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A subgroup of the Abashiri Prisoners and some miscellaneous allies formed by Hijikata to seize the treasure. Hijikata's own goal is to found a country in Hokkaido and rekindle the war against the Meiji Government and thus he wants the gold to finance his master plan. Several of the former Abashiri convicts eventually flock to Hijikata's group, attracted by the prospect of not being skinned for their tattoos (he'd rather copy them). Although they are few, most of them are experienced killers and fighters.
Hijikata Toshizou
Voiced by: Joji Nakata (Japanese), Yuichi Nakamura (Japanese; young), Greg Dulcie (English)
- Affectionate Nickname: Nagakura calls him "Baragaki", which means something like "prickly brat".
- Authority Equals Ass Kicking: Vice-Commander of the Shinsengumi.
- Badass Boast: Hijikata is a boastful individual, and delivers several one-liners to tell how awesome he is during the story."Listen up, you damn kids. In times like these, any man who makes it to old age is a survivor."
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Hijikata wears a three-piece suit to better blend in and looks cool when he kills people.
- Badass Long Coat: Hijikata sports a long coat over his suit.
- Beard of Evil: Sports a long chin tuft.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Alongside First Lieutenant Tsurumi. Ironically, both have roughly the same goal.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He was considered a model prisoner in Abashiri before brutally murdering his guards and escaping.
- Blood Knight: He isn't called the "Demon Vice-Commander" for nothing. Early on, he demonstrated his capacity for brutality if the situation calls for it.
- Break His Heart to Save Him: Hijikata had once such a fight with Nagakura that the latter left the Shinsengumi out of rage. Nagakura later suspects that Hijikata only wanted to push him away from the Shinsengumi and their doomed war.
- Cool Old Guy: Still kicks much ass even when his face is covered in wrinkles.
- Covered in Scars: Upon finally revealing his tattoos, Hijikata's body is shown to also be littered with various scars throughout.
- Enemy Mine: He allies with Sugimoto against the 7th Division when he learns that they have fake skins to throw him off.
- Expressive Hair: When he is fired up, Hijikata's hair strangely flares up.
- Feeling Their Age: Averted in Hijikata's case. He is impressively active and energetic for someone in their seventies (he's revealed to be 72), to the point other people have wondered if he ate the flesh of a mermaid (rumored to give eternal life and youth).
- Firing One-Handed: He uses a Winchester rifle one-handed.
- Former Teen Rebel: Hijikata was an undisciplined brat who liked hanging out with women more than training at his dojo.
- Good All Along: More specifically on the side of the protagonists all along. The final battle reveals that Hijikata has a debt to the Ainu for saving his life at the battle of Hokodate, and would have worked directly with Aserpa's father for the independance of Hokaido, if not for the fact that in prison neither of them could varify the others identity.
- A Handful for an Eye: During their fight, Hijikata secretly gathers some blood in his palm and tosses it at Inudou's eye, giving him a crucial opening.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: In an age full of guns, Hijikata still uses his sword. Although he isn't above wielding a rifle in conjuction.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Hijikata ultimately dies after taking a blade to the head while fighting to defend Sugimoto, but he puts up a good fight and lives long enough to hand off his sword to Sugimoto.
- Historical Domain Character: Albeit much longer-lived than the actual Hijikata, who died in 1869.
- Hot-Blooded: Hijikata had a wild personality in his youth, earning him the nickname "Baragaki.", a play on the words "Ibara" meaning thorny and "Gaki" meaning kid.
- I Was Quite a Looker: It's mentioned he was quite handsome in his youth. The historical Hijikata was also noted to be good looking.
- Katanas Are Just Better: He wields a katana (and a rifle), as befitting of a member of the Shinsengumi.
- Lawman Gone Bad: Hijikata was a Shinsengumi, which was an order of peacekeeping warriors. Not accounting for the Shinsengumi's fall from grace, Hijikata is now a prison escapee and little more than a gang leader with a vision.
- Living Legend: The former vice-commander of an infamous order of peacekeeping samurai.
- Old Soldier: A veteran who fights as well as he commands, using military tactics and swordsmanship to prevail in a shootout between two gangs.
- Patriotic Fervor: In Chapter 153, it is revealed that his idea of recreating a state in Hokkaido is, at least in his mind, a way to help Japan.
- Named Weapon: His famous Izumi-no-Kami Kanesada.
- Not Afraid to Die: What matters in battle is how many men are prepared to die for the cause.
- Off with His Head!: After his duel to the death with Shirosuke Inudo, the loser (Shirosuke) requests, and is granted, to be finished off with a full-on traditional samurai beheading.
- Putting the Band Back Together: Hijikata plans to rebuild the Shinsengumi.
- Samurai: A warrior from the times of the shogunate. Technically, however, Hijikata wasn't a samurai, being born into a farming family.
- Sword and Gun: He uses a lever-action rifle and a sword, and has used both in quick succession several times before.
- Take Up My Sword: Hijikata's last act is to hand Sugimoto his sword and say it'll serve him well.
- Visionary Villain: Hijikata's end game is to found an autonomous country. In chapter 153, it goes even further than that: this autonomous country is envisioned as a haven for all of Japan's undesirables, as well as a buffer state against powerful Russia so that Honshu can focus on development while Hokkaido still defends the country.
- Weapon Twirling: He reloads his Winchester by twirling it.
- Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Disguises himself as a harmless old man to approach and gauge Sugimoto.
Ushiyama Tatsuma "The Undefeated"
Voiced by: Kenji Nomura (Japanese), Christopher Sabat (English)
- A Man Is Always Eager: Checks in at Ienaga's hotel, gets guided to his room. The first thing he wants is sex with her.
- Badass Boast: "Go on then, and tell the other bears... the legend of Ushiyama the Undefeated."
- Berserk Button: Ushiyama is not happy that Michael Ostrog has been specifically targeting prostitutes to kill.
Ushiyama: In your head, maybe prostitutes may all be criminals...but to me, they're the Kannon Bodhisattva!!
- The Casanova: He has an insatiable lust.
- Charles Atlas Super Power: Can break limbs easily with his grip alone, and has used his judo skills against horses, bears and collapsing buildings.
- The Dragon: Hijikata's most trusted subordinate.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Asirpa calls him Professor Penis. It overlaps with Affectionate Nickname as the two became drinking buddies after both got drunk in a restaurant.
- Extreme Libido: Hijikata regularly lets Ushiyama go off on his own to satisfy his needs at local brothels. Whilst others question if it's safe to let him risk exposing his tattoo at such places, Hijikata has long since accepted that it's the only reasonable way of keeping Ushiyama focused. He's proven right when Ushiyama stays at the Sapporo World Hotel and the proprietress he expected to sleep with didn't show up to his room, causing him to go into a lust-fueled rampage.
- Friend to All Children: He gets long well with Aspira and one subplot in the manga had him befriending small child whilst half-delirious from a near-death experience and mindlessly following the child's orders. Accordingly, when he sees Ueji Keiji strangling a child before him, he immediately tries to kill him without any banter, swinging him around by his hair to smash him into the nearby environment until the hair is ripped from his scalp and pursuing Kenji single-mindedly in pure Tranquil Fury, regardless of the obstacles that get in his way.
- Hard Head: Ushiyama has an abnormally thick skull, which can resist the slash of a sword.
- Heroic Sacrifice: When Tanigaki and Inkarmat are trapped beneath falling rubbles, and more threaten to fall on them, Ushiyama intervenes and supports a whole building so the couple can escape. Sweating from the effort, Ushiyama even asks a Last Request of them.You guys...better live a happy life together, ya hear me?
- And then the rubble overwhelms him. Of course, Ushiyama simply tosses everything asides and brushes his dusty suit. Although the moment really invokes this trope, it's not like he was really let some bricks kill him.
- Played straight later when he uses his body to shield Asirpa and Shiraishi from a grenade, which fatally wounds him.
- The Juggernaut: In Chapter 33, Ushiyama pursues Shiraishi across the streets of Otaru. A small group of hostiles looking for a fight are just tossed away by his charge. Shiraishi toppling a huge pillar of (hard as stone) snow onto him doesn't faze him, and he sweeps a horse on his way.
- In a later chapter, Ushiyama smashes an entire wall away from a building while pursuing Ueji Keiji after witnessing him strangling a child. Rather than toss the wall aside, he opens the door on the wall section and runs straight through it, letting it fall behind him.
- Made of Iron: Ushiyama defies all laws of physics by shrugging off an explosion great enough to destroy a whole building, then the subsequent falling debris.
- Only in It for the Money: While Hijikata has grandiose plans, Ushiyama only wants money to spend.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Proposes a truce between him and Hijikata, saying that there's no need to kill each since they are free to copy the map on their tattoos anyway.
- Red Baron: "The Undefeated".
- Strong and Skilled: He is a trained judoka, so he is as skilled at using his strength as he is strong.
- Training from Hell: 10 hours of daily training at least, for ten years. That explains his freakish strength. Ushiyama begins with 1000 uchikomi every day then carries on to the real training.
- The Worf Effect: Downplayed. Gansoku Maiharu's introduction has him talking about how he beat Ushiyama about half the time out of their numerous fights, implying that he's as good at striking as Ushiyama is at holds and throws.
Nagakura Shinpachi
Voiced by: Takayuki Sugo(Japanese), Kent Williams (English)
- Affectionate Nickname: Hijikata calls Nagakura "Gamushin."
- Badass Boast: has delivered his first as of chapter 58, and it's badass.You should know... once the fire starts burning inside me, only blood will put it out.
- Berserk Button: When the warden Inudou Shirosuke refuses to let him see an imprisoned Hijikata, Nagakura threatens to split his head open.
- Cool Old Guy: In Chapter 59, Nagakura demonstrates that he hasn't lost his edge by swiftly disposing of five armed men with a saber.
- Former Teen Rebel: We learn that alongside Hijikata, Nagakura was undisciplined, and fooled around with women. A great contrast to the dignified old man of the story.
- Grumpy Old Man: Frequently gets annoyed by the antics of the younger (relatively, as most of them are middle-aged) members of the group.
- Historical Domain Character: Though unlike Hijikata, the real Nagakura Shinpachi was still alive at the time Golden Kamuy took place.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: Certainly didn't collaborate with other criminals to look for a stash of gold.
- Identical Stranger: With Suzukawa Kiyohiro. Both are bald/balding old men who share the same build and beard.
- Master Swordsman: Hailed as the strongest swordsman of the Shinsengumi (as he is historically) and despite his age, is still good in a fight.
- Retired Badass: By the time the story starts, he's no longer a warrior and simply a kendo instructor. However, he rouses himself to join Hijikata.
Superior Private Ogata Hyakunosuke
Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda (Japanese), Orion Pitts (English)
- Animal Motifs: Cats, specifically the wildcat. Chapter 169 has characters developing this motif. He was called "wildcat" in the army as a reference for him being the son of a Geisha ("wildcat" being a slang for the profession). The chapter also has characters talking about an Ainu tale of a wildcat that stole everything from people, to which Koito responds that the lesson of the tale is to shoot a thieving cat in sight. The chapter ends with a physical simile of him and the animal, as they stares off and later his footsteps are above the paw prints of the creature. While he is not shown in the epilogue, Vasily did symbolically pay tribute to him with his 1940 painting Death of a Wildcat, which features the corpse of a wildcat lying alone in the snow.
- Bastard Bastard: He is revealed to be the child of Lieutenant General Hanazawa and one of his mistresses. He even attributes his own massive sociopathy to the lack of love in his family, especially compared to his half-brother Yusaku (Hanazawa's "proper" son) who turned out to be a moral upstanding fellow, leaving him with the theory that his troubled conception left him born "unfinished".
- Boom, Headshot!: Averted when pursued by Tsurumi's soldiers. He deliberately shoots less important body parts to wound them because the wounded slows down a group and reduces morale. He shoots others in the head when convenient, however.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to his legitimate half-brother. Ogata shot him in the head at 203 Hill.
- Character Tic: He's regularly trying to fix his Idiot Hair.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He's been on each of the three main groups at some point during the story and betrayed all of them. It's difficult to know his true loyalty or motivation.Chapter 279 reveals he's also a spy for Central Command like Kikuta, something hinted at earlier when they encounter each other in the Sapporo Brewery and pass by each other without fighting, though even that relation is implied to be one Ogata will betray if it suits his personal needs.
- Cold Sniper: Ogata is a great shot with his Arisaka rifle and exploits many sniper techniques such as two-man sniper team before their actual invention. He's also aloof, cold, and no-nonsense when sniping and in general. A shining and really creepy example of this trope is when he snipes Noppera-Bou and shoots Sugimoto in the head. After the shocking panel where a bullet goes through Sugimoto's skull, we see Ogata in the watchtower silently reloading. No Evil Gloating, no Bond One-Liner, not even the slightest expression on his face.
- The Corrupter: Ogata refuses to believe that some people follow an ethical code and he goes out of his way to try to corrupt "pure" people. This includes pressuring his brother into having sex with a prostitute and trying to get Asirpa to break her Thou Shalt Not Kill vow by telling her he shot her father.
- Creepy Monotone: Especially in the Japanese version.
- Disarm, Disassemble, Destroy: He is proficient enough to be able to disassemble a rifle in the middle of a Gun Struggle.
- Driven to Suicide: In his final confrontation against Sugimoto and Asirpa by the end of the series Ogata is poisoned by Asirpa's arrow, he proceeds to completely lose his mind in an inner battle with his consciousness, fighting against the ideas that he either killed his family in a futile attempt to prove he was a sociopath, while he was in fact blessed all along thus doing it all out of pettiness, or that he was really justified in doing all of what he did, to prove people are just broken from birth like he believes himself to be; either way he commits suicide by shooting himself in the head, through his eye.
- Dying Clue: Downplayed, Ogata merely faints before he can write the entirety of Sugimoto's name and nickname.
- Dying Smirk:
- Gives one to Aspira after she accidentally shoots him in the eye with a poisoned arrow believing he made her into a killer against her will, but averted when Sugimoto quickly saves his life.
- In the final arc, Ogata gives a small smile after shooting himself and falling off the train to Hakodate.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He is fond of his grandmother. Averted when he was revealed to have killed most of his immediate family...but even then his final introscpection shows that he did care about his mother and at his core felt guilty over killing Yusaku, the one person in his family who seemed to unconditionally love him.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He breaks out in a sweat with disbelief upon witnessing Shiton raping a bear.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Ogata is under the impression that, deep down, everyone is a Sociopath like him, and he in turn can't comprehend anyone who tries living virtuously, like Asiripa's Thou Shalt Not Kill vow or his brother's attempts at living up to the fairy-tale image of a flag-bearer. This prompts him to try corrupting them and, when that fails, killing them with the claim that "people like them shouldn't exist."
- Eye Scream: Asirpa shoots an Ainu arrow through his eye. Sugimoto saves him from the poison by carving the eye out with a pocket knife.
- Faux Affably Evil: Amicable and polite when interacting with others while also being consistently smug, condescending and insincere.
- Foreshadowing: In chapter 148, a shot of Ogata with a Face Framed in Shadow is depicted when Kiroranke is recounting how the Treaty of St Petersburg forced the Ainu to choose between living in Japanese lands or Russian lands due to the land being given over to the Russians in exchange for the Chishima Islands being made into Japanese soil. It's later revealed that half the gold was used to buy vast swaths of Japanese soil for the Ainu, finalised with a thematically-similar treaty and land deed confirming the Ainu's right to use the land for their culture. It's heavily implied that Ogata's overarching goal in the gold hunt was not to find the gold itself, but to locate and destroy the land deed for Central so they could pretend the treaty never existed in the first place.
- In chapter 185, when he's attempting to convince Aspirta to tell hm what she remembered about the key to solving the Tattooed Skin map, Ogata attempts to underplay his desire for the gold, pointing out that if he took all of it he'd be dragged into the middle of another fight by the various parties after it, and that he only wants to be paid a fair reward for risking his life throughout the gold hunt thus far. His use of the word 'reward' hints at his connection to Central, and his given task by them being not to procure the gold himself, but to find and remove the treaty that is buried alongside the gold.
- Give Me a Reason: He'd rather not kill everyone in the Ainu village if he didn't have to, but would if Tanigaki did something stupid.
- It's also implied to be the ultimate cause of Sugimoto's emnity with him. When they first met, Sugimoto was still affected badly by the horrors of the war, having pushed himself into the mindset of 'those who try to kill me are bad people, therefore I don't have to feel bad for killing them' to deal with the PTSD brought about by the brutal efforts he'd had to produce to survive against overwhelming odds. Because Ogata tried to attack him, even if he was Just Following Orders, Sugimoto automatically applied this mindset to him as well, despite Aspira's admonishment of him for so easily resorting to murder, and therefore, as part of his coping mechanism, he had to see Ogata as a bad person in order to justify the brutality he inflicted upon him in their first meeting. Thereafter, Sugimoto is always antagonistic and abrasive towards Ogata, even when he technically betrays the 7th and joins them in a united effort as part of Hijikata's Group, because admitting that Ogata didn't deserve what he did to him would mean Sugimoto would also have to admit that the people he slaughtered in war didn't deserve their fates either, an idea that would break him.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: A jaw-surgery scars on each cheek.
- Handicapped Badass: After spending many chapters trying to get used to shooting with one eye, he snipes Usami through two windows while he's riding on a horse. Then he removes his bandage, revealing two eyes. Then his fake eye pops out.
- Idiot Hair: Ogata has a wild strand of hair hanging on the side of the head.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Can hit something as small as a binocular 300 meters away with an Arisaka rifle.
- Last-Name Basis: Everyone calls him by his surname.
- Long-Range Fighter: Downplayed. Ogata is a Cold Sniper with Improbable Aiming Skills, and he's able to (more or less) hold his ground against Sugimoto in their first confrontation; yet close-range combat is not his strongest point, as he is also shown to not be able to stand up to fellow 7th Division soldiers at close quarter combat.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: Slipped through many, many certain death situations, after the weight of killing a brother who honestly loved him beared on his mind to then die by his own hands, through a poison induced mental breakdown in his final fight against Sugimoto and Asirpa, by the very final events of the whole series.
- Karmic Death: Ogata killed off his family by poisoning his mother, stabbing his father in a mock seppuku, and shooting his brother Yusaku in the eye. His final fight ends with Asirpa shooting him with a poisoned arrow, him cutting himself open to get the arrowhead out, and shooting himself in the eye while hallucinating Yusaku.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When he gets his arm broken, he flees.
- Major Injury Underreaction: Part of his and the 7th division's Establishing Character Moment is Sugimoto overwhelming him in a close-range knife fight bare-handed, breaking his arm and trying to stab him with his own Bayonet before Aspira stops him. Ogata's only reaction to getting his arm broken in what looks like 2 places is to calmly take note of Sugimoto's name, deduce his identity as a legendary survivor of the war, and then stab him in the eyes with his free hand to break loose and run away, noting he cannot possibly win against somebody like Sugimoto with an injury like that as his arm flops around like a loose sleeve. It sells how used to extreme situations the soldiers of the 7th are, equally capable of resorting to extreme methods to survive like Sugimoto himself.
- Manipulative Bastard: Downplayed. Ogata is much smarter and more observant than he lets on, and is more aware of personal secrets and insights towards his companions that he shows, which allows him to skilfully set up alliances of convenience even between people who know he's untrustworthy, simply because none of them actually know what his overall goals and intentions are beyond what he tells them. However, whilst this lets him manipulate small isolated groups of people towards his own ends, he can't hold a candle towards Tsurumi, which is something Ogata himself seems to realise, as he's noticeably wary and on edge whenever the situation involved him or his close allies in the 7th Division. Notably, he's apparently the only member of the 7th that was able to catch onto Tsurumi's modus operandi of manipulating his subordinates into situations he'd set up beforehand to cement their Undying Loyalty to him, shortly after Tsurumi helped Ogata kill his father and frame it as Seppeku, which would allow Tsurumi to then manipulate the government's reaction to his dishonourable suicide to further bind the loyalty of the 7th to himself.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Ogata isn't a native of Hokkaido and has no interest in rebelling. He even admits as much to Aspira, pointing out that getting the Gold for himself would do nothing but paint a massive target on his back for all factions after the gold. Then it's hinted that his actual goal isn't the gold itself, but rather, the land deed that was bought with half the gold and is buried in the same location, under orders from Central to retrieve it and destroy the 'inconvenient' document.
- Not So Above It All: Ogata hides it, but during his travel with Asirpa, he is subtly influenced by her happy demeanor. When Asirpa tells him that he can't catch any woodcock with his rifle, he takes it as a challenge and is proud to see he's actually caught more than Asirpa.
- Not So Stoic: He's usually a Cold Sniper who rarely shows any emotion, but he breaks out in a sweat with disbelief upon witnessing Shiton raping a bear.
- Perma-Stubble: Ogata gains one after being absent a while.
- Pragmatic Villainy: When trying to goad Asirpa into telling him the code to reach the gold, he reveals to her that he doesn't necessarily want all of the gold, recognising that having all of it would paint a massive target on his back. That said, it's hinted that his intended aim is the land deed that was bought with half the gold, which is overall more portable and concealable that several tons of gold.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Right before sniping Usami:
Ogata: If you're really so concerned about whether or not you're a cheap piece...then you just need to see what kind of expression First Lieutenant Tsurumi has at your funeral.
- Rule of Symbolism: His death is symbolic to all the means he killed his entire family; Sugimoto piercing him with a bayonet is equal to Ogata gutting his father in the belly, Asirpa's poisoned arrow is equal to how he poisoned his mother to death, and Ogata's own poison-induced mental breakdown led him to shoot himself in the head through his eye, the same way he killed his brother.
- Self-Made Orphan: Ogata, already a little nuts in his childhood, poisoned his mother so that his father would come to the funeral out of love for his mistress. He then killed his father, and covered it up as seppuku at Tsurumi's suggestion.
- Sniper Duel: Has one with a Russian soldier when they first cross into the Russian border.
- The Starscream: He plans to betray Tsurumi, but more out of pragmatism since he never felt loyal to him.
- Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: He taunts Asirpa kill him once he realizes that Sugiomoto's group was catching up to them, she refused to reveal a clue her father left her about the gold, and that he felt everyone should be guilty of killing someone. He wanted to corrupt her by dying at her hands, and in the heat of the moment, she accidentally releases the arrow she had nocked. However, Sugimoto forcefully removes Ogata's eyeball before the poison could enter his body, thus saving his life, since he didn't want Asirpa's hands dirtied by killing a person.
- Together in Death: Yusaku, or at least Ogata's hallucination of him, is there for Ogata when he shoots himself, and even helps aim the gun. He's also by Ogata's side when he drops off the train.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Anglerfish hot pot, a dish his mother would make for him every day.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: The first soldier of the 7th Division seen, and makes the reader realize how dangerous they are.
- Wild Card: As covered under Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, he has allied with and backstabbed all 3 main groups searching for the gold at one point or another, shot Wilk in the head when the latter was on the verge of telling Sugimoto about the gold on Kiroranke's orders note and upon realising that Aspirta had figured out the method to decode the Tattooed skins, Ogata showed zero hesitation in levelling his gun at her after he failed to coax the information out of her and their confrontation further reminded him of Aspirta's similarities to his brother, apparently letting his personal emotions drive him to kill the only person that could unearth the gold, in contrast to everybody else's focus on finding it for their own reasons, something that perplexes Sugimoto and Aspirta when the discuss his actions in the aftermath, with Sugimoto only being able to guess that Ogata is trying to stir up trouble for his own reasons. Eventually, it's revealed that Ogata was inserted into the 7th Divison as a spy for Central, with his own task being separate from Kikuta's own role of observing and relaying information on Tsurumi's actions back to central. Reading between the lines, it's implied that Ogata's given role was to search for the Land Deed that confirmed half the gold had been used to buy vast swathes of fertile and profitable Japanese land for the Ainu, which would explain why Ogata rapidly shifts between multiple groups depending on who has the best chance of finding the gold or is less likely to kill him at the time, and shows zero hesitation at killing both Wilk and Aspirta despite their deaths meaning the gold cannot be found, as that would still satisfy the requirements for the inconvenient land deed to be erased for Central. That said, it's also implied that Ogata has his own reasons for continuing the gold hunt that drive him more than any given directive. Tsurumi realizes at the very end that this reason is that he wants his father's old position in the high rankings of the army, a way to prove that even he, someone deffective, can have this thing that was never meant for him, and is therefore meaningless.
- You Remind Me of X: Asripa seems to remind him of his brother with her Thou Shall Not Kill policy. Like with his brother, he tries to goad her into breaking it and, when that fails, tries to kill her.
Kano Ienaga
Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese), Terri Doty (English)
.- All There in the Manual:
Q&A mentions on Twitter that "Kano" is a pseudonym, and his real name is "Chikanobu". - Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She has Raven Hair, Ivory Skin, and seems aloof due to seemingly wanting to distance from her customers. She is described as a beautiful Japanese woman who wears Western clothes.
- Bondage Is Bad: Heavily implied, as one flashback shows her with a tengu mask whose nose looks like a dildo beside a tied victim.
- Cannibalism Super Power: Ienaga invokes this by claiming that when one's particular body part is ill, they should eat the same body part to heal it.
- Deadly Doctor: She's not as capable a fighter as other people in her group, but when she has to fight she'll usually break out a few syringes.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Ienaga's has fair skin, jet black hair, and sophisticated demeanor contribute to the sense of eerieness the audience gets from him.
- False Widow: People in the area are skeptical as the previous owners were a childless elderly couple. She then claims her "husband" was an unwanted child, but when he died fighting in the war, and his parents died, Ienaga who was like a daughter to them inherited the place. People actually believe the story despite not having seen her in the area before.
- First-Episode Twist: Her true self and motives are shown at the end of her introductory chapter.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Saves Tanigaki and Inkarmat from being shot by injecting Tsukishima with a strong sedative and gets fatally shot in return.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Ienaga eats people for "medicinal purposes".
- Mad Doctor: Ienaga used to be a doctor and transferred her patients' blood into herself, sometimes even eating them. Her surgical skills actually do come in handy offscreen, when she performs a lifesaving brain surgery on Sugimoto, who was shot in the head by Ogata. Even though no doctor in Japan is supposedly able to do it, her torture hobby has given her many occasions to practice.
- Not Quite Dead: Thought to have perished in the explosion of the Sapporo World Hotel, Ushiyama quickly reveals to Shiraishi that he's saved Ienaga.
- Older Than They Look: Ienaga is at least 60. Her "medicine", as barbaric as it is, seems to work.
- Prim and Proper Bun: She wears a neat high bun, with the demeanor of a Yamato Nadeshiko. It's mostly a ruse as she's actually a Serial Killer posing as a False Widow to get people to trust her so she can lure them into her hotel to eat them.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: She has fair skin to contrast with her black hair and Western dress. She is described in-story as a beautiful Japanese woman.
- Romancing the Widow: Ushiyama tries this.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: She has Raven Hair, Ivory Skin, and formal manners, though she notably wears a Western dress instead of traditional Japanese clothing. She's ultimately a subversion since it's all an act to hide how she's really a Mad Doctor who eats parts of her own patients.
Toni Anji
Voiced by: Yuu Mizushima (Japanese), Kenny Green (English)
- Blind Weapon Master: Toni is blind, but is still a very good shot with his pistol.
- Disability Superpower: To alleviate blindness, Toni relies on a very sharp sense of hearing.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Toni Anji may be a robber who even attacks innocent Ainu villages, but he makes a point to avoid killing anyone who wasn't involved with Abashiri and Inudou.
- First Gray Hair: Because Toni's blind, he doesn't realize his hair has gone completely gray until someone points it out to him, which distresses him a bit.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Toni is able to hit a lamp despite his blindness by using echolocation.
- Handicapped Badass: Toni is blind, but he's still a rather good shot with his automatic pistol and can fight toe to toe against Sugimoto too.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Toni Anji seems to be inspired by Tony Anthony, an American Western actor who notably played a blind cowboy in the movie Blindman.
- Tap on the Head: Toni is knocked out by Inudou when the warden hits him with a metal ball right on the forehead. Subverted, as he almost dies because of it.
Head Jailer Kadokura
Voiced by: Yoshito Yasuhara (Japanese), David Novinski (English)
Inudou's direct subordinate at Abashiri prison. Under his apathetic and cowardly demeanor, Kadokura is one of Hijikata's insiders. Because his father served the shogunate and fought alongside the Shinsengumi, Kadokura has a grudge against the Meiji government and follows Hijikata's ambitions.- Human Notepad: Noppera-bou partially tattooed a code on Kadokura's back right before the breakout, making him the 24th and final tattooed "convict".
- Know When to Fold 'Em: After an unarmed Usami kills the two convicts he tasked with assassinating him, Kadokura runs off rather than trying to fight Usami personally.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Kadokura isn't the incompetent, apathetic warden he lets Inudou think he is. Him faking being this pathetic was a ruse to escape Inudou's staff purge after the escape of the Abashiri prisoners.
- You Killed My Father: Kadokura comes from a former samurai family who fought for the shogunate. His father served in the war and was killed in action, starting Kadokura's grudge against the Meiji government.
- Servile Snarker: Deflects Inudou's constant abuse with sarcasm. He tones it down a bit after leaving Abashiri.
- Sherlock Scan: Parodied when Kadokura tries to find Hijikata, who has gone missing after being poisoned by Sekiya Waichirou. Based on witness testimony and a silkmoth cocoon found at the scene, he immediately concludes...the case can't be solved.
- Unluckily Lucky: His life is a mess because of factors outside of his control. Yet every single time his actual life has been at the mercy of blind chance, he's survived no matter how ludicrously improbable the odds. Blindly taking two different, antagonistic deadly poisons in just the exact dosage to mutually neutralize each other being just one example.
- In the same arc, a disguised Sekiya Waichirou gives him and Kirawus a basket of smelt, one of which contains a massive dose of poison. Before he can eat any, Kadokura drops all of them into a hole in the ice.
- During the destruction of the Sapporo brewery, he passes out as the building collapses around him. Through a series of hilariously contrived coincidences, a distiller smashes through the wall, he rolls down a broken gangway, gets his shirt hooked on a broken metal beam and is swung around to land on a convenient blanket. And then the beam deposits another blanket on top of him. And then a perfectly sealed bottle of beer lands right next to his "bed".
