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Manga Book Club - Golden Kamuy [PART 3, Finale] (Patreon)

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2025-03-27 21:32:52
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Don't forget, book club is this Saturday at 2pm EST! We're wrapping up Golden Kamuy, so if you've got something you'd like to read, be sure to suggest it below. Aloha and I are thinking a shoujo would be a nice change of pace.

I haven't read my assignment yet because I've been busy nursing the Anime OP video upload, so my discussion questions will have to be pretty basic this time around:

1. Who's your favorite character and why?

2. What was your favorite and least favorite tattooed prisoner arc?

3. You have to eat one thing they made in the manga. What is it?

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Golden Kamuy Book Club CH 201- 314

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Babblegum

Pandora Hearts is my vote for this round! I've been wanting to re-read the series for awhile now, and voted for it on that last poll. I personally remember it being a convoluted mess, but overall net positive enjoyment. It might not be the best time for Jello and Aloha, but I'd bet Amy would have fun if she joined!

BIBSSS

if shoujo then I say Yona of the dawn! it's absolutely amazing and it's very near to the end, just 3 more chapters left and the manga will be complete!

SonicPsycho

I vote for horimiya, its cute as heck from the clips ive seen

SonicPsycho

Also the two leads have an actually good dynamic

Zayn Ryzen

Chihayafuru. It is a Shojo manga that's also sort of a sports manga, but not your usual kind of sport.

Rebecca Bieth

Princess Jellyfish would be a fun time for most of its time.

Sokka

Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku!

Violet DB (edited)

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2026-09-05 13:00 My only suggestion for a new manga is that you guys should just pick them from now on. I don't want to read another manga that sucks as much as pokemon did! Discussion questions: 1. I think my favorite character would have to be Tsurumi. It's just so fascinating to see a villain operate on lines of charisma and manipulation in a setting that's so chock full of violence and brutality. He's such a fucker, and it's always so stunning to see the different ways that he's outsmarted situations and fun to figure out when, if ever, he's being genuine about something. 2. My favorite tattooed prisoner arc was probably... weirdly, Keiji's little sub-arc in Sapporo? I dunno, he's short and sweet and a real piece of shit- that's all he needs to be, and it's fun, it works, and it adds a lot to one of the best arcs in the series. I think Toni Anji's arc is a close, close second though, because the concept is so fucking cool and I love the way the characters are used for the set piece. I also love the con artist guy. Least favorite is hard to pick, because honestly, most of the worst parts of the manga are certain convict-of-the-week sections, they can feel like a big departure of tone from the rest of what you're reading. I'd lump together the serial killer guy, the animal-fucker guy, and the bear multiple personality guy. Jack the ripper kinda counts but he's never played for laughs and it DOES connect to themes, though. 3. Man, I couldn't pick. I'm super squeamish and if I see something killed and prepared in front of me I'd be unable to eat it, even though I'm perfectly willing to eat other prepared meats all the time.
2025-03-28 20:11 My only suggestion for a new manga is that you guys should just pick them from now on. I don't want to read another manga that sucks as much as pokemon did! Discussion questions: 1. I think my favorite character would have to be Tsurumi. It's just so fascinating to see a villain operate on lines of charisma and manipulation in a setting that's so chock full of violence and brutality. He's such a fucker, and it's always so stunning to see the different ways that he's outsmarted situations and fun to figure out when, if ever, he's being genuine about something. 2. My favorite tattooed prisoner arc was probably... weirdly, Keiji's little sub-arc in Sapporo? I dunno, he's short and sweet and a real piece of shit- that's all he needs to be, and it's fun, it works, and it adds a lot to one of the best arcs in the series. I think Toni Anji's arc is a close, close second though, because the concept is so fucking cool and I love the way the characters are used for the set piece. I also love the con artist guy. EDIT: I forgot botarou was tattooed! He's my little meow meow Least favorite is hard to pick, because honestly, most of the worst parts of the manga are certain convict-of-the-week sections, they can feel like a big departure of tone from the rest of what you're reading. I'd lump together the serial killer guy, the animal-fucker guy, lightning, and the bear multiple personality guy. Jack the ripper kinda counts but he's never played for laughs and it DOES connect to themes, though. 3. Man, I couldn't pick. I'm super squeamish and if I see something killed and prepared in front of me I'd be unable to eat it, even though I'm perfectly willing to eat other prepared meats all the time.

My only suggestion for a new manga is that you guys should just pick them from now on. I don't want to read another manga that sucks as much as pokemon did! Discussion questions: 1. I think my favorite character would have to be Tsurumi. It's just so fascinating to see a villain operate on lines of charisma and manipulation in a setting that's so chock full of violence and brutality. He's such a fucker, and it's always so stunning to see the different ways that he's outsmarted situations and fun to figure out when, if ever, he's being genuine about something. 2. My favorite tattooed prisoner arc was probably... weirdly, Keiji's little sub-arc in Sapporo? I dunno, he's short and sweet and a real piece of shit- that's all he needs to be, and it's fun, it works, and it adds a lot to one of the best arcs in the series. I think Toni Anji's arc is a close, close second though, because the concept is so fucking cool and I love the way the characters are used for the set piece. I also love the con artist guy. EDIT: I forgot botarou was tattooed! He's my little meow meow Least favorite is hard to pick, because honestly, most of the worst parts of the manga are certain convict-of-the-week sections, they can feel like a big departure of tone from the rest of what you're reading. I'd lump together the serial killer guy, the animal-fucker guy, lightning, and the bear multiple personality guy. Jack the ripper kinda counts but he's never played for laughs and it DOES connect to themes, though. 3. Man, I couldn't pick. I'm super squeamish and if I see something killed and prepared in front of me I'd be unable to eat it, even though I'm perfectly willing to eat other prepared meats all the time.

Nicholas Delcambre

No manga reccs cause I actually never read manga all the way through, Golden Kamuy is the first one I have purely cause yall sold it so well in the first book club post. For the questions, 1: Favorite character's probably Asirpa. I knew nothing about the Ainu culture before reading this manga and learning about it was one of the most fascinating parts and she's of course the main window into that. I also found her desire to protect and remember her culture very compelling as someone who is also from a smaller culture being slowly subsumed into a wider one (Cajun in my case). Though the situations may be very different, it made it easy to empathize with her. 2: Favorite of the more episodic tattooed prisoner arcs is prob the Counterfeiter. The fake Ainu village was a really fun set piece, it was nice seeing how much Sugimoto had grown to respect the culture, and he and Ogata make for an interesting team to follow. Least favorite's definitely animal fucker. The guy fucks animals. Its weird and gross and why is everyone acting so impressed when he manages to fuck the bear God please let it end already. 3: For food I'll go with the kinaohaw that Huci makes when the visit Asirpa's villiage for the first time. Seemed like a pretty normal fish and vegetable soup. Pretty boring choice but you did say *anything* they make soooo. That said if I was gonna pick something weird, it'd be one of the various animal brains they try... but only after seeing Asirpa do it first. Multiple times, and waiting a bit to make sure she doesn't get sick first.... then yeah sure I'll give it a bite.

Eric Strasser

1. My favorite character is Asirpa. I don't think I could add anything that hasn't been said by others more eloquently. 2. I think this will be controversial, but my least favorite prisoner arc is Hijikata at the second Hakodate battle (end of manga). I think the author made him way too much of a cool cowboy, and wanted to have him end the manga as a heroic figure. But part of what I really liked about him was that both Hijikata and Tsurumi were fighting for causes that really no longer exist. I think he lost something towards the end by becoming a full-on party member. My favorite prisoner arc is the prospector-bear-guy. What a tight little arc! Also, it's near the part where sugimoto gets lost in a mist for a week and has to survive, which is my absolute favorite chapter. 3. Um... Otter meat. No reason.

Violet DB

Ienaga's *arc* is fine, but she does suck everywhere else.

BIBSSS

now that I've actually finished reading the manga lmao, 1) favourite character is tsurumi with koito being a close second, his ways of getting people to trust him and becomes loyal to him through manipulation is so fascinating, I love everything about him, and like you mentioned the fact that we don't know what his motivations truly are, we don't know how much percentage it is him revenge for his family and how much is what he is saying to the troop or if he has a 3rd secret reason even. 2) least fav obv bear fucker guy, everything that could be said has been said, fav one is the stenka. 3) for food it's the bear hot pot, or any of the "strange" food that asirpa makes sugimoto eat.

FrozenSCV

Since shoujo is being discussed a handful for what I"d make suggestions for. Insomniacs after school, a story about two people who have insomnia issues and finding a mix of companionship for the night together while they join the empty astronomy club. Horimiya, a very down to earth story about two kids who have very different at home lives from their school life and the struggles therein. Wotakoi a girl gets a new job at generic business company only to find her old friend. She vents to him after work over a beer and some monster hunter about how she can't find a boyfriend because she's a nerd. They end up trying a relationship and all the silly nerdisms they have together.

BIBSSS

and since you want something more grounded I'll give a couple of options it'll alternate between shojo and josei and seinen tho. 1)eensy-weensy Monster (hs) 2)How Do We Relationship? (adults) 3)Ikoku Nikki (co-existance) 4) Will you marry me again if your are Reborn? (adult) 5) When Sato-kun died (hs)

Fan Trades

You said no during the stream because you're looking for something more shoujo next, but I do genuinely think it would be cool to read Shadows House at some point, which definitely has a quite shoujo aesthetic and a good amount of focus on interpersonal conflict and relationships. It's ongoing, but so is One Piece and technically the Pokemon manga so I think it would be fine. I've always thought about it as a manga that encapsulates why Promised Neverland initially got super popular but didn't abandon everything that fans loved about it after the first major arc. It does have some shounen aspects like you said, but from what I recall proper combat between characters is actually quite rare. Though there is the element of a cast with unique powers, it's much more common for these characters to use them in discreet and subtle ways for things like manipulating others or obtaining information that is explicitly being kept secret from them. It also has a really fun twist on the classic but usually bad tournament arc that I quite enjoyed. I unfortunately had to stop reading a while ago because the VERY LEGAL WEBSITE I was reading it on got taken down, but I'd absolutely love an excuse to catch up again. It's not really what you're looking for next, but I would heavily recommend it for anyone looking for good manga to read in general. And Dani Chambers voices the protagonist in the English dub of the anime!

Skrib

I thought insomniacs was a seinen?

Azelhia

I've just had to drop Golden Kamuy because of the. Everything to do with Ienaga. So I guess Ienaga is my answer for question 2, because it has permanently soured my opinion of this entire series.

Call me Caesar

So, I wound up binging the entire last third on the 28th, didn't realize until after that you were doing the book club the next day, decided to try and catch it live, and than I completely forgot like a dumbass lol. better late than never tho, so: 1) favorite character is hijitaka. I know its basic, but he's so goddamn cool, his gun of choice is one of my favorites, the winchester 1892, and he has such a fuckin legendary death, losing in glorious battle to the next generation who can carry the torch, and giving his sword to sugimoto to finish the fight. 2) favorite tattooed prisoner arc was prolly the two yakuza people who died saving each other from the bear attacking the car. genuinely, it's just nice to see an unironic gay relationship in any manga, cause so fucking many have insane homophobia or homophobic tones. least favorite prisoner is the animal r*** guy, its not even close, that whole thing was, more than just unnecessary, really, really gross. I respect noda's balls for just flat out drawing the thing and saying that "yeah no, this dude is a gross r******, he deserves death" but at the same time, like yall said, it contributed nothing at large to the story, so it really does just make me angry and grossed out. 3) problem with my mind, is the moment I've stopped reading it, I can't remember any of the food that was made in specific during the manga. The thing that always captured me more was the funny faces and reactions to the dishes characters had, and tbh. I'm a very lonely guy. so my choice would just be any of the hotpot meals where a big group of people are eating and spending time with me.

Zayn Ryzen

It's probably too late for any other entries, but Komi Can't Communicate just ended recently and its exactly what Jello was asking for as a Slice of Life Shojo series.

Zayn Ryzen

Hmm, I think I'm confused by what you define a as Slice of Life? Is it because it relies to much on comedy or that its more School Life? I'd reccomend Nana, however it is technically not complete as its been on indefinite hiatus since 2009

Crystal

Komi is not a shoujo. It is a shounen. It's one of those romcoms aimed at average adolescent guys to fantasize about one (1) beautiful girl with at least one (1) Interesting Personality Trait And/Or Hobby being romantically interested in them, of varying quality but usually not very good. Stuff like Nagatoro, Takagi-san, Uzaki-chan, My Dress-Up Darling, and the one anime about the Russian girl. Haven't read Komi for myself so I can't speak to its quality (could be the creme de la creme for all I know), but the premise alone (and even the title - a big tell for this is having the female lead's name in the title) is 100% indicative of being in that particular subcategory of shounen manga. You are making the critical blunder of thinking all romance is shoujo. Don't do that. Go read Rose of Versailles or something.

Zayn Ryzen

Ahhh, that is fair. Honestly quite a bit of Shonen is making a charge into the Shojo demographic (or at least in genres associated with it) these last few years. I don't read too many Shojo, the one I've kept up with since High School is Skip Beat but it still isn't finished.