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Golden Kamuy Manga Goes on 1-Week Hiatus Due to Creator's 'Childbirth'
posted on by Egan Loo
The official Twitter account for Satoru Noda's Golden Kamuy manga announced on Thursday that the manga went on hiatus in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine due to "Noda's childbirth." The manga did not appear in this year's 12th issue of the magazine, which shipped on Thursday, but it will resume in the 13th issue next week.
本日(2/20)発売の週刊ヤングジャンプ12号、
— ゴールデンカムイ(公式) (@kamuy_official) February 20, 2020
『ゴールデンカムイ』は野田先生が出産のためお休みです。
再会は来週発売のYJ13号となります。
どうぞ楽しみにお待ちください。
今週のフキダシアイコンは、
寒さで朝が辛い季節にちなみ、
丸まって眠るアシ(リ)パさんwith爆睡中の不敗の牛山! pic.twitter.com/vpFphQR6tH
Viz Media is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the first volume:
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.
Noda launched the ongoing manga in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine in 2014. The manga's 15th compiled book volume shipped in September 2018, and it bundled an anime DVD focusing on the manga's Barato arc. The manga's 17th volume shipped on March 19, 2019, and it also bundled an anime DVD. A third original anime video (OVA) for the Monster arc then shipped with the manga's 19th volume on September 19. The 20th volume will ship on March 19.
The television anime adaptation's first season premiered in April 2018. Crunchyroll streamed the series with English subtitles as it aired in Japan, and Funimation streamed it with an English dub. The second season premiered in October 2018. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired, and Funimation began streaming an English dub later that month. The television anime has a third season in the works.
