The series was also nominated for Best General Manga at the 40th annual Kodansha Manga Awards and for the 20th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize last year.
The combined third and fourth 2018 issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump magazine revealed on Thursday that Satoru Noda’s Golden Kamuy manga has 3.75 million copies in print.
Noda received a Manga Taisho award for the manga in March 2016.
When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it.