Dec 29, 2024
Sakamoto Days starts off as such a great series but sadly it falls back on the crutch of shonen trope after shonen trope until there’s almost nothing truly unique holding it up anymore.
The basic premise of a retired assassin who still has sharp skills living an everyday life is great and 30 years ago could have sustained the manga for years. In todays manga world though, the fear of serialization being suspended and fickle taste of manga readers is probably too big a threat for straight forward series like that to be sustainable. So the plot gets more complex, organizations are created and fleshed
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out, good and bad, schools and tournaments are introduced and we’re no longer reading about a funny retired assassin anymore. That’s all been replaced by a grand plot to overthrough a corrupt organization of assassins by a half assed group of conniving villains who make baffling decision after baffling decision. Sadly this series falls from grace hard but I will fondly remember the first 20 chapters or so when it got to be something funny and heartfelt for a time. (And while the art and choreography do maintain an impressive level of quality those aren’t enough to make the series worth reading to me.)
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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