025
Will share more information once they are available! Will definitely share also once the first chapter is released!
No wonder I couldn’t find it on Bookwalker, lol
Thanks for the heads up! 
You can read other Go manga in the meantime lol
Thanks for the information!
Thanks! I’m curious to read this. Can anyone comment on the chances of it being translated into English? Also, what are the typical timelines for translations?
Given that it’s not released in a Shonen magazine, I would say the chances are low unless it gets popular. Here are the manga in Weekly Young Magazine.
10 more days to release of the first chapter!
Perhaps there could be some fan subs made, given the percentage of english speaking go players who learn japanese
2 more days to the release of the first chapter!
The Japanese version of the first chapter can be read for free using the link here. I’m not sure about the English version. If anyone knows please let me know!
I don’t want to spoil anything but it was definitely interesting. The title of the first chapter is “Frog in a well” but it’s all written in Katakana. It’s about this boy Akiyama Kousei having a talent in everything since young and is trying to be the Fujii Sota in Go. Go take a read!
A video interview with the Manga Author, Editor, Illustrator and Supervisor (Terayama Rei 6P). Interestingly, this is the first manga serialization for both the Author and the Editor! And the Author quit his full-time job after the serialization was confirmed. They aim to create the “Hikaru no Go” in the Reiwa era.
We could do a mini thread to collectively translate it 
I’ve been learning bits of kanji, but very slow going.
The very first thing, if I’m looking at the right first pages is 野球 = yakyuu = baseball.
But not necessarily collectively translate it (a lot of work line by line), probably one can google translate etc.
Maybe like a vocab sheet?
You could start a book club on Wanikani: Book Clubs - WaniKani Community
On the one hand, maybe more people there would know Japanese to contribute, assuming they’re interested.
On the other, more people here are interested in Go.
So… we’d just be sending people from one discourse to another
Yeah, that Discourse is very active, so you need a smaller percentage of participants to have more in absolute number. Book clubs are also a regular thing there with its own forum category, so you wouldn’t be reinventing the wheel
But sometimes someone else’s wheel looks like
when all you want is
Like their book clubs sound a bit intense, with maybe too much structure.
While maybe the easier thing is to just have someone say “that kanji is https://jlearn.net/dictionary/打席“ 打席=daseki=batters box or turn to bat
Haha, nice idea, but my concern is that people won’t be able to read it in the first place because they are not using English alphabets unlike some languages. To be able to recognise the hiragana, katakana and kanji is not easy if you don’t know Japanese (and Chinese) at all. Probably for those people using Google Lens is better 
