Golden Kamuy Season 4 has released its first trailer. An October premiere date was also revealed.
Golden Kamuy is based on the Shueisha-published historical adventure manga by Satoru Noda, which began in 2014 and has 27 volumes as of September 2021. The first and second seasons premiered in 2018 while the third season premiered in 2020.
Crunchyroll describes the show as:
The story takes place in the mighty Northern field of Hokkaido, the time is in the turbulent late Meiji Era. A post war soldier Sugimoto, aka, “Immortal Sugimoto” was in need of large sums of money for a particular purpose…. What awaited Sugimoto, who stepped into Hokkaido’s Gold Rush with dreams of making a fortune, was a tattoo map leading to a hidden treasure based on hints inscribed on the bodies of convicts in Abashiri Prison?! The magnificent nature of Hokkaido vs vicious convicts and the meeting with a pure Ainu girl, Ashiripa!! A survival battle for a hidden treasure hunt begins!
Golden Kamuy Season 4 will be produced by Brain’s Base instead of the previous seasons’ Genos Studio, with new staff members including Shizutaka Sugahara (Grimms Notes: The Animation, Rin-ne, and D-Frag! director) as chief director and Takumi Yamakawa (To Your Eternity, In/Spectre, and Grimms Notes: The Animation animation director) as character designer.
Other new staff include Tooru Koga (Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z) as art director, Yuuku Fukuda (To Your Eternity) as color designer, and Oda Yorinobu (To Your Eternity) as photography director. Returning from previous seasons are Noboru Takagi as series composer and scriptwriter and Kenichiro Suehiro as music composer.
Meanwhile, reprising the roles of main duo Saichi Sugimoto and Asirpa are Chikahiro Kobayashi and Haruka Shiraishi respectively.
The Golden Kamuy manga began in 2014 and has 28 volumes as of December 2021. It is serialized in Weekly Young Jump and published under the Young Jump Comics label. Viz publishes the manga in English.
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