Anime has full-length episodes for the 1st time
The official website for Yama no Susume Next Summit (Encouragement of Climb: Next Summit), the new television anime based on Shiro‘s Encouragement of Climb (Yama no Susume) manga, unveiled a new key visual and the anime’s October premiere date on Friday. The anime will have 12 episodes, each running for 30 minutes. This will mark the first time the anime has had full-length episodes, as previous seasons only had five- or 15-minute episodes.

The first four episodes of the new anime will be compilations of the previous anime series’ episodes with new short stories added. However, episode five onwards will have completely new stories.
The previously announced returning cast members include:
Emiri Iwai plays the new character Koharu, the red-haired mountain-climbing club president at the school Aoi and the others…