In a similar vein as our last "education through entertainment" title, Laid-Back Camp, is Encouragement of Climb (Yama no Susume), another cute-girls-doing-cute-things series, this time about mountain climbing.
As with Laid-Back Camp, Encouragement of Climb features real-world locations, gear, and conditions as pertaining to hiking (such as keeping fed on the trail, and dealing with altitude sickness). The learning imparted by the series is limited to Japanese geography and information about hiking, however Encouragement of Climb features such accuracy and passion about the topic as to land the series squarely in the "educational" category. A successful manga series, it has been adapted into multiple anime seasons as well.
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Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 6d
THERES HIKING ANIME NOW?! PEAK (literally)
fireweed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d
Amazingly the series has been running since 2011 (that's 27 manga volumes! How have they not run out of mountains yet?) and is popular enough that it's used in tourism campaigns. Peak indeed!
fireweed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6d
Unlike my previous reviews for this community, for these "Education through Entertainment" features I haven't been mentioning whether I think the series I highlight are appropriate for older audiences. However in this case, I feel it necessary to include a disclaimer that Encouragement of Climb might not feel comfortable for some folks. While I have only read/watched part of Entertainment of Climb, from what I've seen it can lean pretty heavily into "cute girls doing cute things"-ness, which can come across as annoying (or even a bit pervy), especially due to the characters' loli designs and voices.
As I created this community specifically to highlight series that are (or are not) appropriate/enjoyable for older fans, I wanted to clarify that these reviews aren't necessarily endorsements. While I did enjoy this series personally for its content (Japanese geography and hiking are personal hobbies of mine), I did have to overlook some of its "loli-ness", and one person I recommended the series to has told me they dropped it because they felt it sexualized underaged girls too much. By anime standards it's quite tame, but that bar is quite low, and everyone has differing tolerance levels for this type of thing.