An anime for young men (seinen anime). Bloody atrocities mixed with the culture of the Japanese natives (Ainu). The main protagonists - a young man, Sugimoto, the "immortal" veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, and the 11 or 12-year-old Ainu girl Asirpa - form a cool team, which is actually by far the best thing about the anime. The anime contains a relatively large amount of humor - it's about the food of the natives, but also about sexual content - which I don't get anything from. The war theme and the gold prospecting theme (the gold plot is bizarre and unbelievable) don't really appeal to me either. There are abrupt changes from the family relationship of the main characters to extreme violence (e.g. Skinning people), which is irritating and makes the plot appear unpredictable and fragile. Lots of shady, brutal characters (soldiers and/or tattooed ex-cons) who constantly get in the way of the "mini-family" of the soldier and the native girl or chase them... for not really comprehensible motives. The anime entertained me quite well, but after a few episodes I gave up for the reasons mentioned above.
Review of Golden Kamuy
