We learned back in August that Satoru Noda’s manga series Golden Kamuy was getting an anime adaptation and more details continue to roll out. The latest comes in the form of the new key visual below as well as the two leads for it. Chikahiro Kobayashi is set to play Saichi Sugimoto while Haruka Shiraishi is on board to play Ashiriba.
Studio Geno is on board to handle the animation production for the show and has confirmed that Hitoshi Nanba will direct it based on the series composition by Noboru Takagi. Kenichi Ohnuki is handling the character design adaptation.
The series has ten volumes to its name so far as serialized through Young Jump and it looks like most recent volumes in Japan have sold around the 200,000 range. Viz Media is releasing the series in Englis in North America.
Check out our review of the first volume of the manga.
The manga won the 9th Manga Taishō award.
Plot Concept: When Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto 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!
[Source: MAL]
