Katou buntaro biography samples

Kokou no Hito (Japanese for "Solitary Person", also known as The Climber) is a seinen sports manga which was serialized in Weekly Young Jump from 2007 to 2011, written by Nabeda Yoshiro and drawn by Shinichi Sakamoto, based on the novel of the same name by Jiro Nita, a chronicle of the adventures of real-life solo mountain climber Katou Buntaro.

The protagonist, whose name was changed to Mori Buntarou, is a highly introverted young man who shuns contact with pretty much everyone.

Katou buntaro biography samples

Upon transferring to a new high school, a classmate's dare instills in him a love of climbing. The story chronicles Buntarou's life as he joins the school's mountain climbing club and grows up to pursue climbing professionally.

Though ostensibly a sports manga, the series is similar to fellow seinen sports series Ping Pong in that it's mainly a character piece and Coming of Age story that uses its sport of choice as a metaphor to discuss issues such as isolation, fear of intimacy, depression, and