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Golden Kamuy

Golden Kamuy
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The cover of the first volume of Golden Kamuy
ゴールデンカムイ
(Gōruden Kamui)
Genre historical, adventure
Manga
Written by Satoru Noda
Published by Shueisha
English publisher Viz Media
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Weekly Young Jump
Original run August 2014 – present
Volumes 10
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Golden Kamuy (ゴールデンカムイ?, Gōruden Kamui) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Satoru Noda. The Ainu language in the story is supervised by Yū Nakagawa, an Ainu language linguist. The manga won the 9th Manga Taishō award. Viz Media announced that they licensed the manga at New York Comic Con 2016

Saichi Sugimoto, a survivor of the battle of 203 Hill in the Russo-Japanese War has become a miner in Hokkaido in order to provide for the widow of his dead comrade, Toraji. He hears a dubious story of hidden Ainu gold (worth about 800,000,000 JPY / 6,636,000 USD) stashed by a criminal group, and accidentally finds clues to its location. After being attacked by the 7th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army and other mysterious groups, he decides to search for the gold along with an Ainu girl, Asirpa, who rescues him from Hokkaido's harsh northern wilderness.

Golden Kamuy won the 9th Manga Taishō award. It was also nominated for the 20th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category. The manga was ranked second in the 2016 edition of the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list for male readers.Golden Kamuy charted on the Oricon Japanese Comics Rankings for the week of April 18–24, 2016, with volume seven placing eighth place.



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