Golden Kamuy Anime Adds 3 New Cast Members
The
official website and Twitter account for the second season of the
anime adaptation of Satoru Noda's Golden Kamuy manga revealed
additional cast members for the anime on Monday. The additional cast includes:
Yoshito Yasuhara as Head Jailer
Kadokura
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as
Superior Private Usami
YĆ« Mizushima as
Anji Toni
The second season premiered on October 8. Crunchyroll is streamingthe series as it airs, and Funimation will stream an English dub beginning on
October 31.
Viz Media is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the
first volume:
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.
The anime's
first season premiered on April 9. Crunchyroll streamed
the series with English subtitles as it aired in Japan, and Funimation streamed it
with an English dub.
Noda launched
the ongoing manga in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine in 2014.
The manga's 15th compiled book volume shipped on September 19, and it bundled
an anime DVD focusing on the manga's Barato arc.
Noda received a
Manga Taisho award for the manga in March 2016. The series was also nominated for
Best General Manga at the 40th annual Kodansha Manga Awards and for
the 20th and 21st Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. The manga was
nominated again for the 23rd award this year, and finally won the
award.
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