| Gaku: Minna no Yama | |
Gaku: Minna no Yama volume 1 published by Shogakukan |
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| 岳 みんなの山 | |
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| Genre | Adventure |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Shin'ichi Ishizuka |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Big Comic Original |
| Original run | 2003 issue 19 – ongoing |
| Volumes | 14 |
Gaku: Minna no Yama (岳 みんなの山, lit. "Peak: Everyone's Mountain") is a Japanese mountaineering manga written and illustrated by Shin'ichi Ishizuka. It has been serialized by Shogakukan in Big Comic Original since 2003, and collected in thirteen bound volumes as of November 2010. It depicts the adventures of a volunteer with an alpine search and rescue team in the Japanese Alps. Gaku: Minna no Yama received the 2008 Manga Taisho ("Cartoon Grand Prize") and the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga. A movie based on Gaku will be released on May 7, 2011. [1]
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Gaku: Minna no Yama is written and illustrated by Shin'ichi Ishizuka and was first published by Shogakukan in the seinen (aimed at younger adult men) manga magazine Big Comic Original in 2003 issue 19. It was serialized irregularly until July 2007, when it moved to a weekly schedule. The serial chapters have been collected in fifteen tankōbon volumes, titled Gaku ("Peak") without the subtitle used on the serialized numbers, as of November 2011. The series is licensed in Taiwan by Sharp Point Press.[2]
| No. | Release date | ISBN |
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| 1 | 26 April 2005[3] | ISBN 4-09-187571-8 |
| 2 | 29 September 2006[4] | ISBN 4-09-180730-5 |
| 3 | 26 December 2006[5] | ISBN 4-09-181003-9 |
| 4 | 24 April 2007[6] | ISBN 978-4-09-181207-0 |
| 5 | 28 September 2007[7] | ISBN 978-4-09-181470-8 |
| 6 | 30 January 2008[8] | ISBN 978-4-09-181719-8 |
| 7 | 30 June 2008[9] | ISBN 978-4-09-182029-7 |
| 8 | 28 November 2008[10] | ISBN 978-4-09-182248-2 |
| 9 | 27 February 2009[11] | ISBN 978-4-09-182380-9 |
| 10 | 28 August 2009[12] | ISBN 978-4-09-182590-2 |
| 11 | 27 February 2010[13] | ISBN 978-4-09-183073-9 |
| 12 | 30 June 2010[14] | ISBN 978-4-09-183218-4 |
| 13 | 30 November 2010[15] | ISBN 978-4-09-183527-7 |
| 14 | 28 April 2011[16] | ISBN 978-4-09-183819-3 |
Gaku: Minna no Yama is a best-seller in Japan—for example, volume six reached number 6 on the Tohan Comic Ranking,[17] volume seven also reached number 6,[18] volume eight reached number 14[19] and remained at number 16 the following week,[20] and volume 9 debuted at number 26[21] before rising to number 17 the following week.[22] The series was featured by Da Vinci magazine as the Platinum Book of the Month for April 2007.[23]
Gaku: Minna no Yama received the first annual Manga Taisho ("Cartoon Grand Prize") in 2008,[24] and the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.[25]
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