Earth Star Entertainment announced today that Shiro’s Encourage of Climb (known as Yama no Susume in Japan), a mountaineering-themed popular manga series published from its Earth Star Comics magazine, has reached a cumulative one million copies in print.To commemorate this, a special celebration website opened today, September 12, the release day of the manga’s latest 25th volume in Japan. The site is now streaming a celebratory video voiced by Yuka Iguchi (as Aoi Yukimura) and Kana Asumi (as Hinata Kuraue).
Encourage of Climb has been serialized in Earth Star Entertainment’s Comic Earth Star magazine (which was relaunched as a webcomic magazine of the same name in 2015) since August 2011 , and its TV anime adaptations aired for four seasons from 2013 to 2022.The announcement for the manga’s reaching one million copies was already made on the magazine’s official X (formerly Twitter) in August with a celebratory illustration by the author.
The synopsis from the anime reads:
Aoi prefers indoor hobbies and is afraid of heights, but her childhood friend Hinata loves to show off her passion for mountain climbing. As young children they once watched the sunrise from the top of a mountain, and now they’ve decided to take up mountain climbing in hopes of seeing that sunrise again. They have cooking battles with mountaineering gear, climb small hills in their neighborhood, and meet new mountaineering friends as they learn the ropes of the hobby. When will they finally see that sunrise again?
Volume 1 cover
Volume 25 cover
Sources: Earth Star entertainment press release, Earth Star Comic official X (formerly Twitter)
