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ゴールデンカムイ [Golden Kamui] #10
Golden Kamuy, Vol. 10
Shiraishi is a master escape artist, but he’s not very good at evading capture! After the 7th Division captures Shiraishi, Sugimoto and Hijikata join forces in an uneasy alliance to rescue him. With the help of Choan Kumagishi, one of the Abashiri convicts, they put a risky plan to free Shiraishi into action. Of course, Lieutenant Tsurumi isn’t about to let these old foes get the better of him, setting the stage for another dangerous confrontation.
200 pages, Paperback
First published March 17, 2017
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January 1, 2022
Another superb volume in a great series. Noda has achieved the perfect balance of action, adventure, comedy and historical drama. The meticulously rendered Hokkaido landscapes (often based on photographs), the towns and the various cultural practises are based on heavy research, which gives this book a real sense of place. It's an exciting journey to be on.
October 15, 2019
Another entertaining volume! I love the consistency of this manga, all the volumes keep on delivering on good content.
I was happy to see Koito finally appear, I love this disaster gay.
The last scene between Asirpa and Sugimoto is one of my favorites.
I was happy to see Koito finally appear, I love this disaster gay.
The last scene between Asirpa and Sugimoto is one of my favorites.
January 28, 2022
El capítulo 99 es la demostración de como se debe hacer una persecución. El final del tomo me emocionó un poco, me pasó igual en el anime. Me recuerda un poco a la lucha interna que tiene Tommy Shelby en Peaky Blinders cuando intenta recordar quién era antes de la guerra.
La comedía sigue siendo de mis favoritas, me pasa como con One Piece, pueden ser repetitivos los chistes pero aún así siempre logran sacarme una carcajada.
En fin, leer un tomo de Golden Kamuy siempre es una experiencia placentera, es una historia muy completa y cumple en cada uno de sus aspectos.
La comedía sigue siendo de mis favoritas, me pasa como con One Piece, pueden ser repetitivos los chistes pero aún así siempre logran sacarme una carcajada.
En fin, leer un tomo de Golden Kamuy siempre es una experiencia placentera, es una historia muy completa y cumple en cada uno de sus aspectos.
June 20, 2024
bellissimo il salvataggio
March 27, 2021
I love how the writer 'Satoru Noda' filled the true or rumoured stories with his fictional bits of ingenuity which makes it seem like the real thing.
January 28, 2025
Assez drôle ce tome. Et la dernière scène, très émouvante 🥺
July 16, 2021
CAWPILE rating: 9/10
STAR rating: ★★★★★
Those last few pages 😭
STAR rating: ★★★★★
Those last few pages 😭
November 30, 2023
20231130 3rd read
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20220128 2nd read
本集結尾突然感性起來是要嚇死誰
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20190725 1st read
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20220128 2nd read
本集結尾突然感性起來是要嚇死誰
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20190725 1st read
June 28, 2022
The series keeps getting better and better, but this volume was stranger. The homoeroticism in thi smanga series is long established. But did I just read a part of it where a pre-pubescent teen male gets an erection seeing a beautiful woman tied up? Wasn't expecting teenage shibari.
Other than that love the historical accuracy, humor, and action.
Other than that love the historical accuracy, humor, and action.
November 30, 2019
The wacky adventures in this volume are fine and fun -- prison breaks, psychics, imposters, a crazy gun inventor, a hydrogen blimp -- but they do feel like filler as the creator aggressively vamps while moving the characters from point A to point B.
March 7, 2023
God this has to be one of my picks for the top ten hidden gems and I hope more people get into Golden Kamuy because it’s so fantastic. Every volume has been some of the best mangas I have ever read. Golden Kamuy has such a good heart, it’s written so well with parts that are so funny (I laugh out loud every book), action-packed and suspenseful, and touching moments. The art is so well done Satoru Noda draws so perfectly for what mood he’s trying to convey, I truly believe he is one of the best mangakas around. Golden Kamuy gives you a huge insight into Japan and the people who live there, I have learned so much about Japanese and Ainu history and culture that I never knew.
I think volume ten hops around a lot jumping perspective a lot which I could see being hard to follow for some people but is the only gripe I have with vol ten. I think the real stand-out moment that pushed this volume from 4 to 5 stars was the conversation Sugimoto and Asirpa had inside the deer carcass (it was very sweet trust me). Shiraishi makes this volume to being the main focus of the volume.
I think volume ten hops around a lot jumping perspective a lot which I could see being hard to follow for some people but is the only gripe I have with vol ten. I think the real stand-out moment that pushed this volume from 4 to 5 stars was the conversation Sugimoto and Asirpa had inside the deer carcass (it was very sweet trust me). Shiraishi makes this volume to being the main focus of the volume.
July 12, 2019
Still good stuff! Art good, story good, respect for Ainu exceptional. Can't wait for more!
March 27, 2021
Rating encompasses volumes 6-10 cause I don't want to bulk up my shelf by adding every single volume*
December 17, 2023
To quote Tanigaki from this volume, “This has been one hell of a journey!” And it’s only volume 10 of 31! LOL!
August 31, 2024
UGH, THAT ENDING!!!
February 12, 2021
i love ogata SO much.
the past couple of volumes have been a bit filler-y and not really followed characters i'm that interested in, but the majority of them are still so enjoyable and fun to read that it doesnt diminish my enjoyment of the overall story - i really love this wacky gold hunt hijinks. i think that shirashi is 'the polnareff' of this manga (comedic relief who the focus tends to be on way more than the protagonists you showed up for - i really dislike polnareff) but he's not as annoying as he could be. and that last scene ;-; we love bayonet dad and his adopted archer daughter ;-;
the past couple of volumes have been a bit filler-y and not really followed characters i'm that interested in, but the majority of them are still so enjoyable and fun to read that it doesnt diminish my enjoyment of the overall story - i really love this wacky gold hunt hijinks. i think that shirashi is 'the polnareff' of this manga (comedic relief who the focus tends to be on way more than the protagonists you showed up for - i really dislike polnareff) but he's not as annoying as he could be. and that last scene ;-; we love bayonet dad and his adopted archer daughter ;-;
August 12, 2021
This was possibly my favourite of the Golden Kamuy series thus far, at least since the first two. The story seems to be coming together again after wandering around for a few books a bit aimlessly (though there were still some great set-pieces involving bears, whales and an Indiana-Jones-style mine cart chase).
This 10th book centres mostly around trying to break Shiraishi (the "king of prisonbreaks") out of the clutches of the corrupt army brigade, which gives it a nice standalone story within the larger (endless?) golden nugget/tattoo plot. Some of the art is pretty spectacular too...Hokkaido is really beautifully drawn in this issue.
I think one thing I have had to adjust to in reading this series (I'm reading it in Japanese...which is sometimes translating Ainu or Satsuma-ben here!) is that I wasn't really used to the style of Japanese manga stories as this is the first real manga series I've read in earnest (despite reading lots of other things, novels etc, in Japanese). Given that this is historical fiction, I was initially interested in it mostly as as a fun way to research the history of Hokkaido, the Ainu and such, and it has been pretty good in terms of this (lots of research has gone into this series). What has been even more fascinating is how different the storytelling is from (current) Western styles of historical fiction. Here are a few examples:
1) "glossary" boxes - square text boxes are used at times to directly explain linguistic, historical or cultural information. While interesting, this just isn't something you see in most Western historical fiction (it would be drip-fed subtly through description, memories, dialogue, etc). The old show don't tell maxim. The result is a sort of "docu-drama" effect (as in documentaries where you cut to dramatisations...though dramatisation dominates here of course) which is a bit jarring at times, but then again I'm not sure how else you would be able to drip-feed enough information in a manga with so much history/culture that is unfamiliar even to most Japanese people. Asirpa also does a lot of heavy-lifting with this early on...explaining all things Ainu to Sugimoto (and us)!
2) comic relief - this manga starts out pretty straight in the first book but later on gets really (REALLY) silly. Now, given that the story is sort of a "Hokkaido Western (as in cowboy)" tale, this isn't entirely without parallel in Western literature/film, but the ways that comedy appears in this manga takes some getting used to. We get deadly serious scenes involving quite grisly violence and sincere exploration of war trauma interspersed with bizarre and quite unhistoric seeming comedy! It was jarring at times but quite interesting to experience at the same time. Never really experienced anything like it.
3) non-sequiturs/transitions - in keeping with the comment above about comedy, I've struggled to get used to some of the transitions in these stories, which are probably quite natural to Japanese manga readers or those who read manga a lot. Obviously I know what a flashback or an imagined image is...it's more that the execution occasionally makes this hard to recognise. This has become less of a problem (especially because I read Japanese so much faster now than when I started the series), but it was tricky at the start. Fascinating to realise how much our understanding of stories within a medium depends on our familiarity with conventions.
4) food - I can't imagine any Western story focusing THIS much on food!
Anyway, just a couple of observations. I'd also add that the last two pages of this 10th volume contain quite a moving interchange between Sugimoto and Asirpa on the nature of war, home, and human nature, though the place where it takes place (think Empire Strikes Back in the ice storm...) is a bit of a strange location for it! (there is a moment of odd comedy here involving deer liver that actually does end up making a sincere and quite moving point on the last page.)
This 10th book centres mostly around trying to break Shiraishi (the "king of prisonbreaks") out of the clutches of the corrupt army brigade, which gives it a nice standalone story within the larger (endless?) golden nugget/tattoo plot. Some of the art is pretty spectacular too...Hokkaido is really beautifully drawn in this issue.
I think one thing I have had to adjust to in reading this series (I'm reading it in Japanese...which is sometimes translating Ainu or Satsuma-ben here!) is that I wasn't really used to the style of Japanese manga stories as this is the first real manga series I've read in earnest (despite reading lots of other things, novels etc, in Japanese). Given that this is historical fiction, I was initially interested in it mostly as as a fun way to research the history of Hokkaido, the Ainu and such, and it has been pretty good in terms of this (lots of research has gone into this series). What has been even more fascinating is how different the storytelling is from (current) Western styles of historical fiction. Here are a few examples:
1) "glossary" boxes - square text boxes are used at times to directly explain linguistic, historical or cultural information. While interesting, this just isn't something you see in most Western historical fiction (it would be drip-fed subtly through description, memories, dialogue, etc). The old show don't tell maxim. The result is a sort of "docu-drama" effect (as in documentaries where you cut to dramatisations...though dramatisation dominates here of course) which is a bit jarring at times, but then again I'm not sure how else you would be able to drip-feed enough information in a manga with so much history/culture that is unfamiliar even to most Japanese people. Asirpa also does a lot of heavy-lifting with this early on...explaining all things Ainu to Sugimoto (and us)!
2) comic relief - this manga starts out pretty straight in the first book but later on gets really (REALLY) silly. Now, given that the story is sort of a "Hokkaido Western (as in cowboy)" tale, this isn't entirely without parallel in Western literature/film, but the ways that comedy appears in this manga takes some getting used to. We get deadly serious scenes involving quite grisly violence and sincere exploration of war trauma interspersed with bizarre and quite unhistoric seeming comedy! It was jarring at times but quite interesting to experience at the same time. Never really experienced anything like it.
3) non-sequiturs/transitions - in keeping with the comment above about comedy, I've struggled to get used to some of the transitions in these stories, which are probably quite natural to Japanese manga readers or those who read manga a lot. Obviously I know what a flashback or an imagined image is...it's more that the execution occasionally makes this hard to recognise. This has become less of a problem (especially because I read Japanese so much faster now than when I started the series), but it was tricky at the start. Fascinating to realise how much our understanding of stories within a medium depends on our familiarity with conventions.
4) food - I can't imagine any Western story focusing THIS much on food!
Anyway, just a couple of observations. I'd also add that the last two pages of this 10th volume contain quite a moving interchange between Sugimoto and Asirpa on the nature of war, home, and human nature, though the place where it takes place (think Empire Strikes Back in the ice storm...) is a bit of a strange location for it! (there is a moment of odd comedy here involving deer liver that actually does end up making a sincere and quite moving point on the last page.)
September 27, 2021
Golden Kamuy, Vol. 10 (Chapters 91 to 100) opens as Sugimoto, Asirpa, and their gold-hunting allies, Hyakunosuke Ogata and Tatsuuma Ushiyama, prepare to leave the Ainu village that was held captive by escaped prisoners. In fact, the only surviving escapee, Kiyohiro Suzukawa, is now their captive, and Sugimoto has a plan to make him useful in their quest for gold.
Meanwhile, Sugimoto and Asirpa's recent partner and travelling companion, Yoshitake Shiraishi, the “Escape King,” has been captured by the 7th Division, the strongest unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. Some of its members, particularly First Lieutenant Tsurumi, are also looking for the Ainu gold. Now, two more allies, Toshizo Hijikata and Kiroranke, are chasing the convoy to recover Shiraishi before they arrive at division headquarters.
When all else fails, the captive, Suzukawa, has a plan.
The Golden Kamuy manga is moving deeper and deeper into its narrative. It is certainly one of the best historical fiction manga and graphic novels series on the market. And creator Satoru Noda continues to flesh out his cast.
Golden Kamuy Graphic Novel Volume 10 offers two intense chase scenes and one comical scam. The heart of this volume is a kind of con game, but it is important to getting the band back together. There is also some comic relief, but Noda surprises readers by offering some ruminations on the nature of war, especially in relation to the Russo-Japanese War. Thus, we get a pivotal moment in the relationship between Sugimoto and Asirpa, which gives Golden Kamuy some serious overtones.
Meanwhile, Sugimoto and Asirpa's recent partner and travelling companion, Yoshitake Shiraishi, the “Escape King,” has been captured by the 7th Division, the strongest unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. Some of its members, particularly First Lieutenant Tsurumi, are also looking for the Ainu gold. Now, two more allies, Toshizo Hijikata and Kiroranke, are chasing the convoy to recover Shiraishi before they arrive at division headquarters.
When all else fails, the captive, Suzukawa, has a plan.
The Golden Kamuy manga is moving deeper and deeper into its narrative. It is certainly one of the best historical fiction manga and graphic novels series on the market. And creator Satoru Noda continues to flesh out his cast.
Golden Kamuy Graphic Novel Volume 10 offers two intense chase scenes and one comical scam. The heart of this volume is a kind of con game, but it is important to getting the band back together. There is also some comic relief, but Noda surprises readers by offering some ruminations on the nature of war, especially in relation to the Russo-Japanese War. Thus, we get a pivotal moment in the relationship between Sugimoto and Asirpa, which gives Golden Kamuy some serious overtones.
August 12, 2019
I really needed something like this. With life being pretty crazy this volume was a nice chance to relax. The excitement and adventure in this volume was par for the course. The humor was great and I found myself laughing multiple times throughout. Some really interesting facts were shared about regional Ainu differences and local folklore. I also have to say that some of the mountain scenery in this volume was simply gorgeous, made you feel like you were there. The final chapter of this volume also offered up some very nice sentimentality and insight into the lives of the characters and the way that war had effected them. It had me tearing up. Looking forward to the next volume greatly.
January 11, 2023
While I give the entire volume four stars, I give the last chapter (100) a resounding five for how it ripped my heart out of my chest and stomped on it. Asirpa’s gentleness is such a stark contrast to Sugimoto.
Overall, lots of action as usual in this volume. I like the sheer variety of criminals we get to see, from all genres of the form. Not everyone is a killer, but all of them are really unique in personality and motive.
I’m still quietly sitting on my hands as I wait for Ogata’s background to eventually get revealed.
Overall, lots of action as usual in this volume. I like the sheer variety of criminals we get to see, from all genres of the form. Not everyone is a killer, but all of them are really unique in personality and motive.
I’m still quietly sitting on my hands as I wait for Ogata’s background to eventually get revealed.
May 27, 2023
I didn't know such short lines about persimmons could make me bawl so much. Great!
Another fun and exciting volume. So many penis/boner jokes here, btw. Koito is such a d***rider for Tsurumi LMFAO especially when he took out Tsurumi's picture from his pocket. But everyone under Tsurumi is all over him because he knows how to get people to move for him. Interesting character, tbh.
Moreover, I love the illustrations on the first pages of every chapter. Adventure centered with them and saving-Shiraishi-mission theme XD. So goofy. This is so fun!
Another fun and exciting volume. So many penis/boner jokes here, btw. Koito is such a d***rider for Tsurumi LMFAO especially when he took out Tsurumi's picture from his pocket. But everyone under Tsurumi is all over him because he knows how to get people to move for him. Interesting character, tbh.
Moreover, I love the illustrations on the first pages of every chapter. Adventure centered with them and saving-Shiraishi-mission theme XD. So goofy. This is so fun!
November 14, 2019
The worst thing about this series... I often get a volume months late (a year late on the first few) after publication, and still, all of my books are first printings... That means there aren’t enough people stoked on this series! Go get it! Now! It’s better than One Piece or Hero Aca! A bloody revenge, a failed rescue attempt, and a wild escape in an airship, and is Sugimoto still immortal?!? What could be more fun than that!
August 7, 2025
Favourite volume to date. The ending of the last chapter was heartbreaking, and I just love seeing Sakamoto being protective and Asirpa, and seeing them cuddling for warmth was very sweet. I was tearing up too because of Sakamoto's commentary on the war and the way it messes people up. He was trying to explain it in a way that she could understand, and it really sets Asirpa up for when she will eventually see her father 💔
July 10, 2021
And we are back again to Immortal Sugimoto as our cover man.
And I warn you the ending of this volume brought me to tears....
....until Noda made Shiraichi appear on the last tiny panel.
Shiraishi!!
And I warn you the ending of this volume brought me to tears....
....until Noda made Shiraichi appear on the last tiny panel.
Shiraishi!!
May 13, 2022
Otro buen tomo de GK. La trama se siente mucho más lenta, quizás por la montaña rusa de la que venimos. Este tomo me hace cuestionar qué tanto se puede prolongar el simple viaje a Abashiri (no esperaba que fuera tan largo). La introducción de personajes, como siempre, soberbia. Este tomo se sostiene por el humor.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 31, 2022
Wow.
En este tomo tenemos a Tanigaki, introducimos a un nuevo personaje y tenemos un impactante final con los pensamientos y preocupaciones de Sugimoto. Verdaderamente me ha llegado.
Como siempre, otro tomo en el que no han faltado las risas, el suspense, la acción y las aventuras.
¡Me encanta la serie!
En este tomo tenemos a Tanigaki, introducimos a un nuevo personaje y tenemos un impactante final con los pensamientos y preocupaciones de Sugimoto. Verdaderamente me ha llegado.
Como siempre, otro tomo en el que no han faltado las risas, el suspense, la acción y las aventuras.
¡Me encanta la serie!
June 18, 2022
The character interactions are so well done in this one, and I love the friendship Asirpa and Sugimoto have and the trust they have as well. The landscapes continue to be great as well, and plenty of action throughout.
January 17, 2023
相変わらず、
-アイヌ文化紹介
-変人だらけ
-杉本がかっこいい
-白石がウケる
-アシリパが可愛い
-杉本とアシリパの親子愛のような愛情が良い
-アシリパの指示にぱっと従う大人たちが良い
そして：
-杉本は、軍帽を被ってないと別人に見える（顔の傷は同じはずなのに）（そして鹿の中で暖を取ってる時も軍帽かぶってる...）
-気球のエンジン部分の不具合を直そうとして、杉本白石アシリパが「ウキィイイイ」と猿状態になる描写がなんかツボった。何でもできる万能キャラじゃなくて、それぞれ得手不得手があるのが良い。
-アイヌ文化紹介
-変人だらけ
-杉本がかっこいい
-白石がウケる
-アシリパが可愛い
-杉本とアシリパの親子愛のような愛情が良い
-アシリパの指示にぱっと従う大人たちが良い
そして：
-杉本は、軍帽を被ってないと別人に見える（顔の傷は同じはずなのに）（そして鹿の中で暖を取ってる時も軍帽かぶってる...）
-気球のエンジン部分の不具合を直そうとして、杉本白石アシリパが「ウキィイイイ」と猿状態になる描写がなんかツボった。何でもできる万能キャラじゃなくて、それぞれ得手不得手があるのが良い。
March 26, 2025
Better than the previous volume! Taking out con men, rescues from the 77th regiment, disguises, and one daring escape! This manga really bounces around from action, to historical, to comedic, and back to thriller.
March 12, 2018
Noooooo!!! Every book brings me closer to the ending of the current publication.... Noooo!
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