Sakamoto Days Part 2 Episode 10 Discussion

This entire episode from start to finish has been amazing. Great character writing, comedy, pacing, tension, choreography, story boarding, and just generally how the fight plays out. Normally, I hate long drawn fights that last more than a couple minutes, especially shounen stuff, but this 20 minute fight has been entertaining from start to finish.

Everyone working on this projects finally got into the groove with this fight. It's a shame that the first part was such a disaster in basically every metric, and cuz of that Sakamoto days is getting less than half the viewership it did before now.

Crazy to think we only have 1 episode left to end this 2nd Part of the 1st season.

So, yeah, since the beginning Shin and the others were cooked, since Gaku is in another level. But they did give a good fight, since even Gaku was having fun. Not really sure how Gaku was able to move so well in an enclosed space, but good for him. Also, that technology is incredible, because it only broke right at the end.

We finally got more of Kaji, and that he actually has an incredible hearing, being able to copy the opponents moves just by hearing them (although that idea, if you think about it, is a bit odd). Shin being able to read his mind sure was helpful for him to finally stand up for himself and show a good fight.

In the end, Shin was saved by Mr. Sakamoto. Of course he wouldn't let his disciple die, and although Shin might see this as a defeat, the fact that he was able to stand up for himself so far was really impressive, since this fight was more for Sakamoto level, so he's a bit closer to that level. Overall, it wouldn't make sense for Shin and the others to be able to defeat Gaku, and the teachers couldn't do a thing to him.

The episode was really fast paced, and the animation was quite good actually, more movement than what I was expecting.

Poor guy that Gaku was controlling, his body must be completely broken. Also, this episode really showed that Sakamoto is just in another completely different level.

I'm really curious how the anime will end this first season next week. It's going to be my first finish for the Summer Season.

The soundtrack composed by Yuki Hayashi is on fire, he never disappointed me in delivering what I want to hear when I want to hear. His only challenge is to how to make a good soundtrack without sounding too similar to his magnum opus aka My Hero Academia, and I think he successfully did that in Sakamoto.

I think this episode actually highlight how Gaku can fight with so many compromises, 0.5 second lagging time is already very bad for online game, let alone for assassination, small area, fight while swimming when he's not actually in the water, etc. In short, he's good enough to be the big boss, or at least one of them.

Im gonna be honest I was kinda disappointed with how this turned out, I guess there wasn't much way around it since Kaji was the only one at his full power, Shin, Nao and Mafuyu had all been in prior fights but I really was expecting a 4v1. Like come on your telling me were just gonna magically spawn Mafuyu's blade back that Shin broke only to have him go down immediately.

Like bro what was the point in having him randomly re-gain it as if Shin never snapped it back on the plane. Like dude that's so random. I think for me it would have been more valid for Taro to show up if Gaku actually killed one of them but idk I get the feeling this show is allergic to killing off characters.

Dead serious Shin vs Mafuyu and Shin vs Nao were both far more entertaining then this.

A good episode generally but idk I wanted more from the fight. I will say though seeing Gaku do that side punch move he used back on that one random guy a few episodes back was cool. I guess that's like his signature move

@Phantom_Void737



Multiple examiners died in the last episode, not to mention those who died on the plane.



Shin only snapped one of them, and I'm assuming he had backups.



Considering how Gaku handled the examiners, who should be way stronger than any applicant, it makes sense that Nao Taromaru and Mafuyu Seba were taken out, especially since as you pointed out, they fought each other beforehand.

@KingBaller06 Fair enough to the whole back up thing, I still think its silly since the way the weapon worked it looked like a retractable weapon specifically built into his shoes which idk being able to just replace them so easily kinda feels cheap but at the same time Shin snapped them very easy so I suppose maybe Mafuyu knew their kinda weak and made sure their easy to replace so fair enough to that.

But as for the killing off thing your misunderstanding my point im referring to characters which have some level of importance to the show or are around for multiple episodes. Yeah I get randoms will constantly get killed off but im referring to important characters. So far no important character that I can remember has actually been killed off.

idk I slightly kills the stakes for me especially when Taro can just show up and save the day always. Like this whole segment felt like a way to really boost Shin by having him act more independent and in a sense it did but it still just dialled back on itself and had Taro save him again.

@Phantom_Void737 I can understand what you mean by the important characters (I'm assuming you're saying the examiners themselves aren't important), but if Naro and Joichiro were capable of more than the examiners, that would kill the power scaling of the series because given the context, the examiners should be stronger since they have to test strong assassin candidates on the regular.

I can understand what you mean by Taro showing up to save the day, however this is separate from Shin being independent during the exam itself since under normal circumstances, Gaku wouldn't be participating. Shin showed he can do things for himself when he defeated Naro in the previous episode not to mention getting the bullets himself on the plane.

This entire episode from start to finish has been amazing. Great character writing, comedy, pacing, tension, choreography, story boarding, and just generally how the fight plays out. Normally, I hate long drawn fights that last more than a couple minutes, especially shounen stuff, but this 20 minute fight has been entertaining from start to finish.

Everyone working on this projects finally got into the groove with this fight. It's a shame that the first part was such a disaster in basically every metric, and cuz of that Sakamoto days is getting less than half the viewership it did before now.

The 2nd biggest fight of the season was worse than the Climax of the Invasion of the JAA
This fight had way too many still impact shots with Speedlines and slo mo which kills the kinetic the cimetography of the manga
The Character models in shots just having the smears on their hands like the manga just looks very off and doesn't look good in animation since it's not conveying the intense speed of the manga's flow
Especially when Sakamoto comes into the picture with the final shot
The Staff are trying but I don't see the passion here
Doubting for a possible S2 with the lack of the noise

@SoulReaper85 For the love of god stfu

wowww what an episode. I didn't think Sakamoto absolutely HANDLING Gaku would be in this episode but they really packed alot in here!! Overall impressed at the cuts in here and the general direction (backgrounds lookin better than last ep too!). I'm jus happy that airplane beatdown looked great cuz that's one of my favorite Sakamoto feats lmao. Shoutout KA Tetsuya Ishikawa!! dude carried not only this episode but the entire SHOW basically, his cuts along with Yuki Hayashi's peak ost MADE this whole season for me.

ahhh only one episode left :(
then years of waiting for season 2... I'm assuming it'll get one cuz cour 1 had a LOT of buzz, cour 2 less so but way more than any of TMS' other shows, so I'm not worried about it not coming back or anything like that lol

lookin forward to the finale!

gaku was getting jumped and was still only playing around with all of them. he's really him. gaku imitating the swimming was jokes though. even if shin couldn't finish the job, proud enough of him to adapt and push shinaya so far with the help of kaji. their fight was really creative and the visuals looked solid too. mafuyu keeps becoming more likable and his teamup with toramaru was good. sakmoto stepping in and dogwalking shinaya was heat though, only thing is i wish they did the side-view panel justice, but i guess it'd be hard to do it in quick motion anyway.


solid episode overall.

Im gonna be honest I was kinda disappointed with how this turned out, I guess there wasn't much way around it since Kaji was the only one at his full power, Shin, Nao and Mafuyu had all been in prior fights but I really was expecting a 4v1. Like come on your telling me were just gonna magically spawn Mafuyu's blade back that Shin broke only to have him go down immediately.

Like bro what was the point in having him randomly re-gain it as if Shin never snapped it back on the plane. Like dude that's so random. I think for me it would have been more valid for Taro to show up if Gaku actually killed one of them but idk I get the feeling this show is allergic to killing off characters.

Dead serious Shin vs Mafuyu and Shin vs Nao were both far more entertaining then this.

A good episode generally but idk I wanted more from the fight. I will say though seeing Gaku do that side punch move he used back on that one random guy a few episodes back was cool. I guess that's like his signature move

Im gonna be honest I was kinda disappointed with how this turned out, I guess there wasn't much way around it since Kaji was the only one at his full power, Shin, Nao and Mafuyu had all been in prior fights but I really was expecting a 4v1. Like come on your telling me were just gonna magically spawn Mafuyu's blade back that Shin broke only to have him go down immediately.

Like bro what was the point in having him randomly re-gain it as if Shin never snapped it back on the plane. Like dude that's so random. I think for me it would have been more valid for Taro to show up if Gaku actually killed one of them but idk I get the feeling this show is allergic to killing off characters.

Dead serious Shin vs Mafuyu and Shin vs Nao were both far more entertaining then this.

A good episode generally but idk I wanted more from the fight. I will say though seeing Gaku do that side punch move he used back on that one random guy a few episodes back was cool. I guess that's like his signature move

gaku was getting jumped and was still only playing around with all of them. he's really him. gaku imitating the swimming was jokes though. even if shin couldn't finish the job, proud enough of him to adapt and push shinaya so far with the help of kaji. their fight was really creative and the visuals looked solid too. mafuyu keeps becoming more likable and his teamup with toramaru was good. sakmoto stepping in and dogwalking shinaya was heat though, only thing is i wish they did the side-view panel justice, but i guess it'd be hard to do it in quick motion anyway.


solid episode overall.

Gaku controlling Shinaya was an absolute beast. Even with Kaji teaming up with Shin and picking up on the fact Shinaya is being controlled, as well as getting all of the sounds down, it still wasn’t enough to stop him, and all the while Gaku is being a goofy ass on the other side lol, got a few laughs out of me. But even if it was a failed effort, it was a really good try, fight was super fun to watch, it’s just a shame Toramaru and Mafuyu were counted out early in the 4v1, but this did allow Kajii to shine, I just hope he’s alive after having an actual chunk taken out of him.

But thankfully Sakamoto showed up and absolutely schooled Gaku, and it wasn’t really a contest since Shinaya’s body was already incredibly roughed up from the previous fight, but Sakamoto’s methods of winning were really wild to make up for it, like bro really made a moped out of the wheels of the plane lol. With that tho, Gaku lost control of Shinaya and the battle is done, and we got just one episode left to conclude this exam arc, it doesn’t feel like it’s quite done yet but hopefully the finale is satisfying enough to leave off on, because I have no idea when or if we’re getting another season. Also, damn I wonder if Shinaya is dead or not after Gaku broke his body, hope we get a follow-up on that.

@PokefanPT I don't think Shin was ever reading Gaku's mind, but reading Kaji's mind and then using his information to figure out what to do.