Let’s go to the top! Ahhhh Yama no Susume. A slice of life, feel-good show about mountain climbing and budding friendships. I think it’s a show that’s been ignored (and needs more love) because it’s [...]
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Learn how to make french toast and pound cake…or just stare at pictures of food. I’m always looking for ways to combine my hobbies with aniblogging to make new combinations of posts. This isn’t the [...]
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So the second season came to a close. The question is how good is it compared to its reasonably enjoyable prequel? Let’s find out as we take a look at the second season of Yama no Susume. For readers [...]
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A promise remembered. This is a second season that takes everything that was good about the first, and then improves it immensely. The post Yama no Susume: Second Season – Mountain [...]
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Climbing, hiking and camping. These are all things I have not really done outside of more casual occasions, yet those times live on as warm memories inside of me. Despite being years ago since I last [...]
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ETA 11/5/2014: Pre-orders are officially open for Yukimura Aoi Nendoroid. Release date is set for March 2015, with a price of ¥3889. The figure is sculpted by Kazuyoshi Udono in cooperation with [...]
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Good Smile Company is going to release the Nendoroid No.470 Yukimura Aoi ( 雪村あおい ) action figure from the manga/anime “Yama no Susume” ( ヤマノススメ ). Will be released in March 2015. Around 100mm, 3,889 [...]
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Good Smile Company previews today upcoming Nendoroid Yukimura Aoi from Yama no Susume. We had the chance to see the lovely Yukimura Aoi in GSC Live Streaming on NicoNico of October 22nd as well as [...]
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It looks like Crunchyroll have fixed up whatever hung-up they had clearing the rights to Yama no Susume S2 aka Encouragement of Climb S2 and it is available for streaming. P.S. Anime of the season.
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Gundam-san: Ummm…. what? Just having Char show up and shake his naked butt around isn’t all that funny… Himegoto: Japan continues to make the same awful jokes about transvestites. Hilarious. Shin [...]
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Absolutely adored the first season of “Yamano Susume”, the anime adaptation of the “ヤマノススメ” manga by Shiro, so was eagerly awaiting the start of the second season. Also titled “Encouragement of [...]
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「テントに泊まろう！」 (Tento ni Tomarou!) "Let's Sleep Over in a Tent!" Yama no Susume is back, and each episode has a 13-minute run-time instead of a lonely 3-minutes. It makes the transition [...]
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AKA the show so good, not even Ogura’s diabetes voice was able to ruin it. They will never climb your mountain ;_; pic.twitter.com/t2Mp4OnKj4 — Center ★ Nova (@CirNobar) July 10, 2014 They will never [...]
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In preparation for the second season I decided to give a quick overview of the first season of Encouragement of Cimb/Yama no Susume. Alternate Title: Encouragement of Climb. Genres: Comedy, Slice of [...]
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According to YaraOn, a second season of 「Yama no Susume」 has been green-lit for production. It is slated to premiere in Spring 2014. The TV broadcast of the first season, from 8bit studios, ran from January 3rd to March 21st, 2013. It consisted of 12 episodes. *Season 1 ED: External Link Source(s): [1], [2]
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This is review number one hundred and eighty seven. The anime I’ll be reviewing is part of the Winter 2012 lineup. It’s a three minute anime called Yama no Susume or Encouragement of Climb. It’s twelve episodes but it’s very short. Don’t let the short run fool you because I gave this anime a very […]
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What, it’s over already? But of course. Watching 12 3-minute episodes takes about as much time as watching two normal episodes. Now I’m wondering if it’s just me or short-format shows became more prevalent? Back when Keitai Shoujo “aired”, its size had to do with the streaming services not even being in their infancy yet [...]
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Very coincidentially with AIURA, the previous season offered another CGDCT in 3-minute format, which also was quite good. It only loses on not being purposefuly made to showcase artistic prowess, but content is just as fine. Yama no Susume is different there, by honestly centering the proceedings around the titular activity, whereas its counterpart merely [...]
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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. READ MORE
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