The Summit of the Gods

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The Summit of the Gods
File:The Summit of the Gods.jpg
Cover of the first volume of The Summit of the Gods, as released by Shueisha
神々の山嶺
(Kamigami no Itadaki)
Genre Historical, Drama
Manga
Written by Jiro Taniguchi
Published by Shueisha
English publisher
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Business Jump
Original run 2000 – 2003
Volumes 5
Live-action film
Directed by Hideyuki Hirayama
Studio Asmik Ace Entertainment
Released March 12, 2016
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The Summit of the Gods (Japanese: 神々の山嶺 Hepburn: Kamigami no Itadaki?) is a manga series written and illustrated by Jiro Taniguchi. Based a 1998 novel by Baku Yumemakura,[1][2] it follows Fukamachi, a photographer who finds a camera supposedly belonging to George Mallory, a mountaineer who went missing on Mount Everest, and goes on a mountain-climbing adventure along with his friend Habu Joji.[3]

Asmik Ace Entertainment announced a film adaptation, Everest: Kamigami no Itadaki (エヴェレスト 神々の山嶺 Everesuto Kamigami no Itadaki?), to be released on roadshow in 2016.[4] The film will be directed by Hideyuki Hirayama and star Junichi Okada, Hiroshi Abe and Machiko Ono.[5][6]

Release

The manga was originally serialized in the magazine Business Jump by Shueisha between issues May 2000 and July 2003.[7] It was collected into five tankōbon published between December 2000 and March 2003,[8][9] then re-released in bunkoban between October 18, 2006 and January 18, 2007.[10][11] An English-language version was licensed by British company Fanfare/Ponent Mon in 2007.[12] On July 23, 2009, its first volume was released,[13] and the last is set to be released on July 31, 2015.[14] It has also been licensed in French by Kana,[15] German by Schreiber & Leser,[16] and Spanish by Ponent Mon.[17]

Reception

In 2001, it was awarded a prize for excellence by the Agency for Cultural Affairs at the Japan Media Arts Festival, which praised its "powerful illustrations [that] seem to transport the reader right up into the mountains."[1] Its English adaptation received a nomination for Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel and Outstanding Series in 2010.[3] The fourth English volume also was nominated at the 2014 Eisner Award in the category "Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia".[18]

References

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