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[ginkashino]

Nikaidōs and tonis

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how tf is Sanrio gonna give us a GK collab and not include the most obvious duo

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nikaido is actually extremely important to me

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二階堂浩平洋平生誕記念2021

2021.11.19

🎉二階堂兄弟！！お誕生日おめでとう🎉

二階堂のすきなものがみかんとあったので、

兄弟仲良くみかん畑でみかん狩りです🍊

今ごろ2人は、天国で会えたかな。

浩平も洋平も、ゆっくり休んでね。

[vinkcasan]

Team tsurumi

[aynorepus]

[osomanga]

You are my methamphetamine, my bloody methamphetamine~🎵

You killed my Youhei; now skies are grey

You never know, dear, how much I hate you

Please don't take my meth n opiates away

At last!!

Nikaido: SUGIMOTOO~...!!

End note: お前は俺のメタンフェタミン!!

(I know 'tis pronounced differently but still...🎵^^♪You are my Sunshine🎶 got into a pile-up with My Bloody Valentine and rear-ended You are my Methamphetamine)

[goldenkamuyhunting]

Timeline data hunting 6

A tentative timeline for the first two months of the story.

Golden Kamuy has unclear timeline as Noda never write in what month the story is happening or a definite date. However he left some hints.

Taking them into consideration I’ve collected what happens in the supposed first two months of the story (February and March) and divided it in days. What does this mean?

As I can’t know whcih day is it I’ve labelled the days merely as ‘DAY 1′, ‘DAY 2′ and so on. This doesn’t necessarily mean ‘DAY 1′ is also the 1st day of the month or that ‘DAY 2′ is the day after ‘DAY 1′, it’s just ‘DAY 1′ is the first day we saw for that month and ‘DAY 2′ is the second day we saw for that month.

Also, not always we can guess if a day came to its end or not. When I’m unsure if new happenings happened in the same day or in a day after it I’ll labell them as, for example, if I’m not sure if an event happened in ‘DAY 2′ or in the day after it I’ll label it ‘DAY 2 A’.

Sorry, I fear it isn’t a perfect system but it’s the best I could think about.

By the way it’s speculated Golden Kamuy started in 1907 however the bank Hijikata assaulted was built in 1908 so it can also be Golden Kamuy took place in 1908.

Noda said he wouldn’t be too strict about this sort of things so it’s possible that this isn’t relevant, however I thought it was worth to mention it.

Late February: [‘When she first appeared, Asirpa was bringing snowshoes to walk on hardened snow. The Ainu have another kind of snowshoes for walking on soft, deep snow. It’s the one on the left. It’s in about late February when temperature slightly rises and snow hardens. Isn’t it what happened in book volume 1? The phenomenon of ice cracking also happens in February.’ (Noda Satoru blog post: Seasons and the passing of time in Golden Kamuy)]

DAY 1: A drunk Goto tells Sugimoto about the legend of the gold but, when he sobers up, tries to kill Sugimoto because now he knows too much. Sugimoto though beats him up so Goto escapes. Sugimoto, now interested in the gold, pursues him only to discover he was killed by a bear. Sugimoto himself is attacked by a bear as he tries to take away the body and is saved by Asirpa. He tells her the story of the gold to persuade her to help him against the bear and she agrees as one of the men involved was her father. After the two kill the other bear Sugimoto persuades her to join him in his gold hunt. [Chap 1-2]

DAY 2: After searching in Otaru information on the convicts Sugimoto and Asirpa manages to capture one but the convict is then killed by Ogata. Ogata and Sugimoto fight each other, Sugimoto breaks his arm and is about to kill him when Asirpa stops him. Due to this Ogata figures out who Sugimoto is and manages to escape but Sugimoto causes him to fall in the river and assumed dead. Ogata instead, despite having also broken his jaw in the fall, manages to survive and is found by the 7th. [Chap 3-5]

DAY 3: Sugimoto and Asirpa capture Shiraishi, who however manages to escape. Sugimoto chases him and the two end in a river. They’re forced to join forces to survive and this lead Shiraishi to give Sugimoto some information about how the convicts escaped before leaving him.  Meanwhile Tsurumi is informed Ogata had regained consciousness and pays him a visit. Ogata though can’t speak due to his broken jaw and so, with his finger, writes the kanji for ‘immortal’. The day ends with Sugimoto and Asirpa eating the hare they caught while dealing with Shiraishi. Sugimoto adds Miso to his food and Asirpa, exchanging it for Osoma (poop) expresses her disgust for it. [Chap 6-8]

DAY 3A: Tamai asks Tanigaki which side would he join, if Tsurumi’s or the side of those who are against Tsurumi’s [Chap 44]

DAY 4: Tamai, Okada, Noma and Tanigaki, searching for who attacked Ogata, begin to chase Sugimoto and Asirpa. In order to escape them Sugimoto and Asirpa part ways. Tanigaki chases Asirpa and discovers she has a tattooed skin but is then attacked by Retar that breaks his leg and causes him to fall unconscious. Sugimoto instead causes Tamai, Okada and Noma to be attacked by a bear. Neither them nor the bear will survive and Sugimoto will take with himself the bear cub before joining Asirpa. Asirpa will tell him Tanigaki is dead and will take him to his village where he becomes her grandmother’s guest. Meanwhile Tanigaki has woken up, has immobilized his broken leg with a splint and has decided to start hunting Retar. In Asirpa’s village, Asirpa’s grandmother expresses the wish Sugimoto were to marry Asirpa. Sugimoto then meets Osoma and lears the Ainu customs about baby bears. [Chap 8-12]

DAY 4A: In the evening Hijikata tracks Ushiyama while he’s spending the night with a whore. Ushiyama, understanding the woman betrayed him, hurt her. Hijikata persuades Ushiyama to join forces with him. [Chap 12]

DAY 5: Makanakkuru and Sugimoto talk together. Sugimoto later eats with Asirpa and her grandmother and tries to offer Miso to the old woman, angering Asirpa. [Chap 13]

DAY 5A: While searching for Tamai and Co Tsurumi is joined by Wada and Tsukishima. Wada blames Tsurumi for stealing weapons from Asahikawa and causing a man to end up in serious conditions in hospital while 4 are now lost and would like for him to leave the army. Tsurumi bites Wada’s finger off. Wada would like for Tsukishima to kill Tsurumi but Tsukishima kills Wada instead and Tsurumi orders to bury Wada secretly. [Chap 14]

1907 (?) (March): [‘In volume three, Asirpa &co eat the maple sap that has seeped out and formed icicle. They also drink water from vines. And Asirpa wears shoes for walking on solid snow. From that depiction, it should be around March. Please read it believing that it’s turned to March since a long time ago in the second volume.’ (Noda Satoru blog post: Seasons and the passing of time in Golden Kamuy)]

DAY 1: Sugimoto and Asirpa capture and eat a river otter. Afterward Asirpa is asked to play with the other children at the village and explains to Sugimoto how the kisarri works. During the night, while Asirpa is asleep, Makanakkuru tells Sugimoto about Retar then leaves carrying with himself Osoma. Asirpa’s grandmother, in Ainu language, asks Sugimoto to always be there for Asirpa. Sugimoto doesn’t understand what she says but assumes he does. Late in the night he leaves Asirpa’s house, deciding he doesn’t want to involve her in the search for the gold as it could be too dangerous. [Chap 14]

DAY 2: Discovering Sugimoto is missing Asirpa searches for him, planning to use Retar to find him, as she believes Sugimoto left behind a sock. In Otaru Sugimoto is informed of how a convict (Ushiyama) has hurt a whore. He goes to the girl’s working place and is offered a bowl of soba but, while he eats the proprietress warns the 7th division. The Nikaido brother’s, along with other soldiers, come searching for him. Sugimoto attacks them, hurting a soldier and the Nikaido brothers before ending up outnumbered. The Nikaido brothers, furious at him, would like to kill him but Tsurumi stops them and brings him to his office, where he claims he has recognized him for ‘Sugimoto the immortal’, the one who hurt Ogata. Sugimoto denies, in the process further enraging the Nikaido brothers. Tsurumi doesn’t believe him and, to prove his point, stabs him with a skewer. As Asirpa decides to wait for the night before searching for Sugimoto in Otaru, Tsurumi asks Sugimoto to join his unit and explains him his plan. Sugimoto refuses and Tsurumi stabs him with more skewers. Retar and Asirpa tracks Shiraishi, the true owner of the sock as he and Sugimoto exchanged them, and force him to help them track Sugimoto. [Chap 15-17]

DAY 3: Past midnight the Nikaido brothers join a captive Sugimoto (Youhei claims he beat Sugimoto’s face the day before), planning to get revenge on him. Sugimoto attacks them breaking Youhei’s tooth before the fight is interrupted by the other 7th division soldiers. Learning about this Tsurumi orders to keep the Nikaido brothers away from Sugimoto while Shiraishi manages to find out Sugimoto is still alive and decides to join forces with them in exchange for some gold. Shiraishi unties Sugimoto but the soldiers guarding Sugimoto’s door leave because Retar caused the horses to grew scared so Youhei try to kill Sugimoto again while Kouhei guards the door. Sugimoto though, manages to kill Youhei then pretends Youhei has managed to fatally wound him as well and promises Tsurumi the tattooed skins if he were to save him. Tsurumi instructs his soldiers to take him to the best hospital in Otaru but then, as he discovers Sugimoto only faked being hurt, Sugimoto get rid of the soldiers accompanying him to the hospital and try to escape. Tsurumi chases him but his horse is killed by Asirpa and so he has to desist. In search of the tattooed skins, Shiraishi sets to fire the 7th barracks but discovers Tsurumi was wearing it. Sugimoto joins Asirpa who hits him in punishment for leaving her. Shiraishi joins them and they kill the horse Sugimoto used to escape, then Shiraishi leaves them to get the ingredients for Sakura Nabe. Sugimoto and Asirpa have a talk and later eat Sakura Nabe with Shiraishi. As they eat Asirpa discovers she loves Miso. [Chap 17-20]

DAY 3A: Nagakura offers his support to Hijikata, giving him his house and weapons as well as money. However he claims to be too old to join Hijikata in his cause. [Chap 20]

DAY 3B: Hijikata sends some messengers to Shibukawa, a convict in Otaru Hijikata knew when he was in Kabato prison and who has around himself a crew of men, but the messengers doesn’t return so Hijikata goes to meet him personally, carrying with himself Ushiyama and 8 men. Shibukawa admits of having killed the messengers after forcing them to talk and Hijikata tosses to him the head of 3 of Shibukawa’s men who were out the place. As Shibukawa would like his remaining men to kill Hijikata, Hijikata kills him first and orders his men to murder all the men under Shibukawa. The group then leaves the place. [Chap 21]

DAY 4: While Shiraishi goes to town to gather info, Sugimoto and Asirpa hunt a deer but Sugimoto only manages to wound it before the deer escapes. Asirpa then sees the tracks of a dog and two men, one of whom is wounded and suspect he could be Tanigaki. She’s right as Tanigaki is currently with Nihei, who hunts and successfully manages to kill a deer. Due to this Tanigaki realizes who Nihei truly is and explains he’s tagging along Nihei because they’re both searching for Retar. Nihei explains him why he wants to hunt Retar, meanwhile Asirpa and Sugimoto track down the deer again but they lose it a second time and have to make a temporary hut to spend the night. Nihei eats with Tanigaki and ears a tiny bit of what’s plaguing Tanigaki. He tells Tanigaki when they’ll kill the wolf Tanigaki should take the pelt and go back home (leaving the army), to which Tanigaki replies by burning his army hat. [Chap 21-23]

DAY 5: Asirpa and Sugimoto keep on hunting the deer while Nihei and Tanigaki keep on hunting Retar and manage to enter in his territory. Sugimoto can’t kill the deer because he sees himself in it, so he’s too slow at shooting and misses it so Retar sends it on the ground and when Sugimoto explains his feelings to Asirpa she kills the deer and scold Sugimoto, saying if he can’t take responsibility he shouldn’t shoot. She then explains him about how the deer is part of the cycle of life. Nihei and Tanigaki hear the shoot and move toward them. Retar warns Asirpa and Sugimoto someone is coming so they only take part of the deer and leave. When Nihei and Tanigaki reach the deer Sugimoto and Asirpa observe them from a hidden spot. Asirpa realizes the soldier is Tanigaki. Nihei suggests Tanigaki to have a bath together. Sugimoto and Asirpa go back to the hut and find Shiraishi. They eat, get drunk then Shiraishi tells them about Nihei being another convict in the area. Meanwhile Tanigaki discovers Nihei is a tattooed convict and is unsure if to arrest him. Asirpa tells Sugimoto and Shiraishi what she knows about Niehi. Nihei also explains Tanigaki how he ended up in jail. Hearing this Tanigaki decides to let him go. Shiraishi instead explains Nihei plans to hunt a wolf, Retar. Nihei and Tanigaki begin guarding the dead deer, waiting for Retar. [Chap 24-26]

DAY 6: Nihei and Tanigaki discover Retar left its feces over the deer so he doesn’t need to come back to guard it from other animals. Sugimoto, Asirpa and Shiraishi hunt Nihei. Nihei and Tanigaki eat the deer and prepare a plan to capture Retar. Nihei then burns Retar’s feces and the smoke is seen by Asirpa and the others. Nihei and Tanigaki part ways, setting a trap for Retar. Sugimoto and Shiraishi leave Asirpa behind and plan to jump on Nihei, who, in the meantime, is about to shoot Retar. Asirpa realizes it and causes Retar to escape, but, doing so, she’s seen by Tanigaki. Meanwhile Sugimoto and Nihei starts fighting, while Ryu tries to stop Shiraishi from shooting Nihei. Shiraishi manages to get rid of Ryu but Tanigaki comes holding Asirpa captive and using her as human shield. Sugimoto and Shiraishi surrender on the promise Nihei won’t let Asirpa see them die. Tanigaki takes Asirpa away, however, as soon as Nihei turns, Sugimoto and Shiraishi escape. Tanigaki is hit by an Amappo and saved by Asirpa. Nihei joins them, re-capture Asirpa and ties her to a tree to drag there Retar. Retar runs there but when Nihei is about to kill him, Retar’s female companion attacks Nihei, cutting his neck. Ryu tries to protect him but it’s too late. Sugimoto and Shiraishi join them when Nihei dies and free Asirpa. They then see Retar has two cubs. Tanigaki reaches them and prays for Nihei then, Asirpa, Shiraishi and Sugimoto take him to Asirpa’s hut for the night. [Chap 26-30]

DAY 7: Asirpa, Sugimoto and Shiraishi take Tanigaki to Asirpa’s village. In the evening, during dinner, Asirpa’s grandmother tells them about how the Ainu collected a lot of gold. Due to this the boys figure the gold is much more than they assumed and Tanigaki confirms saying Tsurumi too had found out about it. At the same time Tsurumi is at Otaru’s port. Sugimoto and Shiraishi discuss on what they know about the incident with the gold and the convicts involved. Shiraishi wonders on Tsurumi’s motivation and Sugimoto suggests they could be the siege of port Arthur. Meanwhile Tsurumi is buying weapons from Thomas. Tanigaki explains the 7th situation and what he belives are Tsurumi’s motivations while Tsurumi talks with his men about his plans. [Chap 30-31]

DAY 8: Sugimoto tells Shiraishi he doesn’t plan to support Tsurumi then Asirpa suggests they’ll go hunt a eagle and set a trap for it. In the night Asirpa tells them the story of a giant eagle before falling asleep. [Chap 31-32]

DAY 9: When Sugimoto wakes up he sees a huge eagle and captures it with the hook but needs Asirpa’s help to kill it. A giant eagle tries to take Asirpa away but Sugimoto manages to stop it. [Chap 32]

DAY 10: Ushiyama is training himself when Hijikata suggests they’ll go to the city. Hijikata, Nagakura, Hijikata’s men and Ushiyama then go to Otaru but Ushiyama parts way from them to go to a brothel. Shiraishi, who was also in the city, tries to enter in the same brothel from which Ushiyama is leaving so Ushiyama tries to catch him but Shiraishi manages to escape. Ushiyama chases him and Shiraishi, meeting some soldiers from the 7th division, among which Nikaido, asks for their help in stopping Ushiyama. At the same time some of Hijikata’s men, join Ushiyama and toss a grenade to help him. The noise attract Tsurumi. One of Hijikata’s men take away Ushiyama, who had gotten shoot by Nikaido, while the other dies. Hijikata’s other men cause an explosion in the brothel next to the bank and are joined by Hijikata. Tsurumi checks the man that dies helping Ushiyama to escape for tattoos then, hearing Tsukishima’s report, understand the true target was the bank, take a horse and runs there. Hijikata, Nagakura and their men are, in fact inside the back, stealing money and recovering Hijikata’s sword. When Tsurumi gets in the bank they’re already outside and Tsurumi only manages to see Hijikata stealing his horse. Shiraishi manages to retrieve from a whore working in the brothel in which Ushiyama entered one of Ushiyama’s socks then goes back to Asirpa’s village where Sugimoto and Asirpa find him, drunk and asleep above Tanigaki. [Chap 33-35]

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Nuova locandina per l’anime di “Golden Kamuy”

Serie TV anime, 8 ottobre 2018

Episodi: 12

Seconda parte della serie basata sul manga “Golden Kamui” di Satoru Noda, vincitore del premio Taisho 2016 ed edito in Italia da J-POP.  I primi 12 episodi dell’anime sono stati trasmesso in simulcast in primavera, sottotitolati in italiano, su Crunchyroll.  

-STAFF-

Regia: Hitoshi Nanba

Character design: Kenichi Oonuki

Sceneggiatura: Noboru Takagi  

Armi da fuoco: Kouji Watanabe

Prop design: Shinya Asanuma

Animal design: Ryou Sumiyoshi

Direttore artistico: Atsushi Morikawa

Colorazioni: Takahiro Mogi

Direttore della fotografia: Yuuichirou Tozawa

Direttore CG: Yuuko Okumura, Kouhei Hamada

Montaggio: Takeshi Sadamatsu

Direttore del suono: Jin Aketagawa

Produzione sonoro: Magical Capsule

Musiche: Kenichiro Suehiro  

Studio di animazione: Geno Studio

Sigla di apertura: Sayuri e MY FIRST STORY "Reimei" 

-CAST-

Saichi Sugimoto: Chihahiro Kobayashi

Ashiripa: Haruka Shiraishi

Yutake Shiraishi: Kentaro Ito

Tenente Tsurumi: Houchou Ootsuka

Hyakunosuke Ogata: Kenjirou Tsuda

Genjirou Tanigaki: Yoshimasa Hosoya

Toshizou Hijikata: Jouji Nakata

Tatsuuma Ushiyama: Kenji Nomura

Shinpachi Nagakura: Takayuki Sugou

Kano Ienaga: Sayaka Ohara

Kiroranke: Masaki Terasoma

Inkarmat: Mamiko Noto

Youhei Nikaido: Tomokazu Sugita

Tsukishima: Eiji Takemoto

Tetsuzou Nihei: Akio Ohtsuka

Kazuo Henmi: Toshihiko Seki

Huci: Miyuki Ichijou

Yasuku Edogai: Yuuma Uchida 

Secondo tenente Koito: Katsuyuki Konishi

La storia si ambienta nell'Hokkaido, durante la turbolenta epoca Meiji. "L'immortale Sugimoto", un soldato sopravvissuto alla guerra tra Giappone e Russia, ha bisogno di un'ingente somma di denaro per realizzare un obiettivo in particolare... Seguendo una mappa tatuata sul corpo di alcuni detenuti nella prigione di Ashiri, Sugimoto si lancia in una incredibile caccia al tesoro, nella speranza di fare il colpaccio e guadagnare un mucchio di soldi in una volta sola. Cosa lo aspetterà? La magnifica natura di Hokkaido, feroci prigionieri e l'incontro con una ragazza Ainu, Ashiripa!! L'incredibile battaglia per il tesoro sta per iniziare!

Serializzato sulle pagine della rivista Young Jump dal 2014, il manga conta attualmente 11 volumi.

Sito ufficiale Twitter ufficiale

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[goldenkamuyhunting]

Question to kind Japanese speaking readers

In chap 31/Episode 7, after Sugimoto hears Tanigaki talking about what moves Tsurumi we see in the morning he gets all pensitive and Shiraishi ends up asking if the story he heard tugged at his heartstrings.

Sugimoto replies he can’t coopeate with Tsurumi but translations for the manga and the anime differ on the why quite radically.

In the manga scanlations Sugimoto claims he can’t because HE MESSED UP TSURUMI’S PLANS AND KILLED TSURUMI’S MEN (and therefore there’s no way Tsurumi would want him as an ally now)

It makes sense really as Sugimoto almost killed Ogata...

...caused the death of Tamai, Noma and Okada (Sugimoto has no idea they’re rebels)...

and, in the end, killed Nikaido Youhei.

I’ll skip the death of Tsurumi’s horse which caused Tsurumi to fall from it and the burning of the 7th’s barracks as that was Asirpa and Shiraishi’s doing... though we know Tsurumi correctly attributed the fault to Sugimoto’s allies.

In the anime subs instead Sugimoto pushes the blame on Tsurumi, claiming working with Tsurumi isn’t an option because TSURUMI DID SO MUCH DAMAGE AND EVEN KILLED HIS OWN MEN.

Now... far from me to say Tsurumi didn’t do any damage or never caused his army buddies’ death as we know Tsurumi had Wada killed...

and the same happened to Hanazawa.

We don’t know if he changed his mind and Yuusaku’s death could be blamed to him as we know he considered it, but then told Ogata not to as he hoped to use him.

It could be it turned out Yuusaku couldn’t be used and so Tsurumi told Ogata to kill him or that it was all Ogata’s idea. Ogata won’t mention Tsurumi’s involvement in the whole thing so it’s hard to say.

But anyway... Tsurumi is clearly not above murdering people in his army for his own purposes so the sentence could work only there’s a HUGE problem here...

SUGIMOTO KNOWS NOTHING OF ALL THIS SO HE CAN’T BLAME TSURUMI FOR SUCH THINGS!

Sure, Tsurumi is the one who sent his men to retrieve the escape convicts and whose men were killed when the convicts escaped but...

SUGIMOTO CAN’T BLAME TSURUMI FOR THIS AS TSURUMI CLEARLY DIDN’T PLAN FOR HIS MEN TO DIE AND THE CONVICTS TO ESCAPE!

(Unless we’re missing some important detail on Tsurumi’s plan... though really, I don’t think so...)

Is he referring to how Tsurumi used the fallen bodies of his comrades to shield himself which is the only thing so far that Sugimoto knows?

According to the manga the soldier wouldn’t let go of the explosive... therefore when the explosive were to explode it would have blasted him away as well. So, while we can’t be 100% sure he’s already death and nothing could be done to save him when Tsurumi starts using him as a shield, as the soldier couldn’t be parted from the explosive, he would die anyway.

Long story short Tsurumi either used a corpse or a guy who had no hope to survive and was given for death.

Sure, the anime is less clear on this than the manga as Tsurumi doesn’t say the soldier wouldn’t let the granade go, but we see the soldier getting shot and falling back and, from his pose and how he’s not moving as he falls back, I’ll say that he’s dead prior to the moment in which Tsurumi used him as human shield.

This is not Tsurumi doing ‘so much damage’, this was Hanazawa’s idea of a frontal attack which did so much damage and Tsurumi only tried to obey to orders. His method wasn’t commendable if you want but... it’s not on the list of things I can blame Tsurumi for and I would have hard time thinking Sugimoto is blaming Tsurumi for those deaths.

So, really, I would think the anime translation is wrong... but I’ve seen other translators support it instead so... I guess that’s the moment in which one has to stop speculating and ask for help to someone who can understand Japanese.

This is the original quote.

Is there a kind soul who understand Japanese and can share the correct translation of Sugimoto’s sentence?

Is that ambiguous so both interpretations could work?

Which of the two media has misinterpreted/mistranslated it?

Any help from people who can understand Japanese would be greatly apprecciated!

[goldenkamuyhunting]

Timeline data hunting 5

Some more datas I found about the timeline...

1617: Alluvial gold was discovered in a river valley 18 km north of Matsumae, Ezo’s first and only castle town, causing a gold rush in Hokkaido.

1669 (June-October): The Ainu, under the leadership of Shakushain, revolt against Japanese, due to the Japanese trying to trade with them in an unfair manner and due to the Japanese gold-panners polluting the rivers badly enough to endanger the salmon. The Ainu marched from Shizunai to Matsumae castle, advancing west along the coast, torching Japanese boats and huts as they went, slaughtering gold prospectors, merchants and fishermen unlucky enough to cross their path. The rampage spread from Kushiro in the east to Rumoi in the northwest. The Japanese forces massed at Oshamambe, 130 km north of Matsumae. The two opposing armies faced each other across a river. Ainu arrows were no match for Japanese guns. Routed, the Ainu retreated. In October, Shakushain was murdered en route to what he thought was a peace parley.

4 December 1868 - 27 June 1869: Battle of Hakodate in which Hijikata supposedly 'died'. (chap 7)

1874: The tondenhei (屯田兵), military settler colonists recruited to develop and defend Japan's northern frontier in Hokkaidō against foreign nations, particularly Imperial Russia, start being recruited. All male settlers between 18 and 35 were assigned to regiments.

1875 (May 7): Treaty of Saint Petersburg. A treaty between the Empire of Japan and Empire of Russia in which Japan cedes to Russia the part of Sakhalin island it then owned in exchange for the group of the Kuril Islands owned by Russia. As a result the majority of Ainu living in Wilk's village left for Japan. (Chap 148)

1877: Ainu are forced to oblige to the regulations for deer hunting areas, deer hunting season, and deer hunting practices that were made in 1876, but previously had excepted the Ainu. In addition to this it's instituted a licensing requirement for deer hunting with a license fee of 2.50 yen.

1878: The taking of salmon is first prohibited in the Sapporo area under the colonial governor's order then this prohibition was expanded gradually.

1879: The weather pattern during winter was abnormal becoming one of the factors that caused the extinction of the Hokkaido Wolf (Chap 22).

1880 (February): A particularly heavy snowfall led to many deer freezing to death.

1881 (March 13): In St. Petersburg Emperor Alexander II is assassinated by the joint efforts of Kiroranke and Wilk following the plan of Sofia "Golden Hand". (Chap 160)

1882: the Imperial Japanese Army assumed control of the units of military settler colonists.

1888 (May 12): The 7th Division is formed in Sapporo, as the first new infantry division to be created after the reorganization of the Imperial Japanese Army away from six regional commands and into a divisional command structure. It was responsible for the defence of Hokkaidō, which it divided into four operational areas (Sapporo, Hakodate, Asahikawa and Kushiro). As one of the projects of the Japanese government was to encourage the settlement of Hokkaidō by ex-soldiers, the 7th Division was over-strength, and contained many soldiers originally from other areas of Japan.

1889: The regulation act of hunting deer forbids Ainu from hunting deer with poisoned arrows.

1890: Coal was discovered at Yubari.

25 July 1894 – 17 April 1895: The First Sino-Japanese War to which Tsukishima and Tsurumi take part (Chap 149).

Nihei's son also takes part to it and dies during it (Chap 114).

1996 (May 12): The t7th division is converted from territorial division to field infantry division 12 May 1896, in the aftermath of the First Sino-Japanese War.

1896: Tsukishima is imprisoned for parricide and met Tsurumi, who had been transferred to the 7th division, while being in jail (Chap 149)

Tsurumi will work to get Tsukishima out of jail, planning to take him in Russia where they’ll both work as intelligence officers.

Last written record of wolves in Hokkaido. (Chap 29)

The 'River act' (1896) prohibites fishing for salmons in all Hokkaido.

1897 (?): Nihei and Kirawus go to hunt together and Nihei explains him the story behind his rifle. (Chap 114) (we know it happened around 10 years before Tanigaki met Kirawus. We can speculate Golden Kamuy started around 1907... if we are still in the same year this would make the meeting happened around 1897).

In between 1897 (?) & 1902 (?): Four guys go around murdering hunters and stealing their prey. They target Asirpa and her father but they manage to have one of them arrested. However when they target Nihei he manages to kill the remaining three, although for this he's sent to Abashiri prison. (Chap 26).

1898: Since placer gold was discovered in Bankenai, Hokkaido a gold rush occurred in Hokkaido.

1899: Deer hunting was prohibited entirely, and the Ainu lost raw materials essential to their ability to provide themselves with food and clothes. The Japanese government passed an act labelling the Ainu as "former aborigines", with the idea they would assimilate—this resulted in the Japanese government taking the land where the Ainu people lived and placing it from then on under Japanese control. Also at this time, the Ainu were granted automatic Japanese citizenship, effectively denying them the status of an indigenous group.

1902 (?): Supposedly the incident with the gold takes place (we know it happened 5 years before the story start and we can speculate the story started around 1907).

1903: The military settler colonists are incorporated into the 7th Division.

1904 (February 8): Start of the Russo-Japanese.

1904 (May 24-26): Battle of Nanshan to which takes part the first division, still under the second army and to which Sugimoto belonged.

1904 (June 6): The Third Army lands in Talien.

1904 (June): The First Division joins the Third Army.

1904 (August 1): Start of the Siege of Port Arthur.

1904 (September 20): Start of the Battle of 203 Meter Hill.

Sugimoto’s division takes part to the battle. (Chap 1)

1904 (October): The 7th Division to which Tsurumi and his men belong, joins the Third Army. Around that time Tsurumi talks with Ogata about Yuusaku. The gist of the talk is how it could be better not to kill him but use him. (Chap 165)

Time after though Ogata will end up on killing Yuusaku (Chap 103).

Kenkichi also ends up dying during the battle (chap 76)

Kiroranke too took part to the battle, his use of explosive helping things greatly (chap 162)

1904 (December 5): End of the Battle of 203 Meter Hill. Tsurumi raises the Japanese flag on top of it (chap 31).

1905 (mid-february): Begins the mobilitation toward Mukden. Sugimoto and Toraji met while going toward Mukden and talk about Umeko (Chap 35)

1905 (February 21): Start of the battle of Mudken.

During it, not only Tsurumi got wounded and received brain damage but he already had in mind his Ainu plan. (chap 149-150)

Toraji dies (Chap 150).

1905 (March 10): End of the battle of Mudken

1905: Before the end of the war some deserters from the Russian Army stop to a lighthouse in Russia and take away Svetlana, the daughter of the couple who lived there (Chap 168)

Sugimoto also almost kills a superior officer that pissed him off (Chap 1)

1905 (September 5): End of the Russo-Japanese War

1906 (January): The third Army which contained the 7th division is disbanded.

1906 (?): Hanazawa Koujirou dies (chap 31)

1906 (?) (spring): Sugimoto returns back home.

1907 (?) (late February): The series supposedly starts. - Sugimoto and Asirpa joins force to find the gold. (Chap 1-2) - Sugimoto and Asirpa capture prisoner number 1, Ogata kills him and Sugimoto seriously injures Ogata, causing him to end up being hospitalized. (Chap 3-5) - Shiraishi and Sugimoto meets. (Chap 6-7) - Ogata regains consciousness but, due to his broken jaw, can only write the word 'immortal' with his finger (Chap 7) - Tamai, Noma, Okada and Tanigaki go search who attacked Ogata. Tamai, Noma and Okada are killed by a bear while Tanigaki has his legs broken. (Chap 8-11) - Sugimoto drops by to Asirpa's village (Chap 11-13) - Hijitaka and Ushiyama join forces (Chap 12) - Tsurumi has Wada killed by Tsukiyama. (Chap 13)

1907 (?) (March): - Sugimoto leaves Asirpa's village and is captured by Tsurumi. In an attempt to escape he kills Nikaido Youhei. Nikaido Kouhei swears revenge. He, Asirpa and Shiraishi start to work together. (Chap 14-20) - Nagakura provides Hijikata some weapons. (Chap 20) - Hijikata, Ushiyama and some other men ask Shibukawa Senjirou and his men to cooperate with them. (Chap 21) - Nihei and Tanigaki join forces to kill Retar but Nihei dies and Tanigaki gets hit by an amappo and, as a result, he’s carried to Asirpa’s village. (Chap 22-31) - Huci tells Sugimoto, Asirpa and Shiraishi about the legend of the gold (Chap 30) - Hijikata informs Nagakura that the gold is much more than believed (Chap 30) - Tsurumi buys weapons from Mister Thomas (Chap 30-31) - Asirpa, Shiraishi and Sugimoto try to hunt an eagle. (Chap 31-32) - Hijikata, Nagakura and Ushiyama go to the city. While Hijikata and Nagakura retrieve Hijikata's old sword, Izumi-no-kami Kanesada, Ushiyama runs into Shiraishi but Shiraishi manages to escape him also thanks to the involvement of the 7th division. (Chap 33-34)

1907 (?) (Spring - April):- While hunting a Tanuki, Shiraishi, Sugimoto and Asirpa meet up wirh Ryu. Shiraishi tries to use Ryu to find Ushiyama but gets captured by him and forced to work for Hijikata, who gives him info to track down Henmi. (Chap 36-37) - One of Henmi's victims is found by Sugimoto and Asirpa. Shiraishi leads them to the herring fishery in which Henmi is hiding. Sugimoto rescues Henmi who fell in the water. At the same time Tsurumi and the 7th division are visiting the owner of the herring fishery and spot Sugimoto. As Sugimoto escapes from them he's also forced to fight Henmi who gets captured by an orca and dragged into the sea. Henmi dies, Sugimoto manages to recover his body and then escape from the 7th. Tsurumi discover the owner of the Herring fishery won't make him donations, that Ogata is missing from the hospital and that Nikaido has disappeared by SEVERAL DAYS. (Chap 37-42) - Ogata and Nikaido go to search Tamai and the others and meets up with Tanigaki. They believe Tanigaki is responsible for the death of Tamai and the others and try to kill him. Tanigaki manages to escape from them and have Nikaido be attacked by a bear. Tsurumi captures Nikaido and buy his loyalty promising him he will be allowed to kill Sugimoto. Nikaido betrays Komiya. Ogata manages to escape Tsurumi. (Chap 42-46) - While staying at a lodge Sugimoto's group meets up with Hijikata in disguise (Chap 43-44) - Sugimoto’s group will meet up with Kiroranke who saves Shiraishi from a huchen. Kiroranke warns Asirpa an old man is searching for Kochoube Asuko, Asirpa's Japanese name. He then tells her he knows what had happened at Abashiri and that Nopperabo is her father and joins forces with them (Chap 47-49) - Sugimoto's group and Kiroranke stop to Asirpa's village, where Tanigaki doesn't recognize Kiroranke. Ushiyama reaches the Sapporo World hotel. Sugimoto's group arrives at the same place short after. Shiraishi is captured by Ienaga. Sugimoto and Ushiyama become 'friends' and go eat something together with Asirpa, who grows fond of Ushiyama and Kiroranke. Later Ienaga tries to eat Asirpa and is caught by Sugimoto. Shiraishi escapes. Ushiyama lost in his lust for Ienaga, starts to chase her. In the end Kiroranke's explosive ends up dropped in the fire. Everyone escapes but Ushiyama and Ienaga are believed to be dead. (Chap 50-54)