Golden Kamuy is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Satoru Noda. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from August 2014 to April 2022, with its chapters collected in 31 tankōbon volumes. The story follows Saichi Sugimoto, a veteran of the early twentieth-century Russo-Japanese War, and Asirpa, a young Ainu girl. Together, they embark on a journey to search for a vast fortune in gold that once belonged to the Ainu. The Ainu language in the story was supervised by Hiroshi Nakagawa, an Ainu language linguist from Chiba University.