wiki of "Gaku: Minna no Yama"

Gaku: Minna no Yama (岳 みんなの山?, lit. "Peak: Everyone's Mountain") is a Japanese mountaineering mangawritten and illustrated by Shin'ichi Ishizuka. It has been serialized by Shogakukan in Big Comic Original since 2003, and collected in eighteen bound volumes. 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 was released on May 7, 2011. It had ended in 2012.

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 eighteentankōbon volumes, titled Gaku ("Peak") without the subtitle used on the serialized numbers. The series is licensed in Taiwan by Sharp Point Press.

Gaku: Minna no Yama received the first annual Manga Taisho ("Cartoon Grand Prize") in 2008, and the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.