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Gaku: Minna no Yama (岳みんなの山, lit. “Peak: Everyone’s Mountain”) is a Japanese mountaineering manga series written and illustrated by Shinichi Ishizuka. It was serialized by Shogakukan in the seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original from September 2003 to June 2012, with its chapters collected in eighteen tankōbon 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 Taishō (“Cartoon Grand Prize”) and the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga. A live-action movie based on Gaku was released on May 7, 2011.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Shinichi Ishizuka, Gaku: Minna no Yama was serialized in Shogakukan‘s seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original from 20 September 2003 to 5 June 2012. Shogakukan collected its chapters eighteen tankōbon volumes, released from 26 April 2005 to 30 August 2012.

Volume list

No.	Release date	ISBN
1	26 April 2005	4-09-187571-8
2	29 September 2006	4-09-180730-5
3	26 December 2006	4-09-181003-9
4	24 April 2007	978-4-09-181207-0
5	28 September 2007	978-4-09-181470-8
6	30 January 2008	978-4-09-181719-8
7	30 June 2008	978-4-09-182029-7
8	28 November 2008	978-4-09-182248-2
9	27 February 2009	978-4-09-182380-9
10	28 August 2009	978-4-09-182590-2
11	27 February 2010	978-4-09-183073-9
12	30 June 2010	978-4-09-183218-4
13	30 November 2010	978-4-09-183527-7
14	28 April 2011	978-4-09-183819-3
15	30 September 2011	978-4-09-184085-1
16	29 February 2012	978-4-09-184277-0
17	30 July 2012	978-4-09-184645-7
18	30 August 2012	978-4-09-184707-2

Reception

Gaku: Minna no Yama is a best-seller in Japan—for example, volume six reached number 6 on the Tohan Comic Ranking, volume seven also reached number 6, volume eight reached number 14 and remained at number 16 the following week, and volume 9 debuted at number 26 before rising to number 17 the following week. The series was featured by Da Vinci magazine as the Platinum Book of the Month for April 2007.

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

岳みんなの山
Gaku: Minna no Yama
First tankōbon volume cover
Manga
Written by	Shinichi Ishizuka
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Big Comic Original
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	20 September 2003 – 5 June 2012
Volumes	18 (List of volumes)
Live-action
Gaku: Minna no Yama (2011 film)