Golden Kamuy Top 20 popular character rankings! Who became the top on the list and who won over Sugimoto!?
We will show the results that came out from Golden Kamuy‘s favorite character survey in a ranking style.
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Who became the most popular among all the unique characters? Let’s get started!
Golden Kamuy Top 20 popular character ranking!
Top 20-11
20th: Kiroranke
19th: Boutarou Kaizoku
18th: Kano Ienaga
16th (tied): Asirpa’s grandmother (Huci)
16th (tied): Mokutarou Kikuta
13th (tied): Retar
13th (tied): Ryu
13th (tied): Toshiyuki Kadokura
12th: Inkarmat
11th: Vasily
10th: Tokushirou Tsurumi
Alias: Rebellious Intelligence Officer
Voice Actor: Hochu Otsuka
From the official site:
The First Lieutenant of the 7th: Division Imperial Japanese Army.
He is at a high level in collecting information and analyzing it, and he has a great instinct that the superior officials even consider dangerous.
To take revenge for his fellow soldiers who died because of the wrong decision made by the upper echelon at the Siege of Port Arthur in the Russo‐Japanese War, he planned to take over the main 7th: division.
He has an insane ambition to make his military government by using the Ainu’s gold as a war fund.
The reason why he has a strange appearance of wearing a protector on his forehead is to cover the severe damage he got from the Battle of Mukden.
9th: Tatsuuma Ushiyama
Alias: Ushiyama the Undefeated
Voice Actor: Kenji Nomura
From the official site:
Ushiyama is a Judo expert. He is called “Ushiyama the Undefeated” because he never got defeated for 10 years.
He has a strong steel physique he got from the hard training he did from the time he was competing, and his forehead is thick as a hanpen that it can bounce back a thrust nail.
On the other hand, he has an unquenchable sexual desire that could sometimes be a weakness.
The reason why he got imprisoned in Abashiri prison was that he slept with: his master’s wife.
He is one of the escaped prisoners who are tattooed and joined Hijikata’s group because they had the same interest.
8th: Toshizou Hijikata
Alias: Shinsengumi’s Merciless Vice-Commander
Voice actor: Jouji Nakata
From the official site:
Former Shinsengumi “Merciless Vice-Commander”.
He was said to have died in the Hakodate war in the 2nd year of the Meiji era. However, he was alive and was imprisoned for 30 years as a political prisoner.
During his time in Abashiri prison, he met the man who took the Ainu’s buried gold, and he took command of the prison break for the tattooed prisoners.
To let out his feeling from not being able to finish his job as a Shinsengumi, he plans a war to liberate the land of Ezo.
He is already over 70 years old, but his appearance is full of energy, and his sword skills never get old.
6th (tied): Hajime Tsukishima
Alias: Conscience of the 7th: division, Right hand of the Grim reaper
Voice actor: Eiji Takemoto
From the official site:
Sergeant of the 7th: division Imperial Japanese Army.
He joined the Russo-Japanese War as an assistant for Lieutenant Tsurumi. Even after the war, he still works for Lieutenant Tsurumi to achieve the ambition that Tsurumi has, to make a military government.
He is an honest man, and he has morals compared to the other tricky persons in the 7th: division.
6th (tied): Yoshitake Shiraishi
Alias: Lovable Escape King
Voice Actor: Kentaro Ito
From the official site:
A genius escaped convict who has an alias “Escape King”.
Because he kept breaking out of prison, the sentence he got for breaking out from prison is longer than the actual crime he got imprisoned for.
He has a unique ability to dislocate his joints, and he hides nails and wires in his body so that he could escape when he gets caught.
He is one of the 24 escaped prisoners who have the location of the buried gold tattooed on their bodies, but he decided to tag with: Sugimoto and help them search for the buried gold because he thought it was beneficial for him.
5th: Genjirou Tanigaki
Alias: Ani Matagi
Voice Actor: Yoshimasa Hosoya
From the official site:
Former Private First Class of the 7th: division Imperial Japanese Army.
He is from Matagi Touhoku (traditional winter hunters), where they hunt for a living, and he knows the way to live in the mountains.
Probably from the Matagi custom in which coughing or sneezing is prohibited in the mountains, he usually doesn’t speak much.
He left his hometown, Akita, for a certain purpose and joined the army as a Tondenhei, and he remained in the army after the Russo-Japanese War.
When he was chasing Sugimoto’s group because they seriously injured Ogata, he encountered Retar, the Ezo wolf that tried to help Asirpa, and Genjirou awakened his Matagi blood.
4th: Asirpa
Alias: Beloved daughter of the Ainu
Voice Actor: Haruka Shiraishi
From the official site:
She is an Ainu girl who Sugimoto met in the northern land.
She understands the Japanese language and has deep knowledge of living in the mountain and hunting.
Since her name has a meaning of “New year” or “Future”, she calls herself a “New kind of Ainu woman”, and she has a flexible perspective and doesn’t stick with: the old convention.
Her father was killed by the man who took the Ainu’s hidden gold, and she decided to get along with: Sugimoto because she thought he’ll be a good warrior.
Retar the Ezo wolf will come out of nowhere and help her when she’s in danger.
3rd: Hyakunosuke Ogata
Alias: The Wildcat sniper, Lonely wolf Elite sniper
Voice Actor: Kenjiro Tsuda
From the official site:
Superior Private of the 7th: division Imperial Japanese Army.
His father was the leader of the 7th: division, and Hyakunosuke himself has a notable ability as a soldier.
He is good at sniping, and if the target is within 300 meters he could conduct an accurate headshot.
The type 30 rifle that the Imperial army uses, has great accuracy but lacks penetration. However, with: Hyakunosuke’s ability, there is no problem assassinating an enemy far away.
He is called “Bat guy” because of the deceitful way how he changes his attitude depending on the situation. By making a move alone, he finally confronts Sugimoto.
2nd: Saichi Sugimoto
Alias: The man who was called the Immortal
Voice Actor: Chikahiro Kobayashi
From the official site:
A veteran of the 1st division Imperial Japanese Army.
He had a remarkable achievement in the Russo-Japanese War, and he was called “Sugimoto the Immortal” of the way he fought like an Oni God.
What makes Fujimoto immortal is the recovering ability and the great guts he had when facing death.
After the disbandment of the army, he headed to Hokkaido to join the Gold Rush to keep the promise of his friend who died in the war.
In Hokkaido, he became aware of the Ainu’s hidden Gold and fought against the 7th: division imperial army and the escaped convicts to get the hidden gold.
1st: Otonoshin Koito
Voice Actor: Katsuyuki Konishi
Alias: Satsuma Hayato
From the official site:
Second Lieutenant of the 7th: division Imperial Japanese Army.
Having a Navy ensign father, the blood of a soldier runs in him. First Lieutenant Tsurumi’s favorite “Satsuma Warrior”.
His fighting style is called Jigen-Ryu, which is an old style of Satsuma swordsmanship, and a swing of his sword will cut his opponent together with: their weapon.
When he gets too excited, he starts speaking with: a fast Satsuma Dialect or he screams out a Kiai from the Jigen-Ryu called Enkyo (Monkey Screaming), so he has trouble communicating.
He always carries a picture of First Lieutenant Tsurumi who he admires.
1st place went to Second Lieutenant Otonoshin for the Golden Kamuy popular character ranking!
The character who won over the main character Sugimoto was, Otonoshin Koito the Second Lieutenant of the 7th: division Imperial Japanese Army! KIEEEEEE! (Monkey Scream)
He is one of the characters who made the most progress and many readers were watching over him.
We can see many characters from Sugimoto’s group, Hijikata’s group, and the 7th: division. It shows how all characters are popular regardless of which group they’re in.
Here is the comparison of the survey from 2018.
| 2018 (Official) | 2022 (Nijimen) | |
| 1st | Saichi Sugimoto | Otonoshin Koito |
| 2nd | Hyakunosuke Ogata | Saichi Sugimoto |
| 3rd | Hajime Tsukishima | Hyakunosuke Ogata |
| 4th | Asirpa | Asirpa |
| 5th | Otonoshin Koito | Genjirou Tanigaki |
| 6th | Yoshitake Shiraishi | Yoshitake Shiraishi* |
| 7th | Tokushirou Tsurumi | Hajime Tsukishima* |
| 8th | Genjirou Tanigaki | Toshizou Hijikata |
| 9th | Yuusaku Hanazawa | Tatsuuma Ushiyama |
| 10th | Ryu | Tokushirou Tsurumi |
*tie