Trivia / Golden Kamuy

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: Wilk raised his only child, Asirpa, to be a huntress, which is unusual because Ainu culture strictly enforced gender roles. However, as the series' Ainu language supervisor, Hiroshi Nakagawa, states in the seventh chapter of Ainu Bunka de Yomitoku Golden Kamuy ("Reading and Understanding Ainu Culture: Golden Kamuy"), Mokottunasi Kitahara discovered not only that there was an Ainu story about a girl raised as a skilled huntress in her murdered older brothers' place but also that Kinsei Ezo Jinbutsushi ("Personages of Early Modern Ezo") by Takeshiro Matsuhara documented a real-life Ainu huntress named Ciyuhirika.
• Breakthrough Hit: For Satoru Noda.
• Executive Veto: The director of the anime adaptation, Hitoshi Nanba, explains on Twitter that when given the plan to animate the series, he was told to omit Shiton Anehata because the episodes involving the character in question contain bestiality and animal slaughter.
• God Never Said That: This tweet by Noda, saying "if anyone does this to Asirpa, I'll find them even if they hide under a toilet.", has been erroneously taken as both an official rejection from the author towards any shipping or NSFW artwork involving Asirpa, when in fact the tweet was a joke response at an art trend of depicting Henmi Kazuo being slaughtered in various manners (as he's shown in volume extras after his arc concludes), and referencing when Asirpa claimed that Retar could find Shiraishi even if he hid under a toilet.
• No Export for You: The OVA-based episodes were not released outside Japan.
• Playing Against Type: Both Sayaka Ohara and Terri Doty as Kano Ienaga, a seemingly nice woman who happens to be a serial killer as well as transgender.
• Studio Hop: Season 4 makes the switch from Geno Studio to Brains Base for animation production.
• Troubled Production: Season 4 got hampered by this when series art director Toru Koga was killed in November, only 6 episodes into the season. The series was put on hiatus with reruns airing in place of the remaining episodes. The season would see a rerelease in April 2023 starting once again at episode 37, with a new art director, Satoshi Fujimoto, at the helm.
• Write What You Know: The series' creator, Satoru Noda, was born in Hokkaido, where the series is set. His great-grandfather was also a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, and the series' protagonist Saichi Sugimoto is named after him.

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