Golden Kamui, tome 3

ゴールデンカムイ [Golden Kamui] #3

by Satoru Noda

Sugimoto, parti seul de son côté, tombe dans un guet-apens. Capturé par les soldats de la 7e division, il est désormais à la merci du lieutenant Tsurumi, qui lui propose de s’associer à lui pour mettre la main sur l’or des Aïnous… et prendre le contrôle d’Hokkaido !

Genres: Manga, Historical Fiction, Comics, Historical, Seinen, Fiction, Graphic Novels

194 pages, Paperback

First published May 19, 2015

About the author

Satoru Noda (野田サトル, Noda Satoru) is a japanese mangaka.

Reviews

[The Artisan Geek]

29/10/20
I LOVE THIS SERIES.

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[Knigoqdec · Rating 5 out of 5]

Миналата година започнах по подобен начин, с манга (дали не беше отново същата...) и не можеше да съм по-щастлива. Затова ще повторя модела и ще започна отново с манга. И то не с коя да е. Толкова много се радвам, че получих том 3 за Коледа... ♥ Издирвах го много време, все надявайки се, че наааай-послеее все някога ще го донесат насам, в България. Да си анимар в България като цяло е гадно, особено ако искаш да купуваш и манга.
Но да забравим това за момент.
В недоумение съм защо Хиджиката стои на корицата на този том, в по-голямата част на който става въпрос за Нихей, ловецът на мечки, както и за желанието на Танигаки да улови Ретар... Разбира се, говори се и за мозъци, читатап, странни хранителни навици и реки от кръв, сред които плават кръвожадни хора като близнаците Никайдо, Цуруми-чуи, самият Сугимото и, поне тук, Нихей с неговата меча кървавица по лична рецепта.
Какво да си говорим... "Златният Камуй" в най-съвършен вид, както винаги!

[Rod Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

This may be my current favorite series right now. I love the wolf, but - OH NO! - this volume introduces a hunter intent on killing the wolf! No no no no no! Do not mess with the wolf!

And the humans are up to their usual antics, doing their usual goofy stuff. Hunting. Camping. Eating. Jailbreaks. Eating. Mostly eating. Come to think of it, two of my other favorite manga series involve a lot of eating also: ダンジョン飯 1 Dungeon Meshi 1 and Food Wars!, Vol. 1.

[Nicolo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another recurring theme in Golden Kamuy is the food, especially in preparing game. Most of the food prepared in the wilderness is done the Ainu way since one is a main character. Sometimes the readers gets Mongolian style bear blood sausages. The mundane act of consuming food helps ground this piece of historical fiction.

[Anabel Samani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un tomo con mucha caza, mucha comida y algo de relleno.

[Whitney (The Cover Collector) · Rating 3 out of 5]

What happened to this series? Suddenly the comedy is overdone, hunting and food is taking center, and the killing of animals is casual. As far as I’m concerned this is all filler when there is only a small amount of main storyline sprinkled over top.

[Remxo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume is all about the hunt. Man hunting deer, man hunting wolf, man hunting man, wolf hunting man. Must be the romantic in me but I'm just in awe of the ainu and matagi hunters and their incredible skills. They're connected to the land. They think like their prey and become one with the trees. Amazing that cityfolk everywhere are learning that deer brains taste good eaten raw with a bit of salt. And smoke signals are made by burning wolf feces because of its unique chemical properties. Essential knowledge.

[Ana Fernanda]

It’s kinda weird to consume manga in a volume format? I’m not used to it. I genuinely believe Goodreads should change the way manga is displayed and not count volume mangas individually. Anyways, I guess if we judge this volume on its own it is all just a set up for the next one, so not a lot happens.

Ogata where are you…

[Aleksandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars!

Golden Kamuy is one of the bast manga out there, it's one of the best things I've recently read. I'm so excited to finally continue on with this series.

Golden Kamuy is a wild ride of quest-for-gold in Hokkaido of 1910s. It is historical manga, it is action packed and it doesn't shy away from violence and gore, it's a cooking manga and it is very educational about the life and culture of Ainu and Japan of that period. The characters are complex and endearing. I even like the antagonists almost as much as our heroes.
Sugimoto and Asirpa is the best duo!

This volume in particular had escape from captivity, various brutal exciting fight scenes, cooking of deer and horse meat, hunting, talks about Matagi culture, beautiful art of beautiful white wolf.

However, if you can't read about hunting and animal death, I wouldn't recommend this manga, it is explicit. Same about general violence and gore like human innards flying out, faces pierced with needles etc.

[Katja · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume had a lot of hunting. While I enjoyed it a lot, I didn't give it 5 stars because I felt the whole hunting arc went on maybe a bit too long, and the bear hunter character started to get repetitive very quickly.
There was less information on nature and Ainu customs etc. than in the first two volumes, which is understandable, there can't be as many new things to show as in the beginning, but worth mentioning anyway.

All the volumes have had some humour to balance all the gore and surviving in the harsh nature but there was even more of it here. It's alright, it was mostly well-placed. Asirpa is just the best still, and I find her and Sugimoto's relationship interesting. They've played together well so far but here we see some hiccups too.

[Kulwinder Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

In Volume 3, Tetsuzou Nijei, a renowned hunter teams up with Genjirou Tanigaki to hunt down the last Ezo wolf, Retar. Meanwhile, Sugimoto and Asirpa tries to save the wolf from going extinct.

"𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨. 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪. 𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚, 𝙗𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚."

The Escape King Arc has concluded with the ingenious escape of Sugimoto. He also fooled me there. Now begins the Legendary Hunter Arc and I'm loving every second of it!

[Loay Mohammed · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great Volume, We Started Digging into Our Main Cast a Bit, and The Introduction of Tetsuzou Nihei was Good. But, What Made This Volume a 4 Star instead of 5 is That While They were Focusing on The Main Cast Storyline and Tetsuzou’s Storyline They was a Lot of Explaining about Hunting, Traditions, food and etc…Which Was a Bit Boring to Me.

[Ana Pau Carbonell · Rating 5 out of 5]

si matan al lobo o a la niña me mato yo despues

[Elijah · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.25*

[hannonle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Me empieza a cansar tanto momento cocinillas, no acabo de conectar con esa moda actual de ponerse a hacer de Arguiñano y explicar recetas en plan tutorial. Lo demás sigue bastante interesante.

[Oz · Rating 5 out of 5]

No clue what to make of Boner guy yet but I'm liking the conflict between different hunter philosophies. At first I was thinking we were killing too many animals - not an ideological thing, I just wanted to see more focus on how Much meat was being created, since it seemed like, despite being told Asirpa will waste nothing, the main characters were making one meal out of each animal between two people. But this volume went a bit more into what happens when they have to move on quickly, and how everything they don't eat gets used by other parts of nature, so that resolved that worry for now.

[Kesa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Asirpa finally tasted Miso. Hinna.
In this volume there is the appearance of Hijikata Toshizō, an actual deputy commander of the Shinsengumi.
Nihei Tetsuzou, one of the Abashiri convicts, and Tanigaki hunt after Retar.
Just when they set a trap to prepare to ambush Retar Asirpa and Sugimoto spot them ...

[DonutKnow · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am always on edge when I read this serles! The protagonists are always on the verge of suriving, that I am often nervous for their safety. In this volume, the nervous feeling now extends to their white wolf companion, Retar.

[freddie · Rating 4 out of 5]

CAWPILE rating: 7.2/10
STAR rating: ★★★★

[Mélanie 🌻 · Rating 4 out of 5]

je suis bien dans la d… je vais vouloir la suite eh…

[Keith Hendricks · Rating 5 out of 5]

...Volume Three is somewhat villain-centric, starting with the metal-browed heavy, who is so reminiscent of a Bond, Batman, or Spider-Man villain that the mangaka could credulously push Golden Kamuy from historical drama into Wild, Wild West territory. Otherwise, there are still the expected ingredients on the label, such as the copious and alternately intriguing or gross segments on animal and food lore, humorous or bizarre non sequiturs, the expansion of the tattoo map, and enough death-defying savagery to justify Deathless Sugimoto’s nom du guerre.


Full review through this link (spoilers): http://www.nerdspan.com/golden-kamuy-...

[Grg · Rating 4 out of 5]

I forgot this was even a treasure hunting story. It's now more about camping techniques and angry men trying to kill each other. I'm here for it.

[Zibbi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m really enjoying how this manga is progressing—it's packed with suspense and keeps me hooked. My only gripe is that it sometimes gets bogged down with too much information and detail, which can disrupt the flow of the story. Still, it's fascinating overall, and I can’t wait to see where it goes next.

[Shy Kuzonoha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been fully invested since the end of Volume 1. Vol 3 does a good job at raising the stakes and creating new friends and rivals for the protagonist and his partners. This series is on a good pace of momentum and one of the most engaging seinen I've read in 2018.

[Anja · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's like I'm reading a mukbang with occasional murder.

[Paul Spence · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is early 20th century Japan. Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese war, is scrapping out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush on the wild frontier of Hokkaido. Sugimoto stumbles upon the first “piece” of a map leading to a fortune in hidden gold belonging to the Ainu (an indigenous people of Japan and Russia). However, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers are also hunting for the gold in the harsh northern wilderness. It will take all Sugimoto's skills and the help of a immensely-skilled Ainu girl named Asirpa to survive, let alone find the gold.

As Golden Kamuy, Vol. 3 (Chapters 18 to 27) opens, Sugimoto is being held prisoner at the Hokkaido 7th Division Barracks. Asirpa and new ally, Yoshitake Shiraishi, the genius escape artist, are plotting to free Sugimoto, and Shiraishi thinks he has a plan. Also, new players, Tetsuzo Nihei (the nightmare bear hunter”) and Tanigaki the Matagi, enter the game of lost Ainu gold.

I have already decided that the first volume of the Golden Kamuy manga was not a fluke. The first volume simply stunned me, and the second volume confirmed the high-quality of this series. The third volume should get Golden Kamuy on some “best comics of 2017” lists.

Golden Kamuy Graphic Novel Volume 3 makes me believe that this series' great setting demands that only great characters populate the landscape. When I find a great manga, I sometimes try to understand why I like it. I'll probably go from one reason to another. Right now, I am loving Golden Kamuy because of the engaging characters; protagonists, antagonists, supporting characters, etc.: I find them lovable, even the bad/evil guys. Creator Satoru Noda is killin' it, y'all! He is certainly doing good work on the character front, and if you can't get enough of great characters, you need Golden Kamuy.

Fans of Westerns and of Japanese historical dramas will want to try the VIZ Signature title, Golden Kamuy.

[Rolando Marono · Rating 3 out of 5]

El segundo tomo de este manga no me había gustado ni sorprendido tanto. Se había vuelto muy "técnico" muchos detalles sobre la vida de los Aynu en Hokkaido y sentí que la trama se había desplazado a segundo término. Por eso dejé pendiente esta serie por casi un año. Tenía del tomo 3 al 5 pendientes y no me habían dado ganas de empezar a leerlos.
Finalmente le di una oportunidad nuevamente y quedé gratamente sorprendido. Este tomo me entretuvo mucho, me hizo reír, Shiraishi me encantó como personaje y todas mis risas fueron para el, y además en las partes tensas si me preocupé y dudé de lo que iba a pasar.
Se introducen varios personajes que serán importantes: vemos más sobre el general que está cazando las pieles y que es un personaje muy perturbador, vemos al líder de Shinsengumi que también es un personaje y adversario temible y vemos a un cazador de osos pardos que los enfrenta con un arma de una sola bala para obligarse a no fallar. Personajes que se irán desarrollando más adelante pero que me parecieron atractivos e interesantes.
La relación entre Ashirpa y nuestro protagonista me pareció muy tierna y buena. Me hizo reír varias veces y hasta de cierta manera los shippeo aunque sé que es raro y no es mi conducta habitual tampoco.
Leo un cómic después de este y a seguirle con el tomo cuatro directo.

[Cookie · Rating 3 out of 5]

An improvement on the previous volume.

The volume starts off strong, goes into a slump into the middle and picks up the pace once again at the end.

Not much to say here. The Escape King is a great addition to our MC group and makes for a lovely dynamic for the trio. The joke about having to eat raw meat not to insult Ainu culture being extended to the new recruit was a riot.

I also enjoyed the Mitagi hunter and bear hunter duo who clearly have an objective that goes against our MCs’ interests yet are not depicted as villains. As always, this author goes hard in terms of characters and here, the bear hunter was such an interesting figure with quite a special outlook on life and of what he wanted out of it. The fact that he is first introduced as this ruthless hunter who seems to have little care for the animals he hunts but is then depicted as a man who is actually very conscious of what he is doing, of the violence he inflicts on the bears made for great character expansion. The fact that he understands and actively wants to die by the hand of nature, to be eaten and shat out to then become part of nature was such a fascinating and powerful philosophy.

All in all a good one that gets really intense at the end.

[Rach · Rating 4 out of 5]

Once again, Asirpa and Sugimoto’s expressions continue to push me into near hysterics. But I appreciate just how willing they both are to experience each other’s food! Sugimoto deserved the not-so-gentle reprimand Asirpa gave him for leaving her when he knows she has abandonment issues.

Tsurumi is a really great opposing force to this group. He’s so unhinged and wildly unpredictable, it makes him super interesting to watch. The way he makes choices leaves me confused yet I also want to see him more. He clearly fears no punishment and does whatever the hell he wants! A man not beholden by rules is a man where you can’t tell what he will do next. Also, still no status report on Ogata and I’m getting antsy…

I’m intrigued by this hunting arc, and I like the weaving way we progress through the plot by basically stumbling onto other map-bearers. It’s a satisfying level of forward momentum, though I will say the food focus has ramped up considerably! I’m not complaining - some of this I wish I could try if I didn’t have textural food issues lol. So glad I picked this series as my focus for the month, I’m thoroughly enjoying myself.

[Tony · Rating 3 out of 5]

This third installment in the manga series opens with Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi Sugimoto captured by rogue soldiers from the 7th Division who are on the hunt for the same missing gold as him. Fortunately, his Ainu girl companion and a notorious ex-con escape artist are on hand to rescue Sugimoto. Unfortunately, the plot grows ever-convoluted, as more antagonists and potential allies are introduced, including a legendary bear-hunter, and a master swordsman.

The volume has the same odd range of tone as the previous two, from extreme graphic violence to locker-room humor to cute animal stuff, and of course, plenty of recipes. I loved the first book in the series, liked the second one slightly less, and this one less again. I'm not sure if I'm just not made for the episodic rhythms of manga storytelling or what, but I started to lose track of all the characters. I'll try one more in the series, but that might be it for me.