Braving the great cold northern island of Japan is no easy feat but for voicer actor Kenyu Horiuchi it’s but another vocal challenge. Horiuchi was announced today to be joining the cast of Golden Kamuy TV anime’s fourth season as Warrant Officer Kikuta, who is a member of the 7th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army and was badly hurt in the war, recuperating at the Noboribetsu Onsen.

Kenyu Horiuchi (Wilhelm van Astrea in Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-) is voicing Warrant Officer Kikuta

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Shizutaka Sugahara (Grimms Notes the Animation) is taking over as the chief director of Golden Kamuy at Brain’s Base from Hitoshi Nanba at Geno Studio. Noboru Takagi continues to write the series composition for the series, while Takumi Yamakawa (animation director on 5 episodes of To Your Eternity) takes over as the character designer. The fourth season is on its way in October 2022. All three currently released seasons are available to stream on Crunchyroll, which describes the series as such: 

The story takes place in the mighty Northern field of Hokkaido, the time is in the turbulent late Meiji Era. A post war soldier Sugimoto, aka, “Immortal Sugimoto” was in need of large sums of money for a particular purpose…. What awaited Sugimoto, who stepped into Hokkaido’s Gold Rush with dreams of making a fortune, was a tattoo map leading to a hidden treasure based on hints inscribed on the bodies of convicts in Abashiri Prison?! The magnificent nature of Hokkaido vs vicious convicts and the meeting with a pure Ainu girl, Ashiripa!! A survival battle for a hidden treasure hunt begins!

Source: Comic Natalie

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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.