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Golden Kamuy: Sapporo Beer Kōjō-hen Prologue Anime Films Streams Trailer
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The staff for the anime of Satoru Noda's Golden Kamuy manga started streaming the full trailer for Golden Kamuy: Sapporo Beer Kōjō-hen (Golden Kamuy: Sapporo Beer Factory Arc), the two prologue films of the anime's final arc, on Wednesday. The trailer previews the films' theme song "Kogane no Kanata" (Beyond the Gold) by Awich × ALI (with the vocals, unlike the instrumental version in the previous teaser trailer).
The prologue films has Sugimoto, Asirpa, and Shiraishi heading to Sapporo to resume finding the gold. In Sapporo, they try to track one of the escaped prisoners named Keiji Ueji. Meanwhile, the 7th Division's Tokishige Usami and Warrant Officer Mokutarō Kikuta (and the group led by Toshizō Hijikata) are also in Sapporo tracking down another escaped prisoner who had committed a series of murders of prostitutes. Sugimoto and Hijikata reluctantly agreed to cooperate to find the prisoner, and they get information that the next murder will occur at a Sapporo Beer factory. They plan an ambush to capture the prisoner, but everything turns into chaos with the 7th Division and even Ueji showing up.
The television anime's final arc lists a mostly returning cast and staff. Chief director Shizutaka Sugahara returns from the fourth season at Brains Base, and Noboru Takagi also returns to oversee the scripts. Takumi Yamakawa is again designing the characters. Yukihiro Shibutani (Case Closed, Natsume's Book of Friends, TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You) and Mao Miyake (Natsume's Book of Friends season 7) are the' art directors. Magic Capsule is in charge of sound production, and WOWOW is distributing.
The anime's fourth season first premiered in October 2022 and aired episodes 1-6 (37-42 of the overall anime), before it stopped the broadcast. The staff had delayed episodes 7-13 of the anime's fourth season (episodes 43-49 of the overall anime) due to the November 1 passing of an unnamed main staff member of the anime. The announcement noted the main staff member who passed away was "indispensable" to the production, so the production committee and the anime's studio Brains Base decided on the delay after some discussion.
The anime restarted its broadcast in April 2023 with its first episode (overall episode 37 for the anime franchise).
The first television anime 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 third season premiered in October 2020. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. Funimation streamed an English dub.
Noda launched the manga in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine in 2014, and ended it in April 2022. Viz Media is releasing the manga in English.
The manga's first official spinoff novel titled Golden Kamuy: Tsurumi Tokushirō no Shukugan (Golden Kamuy: Tokushirō Tsurumi's Aspiration) by historical mystery writer Amon Ibuko will have a limited edition Blu-ray Disc bundle, that will ship in Japan on October 17. The Blu-ray Disc will feature the anime adaptation of the popular manga chapter "Inazuma Gōtō to Mamushi no O-Gin" ("The Lightning Thief and Viper Ogin"), and the mini episode "Shimaenaga" (The Hokkaido Long-Tailed Snow Bird). The new anime's runtime is about 30 minutes long.
Source: Press release
