The NBCUniversal Anime/Music YouTube channel has dropped the creditless version of Golden Kamuy: The Final Chapter‘s ending animation, allowing fans to witness Saichi Sugimoto’s impassioned solo dance in all its glory.
Golden Kamuy creator Satoru Noda storyboarded the ending, which Nobutaka Yoda (Bungo Stray Dogs Season 4 OP storyboard artist and director, Golden Kamuy Season 4 OP director) directed. Ryo Tanaka (Akikan character designer, Sora no Otoshimono f main animator) solo-animated the sequence and is also credited as animation unit director. The choreography, which some comments have noted as containing references to Sugimoto’s past experiences, came from METEORA st.’s Gettsu.
The ending song is Ken Yokoyama‘s “The Ballad.”
NBCUniversal also uploaded the opening animation, which again is storyboarded by Noda and directed by Yoda, with Tanaka as animation unit director and one of the key animators. The opening theme is Awich x ALI‘s “Golden Horizon.”
Golden Kamuy is based on Noda’s Shueisha-published historical adventure manga, which ran from 2014 to 2022 with 31 volumes. The anime began in 2018 and was produced by Geno Studio until Brain’s Base took over for the 2022 fourth season. Viz Media describes the manga as such:
In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.
The manga was serialized in the seinen magazine Weekly Young Jump and has its volumes published under the Young Jump Comics label. A second live-action movie, Golden Kamuy: Abashiri Kangoku Shuugeki-hen, is scheduled to premiere on March 13, 2026.
Staff
• Chief director: Shizutaka Sugahara (reprising from Season 4)
• Character designer: Takumi Yamakawa (reprising from Season 4)
• Series composer: Noboru Takagi (reprising)
• Animation production: Brain’s Base (since Season 4)
Source: NBCUniversal Anime/Music YouTube channel
