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 I've come out of lurking to recommend this cool manga that doesn't get talked about enough in ADTRW. Golden Kamui is a manga that takes place in Meiji Era Hokkaido just after the close of the Russo-Japanese War. It stars this guy:  Sugimoto, a veteran of the war. He's so good at not dying that he got the nickname of "the Immortal." His whole goal is to get a bunch of gold to save the woman he loves from an illness. After coming to Hokkaido in a failed attempt to capitalize on a gold rush, he ends up hearing about a huge stash of gold some crazy criminal stashed before he was caught and locked up. The "treasure map" to the gold was then tattooed on the backs of all his fellow inmates before they staged an escape. Sugimoto teams up an Ainu girl:  Asirpa, who's after the gold because that crazy criminal who stashed it stole it from her father and killed him in the process. Together, the two of them are on a race against time against the other criminals along with a local division of the Japanese Army and the occasional angry bear! This manga is a great blend of interesting Ainu culture, exciting action, and comedy all in a package that comes off a lot like a Japanese take on a Western movie. And Sugimoto punches a bear!  And eats an otter!  And has many other adventures besides! This is a really good manga that you should read if you're interested in the Ainu culture, food, Meiji era Japan, or the pitiless brutality of nature. Somebody fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Apr 29, 2016 |
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I really like the action so far in this manga. It's always clear and obvious what's happening, and the fight scenes are quick, efficient, and brutal. Plus I like how the author uses double page spreads for important action bits, like Sugimoto's drop kick or a man throwing a prostitute like a frisbee.
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In this latest chapter, Princess Mononoke takes on The Terminator! Sort of!
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Jan 21, 2016 11:14
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People were talking about Ainu info, so here are a couple neat links with good historic/cultural/language stuff if you're interested: http://www.ainu-museum.or.jp/en/study/eng01.html http://homepage3.nifty.com/tommy1949/Aynu.htm Also the latest chapter was pretty drat awesome. I wonder if the manga is going to get more openly critical of how the Japanese treated the Ainu..
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Jan 23, 2016 14:10
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The return of the best character.
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Bad Seafood posted:That chapter was gnarly as all get out. I haven't read it, but apparently he uses the exact same character design and the name "Nihei" for a hockey coach in his previous manga Supinamarada! :  The author even used Nihei's face for his autograph, so hopefully Noda just loves drawing this dude and will use him in all his mangas forever.
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Feb 23, 2016 08:34
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New chapter is out, features quite a lot of Good Dogs. http://bato.to/reader#5868244bf1538c60
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Feb 28, 2016 16:01
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Double release http://bato.to/reader#3bbf6c3fea878a05 Ushiyama is awesome. Every character in this manga really gets a chance to shine.
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New chapter, and a pretty drat great one! http://bato.to/reader#65480ed11ae66109 I'm just glad he got to shine.
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Negrostrike posted:I'm really confused now. How can Superior Private Ogata give orders to Corporal Nikaidou? Corporal is two ranks above Superior Private. I think you might be mixing up soldiers (unless there was a typo somewhere?) It can get pretty confusing with all the different soldiers. They don't mention his rank much, but Nikaidou is a Private First Class (the same rank as Tanigaki):  The Corporal they keep talking about is Tamai, a different guy:  He's the mustache man that got his face flipped open by a bear way back in volume 2.
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May 6, 2016 08:45
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I'm really glad that K. Flaps' dreams came true. Satoru Noda posted this music video on his twitter and said it reminded him of Henmi. Try to guess why! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4gyJsY0mc 
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New chapter! By the way, apparently both Ushiyama and Shiraishi were modeled off of real people. Shiraishi's model was Yoshie Shiratori and Ushiyama's was Tatsukuma Ushijima They both led pretty crazy lives, apparently!
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Dick Spacious CPA posted:the yojimbo arc was amazing and this manga deserves more praise I bet it would get more attention with an anime, but I'm not sure how likely that is to happen. It's not like they have a lot of fluent Ainu speakers to do the voice acting, and there's a decent chunk of Ainu dialogue. Sure, they get non-native speakers to do an awful job speaking English all the time, but it might be a different thing when it's the language of a native ethnic group that could potentially get upset about it. It's hard to say, maybe I'm completely wrong and it's just a matter of time! And yeah, the Yojimbo arc is great. I've never seen the movie before and I watched it after I started the arc, and it's amazing just how packed full of little references and homages the whole arc is. You can tell how much of a passion project this is for Noda. HouseofGlass fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Aug 15, 2016 |
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Yeah, that's all true. But if they want to be authentic and given that there are barely any fluent speakers of Ainu at all nowadays except for the elderly, I would be 100% fine with using an 80 year old woman for Asirpa's voice, though! In other GK news, it looks like they're opening up a "Golden Kamuy restaurant" for one day only in Shibuya in September. http://www.cinra.net/news/20160812-goldenkamui (link is in Japanese, but it has cool pictures) They've got rabbit citatap stew, deer and bear meat, and komochi konbu, but it looks like raw brains didn't make the menu. If anybody is gonna be in Tokyo on 9/22 and has a lot of confidence in their ability to get a reservation, you should go for it! HouseofGlass fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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The title page is so weird and distinct that I wonder if it's visual reference to something or if it's just Noda having fun. He does so many references that it's hard to tell sometimes!
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Congrats on getting licensed! We're still going to work on it though, since otherwise you'll be stuck waiting years for the next chapter! Speaking of which: http://bato.to/reader#9eb0b75a7152e91d I sincerely hope that somebody, somewhere sees that it got licensed and decides to begin their GK experience by reading this chapter.
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Negrostrike posted:So I though Asirpa's dad was an Amur Valley Ainu? What is he? Russian? Tungusic? I'm confused now... (Gonna drop the spoiler tags since I'm just speculating) I think he's from an Amur Valley ethnic group that is similar to the Ainu but not the same. Kiroranke mentions that they lived a lifestyle "not so different from the Ainu," but Asirpa's dad seemed to need to learn about the Ainu culture from his wife so I don't think they were actually Ainu. The manga leaves the details of what ethnic group he's from pretty vague aside from the fact that it was in the Amur River area. I assume that's because either A) it's some sort of revelation later or B) Noda just sort of made up a group for plot purposes that vaguely fits the time and place but doesn't directly correspond to any historical group.
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Theowulv posted:The first volume is up for pre-order on Amazon Oh, cool. I hope they do a good job writing up a glossary of background and historical details. Apparently the French version was really good in that regard, and there's so much neat stuff and references that I hope they at least try to cover most of it.
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I feel like if Noda had some sort of anti-gay agenda, he would make his gay characters a lot more stereotypical and a lot less likeable. I mean, everyone loves Edogai and the yakuza couple avoid falling into a lot of different common tropes about gay people that tend to show up in manga. All of those characters are charming and when they die it's in a cool, often heroic way. So if Noda is trying to say something by killing them off, I don't really know what it's supposed to be. If I had to say the one agenda I feel exists in this manga, it would be this: Noda really likes boners.
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http://bato.to/reader#980533672577c476 Congrats to Shiraishi for finally making the cover, and congrats to Noda for drawing a Very Good Two Page Spread!
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http://bato.to/reader#0ef0e719416bb193_1 Every chapter of GK is very educational, and this one is no different! Now I know the extent of Japanese censorship laws!
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Get busy reading, or get busy dying. http://bato.to/reader#6ee7aae51f50faf6 
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Mikl posted:The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > ADTRW > Golden Kamui: The Osoma Redemption Those are all great, but please don't change the topic title. It's my baby and I love it. Also, here are a couple other movie posters we did that we never got around to releasing anywhere. Might as well put them here while we're on a poster kick!   Rodenthar Drothman posted:Also this isn't that kind of manga. I wouldn't worry about that stuff. (Also wasn't the plot point that she's actually an adult, but she's just really really super tiny, even for an Ainu?) No, I'm pretty sure that Asirpa is actually around 12 years old. They never gave her real age, but she's definitely a kid. I agree that it's not that kind of manga though.
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http://bato.to/reader#bff6dc21286be433 I think the convicts might have made a very bad call!
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http://bato.to/reader#45e8f5e7cef2181d A very good chapter in a very good manga. HouseofGlass fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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Wow, I completely missed a reference in that chapter. The gesture that Tsurumi makes when he's telling Nikaidou to stop is meant to be a reference to Michael Jackson and Bubbles, according to Satoru Noda on his twitter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_lcmcNthAU&t=32s Credit for catching that to a tumblr that's trying to keep track of some different references in the manga (be careful though, it has characters that haven't showed up in the scans yet so it has some spoilers): http://wirgins.tumblr.com/post/161008163551/golden-kamuy-reference-appendix There are so many references in this manga that I've probably missed more than I've put in the glossary by this point!
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http://bato.to/reader#743b6f0eabf669b4 This chapter is about heroism and the many shapes it can take.
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I guess nobody noticed, but there's a new chapter up: http://bato.to/reader#365f315187a2e32c Shiraishi gets to be useful! Against all odds!
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Here's a new chapter, full of the majesty and beauty of nature: https://bato.to/reader#7be4aa2c806dd5be Also, here's the Ainu crane dance on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp9yuAkDp5Q
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A new chapter! Keep following your dreams, Shiton! https://bato.to/reader#d9353058afab3fa3 Also chapter 109 came out a couple days ago in case you missed it! 
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blizzardvizard posted:Golden Kamui: B-Side: The Ballad of Plucked Chest Hair Some fan actually recorded their own version of that song. It's pretty good! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO6Oi2WttVQ
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Negrostrike posted:I think that's just...makeup? Lip tattoos are only for married women as far as I know. Magikarpal Tunnel posted:I also think it's makeup, but until she gets a color spread (or shows up in the anime I guess?) I don't think I could say for sure. I think unmarried women can get lip tattoos, though, but the big ones surrounding their mouths they don't get until they're married. Maybe. No, Ainu women got tattoos before they were married. They got them first at around Asirpa's age (12-13), and then the tattoos were made bigger at 15-16. Getting a tattoo was considered a requirement for a woman to be married. I believe the tattoo was expanded on again after marriage (they mentioned that the grandma has a big tattoo because she was married to an important man), but women definitely got tattoos in Ainu culture before marriage. I'd say that Inkarmat definitely has a mouth tattoo as well, although it's not easy to tell. This is probably the clearest picture of it that I could find, at the end of chapter 115. You can see how it goes out past where lipstick would go, towards the cheeks:  There's a bit of info about that and a lot of good info about other stuff on this site, if you're interested: http://www.ainu-museum.or.jp/en/study/eng11.html
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So it looks like Viz did a DMCA takedown and asked batoto to remove every single chapter of Golden Kamuy. That's a real shame, since I prefer uploading on batoto since it lets us reupload and fix errors if we need to. I thought Viz wasn't quite as quick to remove series as, say, Yen Press, but I guess I was wrong. But more interestingly, I was looking at pictures of the Viz version of volume 2 on twitter and I noticed something. It seems an awful lot like they just, well, plagiarized our scanlation. Viz  Ours  Viz  Ours  Viz  Ours  Viz  Ours  Sure, there's only so many ways that you can write something, but some of that stuff is almost word for word what we had. Also, what's most suspicious to me is that the Ainu is exactly the same. Given that a written Ainu language was a late invention that didn't always have a consistent romanization, there's a lot of room for different ways to write out Ainu words. I'm the one that transcribed all the Ainu words, and I used a lot of guesswork when it came to the spelling of some confusing words and how I decided to split words up in a sentence. So the fact that they wrote the same thing would be pretty surprising if their work was totally original. I can't say for 100% sure, but it sure seems like they just copied what we had, changed a few words, and then got paid for it. Not that we can do poo poo about it as a Highly Illegal Scanlating Group, though! HouseofGlass fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Sep 22, 2017 |
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I feel like I probably made some mistakes along the way (nobody's perfect!). I want to email the poor translator and warn him of great danger. But I also think if they ended up copying one of our mistakes word for word that would be just about the funniest thing.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Like that one where Tsurumi makes a direct reference to Godfather Death (the Grimm fairy tale) but "shinigami" isn't translated? No, actually, I think it's a reference to a rakugo story called "Shinigami." This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IH4DK-h3iQ The rakugo story seems to be an adaptation based on the Godfather Death story, but I don't think Tsurumi is directly referencing the Grimm fairy tale. Either way though, it doesn't change the fact that I didn't catch the reference at all, even though I saw that anime! Whoops! HouseofGlass fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Sep 22, 2017 |
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Good timing! That image is from this chapter, glistening and ready for everyone to enjoy! http://bato.to/reader#466e926c5b382fca_1 HouseofGlass fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Dec 18, 2017 |
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Okuyasu Nijimura posted:I'll mention for the millionth time that I picked this up because of scanlations and the quality of said scanlations so that poo poo matters Thanks, that means a lot to us! It's a real shame that Viz seems to be phoning it in and just copying what we did (and in this case making it worse for no reason). I'm proud of our work, but they should be going the extra mile and doing an even BETTER job since this series is amazing and absolutely deserves it. Oh, well. In happier news, here's the next chapter! https://bato.to/reader#035b5074977e823a
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This will probably be the last time I post a link to batoto. I'm gonna miss that site... Anyway, new chapter is up! http://bato.to/reader#67bfb0300788dc3e_1
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Next chapter: https://mangadex.com/chapter/6377 We're using mangadex for the time being now that batoto is dead, not sure when/if the chapter will show up on aggregate sites. HouseofGlass fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Jan 21, 2018 |
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