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The second season of Golden Kamuy reveals once and for all what the first season already hinted at: a fetish embedded in the narrative that borders on the unspeakable - and that, in this second arc, materializes in a more graphic, more uncomfortable, more blatant way. There are scenes that are not just uncomfortable; they are crossed by a grotesque lust, involving child characters in situations of absolutely unjustifiable sexual innuendo. And if, as it seems, all of this is anchored in the original manga, then we have a problem of origin, not adaptation.

Technically, the drama is not bad. The setting, the detailing of Ainu culture, and the historical construction do try to compensate for the questionable taste of certain passages. But the feeling that remains is one of a gross imbalance between the adventurous tone and a scatological humor that descends into the abject. Seeing children making jokes about genitals or reacting to adult erections with naturalness - and worse: with comedy - is not just in bad taste, it is a serious moral flaw in the material. And there is no Kento Yamazaki to sustain interest in something that often seems more interested in shocking than in telling a story. It is difficult to move forward with a series that, honestly, sometimes seems to be made by and for people who have completely lost their sense.