Asirpa is the deuteragonist of Golden Kamuy and a skilled young Ainu huntress. She and Sugimoto team up to search for hidden gold after she saves his life and he fills her in on the treasure's existence.
On the surface, Asirpa comes across as distant and guarded, but that shell cracks pretty quickly once she bonds with someone. Around friends and family, she's genuinely playful and cheerful—she loves cooking, gets excited about hunting, and loves messing with Sugimoto and Shiraishi whenever she gets the chance.
Her background as a hunter shapes how she sees the world. She's pragmatic about survival, understanding that weakness in nature equals death, and she doesn't shy away from the harsh realities of hunting. When it comes to serious matters like planning their gold hunt, she's all business. That said, she has real principles—she won't kill people, no matter how desperate things get.
Asirpa identifies as a modern Ainu woman and sometimes brushes off traditional customs like mouth tattoos or fortune-telling. But beneath that modern outlook is a fierce commitment to protecting her people and keeping Ainu culture alive. After her experiences in Karafuto and everything she learned there, she's become determined to find the gold specifically to ensure the Ainu and their way of life aren't erased from history.
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