{"id":149574,"date":"2026-03-09T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=149574"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:15:12","slug":"golden-kamuy-final-season-highlights-hijikatas-past-present-self-in-new-visual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/03\/09\/golden-kamuy-final-season-highlights-hijikatas-past-present-self-in-new-visual\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Kamuy Final Season Highlights Hijikata\u2019s Past & Present Self in New Visual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The official Twitter\/X account of the <\/span>Golden Kamuy<\/span><\/i> anime series has released a <\/span>new visual<\/span><\/a>, highlighting an older and younger version of Toshizo Hijikata for the upcoming \u201cGoryokaku arc.\u201d The anime\u2019s <\/span>fifth and final season<\/span><\/a> began airing in Japan on January 5, 2026 and is streaming in select countries and territories worldwide on Crunchyroll.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Shizutaka Sugahara<\/b> (reprising from Season 4) is serving as the chief director for <\/span>Golden Kamuy Final Season<\/span><\/i>, with <\/span>Takumi Yamakawa<\/b> (reprising from Season 4) as character designer and<\/span> Noboru Takagi <\/b>(reprising) as series composer. <\/span>Brain\u2019s Base<\/b> (since Season 4) is handling the animation production.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Golden Kamuy <\/span><\/i>anime began in 2018 and has released four seasons. The first three seasons were produced by <\/span>Geno Studio<\/b> until Brain\u2019s Base took over production for the fourth season in 2022.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The anime is based on <\/span>Satoru Noda<\/b>\u2019s historical adventure manga series, which was serialized in Shueisha\u2019s Weekly Young from August 21, 2014 to April 28, 2022. A total of 31 tankobon volumes were published in Japan under the Young Jump Comics label.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The manga also inspired a live-action film adaptation and a sequel TV series titled <\/span>Golden Kamuy: The Hunt of Prisoners <\/span><\/i>in Hokkaido in 2024. Both are streaming on Netflix overseas.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A second live-action movie, <\/span>Golden Kamuy: Abashiri Kangoku Shuugeki-hen<\/span><\/i><\/a>, will premiere in Japan on March 13, 2026.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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VIZ Media publishes the <\/span>Golden Kamuy<\/span><\/i> manga series in English and describes the main synopsis as:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi \u201cImmortal\u201d 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\u2014and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa\u2014to survive.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sources<\/b>: <\/span>Golden Kamuy Official Twitter<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Crunchyroll News<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The official Twitter\/X account of the Golden Kamuy anime series has released a new visual, highlighting an older and younger version of Toshizo Hijikata for the upcoming \u201cGoryokaku arc.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":149580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,1935,78,292,1638,590],"class_list":["post-149574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-brains-base","tag-crunchyroll","tag-golden-kamuy","tag-shueisha","tag-viz-media"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/golden-kamuy-goryokaku-arc-visual-1-e1773076400291.jpeg?fit=904%2C509&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-CUu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149581,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149574\/revisions\/149581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}