Viz Media has launched a new digital manga sale and this one is nicely timed to the second cour of the new anime adaptation that just got underway with Golden Kamuy. The publisher has set the first six volumes on ComiXology and Amazon Kindle to be priced at $6.99 each with it running through October 22nd, 2018 as a weeklong sale. This knocks a few bucks off the backlist digital price and a good bit off the print price.
The series has fifteen 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 English in North America.
Hitoshi Nanba directed the TV anime adaptation based on the series composition by Noboru Takagi. Kenichi Ohnuki is handling the character design adaptation and Studio Geno handled the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes Chikahiro Kobayashi as Saichi Sugimoto, Haruka Shiraishi as Ashiriba, and Kentarou Itou as Yoshitake Shiraishi, Houchou Ootsuka as Tsurumi, Kenjirou Tsuda as Hyakunosuke Ogata, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Genjirou Tanigaki, Jouji Nakata as Toshizō Hijikata, Kenji Nomura as Tatsuuma Ushiyama, Akio Ohtsuka as Tetsuzo Nihei, Tomokaze Sugita as Yohei and Kohei Nikado, and Toshihiko Seki as Kazuo Henmi.
The opening theme song will be “Winding Road” performed by MAN WITH A MISSION while the ending theme “Hibana” is being done by THE SIXTH LIE.
Check out our review of the first volume of the manga.
Plot Concept: 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.
