Sakamoto Days

The name Tarou Sakamoto once instilled fear in every villain. No other professional hitman matched his prowess, and fellow assassins revered him. However, Sakamoto fell in love. In five short years, he married, became a father, put on some weight, and traded his weapons for an apron as he became the owner of a humble convenience store.

Although Sakamoto is decidedly retired, he finds his old life of crime hard to shake off. His former partner, Shin Asakura, reappears and resolves to stay with Sakamoto's family under their strict no-kill rule. To make matters worse, a large bounty is placed on Sakamoto's head. Numerous assassins now pursue him—but they are in for a surprise. Sakamoto has not lost his edge, and no matter what tricks his enemies pull, he will fight off every last one to protect his dear family.

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Sakamoto, Tarou Main

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Asakura, Shin Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Nagumo, Yoichi Supporting

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Osaragi Supporting

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Takamura Supporting

Ootsuka, Houchuu Japanese

Mashimo, Heisuke Supporting

Suzuki, Ryouta Japanese

Lu, Shaotang Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Shishiba Supporting

Yashiro, Taku Japanese

Uzuki, Kei Supporting

Namikawa, Daisuke Japanese

Seba, Natsuki Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Watanabe, Masaki Director

Aketagawa, Jin Sound Director

Vaundy Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Performance, Theme Song Composition

Conton Candy Theme Song Performance

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Mar 31, 2025

bigbodybenz

Recommended

Recently watched this on Animyne and I can't believe I waited this long to dive into Sakamoto Days. This series is an absolute gem that deserves to be on everyone's watchlist - delivering a perfect balance of hilarious comedy and jaw-dropping action sequences. What makes Sakamoto Days truly special is its supporting cast. Shin's mind-reading abilities and anxious personality play perfectly against Sakamoto's calm demeanor, while Lu's assassin skills and devotion to Sakamoto create a found family dynamic that's genuinely touching. Each character feels fully realized rather than just existing to support the protagonist. If you haven't already give this anime a try.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 23, 2025

olokinprime

Mixed Feelings

The anime adaptation of SAKAMOTO DAYS has several things going for it to follow in the footsteps of it shonen manga predecessors.

It is a solid manga staple. There will always be room in the seasonal broadcast lineup for anime based on shonen manga. This title has all the tropes needed to succeed. Reluctant hero, cool fights, mysterious characters, and more cool fights. Its main hero evokes the best modern action character in John Wick, as a plump convenience store clerk. It even has an upcoming school and training arcs if the manga is to be heeded.

The production staff follows the manga pretty closely, even if ... it had to cut a story or two to fit an international audience. It understands that long term success lies in not alienating the manga fans from their image of their favorite convenience store clerk assassin.

There is also that John Wick factor, which has become a favorite among modern action movie enthusiasts. The plump convenient store clerk/retired assassin has that John Wick charisma down pat.

However, these strengths have become the weakness of this anime.

It follows the manga too slavishly; at times I think it just uses the manga as a storyboard and just animates it straight. The production staff seem to confuse that manga and anime are different media, and there are techniques that can be utilized in anime to put a signature mark on their adaptation.

I can't say that animation is bad or mid because it isn't. However, it does lack that certain pop or charisma to bring out the best of the story in animation. There is nothing more pitiful than an anime that did not utilize the techniques and resources at its disposal to bring out the best of a story. It is such a waste of blood, sweat, and tears.

At this point, I can recommend this to the manga readers who want a refresher of past arcs while moving forward with the current manga arc. John Wick fans could get a kick out of it. However, I am unsure if it has what it takes to join its shonen manga predecessors at the head of the table.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 26, 2025

Ba-Cii10

Not Recommended

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🔵Winter 2025.
It was supposed to be another "hit" but something didn't work out, practically everything failed, the story is boring and bland, it's just an excuse for action that fails due to average animation.
How this anime went without much attention is so pathetic that it's sad, but oh well... maybe it's a good thing, the second anime this season that would be overrated because of spectacular action scenes, it's already too much.....




The plot... the killer retires and starts a family but one day his past reveals itself and he will have to face a horde of paid killers trying to kill him... that's it.

Only the ... second part of the plot description is important, this series ignores half of its assumptions and focuses exclusively/mainly on action with supernatural elements and (not as much as you might expect) a comedy tone in a typical shounen formula that you've seen a million times in other series of this type.

Unfortunately, the action in this anime is just average in itself and the lack of a good story, characters and not using its own assumptions does not help it, and it could if more effort was put into writing this series.

This anime tells the story of a hitman who gave up his profession for his family, it is the central part of the story, but this anime ignores it, does not develop it and gives the impression that it could just as well be the story of an assassin who still actively works in his profession, has no family and spends his free time with friends from work.
This series is often compared to John Wick, but the assumptions of that film were even simpler than in this anime, so simple that the viewer did not feel that the rest of the story was omitted in favor of the action itself and it worked, the assumptions of Sakamoto Days are more developed after all, but for some reason this series forgets about it.

Family... It is the main motivation of the MC and it is bland, yes the wife and daughter of the MC are cute but they are also an irrelevant background, this anime does not build real family relationships, it wastes the chance to say something real, simple common truths about ordinary simple life, family, relationship or parenting in contrast to a life of crime, even though it has the opportunity to do so and the plot assumptions scream that it should look like this. The simplest fairy tales for children are able to convey some lesson and this anime has nothing even though family is one of the main elements of this series. Still focusing mainly on the action these things could be presented but this anime, in breaks from the action, decides to spend time on naive lessons like "do not kill under any circumstances" or "building relationships" with the MC's new friends who are also killers, they are also one of the most forced groups of friends I've seen in a battle shounen, strong bonds are built within a single episode which makes them come off unconvincing, this anime simply pretends that the characters have gone some way to becoming friends and does so only so that it can jump straight to the action.

Another thing that writes itself is the theme of the main character's transformation, but this anime again doesn't use it and makes Sakamoto simply boring and unbelievable, his path is I am a killer --> my wife asks me not to kill --> I don't kill and that's it (although this "not killing" is also presented here strangely and I don't know if it's the fault of the adaptation or the source material) seriously... that's all.
Despite being a legendary killer, Sakamoto doesn't stand out with anything except his strength and only serves as an empty action figure, although there is room in the plot for the theme of "killing for the greater good" generally even the simplest consideration of the reasonableness of the MC's rule about not killing would be a plus, but this anime decides to go the simplest route and not give the MC any real challenges apart from another characteristic but nevertheless boring opponent whom he defeats and returns to the starting point, and this opponent of course converts after being defeated by the MC and never returns to take revenge xD

As for "not killing", well... at some point the characters break the neck of the opponent but since the anime does not comment on it at any point it means that it is probably a shortcoming showing how much the creators do not care about their own assumptions xD

Someone may also say that it is just a loose comedy action so you can't expect anything more serious from it but despite being like that, it is also quite brutal at the same time, we see a lot of blood, images of quartered people and generally the mystery behind the killers' garbage seems to be something darker and more serious, combined with the fact that this anime is most of the time at the level of a children's fairy tale in terms of tone and complexity, it simply seems inconsistent but these more serious things that still exist in this series also give the impression that this series could have allowed itself to do more but did not and it works to its disadvantage.

It's time for action and well... the animation is simply average.
You can simply see that the movement of the characters is often slow, often even this movement is not really there, for example when the MC delivers a powerful punch.

We will not find in this anime really good and spectacular action sequences straight from jjk or praised in the context of choreography (at least in the first episodes) Ninja Kamui, it is simply not enough for a series that has nothing but these action scenes, that is why this anime is such a failure and everyone from fans of the original to new viewers are disappointed.

As for writing the action... there are a lot of stupid things like "not hitting the protagonists who just run forward and do not even try to avoid bullets"
or much more serious things like the world in which this action takes place.
This anime does not bother with logic and credibility, the strangest, most destructive things can happen in the middle of the city but the world will not react to it anyway, seeing that this anime does not go into total absurdity after all, such a lack of a functioning world is irritating.

I could also list the advantages of this anime but they are not important enough to change anything in particular so well....

Rating:⭐⭐⭐❌❌❌❌❌❌❌

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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