Kokou no Hito

harshrox2 Mar 22, 2014

9.8

ultimate surival manga though story at mid sucks but as we reach near end manga turns out to be an epic with so less words the story depiction from drawings illustrates the liveliness of the seen some seens are so moving it makes you wonder the challanges and life of a climber and lso the geniusses of the author buntaro temprament his instincts , everthing flows out and is depicted so naturally taht nothing seems wrong and feels a great sense of standing on the face of death. It is nothing short of an epic at the end , if may make the list of epic mangas it will be definitely on top ten not first though since it's story at mid lackmuch of tempo it doesn't gives reader a sense of attachment to the lead character wether by sympaty , morally, enjoyment , depression or any other it goes on being a simple plain story , but then again all regrets regarding this are washed at last 5 volumes you gess the level of the work by the scores i have given no more words for that . if you are reading this just hang in there since this story is going to be an epic,you will see it.

tigian Jul 14, 2020

9

Personally as a rock climber, the first part of the story made me cringe as our protagonist makes every prodigious climber look like a pus$y during his first attempts at the sport.  But when Buntarou begins to direct himself to mountain climbing, then the story takes a diferent path showing were the author had focused his efforts. This story his based on the real Kato Buntarou from the early 1900's even thought it takes place in the 2000´s. The art sometimes became a bit strange, however the author really does a excellent job in giving life to Super detailed canvas and landscapes, the facial expressions are quite simple but taking into account our MC is a S-class introvert that is to be expected. About the characters, most of them are quite one-tracked, some of them we see some evolution but in most of them they are there for the sake of exploiting something. Our Mc gets quite a bit of evolution even thought most of it is drowned by his love for the mountains. Some of them looked like they could offer quite a bit but the author decided to don´t get out of track, for example there is one super Free Solo climber that appears in the first arc offering to partner with the MC, but goes all drama queen when the MC touches his arm and jumps of the roof only to be seen again f*cking some snow at the end. The story was wondrous specially in the way it depicts the difficulties a Introvert goes trought life and also the way it showed how savage and unmercyfull the world in mountains can be. However the begining gets way too OP for high schoolers, and as the story goes forward it only focused in the need for the mountains of the MC and since words weren´t his forte we can only get an image of it. it does his job but could have been better worked.  As well as giving more show time to the secondary characters, taking out the ones in the first arc all of the following were complrtly discarded almost without any exploration and in many cases leaving way too many loose ends. Conclusion: IT is a magnific read about a lot of different things ( Suicide, maturing, adulting, job market, personal strugles) and not just the sport of mountain climbing, it really left an impression on me even thought it could have been better in a lot os aspects.

069JLU May 15, 2011

9.5

Wonderful storyline. It has a reality factor to it that I just love, none of it seems fake and you end up rooting for the main character anyways. A truly moving series, it goes up there with Slam Dunk and Prince of Tennis.