If you missed the Golden Kamuy train the first two times it ran through the anime station, I have good news for you!
In an update that went live on the official website on Friday, March 13th, it was revealed that the third season of the period drama will return starting in October 2020. To go along with this announcement, the staff uploaded the first promotional video for the new season as well!
The third season of Golden Kamuy will feature the same cast and crew as the first two seasons. Geno Studio will continue to produce the animation with Hitoshi Nanba serving as director and Noboru Takagi supervising the scripts. Character designs will be provided by Kenichi Ohnuki and Kenichiro Suehiro will compose the background music. Meanwhile, the main characters Saichi and Asirpa will continue to be voiced by Chikahiro Kobayashi and Haruka Shiraishi, respectively.
Originally a manga created by Satoru Noda, Golden Kamuy first began running in Weekly Young Jump back in 2014. It has since been compiled into nineteen volumes so far in Japan. Viz Media is releasing the manga in English and describes the story as:
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.
If you’ve been looking for a great new period drama to indulge in, you could do much, much worse than binge-watching both seasons of this series before the third premieres this fall.
Source: Moca
