{"id":61372,"date":"2023-05-16T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=61372"},"modified":"2023-05-16T20:38:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T03:38:41","slug":"golden-kamuy-adds-two-new-characters-after-4th-seasons-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/05\/16\/golden-kamuy-adds-two-new-characters-after-4th-seasons-restart\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Kamuy Adds Two New Characters After 4th Season\u2019s Restart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The official website for the <\/span>Golden Kamuy<\/span><\/i> anime series has revealed the addition of two new characters for the fourth season, which <\/span>restarted its broadcast<\/span><\/a> on April 3, 2023 after a <\/span>lengthy production delay<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The additional voice cast members include <\/span>Akira Ishida<\/b> as Heita Matsuda (pictured left) \u2014 a mysterious gold panner \u2014 and <\/span>Nobuyuki Hiyama<\/b> as Keiji Ueji (pictured right) \u2014 a dangerous candy vendor who craves despair.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The two characters appeared in the seventh episode of the fourth season, which is the 43rd episode overall in the series. Season four first premiered on October 3, 2023, with the first six episodes airing before the broadcast was stopped. The first and second seasons of <\/span>Golden Kamuy<\/span><\/i><\/a> premiered in 2018, while the third season premiered in 2020. Crunchyroll is streaming all the previous seasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The fourth season\u2019s production staff includes <\/span>Shizutaka Sugahara<\/b> (<\/span>Grimms Notes: The Animation<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Rin-ne<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>D-Frag!<\/span><\/i> director) as chief director and <\/span>Takumi Yamakawa <\/b>(<\/span>To Your Eternity<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>In\/Spectre<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Grimms Notes: The Animation<\/span><\/i> animation director) as character designer. <\/span>Brain\u2019s Base <\/b>takes over as the new animation production company from <\/span>Genos Studio<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Other new staff members for the fourth season include <\/span>Tooru Koga<\/b> (<\/span>Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z<\/span><\/i>) as art director, <\/span>Yuuko Fukuda<\/b> (<\/span>To Your Eternity<\/span><\/i>) as color designer, and<\/span>\u00a0Yorinobu<\/b> Oda <\/b>(<\/span>To Your Eternity<\/span><\/i>) as photography director. Returning from previous seasons are <\/span>Noboru Takagi<\/b> as series screenwriter and scriptwriter and <\/span>Kenichirou Suehiro<\/b> as music composer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the main voice cast duo includes <\/span>Chikahiro Kobayashi<\/b> as Saichi Sugimoto and <\/span>Haruka Shiraishi<\/b> as Asirpa. <\/span>Masaaki Mizunaka <\/b>and <\/span>Tomokazu Seki<\/b> joined the season four cast as Ariko and Boutarou the Pirate, respectively.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The anime is based on the historical adventure manga by <\/span>Satoru Noda<\/b>, which ran in Shueisha\u2019s Weekly Young Jump from August 21, 2014 to April 28, 2022, concluding with a total of 31 tankoubon volumes. The manga was published under the Young Jump Comics label.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Viz releases the <\/span>Golden Kamuy<\/span><\/i> manga in English and describes the synopsis as:<\/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 \u2014 and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa \u2014 to survive.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Source<\/b>: <\/span>Golden Kamuy Official Japanese Website<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Golden Kamuy Official Anime Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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