#golden kamuy raw

[cowboy-robooty]

does anybody like my lt tsurumi fanart? Please send asks to @welfare-kamuy . i dont know which character i am roleplaying with wiener to run it. but characters will answer. trust ❤️

[verzeke]

Golden kamuy fights are so raw I love reading them tho this manga isn’t about them their all so great and carry huge tension, characters gets mangled it’s sick

[unhonestlymirror]

Golden Dundeon Meshi👻

[millionsknives]

heres my golden kamuy playlist btw if you even care

[ammstify]

Y'know what's a weird thing that I want for Persona 6, that I think could be exciting to include given the possible theme of modernity vs tradition, or technology vs nature?

A character that's apart of the Ainu.

(***PLEASE NOTE, my knowledge of the Ainu people and their culture is fairly limited, so I will link down below some articles where you can learn more if you're interested!)

If you didn't know (because a surprisingly LARGE amount of people don't know about them), Japan has their own version of indigenous tribes, who have existed long before the establishment of modern Japan or even the monarchy.

One of these includes the indigenous peoples known as the Ainu, an ethnic group native to northern Japan, including Hokkaido, Northeast Honshu, as well as some territories and islands connected to Russia like the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Penisula, Sakhalin, and the Khabarovsk Krai.

While there is little history about their existence, we do know that the Ainu peoples are related to the Emishi, their ancestors, who during the 9th century came under Japanese subjugation and were pushed from their native lands to the north. Over the passing centuries, the Emishi and Ainu were treated with disrespect by both the early Japanese, who were known as Wa-jin, and later colonized by the more established dynasties that proceeded during the 17th century and beyond.

Today currently, there official population of the Ainu within Japan are around 25,000, but may actually be around 200,000 or more, due to the near-total assimilation into Japanese society, cutting off many individuals from knowing of their Ainu ancestry. Despite this though, the Ainu culture and their language somewhat prominent within their respective communities and continue to thrive, despite their dwindling numbers of the years.

In recent years, the culture has become a bit more well-known due to the fairly popular manga known as "Golden Kamuy", created by Satoru Noda and serialized from 2018 to 2022. The story is set after the Russo-Japanese war, where our main protagonist, Saichi Sugimoto, is a surviivng veteran of this war.

After learning about the possibility of a large cache of gold existing in Hokkaido, Sugimoto is nearly killed by the man who told him, but is saved from not only death by the man but also by a bear through the aid of a young Ainu girl named Asirpa. Together, the two of them form a very close friendship as they begin their complicated and dangerous journey to find the cache of gold, while collecting the tattooed map of the location of the cache.

The manga heavily focuses around the exploration of the Ainu culture, interweaving it with the plot of the manga, making it a very prominent and important topic within the story. Besides Asirpa, there are multiple Ainu characters that support the main cast, as well as many scenes exploring and discussing the culture of the Ainu and how the industrialization of Japan has affected their way of life.

One of my favorite scenes between Sugimoto and Asirpa is when she teaches him about some of their cuisine, in particular chitatap (or citatap), a dish made with the the raw meat of animals or fish that is chopped into fine chunks. Admittedly, Sugimoto is a bit worried about the idea of eating raw meat, but over the course of the story begins to fall in love with the dish to the point of obsessing over it.

Alongside that, there are also a few other representations too of the culture, such as the utilization of Ainu terms like "hinna" to express delight, the belief of "kamuy" or spirits in nature, or the tradition of Ainu women tattooing their lips! You can FEEL the authors love for the subject and wanting to let the wider world know about the existence of the Ainu, even though he might not be one himself.

So, why have an Ainu character? Well, for one, I think it would be a very interesting commentary upon some of the more complicated subjects that Japanese culture faces, and give a bit of representation to the tribe by having either a party member or supporting character within the town.

Persona is no stranger to dealing with complicated subjects and topics that are often shied away from in most JRPGS, notably SA, sexual harassment, depression, grief, struggling with ones own identity, sexuality, gender, and much more. The topic of the struggle of being indigenous not only in a judgmental and oppressive situation, but also a growing chokehold from the modern world as technology takes over, would be a very interesting thing to explore and provide one of many points of view upon the subject.

Its no question that many indigenous communities, including many in the United States, have been heavily affected by the growth of cities and the gentrification of areas, losing more and more of their territories everyday while backed into a corner. By writing about this, not only could the Persona team discuss the effects of the destruction of nature, but also the effects that it may have on smaller communities, be it indigenous tribes or merely small villages that exist outside the limits of cities!

So, whether or not this could happen, I think it'd be a really cool concept for Persona to explore and have, even if it might not take a center stage in the overall story!

Articles about the Ainu:

[midnight-in-town]

HOW MANY manga stories do you follow every day/week/month ????

Hey Anon ! Checking my calendar, this goes like this :

Weekly :

One Piece ; Boy's Abyss

Monthly :

Ao no Exorcist ; Gokurakugai (around the 3rd of each month)

Kuroshitsuji (the 18th of each month)

Witch Hat Atelier (around the 20th-24th of each month)

Majo to Yajuu (on hiatus for a little over a year, due to the mangaka being sick, but usually around the 22nd)

Vinland Saga (around the 25th of each month)

Release every two weeks or so :

Akatsuki no Yona ; Chainsawman ; Spy x Family

Unpredictable release :

Berserk continuation, by Mori

Tsui no Taimashi - Ender Geister (weekly release on Sunday, but fan translation and access to raws are unpredictable)

Kinou Nani Tabeta ; Hokuhokusei ni Kumo to Ike ; Otona ni Nattemo (I read when new volumes get released in English)

Choujin X (I catch up every now and then)

Currently discovering :

Recently, I started Sousou no Frieren and also tried Vanitas no Carte's first chapters (@grelleswife ;)), but new series ask me for a lot more focus than series I already know, so it always depends on how I'm faring with my irl work (typically, I know I need to really take more time to understand VnC, especially since I'm naturally biased about any stories with vampire characters).

Additional rereading (I'm always rereading one series or another) :

Still going through my One Piece first rereading (currently stuck in Wano since December).

Otherwise, in January I reread Pierre Bottero's entire multiverse (about a dozen French fantasy books, I'm on the last one called "Les âmes croisées") and for the last 15 days, I've been rereading Akatsuki no Yona (caught up yesterday to the latest released chapter).

Since yesterday, I also started rereading Dorohedoro because two friends showed recent interest in it and I wanted refresh my memory in order to discuss this with them.

My 2024 plans are also to continue my TG reread that I started two years ago (lmao) and to reread Kuroshitsuji to prepare for Ciel & Seb's investigation. Gosh and I also want to reread Golden Kamuy, Chihayafuru and Blade of the Immortal. T_T

Rereading is really something I do on a whim though, so it's not like I can really be sure of what I'll reread next. Usually, it's driven by recent and important plot twist and unraveling. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Have a good day, Anon. :)

[very-grownup]

Vinland Saga: Farmland Saga is proving adept at something I primarily associate with Naoki Urasawa's works: the build up of a small mini-tragedy around a briefly introduced character that smashes your heart open when it lands. You can find them in his three big works licensed in English: Monster, 20th Century Boys, Pluto (I'm not caught up on Asadora!). You can always see the way these little arcs will go, but somehow no matter how much you brace yourself, you end up a sobbing mess. They're not quite the same, of course. Urasawa is demonstrating his narrative sensibilities and showing the domino-like effects the actions of the protagonists have on people outside their immediate sphere. Yukimura is underscoring the reality of his historical setting.

As one friend said tonight, "I didn't need it to be that historically accurate".

Golden Kamuy's back, which makes an interesting compliment to Vinland Saga. Turning over those two and Miura's Berserk, thinking about the use of violence in these three series that are all violent and bloody and at times quite raw and why a man getting stabbed straight through his cheeks in one is delightful while a man simply stabbing another man in the chest is horrifying. Noda and Yukimura are closer to being contemporaries of each other than Miura, and both are historical works versus the European-infused fantasy of Berserk, but I think there's a PTSD commonality between Sugimoto, Thorfinn, and Guts and an acknowledgement by the characters and the writers that the violent actions they take are terrible.

Something to turn over.

[bubblesandpages]

Golden Kamuy is like you will get to sample the delicious food, but only after you’ve eaten a raw organ.

[eyedelater]

golden kamuy fragments

here are many short thoughts that i want to put out there but not as individual posts

because that would be too many individual posts.

i like the idea that usami could be a prettyboy that people around him love if not for his feral nature and shit personality

boutarou charm point: letting his long hair fall onto your body in unpleasant ways

tsukishima charm point: face partially obscured by hat <3

wilk said, "i want asirpa to become someone who chooses the difficult and thorny path of her own will and tries to grasp happiness with her own two hands." (inspired) i should choose the difficult and thorny path of my own will…! noo but it's so thorny

we really really need more characters like sofia. big and not beautiful in the face and cool. big mom from one piece is big and not beautiful in the face but she's not cool. she's cringe.

if i ever suffer a grievous life-altering injury i hope it at least makes my character design more interesting like with tsurumi

kiroranke's wife and sons only got drawn once but that panel got copied and pasted like 3 times. his family has an entry in the golden kamuy fanbook and it's yet another copypaste of the same panel.

hijikata toshizou is always dealing fatal wounds to the abdomen. they're gonna die horribly, you know?

otonoshin's recurring shakashaka and nagakura's recurring watata are not that different. they should get along

kikuta mokutarou's name is probably mokutarou because moku means wood and his face looks like it was carved from wood. (checks the kanji) 杢 is the moku in his name. i thought it would just be 木, the usual kanji for wood, also pronounced moku, but 杢 apparently means woodworker, so that makes even more sense.

i love tsukishima so much. i'll never get tired of him. sometimes you just need to spend a whole lot of time thinking about a really unhappy little guy.

another thing the official translation did wrong is that they didn't let us know when koito was adding an extra A to the end of tsukishima's name. it's a habit of his to say "tsukishimaa!" and sometimes, he even says "tsukishimaaa!" that's a charm point, dammit! he's a whiny bitch! include that! EH scans included that. (raises 100th glass to EH scans)

probably a lot of ogata's attitude toward guns, starting from childhood, is like, "this makes killing so easy. if it's this easy, it can't be that wrong." and that attitude, combined with certain external factors in his life and what some might call a clear case of the dark triad, slowly ferments into the ogata we have today. that's a big part of why he can kill people without remorse: because it's so easy... and because no one is close enough to him to make him question his own viewpoints.

it was the nikaidou twin with the leg wraps who hit sugimoto in the face with the rifle. i noticed during the nikaidous' first appearance that one was wearing leg wraps and one was wearing the leg guards that are not wraps, so i was going to use that to differentiate them and figure out if it was youhei or kouhei who hit sugimoto in the face with the rifle, which sugimoto himself wasn't sure about. and then i'd sound real smart. but by the time youhei got killed, it seems he and kouhei had taken their differential leg coverings off. even though i went to the trouble of remembering about the leg wraps for the duration of several chapters.

reading the raws is enlightening because japanese only uses punctuation sparingly (japanese doesn't Need punctuation in the first place) so when there is punctuation included, it's there with a strong purpose. like the first time nihei tetsuzou just shouts out "BONER!" as an exclamation, there's a rare exclamation point and it made me laugh

golden kamuy is good for your mental health because it exposes you to scenarios like seeing nihei tetsuzou's detailed face saying, "My boner is raging out of control," and you get to experience the resulting emotions in a safe, controlled situation. (the emotions involved vary from person to person.)

most middle school boys in america could do an edogai cosplay just by drawing two lines down their face because they already have the exact right haircut

it's my 4th read and i only just noticed that the stand-in fake nopperabou has had his tongue cut off… i mean, it makes sense given how he behaves (no words), but yeah, it's visibly apparent the first time he screams. never looked in there before.

i haven't looked at much kirakado fanart yet but it's occurring to me that there must be a scenario where kirawus is like "i can't believe i'm letting this guy rummage around in MY asshole…!"

when tsurumi was hasegawa, he liked big guns enough to have a machine gun hidden in his big camera, but when the big gun was being fired right next to him, he had a perfectly blank face instead of tsurumi's usual look of orgasmic bliss. that must be something he developed during his later military service and time on the battlefield.

when koito picks up tanigaki's gun and it's got a grenade trap under it… tsukishima protects koito by grabbing his head, by the face, with his big mitten. head. face. mitten. i had forgotten about that particular action. i really like the mitten to the face come here boy it's gonna explode. and then tsukishima gets his hat knocked off again :(

the kanji for sugimoto SAichi, uSAmi tokishige, and SAdo island (tsukishima's birthplace) are all the same SA. it's 佐. just a coincidence. 佐 means help.

the reason boutarou knocked shiraishi out of the way and took 3 bullets for him is because moments earlier, he recognized that he had finally taken a fatal amount of damage, and shiraishi was basically the only remaining person who could tell the world about him, as the pitiful remaining fragments of his dream.

i was wondering how commander koito's satsuma dialect would play into his communication as a big boss military man, like maybe some subordinates from different regions could have trouble understanding his commands? but in chapter 291/292 raws you can see that every single thing he yells is in kanji, no particles, no grammar. that must be the navy standard. so you don't really have to worry about dialect if you're not stringing any sentences together.

when you find a work that really strikes you, i think it's very important that you make sure that you are picking up what the author is putting down before you start engaging in fandom. sometimes it'll take more than one read or watch for that to happen. otherwise intra-fandom memes and headcanons could poison your mind with foolish misconceptions. (like what?) <- wikipedia-style annotation debunking myself

[sarazanmai]

Pretty sure I said this before, but unless it's Silence of the Lambs, Raw, or Golden Kamuy I think cannibalism in fiction is so goofy and forcefully edgy.

[osomanga]

GK 200: Throwbacks

Too many throw back-scenes:-

1. I yearn to kill you so bad you don’t know, do you? Do you??

General thoughts: 元気になって戻ってこいぶっ殺してやるから

Just you get better and come back dear. I’ll kill you dead. 

(Approximately)

(wasn’t there some creepy spider or sm1 that spoke like that?)

ED note: 殺意を決意の約束。

An enagagement(contracted agreement) to fulfil and see to the end this utter desire to kill.

Battle mode engage style engage. It’s a promise to ensure and guarantee a certain fate- it’s destiny.

O who am I kidding...they’re engaged!!

And honestly, Sugi cheating on him with prisoners and others, Ogata won’t mind so much at all so long as he comes back to kill him.

The small print: やっちゃえ杉本サン。

It’s a pun on the popular やっちゃえNISSAN.

(Its supposed to be a coming up next but...later maybe)

Also...it’s like

Do it, Sugimoto-san! Just kill him already!

And as almost all my dictionaries push to the top, やっちゃえ is quite a slang for the fucking of do it too, ya know, just do him already Sugimoto-san!

Heh...no subtlety left, eh editor guys?

Yuusaku’s ghost(from the background): やっちゃえ兄さん (nii-san) !!

Ogata(gnashing teeth): It’s Ani-sama to you!

Too many examples...hmmm...best one:-

2. The Backlight

3. I’m FREEEE!!!!!

He grew out his hair when he first got liberated out a hospital with a fixed jaw. Now with a fixed eyesocket and only his hood, presumably no uniform what state’ll you reach eh?

4. And of course, Hyakkun’s iconic Haha...

5. Shhh....

6. The Eye that made it stares abnormally; the eye that didn’t make it is obscured

7. The Rose Filter

You see what you want to see,

Hear what you want to hear.

8. The More the Curls, the Crazier they get

[seirxi]

congratulations koitsuki nation

鯉月の人おめでとう

[mademoisellegouze]

Catboy and his cute lashes

[rose-of-orlais]

ogatabros we fucking lost

[eatsrust]

→ take him to a vet

[teripops]

Let’s celebrate Tumblr’s new color with some Golden Kamuy comics because why not?