Golden Kamuy

pariston_hill

This manga is pure gold. Every chapter never fails to deliver.

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spyda

I would have never guessed those two were a couple

Ukimix

Hilarious!

Of course if you have to use your belt to save your ass, you forget you have a tatto to hide behind your pants.

Kdom

Oh what a priceless chapter ! I wonder if these yakuza will join our team of weirdos :-)

pariston_hill

@Kdom:

Oh what a priceless chapter ! I wonder if these yakuza will join our team of weirdos :-)

Considering that Toshizo probably eliminated most of the yakuza's boss gang, that might be possible.

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spyda

new chapters

http://bato.to/reader#bdcdbd536ed9f899
http://bato.to/reader#18a74abc0533f34f

yet another Shakespearean love story that ends with a tragedy

Silverblade

And thus volume 7, as well as the dazzling Brokeback Mountain Yakuza Edition: Revenge of the Bears story arc come to its graceful and majestic end.

When I stop choking with laughter and regain my breath, I want to reread Golden Kamuy from the very beginning even if it's too much to handle. Because if there is the tits of the manga medium, both metaphorically and literally, this just might be it.

kouch_lee

This was both hilarious, touching, badass, gory and tragic at the same time.

The random shot of the american guy dancing around naked with the garment on nearly killed me.

Ukimix

To me it was Princess and Boss holding their hands … All the pages were simply glorious!!!

Kdom

Sugimoto has no sense of romance !

auem

This level of trolling…beyond imagination.
Golden Kamuy is slowly becoming a genre itself.

Ukimix

ch 70: http://bato.to/reader#234f909a5040fb52

Yesterday I was trying to describe to a friend of mine the many goods this manga has. Aside from my obvious telling excitement it was a difficult thing to do.

pariston_hill

@Ukimix:

ch 70: http://bato.to/reader#234f909a5040fb52

Yesterday I was trying to describe to a friend of mine the many goods this manga has. Aside from my obvious telling excitement it was a difficult thing to do.

Fighting bears, hunting and skinning criminal, fighting more bears, a military coup, gay yakuza, samurais plotting the independence of Hokkaido, you know the usual.

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Ukimix

@pariston_hill:

Fighting bears, hunting and skinning criminal, fighting more bears, a military coup, gay yakuza, samurais plotting the independence of Hokkaido, you know the usual.

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That and cultural etnography, care for nature, exotic cooking, treasure searching, the search for a lost father and some mystery about inmortality… all of that in one whole package with great humour, great art and... gussshhh .. honestly I think people will believe in that description only because you are excited when you offer it.

spyda

books & gloves made from humans were featured in this chapter, I'm expecting more products made from humans in the future

Ukimix

http://bato.to/reader#c4b4bb20c2529be1

scary…

auem

I am not that impressed,since it is not a original idea…

Silverblade

Lieutenant Tsurumi is still the scariest among all of the deviants we have seen in this manga. But he was out of the spotlight in the recent arcs, so a focus on him is welcome.

@auem:

I am not that impressed,since it is not a original idea…

Almost every character and story in this manga has some real life or fiction inspiration. And it took you seventy chapters to recognise that. At least try reading the credit pages, scanlators do a good job listing Noda Satoru's possible sources of ideas.

spyda

reading the comment section on this chapter people think that all those people are dead and all of the conversations just happened in Yasaku head

but someone clearly yelled when he knocked over the owl & when Tsurumi entered the room he came to say hello to the people talking in it

so some of them are dead & some of them are alive

Ukimix

I think all are dead, and the dialogues happen in the guy's mind. I reread the chapter wondering about it, and found the change to black bubbles at the same time than the double spread with all the disected humans as a key to mean that.

@auem, un literature it's much more about giving new fresh usages to old ideas, than creating new ideas as such.

pariston_hill

In a room with Ed Gein and Tsurumi still the creepiest, amazing.

kouch_lee

This manga is the best. It's unfair how good it is. The last two pages were bone chillingly creepy in the best of ways.

Kdom

I also think they are dead. I immediately thought of Hitchkock when we saw the woman from behind (and i think it was done on purpose)
That mask at the end. It’s funny you first find it well made, the you realize of what it is made of…

HeartOfDarkness

Is this series worth reading?

TLC

Yes .

KaizokuJinbei

@HeartOfDarkness:

Is this series worth reading?

I just binge read it (what's available anyway) and I can definitely say it's worth it. It's a really well done manga.

Ukimix

@HeartOfDarkness:

Is this series worth reading?

I don't know about Japanese awards. I guess they know a lot about it. Anyway, taken from mangaupdates:

Won the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016. Was nominated for the 20th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

Here a note from animenetworks about the Taisho award it won: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-03-30/satoru-noda-golden-kamuy-wins-9th-manga-taisho-award/.100443

Anyway, I'd award this series for sure :) It's scary and tender, it portraits exotic food and dishes and also wild assessinations. Great humour, great suspense, an intriguing search for a treasure, a little girl searching for her father and an inmortal… Allof it depicted and in a believable, amusing way.

Another credit: it just got licenced by Viz:

spyda

ch 72

http://bato.to/reader#9eb0b75a7152e91d

this fashion show, this lost ear scene, this diabolical plan …..this entire chapter got me like ಠ_ಠ

shadyagent

@HeartOfDarkness:

Is this series worth reading?

It depends. The start of this series is strong but the quality and enjoyment dropped in terms of story telling.

pariston_hill

Oh Tsurumi you are the real creep here.

Ukimix

Creeeeeeeepy…....

kouch_lee

@shadyagent:

It depends. The start of this series is strong but the quality and enjoyment dropped in terms of story telling.

While what you said is kinda right (storytelling and character motivations have definitely taken a backseat), I feel the author found its true calling by turning this manga into a succession of zanny adventures mixing crazy scenarios, cooking, creepy psychopaths and slapstick comedy.

I mean, right now it's a three way race to reach a treasure. That's it.

But the stuff you get during this race is outrageous AND outrageously funny.

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And the last chapter is probably the craziest thing we've seen so far. It was impossibly creepy yet. . .weirdly cute?

Ukimix

It depends on what we call quality and motivation. To me the story follows a common pattern in manga: once the premises and worldbuilding are told and described, you get a series of arcs which help the development of the plot line, some of which can be minor arcs, some others are good, when the whole story is food. For GK the premises stated clearly what we are reading nowdays: once you know there is a treasure, and a map made of the tattoos of several convicts who has scattered around the world, it's not hard to guess there will be an arc for each convict. And since the gag, the cuteness and the crudeness keeps being features of a believable narrative, there's no surprises to me in terms of quality.

The art, for example, keeps faithful to the same spirit stated at the beginning. The marvelous collage spyda posted some pages ago about the cuteness of Asirpa shows how the author is faithful to his leading motivations.

SalehMo

@kouch_lee:

While what you said is kinda right (storytelling and character motivations have definitely taken a backseat), I feel the author found its true calling by turning this manga into a succession of zanny adventures mixing crazy scenarios, cooking, creepy psychopaths and slapstick comedy.

I mean, right now it's a three way race to reach a treasure. That's it.

But the stuff you get during this race is outrageous AND outrageously funny.

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And the last chapter is probably the craziest thing we've seen so far. It was impossibly creepy yet. . .weirdly cute?

honestly it has to be because of Tsurumi's affinity for all things creepy and depraved that it became bearable to look at the things Norman Gein does and wears without getting creeped out. If it was someone else, it would just be very disturbing, shocking, and creepy

but aside from that, this chapter was straight up hilarious in almost every single way. The panel where Tsurumi looks like he's about to blow a load while Edogai shoots his mother brought me to tears

spyda

ch 73

http://bato.to/reader#cc3d76faafbfb7fe

nice relaxing slice of life chapter

pariston_hill

It's just me who absolutely loves how well drawn the nature in the backgrounds are? It's insanely good.

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kouch_lee

Yeah, the background art is insane, almost looks like a photograph or something like that? Like a digitalized photo?

Reaaaally appreciated the calm, heartwarming tone of this chapter after all the freakish stuff we've gone through lately. We were also reminded of the characters goals and motivations again, which is cool.

Ukimix

@kouch_lee:

Like a digitalized photo?

It could be. But also those panels reminded me of Sakamoto Shinishi's insane drawings.

It's the first time we see Asirpa's dad original face, isn't it?

pariston_hill

@Ukimix:

It could be. But also those panels reminded me of Sakamoto Shinishi's insane drawings.

It's the first time we see Asirpa's original face, isn't it?

You mean her father? Yes was the first time we see him with skin over his face.

And I think the backgrounds might be drawn over, but since I lack real knowledge of arts I can't be trusted.

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Ukimix

@pariston_hill:

You mean her father? Yes was the first time we see him with skin over his face.

And I think the backgrounds might be drawn over, but since I lack real knowledge of arts I can't be trusted.

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Ah yeap, I was talking about her father. :-)

Kdom

Also did we know he was not a real Ainou ? I'm not sure.
Nature chapters are among my favourite ones. We should learn about our edible plants too.

I bought volume 2 btw. Rereading the passage when Sugimoto hide into a bear cave to save his life from 3 soldiers was still as much impressive. That's also when we learn what Osoma is :-)
And apparently I was successful in promoting the title at my comic book shop. The seller advises it to most of manga readers.

Ukimix

@Kdom:

Also did we know he was not a real Ainou ? I'm not sure.
Nature chapters are among my favourite ones. We should learn about our edible plants too.

I bought volume 2 btw. Rereading the passage when Sugimoto hide into a bear cave to save his life from 3 soldiers was still as much impressive. That's also when we learn what Osoma is :-)
And apparently I was successful in promoting the title at my comic book shop. The seller advises it to most of manga readers.

I think we knew a main objective of Hijikata is to find the daugther or Nopera and that he knows she's a daugther of an ainu and a man from other race. But I can't find the page where that was said. I thought it was when Hijikata and Asirpa met for the first time but nope. Maybe it was before. But here and in the next pages he mentions the blue and green eyes of Asirpa and Nopera is shown in the same page; so most likely it's before.

Nice that your buying the books. I remember a searched for the raws to see if the banned parts like this were not banned there.

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It's in chapter 48 and 49. There Hijikata figures out tha Nopera is not a japanese ainu. He comes from Russia. But I think there's also Russians ainu. So I'm not sure he's not an ainu. But sure he has blue eyes.

Silverblade

@kouch_lee:

Yeah, the background art is insane, almost looks like a photograph or something like that? Like a digitalized photo?

Noda uses photographic material but he heavily retouches the images before turning them into backgrounds. He layers the photos into foreground and background, with the farthest layers being single colour silhouettes, and closest layers being hand-drawn lineart, with everything in between being a mix of these techniques. It is a much more original approach compared to applying simple filters like some of his lazier colleagues do.

@pariston_hill:

You mean her father? Yes was the first time we see him with skin over his face.

No, we actually have seen him as early as chapter 8.

pariston_hill

@Silverblade:

Noda uses photographic material but he heavily retouches the images before turning them into backgrounds. He layers the photos into foreground and background, with the farthest layers being single colour silhouettes, and closest layers being hand-drawn lineart, with everything in between being a mix of these techniques. It is a much more original approach compared to applying simple filters like some of his lazier colleagues do.

That's quite amazing, no wonder things look so good.

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spyda

ch 74

http://bato.to/reader#b5ba3a6d873ceef2

in bnha one of the students is a traitor
in neverland one of the kids is a traitor
in astra lost in space one f the astronauts is a traitor

traitors in manga are so hot right now

Ukimix

We already knew Shiarashi has business with Hijikata. But Shiarashi is able to betray even his mother.

But omen for guys guarding the taxidermist.

spyda

Shiraishi is too obvious I doubt he's the traitor
Sugimoto is the mc so he's isn't the traitor either

My bet is on Kiroranke being the traitor, although the horse racing arc proves he's a good guy, so maybe Hijikata or Tsurumi kidnapped his wife or something to force him to do their bidding

Ukimix

Shiraishi will betray… Hijikata. :-)

carcanclaw

Shiraishi is a double agent, but he isn't a dangerous man and certainly is more loyal to Sugimoto than Hijikata.

Kiroranke is obviously the traitor, don't forget that ch.70 strongly suggests he's a Russian partisan, and we know he came from Russia along with Asirpa's father. He's definitely going to turn on the group at some point, so the bigger question becomes: Is he working alone, or with one of the other antagonists?

pariston_hill

Shiraishi will betray himself in the end.
And the russian-ainu is to obivous since Asirpa's father already betrayed the ainu acturally.