Golden Kamuy (season 4)
The fourth season of Golden Kamuy is a 2022 Japanese anime series, based on the manga series of the same title, written and illustrated by Satoru Noda. On December 5, 2021, it was announced that the series will receive a fourth season. Brain's Base is producing the season, replacing Geno Studio.[1] Shizutaka Sugahara is serving as the chief director, and Takumi Yamakawa is designing the characters. Noboru Takagi is returning to write the scripts.[2] The season premiered on October 3, 2022.[3] The opening theme, "Never Say Goodbye," is performed by ALI featuring Mummy-D, while the ending theme, "Subete ga Soko ni Arimasu You Ni," is performed by The Spellbound.[4] On November 7, 2022, it was announced that the seventh episode of the season and beyond would be postponed due to the passing of a main staff member.[5] The season restarted broadcasting from the first episode on April 3, 2023.[6]
| Golden Kamuy | |
|---|---|
| Season 4 | |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Tokyo MX |
| Original release | October 3, 2022 – present |
| Season chronology | |
Episode list
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date [7] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 1 | "Rushin' Outta Russia" Transcription: "Aba yo Roshia" (Japanese: あばよロシア) | Shizutaka Sugihara | Noboru Takagi | October 3, 2022 | |
| Sugimoto's party leave the Nivkh village in Russia on dog sleds, crossing back into Japanese territory. They arrive in the coastal town of Shisuka where they are observed by an unknown person. Sugimoto sends a telegram to Lt. Tsurumi announcing that they are heading towards Toyohara. Suddenly, Shiraishi is shot in the leg by a sniper who then keeps the group pinned down. Sugimoto returns from shopping for supplies and attacks the sniper from a different direction. Sugimoto discovers that he is the Russian sniper seeking revenge on Ogata for killing his comrades. The Russian then follows the group at a distance and they arrive at Lake Akan. Meanwhile , the former Head Jailer Kadokura and Kirawus, search for Ushiyama and Hijikata. They question a local Ainu boy who tells them he saw the men they are seeking with another stranger. After finding a silkworm cocoon, Kadokura deduces that their target, the tattooed escapee Sekiya Waichiro, had used his knowledge of toxins to immobilize them. Meanwhile, a disguised Sekiya offers Kirawus some fish laced with lethal amounts of tetrodotoxin, but Kadokura saves them when he accidentally drops the fish into an ice hole, blaming his bad luck. | ||||||
| 38 | 2 | "Cocoon" Transcription: "Mayu" (Japanese: 繭) | Tomio Yamauchi | Noboru Takagi | October 10, 2022 | |
| Ushiyama regains some level of consciousness while buried in a coffin, but is still effected by Sekiya's combined fugu and datura poisons. He breaks out, and outdoors he rescues Chiyotarou, the Ainu skating boy of a wealthy family who had been tied to a tree by bullies. Meanwhile, Sekiya sends Hijikata's katana to Kadokura with a provocative message stating that he has kidnapped Hijikata who is still in a coma caused by fugu poison. Kadokura and Kirawus hatch a plan to exchange some tattooed skins with Sekiya for Hijikata and capture him during the exchange in the center of an iced-covered river. However, the plan is foiled when Ushiyama bursts through the ice after earlier falling into the water. Together they track down Sekiya, but he proposes a type of Russian roulette to Kadokura, played with poison-filled silkworm cocoons in exchange for Hijikata. Kadokura's bad lack continues when he chooses a cocoon containing wolfsbane which quickly takes effect, but he swallows two more cocoons to reduce his suffering. When Sekiya digs up Hijikata, the old man jumps up and attacks him, inflicting a fatal injury. Kadokura recovers because two subsequent doses he swallowed consisted of fugo which cancelled out the wolfsbane. Sekiya dies from his injury enabling Hijikata and Kadokura to collect his tattooed skin. | ||||||
| 39 | 3 | "The Smell of Sulfur" Transcription: "Iō no Nioi" (Japanese: 硫黄のにおい) | Tomio Yamauchi | Noboru Takagi | October 17, 2022 | |
| While Privates Nikaido and Usami of the 7th Division are recuperating at the Noboribetsu Hell Valley hot springs they meet Warrant Officer Kikuta. He introduces them to Private Ariko, an Ainu, who tells of recently seeing a stranger who appears to be wearing a strangely marked coat higher up the mountain. Kikuta asks Nikaido about the tattoos on the escaped Abashiri prisoners, suspecting the stranger may be one of them. Meanwhile at another sulfurous hot spring up in the hills, escapee Anji Toni and his associates plot to get rid of the suspicious Kikuta and Ariko. However Kikuta finds them first, prepared for fighting in the darkness after wearing an eyepatch since sunset to increase his night vision in that eye. He and Ariko are joined by Nikaido and Usami who are also seeking the tattooed escapee. After a violent encounter, they follow Toni into an abandoned mine, where both Usami and Toni are wounded in a gunfight. Toni exits the mine but is followed by Ariko who uses gunshots to cause an avalanche which kills Toni. Ariko strips of Toni's skin and is later joined by Kikuta, planning to take it to Tsurumi together. | ||||||
| 40 | 4 | "Spoiled Rich Kid" Transcription: "Bonbon" (Japanese: ボンボン) | Aya Yoshinaga | Takafumi Fujii | October 24, 2022 | |
| In a flashback to Kagoshima many years earlier, the young Otonoshin Koito, a naval cadet and second son of the wealthy Naval commander Heiji Koito, crashes into Tsurumi with his new motorized tricycle. Tsurumi chases Koito and teaches the young man a lesson in humility. Koito then reveals the remorse he feels about his older brother's death during the Sino-Japanese War and they strike up a friendship. Later, the Koito family move to Hakodate where Koito is kidnapped and coincidentally the soldier brought in to rescue him is Tsurumi. Tsurumi deduces that Koito was captured by Russians who intend to immobilize the Japanese Oominato Torpedo Group and Fort Hakodate. After locating the kidnappers at the abandoned army base of Goryoukaku some kilometers away, Commander Heiji and Tsurumi race there and manage to free him, with Tsurumi killing his captors. Koito attends the army officer's school with his father's blessing, and after graduation he joins Tsurumi in 7th Division. Koito briefly encounters Hyakunosuke Ogata who refers to him as a "barchonok", Russian for a spoiled rich kid. | ||||||
| 41 | 5 | "Cinematograph" Transcription: "Shinematogurafu" (Japanese: シネマトグラフ) | Tomio Yamauchi | Shingo Irie | October 31, 2022 | |
| In Toyohara, Sugimoto receives word by telegram that Tsurumi is on his way to Karafuto via Noboribetsu and is planning to meet them on Oodomari in two weeks. While Sugimoto and Asirpa out hunting, they are watched by Tsukishima accompanied by a Russian. Meanwhile, a cinematographer Katsuro Inaba and his operator Gariel, are filming Karafuto Ainu for Lumière when they see Asirpa create a ritual fire without matches and he asks to film it. Suddenly, Inaba ia attacked by the wolverine that Asirpa is tracking. Sugimoto and Asirpa manage to kill it and its mate while Gariel films the event. Later, while watching some of Inaba's film footage, Asirpa is inspired to act out some traditional Ainu stories for posterity, becoming both writer and director with Sugimoto's group acting out the character roles. During the screening of the film, Katsuro shows footage he filmed over 10 years earlier in Otaru, and Asirpa sees her father Wilk and then her mother for the first time, but the arc lamp ignites the nitrate film, consuming it in flames. Asirpa realizes that nothing lasts forever, and confronts Sugimoto about what the future holds for her and the Ainu culture. Sugimoto reveals to her that, before he died, her father told him that he raised Asirpa to be someone who could lead the Ainu. He then curses Wilk and Kiroranke for burdening Asirpa with that huge responsibility and suggests that she abandon the race for the gold. | ||||||
| 42 | 6 | "Sweet Lies" Transcription: "Amai Uso" (Japanese: 甘い嘘) | Takeyuki Sadohara | Daishirou Tanimura | November 7, 2022 | |
| Tsurumi realizes that Anji Toni was pretending to be a masseur while spying on their movements. Tsurumi suspects that Ariko is working for Hijikata as the skin he returned with was not Toni's, but that of Sekiya, because he already knew what was on Toni's tattoo. Tsurumi pressures Ariko into working for him as a double-agent, and after beating him up sends him off with all the fake skins made by Yasaku Edogai to give to Hijikata. Ariko arrives with the skins, but Hijikata suspects they are fakes and that Ariko is being used by Tsurumi. Sugimoto's group leaves their dog sled and Cikapasi with Enonoka and Henke, and continue on to Oodomari. Based on what Ogata told him, Koito suspects that Tsurumi was involved in the suicide death of General Hanazawa Koujirou, former commander of the 7th Division, to facilitate construction of the Manchurian Railway which helped keep Manchuria under Japanese control. He questions Tsukishima about this, but Tsukishima just explains that Tsurumi is a ruthless man who will use any means, from murder to sweet lies, to achieve his objectives and he warns Koito to keep his concerns to himself. This makes Koito even more enamored of Tsurumi. Elsewhere, after a night out, a drunken Shiraishi tells Sugimoto that Asirpa has grown while in Karafuto and is no longer a little girl, and she may want to lead the Ainu. | ||||||
| 43 | 7 | "Fleeing Karafuto" Transcription: "Karafuto Dasshutsu" (Japanese: 樺太脱出) | TBA | TBA | May 15, 2023[6] | |
| Tsurumi's destroyer reaches the port of Karafuto where he approaches Asirpa's group and offers to protect her. He proposes to send Sugimoto and Shiraishi on the morning ferry to Wakkanai but Asirpa mistrusts his motives. Taking the initiative, Asirpa fires a volley of arrows into the air, causing everyone to scatter and enabling her to flee with Sugimoto. They are caught and come under fire but as Tsurumi's men surround them, Sugimoto lashes out, wounding them and escaping again. With the aid of the unknown "Mister Hood", Asirpa, the wounded Sugimoto and Shiraishi reach the ferry before it sails, leaving Tanigaki and Tsurumi behind with his men. A short while later, Tsurumi's destroyer steams towards the ferry and fires its cannon as a warning to stop. Initially the captain tries to escape the destroyer but is too fast, and it catches the ferry. Meanwhile, Asirpa, Sugimoto, Shiraishi and Mister Hood descend onto an ice floe and escape, using white sheets to conceal their movements. A short while later, local fishermen take them aboard their small boat and head back towards Hokkaido, while the disguised Ogata boards the ferry back to Hokkaido. | ||||||
Notes
References
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