Golden Kamui" is finally completed today! Sugimoto and Asilipa in the snowfield...＜THE SNOW COMIC＞ video and advertisement visuals are released!

The manga "Golden Kamui" finally reached its conclusion today, April 28, with the 22nd and 23rd issues of Weekly Young Jump.

Golden Kamui" (written by Satoru Noda) is a popular manga that began serialization in "Weekly Young Jump" in 2014 and won the 22nd Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award "Manga Grand Prize. The fourth season of the TV anime will be broadcast in October 2022, and a live-action film adaptation has also been announced.

⇒The4th season of TV anime "Golden Kamui" will start airing in October! The first PV has been released!

The serialization finally reached its conclusion in the 22nd and 23rd issues of "Weekly Young Jump," which went on sale today. To commemorate this, "THE SNOW COMIC," a web movie and station advertisement visual depicting Asipa and Sugimoto in the snowfield of Hokkaido, where the story takes place, were released.

To commemorate the completion of the series and to thank readers for their support over the past eight years, Tomohiro Kajiyama, a snow artist living in Hokkaido, cooperated with the artist to create a huge painting measuring approximately 100 meters by 70 meters.

■Making Movie is now on view.
＜The Snow Comic" is a project to commemorate the conclusion of the "Golden Kamui" serialization by drawing the main characters Ashi (Ri) Pa and Sugimoto in the snow fields of Hokkaido by actually stepping on the snow with "human feet". This was Tomohiro Kajiyama's first attempt to create snow art of giant characters.

After repeated tests and revisions, and an accident caused by heavy snowfall... A making movie of the production process was also released.

The video overlaps the process of snow art being created through trial and error, and the trajectory of Asi(li)pa and Sugimoto from their first encounter to the end. In addition, the spectacular "Mt. Kamui" shown in the opening scene - which was miraculously filmed during the production - and the cute expressions of the Striped Enaga and Ezo-shika deer, as well as other animals depicted in the manga, also appear in the film.
The film also shows the grandeur of the natural beauty of Hokkaido, the setting of "Golden Kamui.
(Animal supervision: nature photographer Koichi Yamamoto)

Golden Kamui" Serialization Completion Commemorative PV "THE SNOW COMIC

Huge advertisements appear in Hokkaido and Tokyo
＜Commemorative advertisements featuring graphics and images of "THE SNOW COMIC" taken by drone are now on display in Shinagawa, Shinjuku, Sapporo, and Obihiro. The ad, with the copy "Our footprints are carved on the northern land. The graphic shows the actual size of the snow artwork.

Please refrain from inquiring at the station or to the station staff.
Please be careful not to obstruct passersby when viewing the artwork.

■Super-added! Comics published two months in a row!
The latest volume 29 is now on sale to rave reviews!
Volume 30: Scheduled for release on June 17 (Friday)
Final volume 31: Scheduled to be released on July 19 (Tuesday)

Synopsis of the work
It is the turbulent late Meiji period. Sugimoto, an ex-soldier who survived the Russo-Japanese War, wants a large sum of money for the love of his life. He sets off for Hokkaido in the midst of the gold rush, hoping to make a fortune, but what awaits him is a clue to the vast reserves of gold hidden by the condemned prisoners of Abashiri Prison!　Sugimoto meets an innocent Ainu girl and together they travel in search of the gold..!

Profile of Satoru Noda
Born in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido, Noda made his debut in 2003, and from 2011 to 2012 serialized "Spinamarada! (6 volumes) in "Weekly Young Jump" from 2011 to 2012, and "Golden Kamui", serialized in the same magazine since 2014, will be completed in the April 28, 2022 issue. He has received numerous awards, including first place in the "Manga Grand Prize 2016," second place in the "Comic Natalie Awards 2015" and "This Manga is Amazing! 2016" (Takarajima-sha), the grand prize in the "2nd Hokkaido Related Book Award Comic Division," and the "22nd Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award Manga Grand Prize. The fourth season of the TV anime is scheduled to begin airing in October 2022, and a live-action film adaptation is also in the works. The series has already published 29 comics, with a cumulative total of more than 19 million copies in print.

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