Line #8 Manga/Gaku

Context Manga / Gaku

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3	->''Cool, awesome, astonishing story about climbers and rescuers! Climb easy and find your own adventure!''
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5	''Gaku'' is a {{seinen}} manga by Ishizuka Shinichi, which was serialized in ''Big Comic Original'' from 2003 to 2012.
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7	The story is about Shimazaki Sampo, a cheery fellow who traveled the world climbing mountains, then came home to Japan to be a volunteer mountaineering rescuer. Sampo is basically a mountain geek with infectious enthusiasm for mountaineering, despite having run into a number of tragedies while climbing. He also has a knack for running into people on the mountain just at the moment when they need his help the most, whether he's on duty or just climbing for pleasure.
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9	Despite being extremely popular in Japan, ''Gaku'' is barely known in the English-speaking manga fandom. In May, a live-action adaptation will make its theater debut.
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12	!''Gaku'' provides examples of:
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14	* BusmansHoliday : Sampo essentially does nothing else than climb mountains, whether for his work as a volunteer rescuer or for pleasure. A not-insignificant number of his rescues are done while he's off-duty or not on call.
15	* CatchPhrase : "Yoku ganbatta na!" or "You did your best!" is what Sampo says to his rescuees.
16	* {{Engrish}} : Some of what Sampo's English-speaking buddies say is grammatically and idiomatically correct... some of it isn't.
17	** {{Narm}} : What might have been a touching chapter is ruined when Sampo says, in Engrish, while carrying a man on his back who has just died of grievous injuries... "Soooooo saaaaad."
18	* JustInTime : Sampo lives and breathes this trope, to the point where he shows up JustInTime... to catch a photographer's falling tripod and tell him to pose for the timer.
19	* MustHaveCaffeine : Sampo isn't the belligerent type at all, but he clearly runs on coffee.
20	* SceneryPorn : There's plenty of it.
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Context Manga / Gaku