Manga Series ‘Golden Kamuy’ Green Lit for Anime Adaptation!

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If you are looking for a story that is set in Japanese postwar era, then Golden Kamuy is for you created by Satoru Noda.

In relation to this manga, it was announced on Thursday during the release of the 36thand 37th combined issue of Young Jump Magazine that this manga series is green lit for an anime adaptation. With over 10 compile volumes so far (with an 11th volume to be released on August 18) and more than 3.2 million printed copies sold, this series deserves to have its own anime production.

The first chapter of the manga was first launched in 2014 and Noda was able to receive a Manga Taisho award in March 2016 for this work. Golden Kamuy was also nominated for an award in the 20th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2016 and nominated for Best General Manga at the 40th annual Kodansha Manga Awards.

The manga is published in English by Viz Media. Below contains the synopsis of the manga’s first volume as well as a video trailer below:

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.

Although no release date has been revealed yet, we hope that more announcements of the anime adaptation will be released the soonest.

Source: Anime News Network

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