Manga 'Sakamoto Days' Gets TV Anime in Winter 2025

by DatRandomDude
May 27, 6:22 AM | 29 Comments

Shueisha's first Jump Press video announced a television anime adaptation of Yuuto Suzuki's Sakamoto Days manga on Monday. An official website also opened and revealed the main cast, staff, teaser visual (pictured), and a teaser promotional video. The anime is scheduled to premiere in January 2025.

Tomokazu Sugita (Gintama, JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken (TV)) is starring as Tarou Sakamoto.

Staff
Director: Masaki Watanabe (Seikaisuru Kado, Bartender)
Series Composition: Taku Kishimoto (Blue Lock, Ousama Ranking)
Character Design: You Moriyama (Megalo Box director, Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen Daisuke no Bohyou character design assistance)
Studio: TMS Entertainment

Suzuki began drawing the action comedy manga as a one-shot, titled Sakamoto, in Jump GIGA in December 2019. The manga began regular serialization in Weekly Shounen Jump magazine in November 2020. Shueisha shipped the 16th volume on April 4, and the 17th volume is scheduled to be released on June 4. Sakamoto Days has a cumulative 4.3 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

VIZ Media licensed the manga for release in English in July 2021. The 11th volume went on sale on April 2, and the 12th volume is scheduled to be released on June 4. Shueisha's Manga Plus website and app is also releasing the manga in English.

Synopsis
Tarou Sakamoto was considered the greatest hitman of all time. Feared by many, he stood at the top of the underground world until he met and fell in love with a woman. As a result, Sakamoto abandoned his life of crime and now works as a convenience store clerk.

Leaving his shady past behind proves more difficult than Sakamoto initially imagined. Many of his former rivals and partners do not believe that he has truly left the business and show up in hopes of taking him out. Barred from killing, Sakamoto must find creative ways to subdue his enemies and prevent them from bringing harm to his family, his store, and the small town he resides in. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Teaser PV

Official manga: https://sakamotodays.jp/
Official X (Twitter): @SAKAMOTODAYS_PR

Source: Comic Natalie

Sakamoto Days on MAL

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Sakamoto Days is one of the best manga in Jump right now, hopefully the anime can do it justice.

May 29, 4:30 PM by malvarez1

damn mid production quality as expected of tms

May 28, 10:01 AM by deg

Seeing Lu in this trailer makes me pissed lowkey... she barely exist in the later plots. Sugita as Sakomoto got me seated though.

May 28, 7:50 AM by CQLLIST

Seriously, I've been waiting for more than 2 years. I was hoping for a traditional coloutful big announcement on the cover Weekly Jump where millions would see it. What do I get instead? The coolest mainstream manga of today's Jump gets a quiet, modest anime announcement in Twitter, to be noticed by a few hundred fans.

What kind of attitude is this? Do you mean that Sakamoto Days is worse than The Elusive Samurai and Blue Box?

May 28, 12:42 AM by Barberzone

@Kampos if theres only ONE in a sea of dudes, i'll skip lol

May 27, 9:32 PM by EcchiGodMamster

@EcchiGodMamster there is, Kumanomi, but she won't be in the first season

May 27, 6:52 PM by Kampos

this is going to be so good I feel it in my bones

May 27, 4:30 PM by AwNoodles

i knew it would be next when they dropped kaiju no 8 i was like sakamoto days next

May 27, 2:32 PM by ONEPANDATWOPANDA

@ChrisTries

if they give me some sexy women goons then i can

May 27, 1:55 PM by EcchiGodMamster

Anime producers are back to the practice of issuing adaptations based on top manga sites, lol? It’s even interesting which titles will receive adaptations next, especially considering that now we consistently get 3-4 yuri and a couple of BLs a year.

May 27, 12:43 PM by RobertBobert

Sugita Tomokazu? Nice!

May 27, 12:31 PM by Tamasul

Only a few more months of patience 🙏🏻

May 27, 12:19 PM by FMmatron

Finally,about time!!!

May 27, 11:33 AM by OrcGoblin

Yubisoft said:
We did it ladies and gentlemen . We found the only person on the internet that thinks that Lidenfilms is a bad studio .....

Jesus, what a laughable attempt to try to look witty. First you copy pasted an elementary school phrase, and then wrote something about "only person" on the internet. What Chinese internet you're using where you've never seen someone thinking the studio you've named is actually "bad"?

May 27, 10:35 AM by Softhenic03

@Softhenic03 We did it ladies and gentlemen . We found the only person on the internet that thinks that Lidenfilms is a bad studio .....

May 27, 9:24 AM by Yubisoft

The manga became boring extremely fast .... Let's see if the anime version makes me interested again

May 27, 9:22 AM by Yubisoft

Finally! It was inevitable.

May 27, 8:24 AM by Memore

Manga's solid so hopefully this anime can turn out to be a fun watch and solid adaptation. Not too sure about the staff but I'll wait till I see a lot more to have certain levels of expectations.

May 27, 8:23 AM by animejas

get back to the gooncave

May 27, 7:59 AM by ChrisTries

@Softhenic03 LIDENFILMS is a good studio. Look at their recent track record they have improved a lot.

May 27, 7:47 AM by ZXEAN

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