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NEWS: Golden Kamuy Season 4 Delays Remaining Episodes Due to Staff Member's Passing


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Spike Terra
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2022 9:19 pm Reply with quote
That's very tragic, I'm sorry for their loss, My condolences for the animation team. Golden Kamuy is one of my favorite shows this season.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2022 10:30 pm Reply with quote
That's a certainly understandable reason for any sort of delay. My condolences to their friends and family.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2022 10:36 pm Reply with quote
That's just awful to hear.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2022 11:11 pm Reply with quote
Completely justified and understandable. :c
My heart goes out to the friends and family during these times.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 2:22 am Reply with quote
That's terrible, my condolences.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 3:42 am Reply with quote
My condolences to relatives and friends...
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 3:48 am Reply with quote
Damn, that's awful, doubly so that it was someone crucial to the project who now won't get to see it completed Sad
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 4:44 am Reply with quote
Awful news to wake up to Sad

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 5:35 am Reply with quote
Condolences to family, friends and colleagues.
Hoping the bereaved are allowed space to grieve.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 5:44 am Reply with quote
I wonder if someone who happens to be indispensable could be the series director or not. Regardless, rest in piece.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 6:13 am Reply with quote
If it was someone like director or main scriptwriter they would probably did not hide it. But I cannot imagine any other role significant enough to halt the whole production for unknown period. You can generally replace most of the other ones relatively fast.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 6:57 am Reply with quote
Series art director perhaps? His name is Toru Koga by the way.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 8:28 am Reply with quote
Cultural advisor or one of the voice actors?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 8:39 am Reply with quote
TarutoClown93 wrote:
Series art director perhaps? His name is Toru Koga by the way.

I don't think it's art director, considering half of the season already aired - and that means most of the job on the visual part of anime is already done during the early stages of production (same goes to character design). The series halted right now with an irreplaceable staff member dying means two things:

1) It's indeed the main scriptwriter or one of the script supervisors (considering GK got multiple supervisors for Ainu culture, or supervisors for Satsuma dialect and Russian language) - which affected the production of the script and storyboards of the remaining episodes, so the animation production team basically have nothing to do their job.
2) It's the chief director or director of one/multiple episodes that still remain in production (which is pretty usual with most of the current production of anime series, where the last episodes usually get produced right during the running time of the show), so his death affected the schedule and the production committee did not found an actual replacement in time.

Honestly, both of the options are truly terrific and can affect the continuation of the show (because it's not supposed to end on 4th season, considering the material) - but yeah, there is nothing to be done.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 8:42 am Reply with quote
WatcherZer wrote:
Cultural advisor or one of the voice actors?
Definitely not a voice actor - they're not considered a part of staff members at all, and actually can be easily replaced during the run without affecting the production schedule of the show (which was done multiple times, was it death or just the sickness). And considering the death of the seiyuu is usually big news and can easily affect multiple shows at the same time, I don't think they're also trying to hide the name at all if it was that.
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