![]() ![]() Rumor has it that a man has murdered a number of Ainu and hidden the gold before being captured and sent to the remote Abashiri prison. Things don’t pan out as hoped, but before long, Sugimoto hears word of a hidden stash of gold hoarded by a group of Hokkaidō’s native Ainu people during their resistance against the expansion of mainland Japanese. Returning soldier Sugimoto Saichi, a central character in the tale, arrives in Hokkaidō after the war in the hope of finding his fortune amid the territory’s ongoing gold rush. And to its north, a short distance across the Sōya Strait, is the island of Sakhalin, former site of the Japan-Russia border. An island around the size of modern-day Austria, Hokkaidō sits at the metaphorical “head” of the Japanese archipelago. The story begins in Hokkaidō, shortly after the end of the 1904–5 Russo-Japanese War. Or if that seems misleading, then the primal energy we might call human desire. And it could be argued that Golden Kamuy provides an answer to the question, “What is it that manga seeks to express?” The answer is: perversion. In 2019, the series even became the international “face” of manga when featured in promotional visuals for a major manga exhibition at London’s famous British Museum. Originally serialized in Shūeisha’s weekly teen comic anthology Young Jump, as of July 2022, Noda Satoru’s Golden Kamuy has sold over 19 million copies of its 31 full-length volumes, with a live-action cinematic adaptation also in the pipeline. ![]() A Global Hit That Epitomizes the Essence of Manga ![]()
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