Manga Thoughts: Golden Kamuy 1-2

It still managed to surprise me a bit when I once more managed to make the quick decisions to watch a reasonable number of new anime series this season the way "everyone else" says they do it these modern days, via official online streaming. However, I was a little aware all of these "new" shows had been given a bit of a boost in being the latest instalments of established franchises. Even the series I was adding to my schedule in my own fashion off of Blu-Ray discs were similar extensions upon already experienced properties. A thought or two of the "domestic movie franchises" and "sitcom revivals" I only sometimes look into did come to mind. As for what altogether new anime series did defy that possible contemporary trend I've just alluded to, some of them did get my attention, but in such a way as to have some negative opinions push me away at the same time. One historical action series seemed to include some interesting concepts, but the first reports of it mentioned some unappealing-looking animation, including modern tricks dismissed as "gratuitous" or "lazy," regardless of whether computer animation is actually "cheaper" than "drawn" stuff.

The anime series, though, was part of a more old-fashioned (and therefore seemingly more acceptable) sort of "franchise" in that it was an adaptation of an existing manga. Going straight to the source, the "program-length commercial" having done its work without actually having been watched at all, I sought out a manga series I hadn't really noticed before in the discussions of which I do follow and bought the first volume of Golden Kamuy. When I started reading it, I got through the whole volume a lot faster than it cam take me with manga (which can be read a chapter at a time and therefore doesn't demand the deliberate time expense of anime), and went back to the bookstore for the next one.
( Into the snowy wild )