After seven years of serialization, the final chapter of Noda Satoru’s “Golden Kamuy” has begun

Noda Satoru’s final chapter of “Golden Kamuy” has begun, after seven years of serialization.

The story of “Golden Kamuy” will be released for free from July 29th to September 17th on “Tonari no Young Jump” and “Yanjyan!”.

Noda’s award winning manga series “Golden Kamuy” won the 9th Manga Taisho award and with 26 volumes currently printed in Japan.  The manga has received a three season anime adaptation so far (a total of 36 episodes).

The series revolves around a soldier named Sugimoto Saichi  who fought in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 and survived with savagery and toughness. And because of his braveness, he is known as “Immortal Sugimoto”.

Because his best friend asked him before his death on the battlefield for Sugimoto to take care of his wife and children, Sugimoto hears of a story about hidden Ainu gold (the Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan). One man killed the Ainu hiding the gold and stole around Y80,000 and buried the gold somewhere in Hokkaido.

While the man was caught and thrown into Abashiri prison, he was sentenced to death and the map of where the gold was hidden was tattooed on the backs of 24 prisoners.

This was told to Sugimoto by a drunken man. When Sugimoto finds the man killed by a bear, he notices that he had a tattoo all over his back and that the story must be true.

But when the bear goes for an attack on Sugimoto, he is saved by an Ainu girl named Asirpa, a daughter of one of the Ainu men who was killed by those hunting for Ainu gold.

But as Sugimoto and Asirpa team up to find the gold, many dangerous hunters including the deadly 7th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army led by Lt. Tsurumi.

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