Golden Kamuy Season 5, which was confirmed as the final chapter for the anime, revealed a new key visual ahead of its January 5 premiere. Studio Brain’s Base will be returning to animate, with Tomio Yamauchi again serving as director. Crunchyroll will be streaming it, with an English dub also confirmed. A trailer was revealed in December.
You can see the new visual below.
You can also watch the trailer for the upcoming season below.
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The returning voice cast for the anime includes:
- Chikahiro Kobayashi as Saichi Sugimoto
- Haruka Shiraishi as Asirpa
- Hochu Otsuka as Tokushiro Tsurumi
- Kentaro Ito as Yoshitake Shiraishi
- Kenjiro Tsuda as Hyakunosuke Ogata
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Genjiro Tanigaki
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Otonoshin Koito
- Eiji Takemoto as Hajime Tsukishima
- Joji Nakata as Toshizo Hijikata
- Kenji Nomura as Tatsuma Ushiyama
Satoru Noda wrote and illustrated to Golden Kamuy manga. It was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump from August 2014 to April 2022, getting a total of 31 compilation volumes. It is one of the highest selling series, with over 29 million circulating copies as of July 2024. The manga also won the Manga Taisho award in 2016 (awarded annually to a manga with 8 or less volumes), while Noda won the grand prize for the manga at the 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018. Viz Media licensed the manga in English, describing the story:
In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.
A TV anime adaptation began in April 2018, with the first two by Geno Studio seasons airing until December of that year. The studio also animated the third season, which aired from October to December 2020. Studio Brain’s Base then took over for Season 4, which was released between October 2022 and June 2023 (including a delay due to a staff member’s passing). The staff working on the fourth season included:
- Director: Tomio Yamauchi
- Screenplay: Nobaru Takagi
- Storyboard: Masahiko Murata
- Chief Animation Director: Takumi Yamakawa
- Animation Directors: Kanako Yoshihara, Naoki Aisaka, Eriko Kotobuki
The fifth and final season was announced immediately after the finale of Season 4.
The series then got a live-action movie, which premiered in Japanese theaters in January 2024. The story then continued as a live-action TV series in October 2024. Titled Golden Kamuy: The Battle for the Hokkaido Tattooed Prisoners Arc, the series ran for 9 episodes. A sequel movie was announced immediately after the finale.
Source: Official X (formerly Twitter)
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