Category: Golden Kamuy

「人斬り」 (Hitokiri)
“Manslayer”

It’s rare to see a series that’s already this good improve this much, but the result is always glorious when it does.

「メコオヤシ」 (Meko Oyashi)
“Meko Oyashi”

Golden Kamuy has really upped its game this season.

「悪兆」 (Aku chou)
“Bad Sign”

In a cast full of badasses, hardasses, psychotics and stone-cold men, Ogata is without a shadow of a doubt one of the scariest.

「国境」 (Kokkyou)
“Border”

Any show that can be this brilliant in successive weeks with such spectacularly different material deserves that little bit of extra recognition.

「不死身の杉元ハラキリショー」 (Fujimi no Sugimoto harakirishou)
“Immortal Sugimoto Harakiri Show”

Among the many labels I could affix to Noda Satoru and Golden Kamuy, “shameless” would certainly be one.

「いご草」 (Igogusa)
“Igogusa”

One really does get the sense that Noda has a dossier of these richly detailed backstories for everyone in the series, and can dust one off whenever he feels like it.

「スチェンカ」 (Stenka)
“Stenka

One thing you discover when writing about Golden Kamuy is that with eps like this one, trying to describe them is an exercise in futility – they just have to be experienced.

「蹂躙」 (Juurin)
“Overwhelmed”

You know an episode of Golden Kamuy is serious when nobody eats anything.