This felt like a fully fledged documentary condensed into under 20 minutes. great editing, immaculate storytelling, and hypnotically fascinating. I'd like to check out Taniguchi's work now

It’s a different kind of feeling. When you climb, you’re not just going on top of something, you’re carrying yourself step by step… where small efforts granted by boundless determination will eventually reach the heavens.

The recommendation!The story telling!The narration! Perfect! **Chef's kiss**

I recommend reading the manga Kokou no Hito( The Climber) by Shin'ichi Sakamoto. It's incredibly realistic when in comes to the art. The manga starts with a teenager discovering climbing and then through the years we follow him solo climbing mountains and the dangers of it. He gets so much character development during the years he climbs mountains alone. It's really good in my opinion. The art is GOD TIER!

Summit of the Gods is one of my favourite manga, it is an utterly stunning work and I am so glad I was actually able to get a proper print copy for it.

This might be your best video yet, which I begrudgingly say considering you have some masterpieces in your library (I’m especially fond of your Legends of Earthsea and Akira videos). Mountain climbing is something I have the utmost respect for, and Summit of the Gods gave me a taste of what it’s like. This video reminded me of and cemented said feeling as something I will cherish for a long time. I love how you’re not mindlessly talking big words about the movie for 20 minutes, but weaving between the movie, the manga, the artist, the sport. There’s so much to this work than what’s on screen or on the pages, and you really showed why.

You should check out The Climber. It’s a fantastic manga about mountain climbing and why a climber does what they do. It has absolutely jaw dropping art style to complement it's narration with may symbolisms and the mindset of its protagonist Bintarou Mori

Oh, this movie... I found it mostly by chance on Netflix and, since my mother was very much into climbing, was curious to watch it. It left me crying and grasping for humanity. You are right, it was hard to swallow that unspoken, indescribable truth portrayed in this movie, and to then be confronted by those truths being framed in such a grounded, human way just made me ache more, and really feel that connection to life and nature that I value so much. That pull, everlasting, it called again even if I'm not a climber. It's wanderlust, it's wonder, and god dammit it's also danger. and realizing that those things are inescapable once they caught wind of you, that hurts... beautifully. Thanks so much for covering summit of the gods!

Im gonna cry, i love mountaineering.Thanks

Didnt watched it (the video) yet but duck yeah I needed that. One of my most beloved movies...

It's not about reaching the top of the mountain. It's about proving to yourself that you're the type of person who can reach the top of the mountain. There will always be more mountains.

Most criminally underrated channel on KZfaq! Another banger, made me tear up. Gonna have to watch this now.

This was needed along with the actual film of Summit of the Gods. As usual, it adds details that I hadn't grasped or weren't shown in that film. A great addition of material to extend what is shown in a pretty good film, as is your way. Many thanks.

Watched the movie right after seeing this. It was incredible.

This movie spoke to me in a deep and subtle way that left it lingering in my mind for weeks and your video essay took that subtle feeling and gave it such a rich and tangible form. Great video as always!

This is exactly the video I have been looking for, since the movie came out. Thank you so much for making this!

This is an incredible work More emotionally intimate than being just some anime review I am grateful for those rare few are able, at times, capture these seldom reached heights And I am glad I stumbled on you this year, thank you

This is the best video essay ever written.

Oh woah, this video came at the perfect time in my life;; thank you so much for this beautiful recommendation! Your essay was a breath of fresh mountain air and kept me focused from start to end. I feel that your words are as contemplative as The Summit of the Gods is. I'm looking forward to checking his works and it's adaptations out! Jiro Taniguchi, for some reason, reminds me of Hayao Miyazaki's sense of taking a reflective look at human nature and I'm filled with joy for this realization of beautiful connections: Taniguchi drew a manga (Icaro) with words from French comic art legend Mœbius who was also a friend with Hayao Miyazaki! Going further down the line, reflecting on what you've mentioned about the Franco-Belgian comic tradition drawn to Taniguchi's works, I can imagine he's probably inspired a mangaka who draws from a similar blend of different art traditions, both Japanese and western, Shirahama Kamome who is working on Witch Hat Atelier and like Taniguchi, is also beloved among French comic/ manga enthusiasts and art lovers alike! I love this bridge between different people around the world universally drawn to such resonant works of storytelling art!

After hearing your video, I can so clearly see how Akihito Tsukushi, creator of Made in Abyss, was inspired by Jiro Taniguchi's Summit of the Gods. The call of the challenge, and the numerous lives that pursue it to death. I watched Summit earlier this year, and finished Made in Abyss only recently. But it was only by revisiting the inspiration did that connection clicked for me :p

Emptiness, plain and simple.. these creatures that "conquer themselves" will NEED to do this again, because they accomplished nothing, but a party tale. They seek attention and validation, and some don't stop to think about the value of their life.. or they only see value in doing something as pointless as that. But we humans have to do something.. anything at all, so might as well pursue that high, like drugs. Why do people drink? Smoke? Or even get tattoos? Great animation.

Another great video from you man. It made my day.

Outstanding video. as always

Brilliant, as always. I feel a journey has been traveled simply in its descriptions. Thank you.

Thanks for this video, I loved this movie profoundly but seemed to pass under the radar for lots of people, I'm grateful you bring'it up in a video of such quality

This is superior stuff, sublime... Thank you so much! I was really missing Beyong Ghibli.

So glad I stumbled upon this video out of nowhere. The Summit of the Gods was has impacted me beyond words just in a single watch, and thanks to this essay, It feels a whole new world has opened for me in the form of Jiro's work and this channel too :)

Phenomenal work as always!

WOW! Wonderful video and thank you for the recommendation! Loved to see something that captures why adventure is such an incredible pull/pursuit in life.

Incredible storytelling here. I will absolutely hunt this movie down and give it a watch

Another great recommendation in another great video. This one I haven't even heard about. I'll definitely check it out. It looks amazing.

As usual excellent work!

Thank YOU! For I have learned new things, people, and places by your video once again! Thank YOU!

Beautiful script here, Joe! Well done!

I loved this movie so it's a pleasure to find an essay so full of love and admiration about it! Thank you for your work! 2

This was great really great!

Great video!

I recently finished reading the manga and it was an absolute masterpiece. This immaculate video definitely convinced me to check out the film too. Thank you! Everything about this video is just glorious

Awesome Video

great video as alawys, Joe👍

I was intrigued by the story of Hillary & Norgay and later Mallory & Irvine ever since I was a child. So The Summit of the Gods was a real surprise to me when I read the announcement and it's one of the few Netflix titles where I was constantly checking the calender looking forward to the day it got released. I guess I was one of the few who went into The Summit of the Gods for the story of Mallorys and Irvines camera. But the real reason the film stuck with me afterwards was that unreal experience that is so difficult to describe but was still conveyed to us by Taniguchi and Imbert. I did not expect an explosion on social media about The Summit of the Gods but was still somehow disappointed seeing how few people were talking about it. So yeah, your video was a real surprise to me when I realised just how comprehensive and in-depth you went in this video essay. It made me appreciate the spirit of romanticism in The Summit of the Gods so much more. I would say you encaptured that call of the mountain so well I heard the Summit of the Gods calling me for my third rewatch again. This is the kind of video essay I seek. My utmost respect for your work.

This is an amazing video

Lovely video about my favourite animated experience of the last year. I saw some process videos on Instagram prior to the film's release but nothing prepared me for how much I would love the final product. I have no interest in climbing and am intensely scared of heights but I couldn't look away from the screen for a second. Thanks for making such a considered analysis.

I am so happy you revisit that wonderfull and powerful movie. I fall in love with that production, with both, french animation identity and anime identity mixed together, that it is transparent and organic" You made me revisit it in a way I was suprise. I think I will look the other recommendation.

this is amazing

Beautiful ❤

Magic again, Joe!

Beautiful video ♥

Once I saw the title I knew I needed to watch this and sure enough, I was absolutely blown away. It took me 3 weeks tho :3

Going to watch this later😀

I teared up..

I really need to get into European animation more, I've only seen the René Laloux films and a few from Michel Ocelot. Never heard of this mangaka or the filmmakers, and they do seem interesting now that I have, so thanks! A well made video too!

Your essay is humanity’s hope against Chatgpt

I wasn't really sure what I was getting into when it first started and then when I found it was a style of animation I wasn't fond of, I considered clicking off the video. I suppose this was my own mountain, as I often set a very narrow view of what I choose to watch and opening myself up to something new or something I normally wouldn't like is rather hard for me. Really though, I don't know why I would question it, your videos are always amazing and I should try and trust in the process a bit more. Overall, unsurprisingly, it was a beautiful video and was well worth watching. It makes me wonder if I should watch some of your other videos that I may have skipped over due to the subject. I was wrong about thinking I'd dislike a mountain climbing video, so who knows what else I might be wrong about. I look forward to the next video, whatever it may be, so please keep up the good work!

I don't know what to say, except thank you.

@0:45 Looking at the mountaineer with his bike at the summit made me think..."Why?"

I recommend everyone also reading the manga. It left me with no words 🔝

You’re a master.

My impressions on the video were: 1- Wow, that's such a good picture on climbing, I really want to discover more about its world... 2- Oh hey, here I have an anime to get into, with amazing artwork and a tense but beautiful storyline! 3- Wow, have I just discovered a new favourite artist, whose works are exactly what I look for in the japanese culture????

Underated masterpiece of a movie

Im scared of heights but I acknowledge the courageous climbers.

Because we can. If you can, then all of humanity can. The limits of humanity's potential are unknown. We need to find out, not just for ourselves but the human race. Tomorrow we colonize Mars, people will research, adventure and climb new mountains. We are not a hivemind, but as a collective human consciousness we have a desire to rise above.

Thanks for introducing this gem to us. I can't help but think if only Makoto Shinkai was given this project instead. What beautiful nature animation could we have gotten.

perfect time for this video just as i finished Kokou no Hito (The Climber) Highly recommend if you liked this video

Good, someone else besides me kept watching this film after the kids climb.

He should be getting paid for these wayy better than any trailer could convey about a film

I just finished reading the book and really loved it. Haven't read the manga or watched the movie, but I'm sure they're equally as good.

I plan to watch the movie so I'll skip this video for now and get back to it. I'm sure it's just as superb as the rest of Joe's Beyond Ghibli content. BTW Joe, I'm sure you're inundated with suggestions on anime shows and movies to cover, but one that I'd strongly suggest is the anime movie series 'The Garden of Sinners' (Kara no Kyoukai). It's really something special and is a complex mix of psychological, horror, supernatural, philosophy, mystery and thriller. It's very well written and highly unpredictable. When watched in the original release order you'll find that the story is not told chronologically - this is deliberate. However, after the first watch I would suggest viewing it in chronological order.

Amazing movie! But the final message is dangerous to me. Early in the movie, a group that was climbing a mountain and decided to go back are portrayed as lazy, while our "hero" decides to go all the way even when death was certain. It was a beautiful ending, but I hope people don't try to apply this "lesson" on real life.

I give you the 1000th Like 👍 to this video.

cool

This would be a great tie in with "Made in Abyss" as the philosophy is the same. Why risk your life in the abyss where a swift death would be mercy?why? Because it's there

Some people hate having a desk job. Those people learn things hands on, or learn best with Kinesthetic learning. Those kinds of people want to experience a climb, rather than read or watch a movie about it.

This movie was great. Not enough people gave it a chance.

I read, I think it was “ Summits and Secrets” but it could have been “Throne room of the Mountain Gods” and upon finding the dried corpse and bones of a climber it was remarked that all mountain climbers know their passion is a suicide cult, and to leave them on the mountain. People who don’t get that willing participation, and the net is loaded with them, should just leave it alone. It’s beyond them.

Regarding the clip of Reinhold Messner saying that half of the top climbers have died in the mountains: that's probably from "The Alpinist," in which he says that mountaineering would be a bit boring without the risk of death.

read the climber after this - trust me

Love your work BG! please consider making a video for Xenoblade chronicles 3.

If you have Highlander blood, Scottish blood, you will always seek out high up places

As a rock climber and a weeb, I gotta watch this movie

It is very non related to this video, but please check out “To your eternity” - It has the same author as “A silent Voice”

hey beyond ghibli! you should check out do it yourself! its not deeply philosophical, or even as serious, but i feel like it is truly beautiful in its simplicity. check it out!

⚠️This movie makes you feeeeeeel things ⚠️

at first i thought i was following some documentary channel about climbing not anime lol

Pretty common knowledge that he didn't actually make it up everest he got stuck on his way up

It's very funny and you say "as someone who's life will never depend on a prussik knot" bc my life did actually, yet I'm just a noob climber

🌈 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐦

Ag Ag

I mean if I can afford the gear, the great equipment. That really comfortable and really expensive under armor and clothing, the nice car that will get me throughthat harsh environment, as in equipped for winter And, the luxury and time to go and spend days to at the mountains.

Yeah nah.

An anime in which the characters have chins and noses? What is this madness? ... ... Oh, it wasn't made in Japan. That explains it.

I have weird moments in life where I can predict what will be said next. At the part when they talk about Mallory and everest and why he must climb it. The words "because it's there" popped into my head before they were revealed on screen. That happens pretty often and sometimes I'll hear a song In my head or be humming along to it then I'll turn on the radio and the same song is playing at the exact same time it's playing in my head. Not much as far as super powers to but I'll take anything I can get

Be interesting if this studio did a series on Shin-ichi Sakamoto’s Mountaineering bio manga Kokou no Hito. 🥾🏔🌄