The first season of the Golden Kamuy anime television series is based on Satoru Noda's manga series of the same name and adapts from the 1st volume to the 7th (chapters 1–62).

The anime was announced in July 2017 in Weekly Young Jump.

[3] The series aired from April 9 to June 25, 2018, on Tokyo MX, ytv, STV, and BS11, and ran for 12 episodes.

[4][5] The series' opening theme is "Winding Road" performed by Man with a Mission while the ending theme is "Hibana" performed by The Sixth Lie.

[6][7] The series was also released across three DVD and Blu-ray volumes in Japan, starting in July 2018; they had originally been planned to release starting in June, but were delayed one month to allow for improvements to the footage compared to the TV broadcast version.