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Detour Quarry 7 - A Fistful of Yen (Golden Kamuy vol 1-6)
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Covering: Golden Kamuy volumes 1 to 6
On this beefy first episode of this new season of Detour Quarry, Red and Mel dive into the first few volumes of the manga Golden Kamuy with enthusiasm. With much to discuss between colonialism, a diversity of guys and a strange number of coincidences, the winding road ahead is looking promising. Which is good because we will be walking it for a while.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
11:33 - "Production" history
52:40 - Golden Kamuy discussion
2:43:00 - Email
2:52:15 - Outro
Sources:
- Blog where Mel found the image of Yamamoto playing Hijikata
- Golden Kamuy anime bear scene
- Gladio Free Europe - History of Hokkaido: Part 1, Part 2
- History of Japan Pod - The First Frontier: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
- Unseen Japan - The Colonization of Hokkaido: How a “Foreign” Frontier Became Japan
- Historian's Craft - The Conquest of the Emishi & the Dawn of the Samurai
- Nova (PBS) - Origins of the Ainu
- Akarenga - Encounter between Cultures from the North and the South: Okhotsk Culture and Satsumon Culture
- Zgusta, Richard. 2015. The Peoples of Northeast Asia through Time: Precolonial Ethnic and Cultural Processes along the Coast between Hokkaido and the Bering Strait. Brill Academic Pub: 54-68.
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