History Characters / GoldenKamuyTheAinu

* TribalFacepaint: Ainu women traditionally tattoo their mouths, cheeks and arms to signify that they are of marriageable age. The larger the tattoo, the more important in their society the woman is considered to be. The younger generation of Ainu women take a dim view of tatooing, and many of them refuse to partake in it.

* {{Fingore}}: Sakhalin Ainu punish thieves by chopping off one of their fingertisp for each offense and if the offense is grave enough, the entire finger is cut off.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: He is almost always shoeless, save when it's winter or he needs them to avoid hurting his bare feet.

* BladeOnAStick: He uses a poisoned ''kite'' (spear) to hunt whales.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Asirpa gets her eye and hair colours from him. [[spoiler:Their eyes are particularly relevant to the story as they prove their family connection.]]

* [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Amazingly Embarrassing Grandmother]]: Within minutes of meeting Sugimoto for the first time, she quickly informs him that her granddaughter has never had any friends, is terrible at any Ainu traditional female occupations, and thus asks him to take Asirpa as his wife so that she doesn't have to worry about her future any longer. Asirpa, [[LuminescentBlush evidently embarrassed,]] refuses to translate her grandmother's request and instead tells Sugimoto that Huci said that people shouldn't eat poop.

* WidowWoman: Her husband died 6 years before the series begun.

!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/AkenoWatanabe (Japanese), Howard Wang (English)

* NiceHat: She wears a winter tassel hat.

* AbusiveParents: Zigzagged. While Wilk is shown to be a loving father to his daughter, [[TrainingFromHell his methods for raising her into the huntress she became were extremely harsh for her young age,]] making her hunt bears on her own when she was no older than 7. While Asirpa succeeded, he put her under extreme danger and stress without properly informing her of it. [[spoiler: His true goal by doing this and all the hunting and survivalism knowledge he imparted into her, was to raise Asirpa to be the leader of the Ainu revolt against the Japanese government.]] He was otherwise supportive of her, and genuinely trusting of daughter's skill and talent as a hunter, and Asirpa has nothing but fond memories of him.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: He is described and remembered by [[DaddysGirl Asirpa as a loving, supportive father]], a very skilled hunter, and also extremely well versed in the ways and traditional myths of their people, teaching her all the traditional knowledge she knows and is fond of introducing others to. [[spoiler:He was also a ruthless terrorist in Russia, responsible for the death of the Czar, and his past scenes shows him effortlessly commiting mass murder without any shred of remorse. After Asirpa was born, Wilk secretly raised her as a freedom fighter who'd wage war against the Japanese government for Ainu independence, using hunting and survival training as a pretext to drill the necessary skills into her.]]

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Asirpa has nothing but fond memories of her late father and praises his ability as a hunter. [[spoiler:Subverted, as it's revealed during the Abashiri arc [[TheReveal that he's been alive all along at the prison under the identity of the infamous Noppera-Bou.]] When questioned by Sugimoto, Wilk calmly admits that he had been raising Asirpa as a revolutionary in order for her to be [[GreaterScopeVillain the leader and eventual martyr of the Ainu rebellion he had almost been in the past.]]]]

* GoodEyesEvilEyes: He has round, dark blue eyes, and is described and remembered by Asirpa as a loving father. [[spoiler: At the same time, Wilk was also a terrorist, a mass murderer several times over, and raised his only daughter to be a revolutionary martyr.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Wilk has a pretty large scar in his face, [[spoiler:earned during his killing of the Czar.]]

* IntergenerationalFriendship: [[spoiler:Had one with a young Inkarmat, travelling Hokkaido together. She's the true source of his almost encyclopedic knowledge of the Ainu language, their traditions and mythology, [[LiesToChildren which Wilk told Asirpa he had gained from Riratte.]] Their sudden parting, motivated by Inkarmat finding out that Wilk, whom she had feelings for, had no romantic interest in her, now had a wife and eventually would have a child, haunted her for years to come.]]

* ManlyMenCanHunt: Wilk wass an excellent hunter, and one of the few people to have killed bears alone. It earned him the admiration of his daughter and his village.

* PosthumousCharacter: He long deceased by the time Sugimoto and Asirpa meet. [[spoiler:Zig-zagged. Wilk and Noppera-Bou were the same person all along, and he had been alive but imprisoned in Abashiri for at least 6 years. In that same arc, Ogata shoots him dead shortly after Sugimoto finally meets him, and then he turns truly posthumous.]]
* PureIsNotGood: When Asirpa asks Sofia what Wilk was like, Sofia answers that he was pure and beautiful. [[spoiler: Wilk considered wolves the most pure and beautiful creatures in existence, since they were ruthless, logical and efficient, an ethos he passed on to Sofia. She alluded to his purity and beauty as Wilk assasinated the Czar with no hesitation, for the revolutionary cause.]]

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Asirpa gets her eye and hair colour from him. [[spoiler:Their eyes are particularly relevant to the story as they prove their family connection.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: As a child, he was an innocent and impressionable boy. As an adult, [[spoiler: Wilk was a ruthless, brutal revolutionary and terrorist who killed the ruling Czar, and killed countless people more in cold blood without a shred of remorse in Russia. After arriving to Japan, he had no qualms about abandoning his revolutionary ideas, leaving his past with Kiroranke and Sofia behind him, destroying their lifelong friendship and would dedicate his remaining years to both raising Asirpa into revolutionary martyrdom, and once imprisioned, tatooting the convicts, fully knowing he'd be sending them to their deaths.]]

* XMarksTheHero: He had a cross-shaped scar across his forehead and down his left eye to the cheek. [[spoiler:Subverted, as he was far from a hero, being a mass murderer, terrorist, and would kickstart the deadly gold hunt.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [spoiler: His change of heart regarding the revolution and his subsquent fight and fallout with Kiroranke ends up costing him his life.]]

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler:He and Noppera-Bou are one and the same.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Wilk was partisan fighting for his people against the Russians. In Hokkaido, he decided to fight for the Ainus, gathering gold to eventually finance a revolt. [[spoiler:His extremism went as far as practically training Asirpa like a ChildSoldier so she could one day fight for the Ainus too]], which Sugimoto finds unacceptable although he too thinks that the Ainu deserve their independence.
* XMarksTheHero: He had a cross-shaped scar across his forehead and down his left eye to the cheek. [[spoiler:Subverted because he was once a ruthless terrorist in Russia and, after Asirpa was born, had been secretly grooming her into becoming a freedom fighter waging war against the Japanese government for the Ainu, using hunting and survival training as a pretext.]]

* TheFaceless: Although he's spoken of a lot, the manga doesn't properly show his face, as only glimpses of it are shown from time to time. [[spoiler:His face is eventually revealed in Chapter 137, and fully shown for the rest of the manga.]]
* FollowInMyFootsteps: Wilk, a legendary hunter amongst the Ainu, always made sure to take his daughter alongside him in his hunts, teaching her all he knew, even though Ainu women typically stayed at their village doing traditionally feminine tasks such a broidering. [[spoiler:His insistence in developing Asirpa's hunting skills were aimed towards eventually turing her into a revolutionary waging war against the Japanese government for Ainu independence.]]

* GoodEyesEvilEyes: He has dark blue, round eyes, and is described and remembered by Asirpa as a loving father. [[spoiler:Wilk was also a terrorist, a mass murderer several times over, and raised his only daughter to be a revolutionary martyr.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Wilk has a pretty large scar in his and head, [[spoiler:earned during his killing of the Czar.]]

* IntergenerationalFriendship: [[spoiler:Had one with a young Inkarmat, travelling Hokkaido together. She's the true source of his almost encyclopedic knowledge of the Ainu language, their traditions and mythology, [[LiesToChildren which Wilk told Asirpa he had gained from Riratte.]] Their sudden parting, motivated by Inkarmat finding out that Wilk, whom she had feelings for, had no romantinc interest in her, and now had a wife and eventually would have a child, haunted her for years to come.]]
* ManlyMenCanHunt: Wilk was an excellent hunter, and one of the few people to have killed bears alone. Even Sugimoto didn't do that.
* MeaningfulName: He was named by his father after the Polish word for "wolf" because he carried around a pelt of a dead wolf out of desire to become like the animals he considered pragmatic.
%%* MountainMan
* PosthumousCharacter: He is deceased by the time Sugimoto and Asirpa meet. [[spoiler:Except, he was alive and was Noppera-Bou all along.]]
* PureIsNotGood: When Asirpa asks Sofia what Wilk was like, Sofia answers that he was pure and beautiful, possibly referring to the fact that [[spoiler:he helped assassinate Tsar Alexander II out of dedication to his cause]].
* SharpDressedMan: He used to wear a white shirt and a black jacket before replacing them with a customary Hokkaido Ainu clothing.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: As a child, he wore a ''tetarape'', a type of Ainu clothing made by the Sakhalin Ainu using ''urtica thunbergiana''. As an adult, he used to wear [[SharpDressedMan a white shirt and a black jacket]] before replacing them with a customary Hokkaido Ainu clothing. [[spoiler:As Noppera-Bou, he wears a prison uniform.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name sometimes has incorrectly been spelled "Uiluk".
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks like his daughter, Asirpa, with his black hair and round eyes.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: He used to be an adorable and innocent child. However, as an adult, [[spoiler:he had become a WellIntentionedExtremist fighting for the minorities against their oppressors through morally questionable methods.]]

* WidowWoman: Her husband died 6 years before the series begins.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Barring her eyes, which she gets from her father, Asirpa gets most of her facial features from Riratte. Volume additions show that she was prone to making the exact same goofy faces as her daughter, and fiddled with Wilk's bow as it were an instrument, proving that Asirpa's lighthearted parts of her personality also come from her.

Asirpa's late mother, and Wilk's late wife. Little is known about her other than that she was a cheerful and caring woman who greatly influenced her husband, being the one who taught him all her knew about Ainu culture and mythology,[[spoiler: giving him the name ''Horkew Oskoni'', the key to solving the gold code,]] all which he passed to their daughter, Asirpa. [[spoiler: This is a half truth, since while Riratte did give Wilk his Ainu name, he learnt everything else from Inkarmat.]]

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Barring her eyes, which she gets from her father, Asirpa gets most of her facial features from Riratte. Volume additions show that she was prone to making the exact same goofy faces as her daughter , and fiddled with Wilk's bow as it were an instrument, proving that Asirpa's lighthearted parts of her personality also come from her.

-->'''Huci:''' Sugimoto-nispa. Asirpa means more to me than anything in the world. Please always be there for her.
-->'''Sugimoto:''' ...I understand, grandma. I know you love Asirpa very much. You and everyone in this village.

Asirpa's late mother. Little is known about her other than that she was cheerful and caring.

* TheChiefsDaughter: She was the daughter of the most important man in her village. She was married to Wilk, a half-Polish half-Sakhalin Ainu man who fled from Russia to Hokkaido.
* MissingMom: She died of illness right after giving birth to her daughter.
* UnknownCharacter: She was the daughter of the most important man in her village, was married to Wilk, was described and remembered by him as a ''pirka menoko'' (beautiful woman) like her daughter, and died of illness right after giving birth to her daughter. That's literally all we know about her.

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: [[spoiler:Influenced by Inkarmat,]] Huci has a dream which predicts that she would never see Asirpa again, causing her great anguish, to the point that she starts preparing her funeral clothing in secret. Asirpa reveals that Huci had dreamt of her daughter's imminent death, which did happen, justifying her reaction. This prompts Tanigaki to go find Asirpa to make sure she's safe, and to ease Huci's fears.

* LanguageBarrier: Everything Huci says is entirely in Ainu, and she doesn't speak nor understand any Japanese, meaning all non Ainu characters simply can't understand what she says. Sugimoto once guessed what she meant about how important Asirpa was to her and the village.

* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Hunting is an exclusively male task in Ainu society, and Asirpa is said to be both lacking in skill and utterly uninterested in traditionally feminine tasks such as broidery, making her granddaughter, in her view, virtually unmarriagable to any Ainu man. Huci's solution to this is to immediately ask Sugimoto to marry Asirpa after metting him.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She lost her daughter Riratte to disease, while her granddaughter Asirpa was still an infant. Her fears that Asirpa will perish in the gold hunt anguish her terribly,[[spoiler:but ultimately, Asirpa returns safely to her.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: She wants Asirpa to marry Sugimoto, knowing Asirpa cannot be the wife of any Ainu because of her lack of skill in typically female occupations. [[spoiler:[[MaybeEverAfter Asirpa and Sugimoto's cohabitation in the epilogue might have proven her right.]]]]

* FollowInMyFootsteps: Wilk, a legendary hunter amongst the Ainu, always made sure to take his daughter alongside him in his hunts, teaching her all he knew, even though Ainu women typically stayed at their village doing traditionally femenine tasks such a broidering. [[spoiler:His insistence in developing Asirpa's hunting skills were aimed towards eventually turing her into a revolutionary waging war against the Japanese government for Ainu independence.]]

Asirpa's elderly grandmother. She is a fairly minor character but regularly welcomes Sugimoto and co. in her house. While she was taking care of Tanigaki, she dreamt that Asirpa would be in great danger and nervously asks Tanigaki to go search for her. Her name is Susupo, but she's always referred as Huci, even by other characters not related to her.

* [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Amazingly Embarrassing Grandmother]]: Within a few minutes of meeting Sugimoto, she rapidly informs him that her granddaughter has never had any friends, is terrible at any Ainu traditional female occupations, and asks him to marry Asirpa so that she doesn't have to worry about her future. Asirpa, evidently embarrassed, refuses to translate her grandmother's request and tells Sugimoto that she said people shouldn't eat poop instead.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Huci, [[spoiler:influenced by Inkarmat,]] has a dream which predicts that she would never see Asirpa again, causing her great anguish, to the point that she starts preparing her funeral clothing in secret. Asirpa reveals that Huci had dreamt of her daughter's imminent death, which did happen, justifying her reaction. This prompts Tanigaki to go find Asirpa to make sure she's safe, and to ease Huci's fears.
* FacialMarkings: She bears the biggest tattoo around her lips because her husband was the most important man in her village.
* LanguageBarrier: Whatever Huci says is entirely in Ainu, and all the Japanese simply can't understand her clearly, although Sugimoto did guess what she meant one time about keeping an eye on Asirpa.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizen: She's even shorter than Asirpa.
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Firmly believes this, and is concerned by Asirpa's lack of skill in typically female occupations such as weaving.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She lost her daughter to illness right after her granddaughter was born.
* ShipperOnDeck: She wants Asirpa to marry Sugimoto, knowing Asirpa cannot be the wife of any Ainu because of her lack of skill in typically female occupations.

* ChickMagnet: According to Asirpa, Wilk was popular with woman because of his excellent craftsmanship; a man's craftsmanship traditionally showed Ainu women how good of a provider that man could be to her. [[spoiler: Unknown to her, Wilk was far more popular with women than she ever knew, with a young Inkarmat [[PrecociousCrush having developed feelings for him]] during their time travelling Hokkaido together, and Sofia, a Russian noblewoman, falling in love with him as well during their youth as revolutionaries. Riratte, Asirpa's mother, was just as smitten with him in spite of knowing nothing about his past.]]
* TheFaceless: Although he's spoken of a lot, the manga doesn't properly show his face, as only glimpses of it are shown from time to time. [[spoiler:His face is eventually revealed in chapter 137.]]
* FollowInMyFootsteps: Wilk had been taking his daughter alongside him on hunts to teach her how to hunt although Ainu women typically stay at their village. [[spoiler:The trope takes on a darker meaning when it's revealed that he did that to eventually turn her into a freedom fighter waging war against the Japanese government for the Ainu.]]
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Asirpa has nothing but fond memories of her late father and praises his ability as a hunter. [[spoiler:Subverted with TheReveal that he is still alive as [[GreaterScopeVillain Noppera-bo]] and his confession to Sugimoto that he had been secretly grooming her into becoming a freedom fighter waging war against the Japanese government for the Ainu, using hunting and survival training as a pretext.]]
* GoingNative: Inkarmat claims that Wilk was Christian because of his Polish descent, but that he embraced the Ainu beliefs and customs wholeheartedly.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: He had blue round eyes. He is described and remembered by Asirpa as a loving father, as well as a skilled hunter. [[spoiler:Subverted because he was once a ruthless terrorist in Russia and, after Asirpa was born, had been secretly grooming her into becoming a freedom fighter waging war against the Japanese government for the Ainu, using hunting and survival training as a pretext.]]

* IntergenerationalFriendship: [[spoiler:Had one with a young Inkarmat, travelling Hokkaido together. She's the true source of his almost encyclopedic knowledge of the Ainu language, their traditions and mythology. Their sudden parting, motivated by Inkarmat finding out that Wilk, whom she had feelings for, had no romantinc interest in her, and now had a wife and eventually would have a child, haunted her for years to come.]]

* BrokenPedestal: Asirpa is distraught to learn that [[spoiler:he is really the infamous Noppera-Bou]] and cries out of dissapointment.

* ChickMagnet: According to Asirpa, Wilk was popular with woman because of his excellent craftsmanship; a man's craftsmanship traditionally showed Ainu women how good of a provider that man could be to her. [[spoiler: Unknown to her, Wilk was far more popular with women than she ever knew, with a young Inkarmat [[PrecociousCrush having developed feelings for him]] during their time travelling Hokkaido together, and Sofia, a Russian noblewoman, falling in love with him during their youth as revolutionaries. Riratte, Asirpa's mother, was just as smitten with him in spite of knowing nothing about his past.]]
* TheFaceless: Although he's spoken of a lot, the manga has yet to properly show his face. Only glimpses of it are shown. His full (old) face is then revealed in chapter 137.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Wilk had a pretty large scar on his head earned during his fighting against the Russians. It notably resembles Sugimoto's, and Asirpa is unconsciously fond of Sugimoto's current face for that, even trying to avoid further scars on the latter.
* IHaveManyNames: Wilk is his birth name, meaning "wolf" in Polish. When visiting Kouichi Hasegawa, he took on the name of Grigori to hide his identity as [[spoiler:a BombThrowingAnarchist]]. [[spoiler:When he told his wife about how he got his name, she gave him the secret name, Horkew Oskoni, meaning "to catch up to the wolves" in Ainu. When he was thrown in Abashiri Prison and lost his facial skin to torture, he was given the nickname Noppera-Bou, which is the name of a traditional faceless {{yokai}}]].
%%* IntergenerationalFriendship: Had one with a young Inkarmat.

* GuardianEntity: Ainu believe that a spirit called a ''turenpe'' protects each of them and thank them with offerings.

* AbusiveParents: Zigzagged. While Wilk is shown to be a loving father to his daughter, [[TrainingFromHell his methods for raising her into the huntress she became were extremely harsh for her young age.]], making her hunt bears on her own when no older than 7. While Asirpa succeeded, he put her under extreme danger and stress without properly informing her. [[spoiler: His true goal by this and all the hunting and survivalism knowledge he imparted into her was to raise Asirpa to be the leader of the Ainu revolt against the Japanese government.]]
* BadassNative: Asirpa described him as one of the bravest bear hunters of his people, having one day crawled into a bear den to kill it with one poisoned arrow.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He is described and remembered by [[DaddysGirl Asirpa]] as a loving father, as well as a skilled hunter. [[spoiler:He was once a ruthless terrorist in Russia and, after Asirpa was born, had been secretly grooming her into becoming a freedom fighter waging war against the Japanese government for the Ainu, using hunting and survival training as a pretext.]]
* BrokenPedestal: Asirpa is shaken to learn that [[spoiler:he is really the Noppera-Bou]] and cries.
* ChickMagnet: According to Asirpa, Wilk was popular with the ladies because of his excellent craftsmanship; "Ainu men craft a ''makiri'' (short sword) and give it to the woman they like. She looks at the craftsmanship and decides how good of a provider that man is." In addition, not only it's implied that Inkarmat had a PrecociousCrush on him as a child, but Sophia, a Russian noblewoman, has unrequited feelings for him.

The indigenous people of Hokkaido and Sakhalin. They are a hunter-gatherer culture that practices animism, but the Japanese government discriminates against them and is gradually phasing out their culture and identity, as well as ruining their island with the industrial exploitation of their resources. In response to the discrimination against their people, seven Ainu chiefs gathered gold to finance a revolt, but a man called Noppera-Bou (No-face) killed them all and the gold was lost. Despite this violent episode and the oppression they face, the Ainu are gentle, pacifist people.

* CarryABigStick: A large stick called ''sutu'' is used to punish crimes ranging from thievery to murderers. It's absolutely not to be used lightly.

* ForeignQueasine: Raw brains are a delicacy for them. And so are boiler animal heads, beaks, feet, etc.
* GreenAesop: Be respectful of nature, and thankful of the gifts it provides.

* PoisonIsEvil: Averted, Ainu use poisoned arrows to kill their prey rapidly. Each clan has its own secret concotion, which makes antidotes hard to acquire.

* TribalFacepaint: Ainu women traditionally tattoo their mouths, cheeks and arms to signify that they are of marriageable age. The larger the tattoo, the more important in their society the woman is considered to be. The younger generation of Ainu women take a dim view of tatooing, and many of thgem refuse to partake in it.

Asirpa's late father. He was supposedly killed by Noppera-Bou. It is revealed that Wilk is a foreigner, specifically a Russian: a Sakhalin Ainu and Polish half-blood who fled to Hokkaido, and that he fought for the independence of his adopted people.

* AbusiveParents: Zigzagged. He put Asirpa through TrainingFromHell with the secret intent of [[spoiler:grooming her into becoming a freedom fighter waging war against the Japanese government for the Ainu]]. Judging from what is shown in the series, it involved telling her to hunt a bear alone when she was seven or younger. Despite this, he was an [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest otherwise loving and supporting father]] and it's implied that he did what he did because he trusted her exceptional abilities as a hunter and a survivalist, rather than abusing her for kicks.

The indigenous people of Hokkaido and Sakhalin. They are a hunter-gatherer culture and practice animism, but the Japanese government is oppressing them and is slowly erasing their culture and identity as well as ruining their island with industrial exploitation. Due to the discrimination against them, seven Ainu men gathered gold to finance a revolt, but a man called Noppera-Bou (No-face) killed them and took the treasure. Despite all that, most Ainu are gentle, pacifist people.

* CarryABigStick: A stick called ''sutu'' is used to punish thieves and murderers.
%%* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Ainus are people living in harsh conditions and are more pragmatic than Japanese.
* {{Fingore}}: Sakhalin Ainus punish thieves by chopping a fingertip for each offense and moving down the fingers if need be.
* ForeignQueasine: The raw brain is a delicacy for them.
* GreenAesop: Respect nature.
* GuardianEntity: Ainus believe that a spirit called a ''turenpe'' protects each of them and thank them with offerings.
%%* MountainMan
* NobleSavage: They live off of nature and know to respect her. They are also friendly to Japanese despite being discriminated.
* OnlyOneName: Unlike the Japanese, the Ainu have no surname.
* OralTradition: The Ainu don't have a writing system and pass out their stories orally.
* OurGodsAreDifferent: Everything is a god, and the gods gifted the Ainu with what they have.
* PoisonIsEvil: Averted, Ainu are [[NobleSavage Noble Savages]] and use poisoned arrows to kill their prey rapidly. Each clan has its secret recipe.
* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: Traditionally, Ainu takes divination seriously and believe [[DreamingOfThingsToCome dreams can show them the future]]. These beliefs aren't accepted by more modern Ainu like Asirpa.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Killing someone is taboo, and a man-killing animal is considered to be an evil god, unfit for consumption. However, several Ainu women whose village was overtaken by a group of prison escapee do use lethal force to fight them off.
* TrapMaster: Part of their hunting skill.
* TribalFacepaint: Women traditionally tattoo their mouths and cheeks to signify that they are old enough to be married.
* UnfortunateName: Invoked: to ward off evil spirits, infants will have disgusting-sounding names until they are six years old.
* WorthlessYellowRocks: The Ainu have hoarded gold for generations without actually making use of it. In fact, it's less than worthless since collecting gold pollutes the rivers in which they fish.

Asirpa's elderly grandmother. She is a fairly minor character but regularly welcomes Sugimoto and co. in her house. While she was taking care of Tanigaki, she dreamt that Asirpa would be in great danger and nervously asks Tanigaki to go search for her.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Within a few minutes of meeting Sugimoto, she tells him that Asirpa has never had a friend before, and suggests that he marry her. Fortunately, he can't understand what Huci is saying.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Huci has had a bad dream which predicts that she would never see Asirpa again, causing her great anguish. It prompts Tanigaki to go find Asirpa to make sure she's safe. Asirpa also reveals that Huci has dreamt of her daughter's imminent death, which did happen.

!!!'''Voiced by''': Ayaka Asai (Japanese), Creator/ApphiaYu (English)

* BadassBeard: He had a rather thick beard; which smelled according to Asirpa.

* BadassBeard: He sports a short beard.

* MixedAncestry: He is the son of a Polish man and his Sakhalin Ainu wife.