Follow Us! Header Ads. Summit of the Gods Makoto Fukamachi is a Japanese reporter and photojournalist for an outdoors and hiking magazine. After finishing an assignment he is relaxing in a bar where he is offered a chance to buy a camera that looks as though it might have belonged to George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. Mallory and Irvine were two British mountaineers who in attempted to climb Mount Everest and were never seen again.
Upon leaving the bar he sees the seller tangled up with someone that Fukamachi recognises, a Japanese mountain climber Habu Joji but who had disappeared some years earlier. This encounter sticks in Fukamachi's mind and becomes his next assignment - he wants that camera as its contents could re-write history. His investigations take him on a journey across countries, uncovering mysteries and bringing him face to face with the Summit of the Gods.
It has felt like a long time since I have sat down to properly watch and engage with a piece of animation. Perhaps I have been watching too much that was similar style and content that I was waiting for something to rekindle my enthusiasm for animation, something that felt different and was exciting.
When I saw the announcement for Summit of the Gods I was intrigued - it showed imagery at both a personal and geographic scale that just appealed.
Then I saw Patrick Imbert was directing it. All of these were phenomenally entertaining, varied in tone, visual style, content and with high-quality to the animation.
