Netflix has officially announced that the anime adaptation of Sakamoto Days will premiere worldwide in January 2025. What’s more, the Shonen Jump darling will be released on a weekly schedule instead of all at once.
Sakamoto Days, created by Yuto Suzuki, is a comedic action series. It follows the legendary assassin Taro Sakamoto, who is thrust back into the criminal underworld after retiring from the trade, letting himself go physically, and settling down into a comfy life as a store clerk with his wife and kid. Think John Wick by way of Spy x Family and comedic gags on par with the late Akira Toriyama’s works. In order to safeguard his new life, Sakamoto must combat a flurry of assassin attacks from his former co-workers with the help of his newfound family of underground defectors.
SAKAMOTO DAYS follows legendary ex-hitman Taro Sakamoto as he bands with comrades to face off against the looming thread of assassins to ensure a peaceful life with his beloved family. Coming to Netflix. pic.twitter.com/L7I15WaJCY
— Netflix Anime (@NetflixAnime) July 31, 2024
TMS Entertainment, the studio behind the hit anime series Baki, Dr. Stone, and Megalo Box, is handling Sakamoto Days’ anime adaptation. Masaki Watanabe (Bartender) will direct the series, Taku Kishimoto (Blue Lock) will script it, and Yo Moriyama (Lupin the Third: Goemon's Blood Spray) will design the characters.
While Netflix has yet to announce the English voice cast for the series, the official website for the anime has revealed Sakamoto Days Japanese voice cast. Here’s the Japanese voice actor cast and where you might’ve heard them before:
- Tomokazu Sugita (Gintoki Sakata in Gintama) as Taro Sakamoto
- Nobunaga Shimazaki (Baki Hanma in Baki) as Shin Asakura
- Ayane Sakura (Uraraka Ochako in My Hero Academia) as Lu Shaotang
- Nao Tōyama (Giselle in Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War) as Aoi Sakamoto
- Hina Kino (Miri Unasaka in Buddy Daddies) as Hana Sakamoto
- Ryōta Suzuki (Keisuke Wanima in Blue Lock) as Heisuke Mashimo
- Miyari Nemoto (mico Vorgeil in Undead Unluck) as Piisuke
Netflix repeats its lesson from Delicious in Dungeon
While anime fans have known about the anime adaptation of Sakamoto Days dating back to May 2024, they’ve also been waiting on bated breath for confirmation about how the series will be released on the streamer. While much of Netflix’s shows are released on a binge model where shows are released in huge batches to be consumed in a single sitting, Netflix’s modus operandi is a touchy subject for anime fans — especially when it comes to hotly-anticipated anime series exclusively streaming on the platform.
Famously, Netflix’s exclusive release of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, the latest entry in the long-running anime series, led to an online outcry from fans, in large part due to the series’ lack of promotion and quiet release of the latter chunks of the anime. The aftermath of Stone Ocean’s conclusion led to fans voicing their hope that other anime wouldn’t suffer a similar fate of having the hype of weekly conversations other shows garnered on competing streaming platforms upended by being exclusive to Netflix. Fortunately, the streamer appears to have taken this lesson in stride by having Sakamoto Days’ release follow in the footsteps of Delicious in Dungeon’s weekly release schedule.
Isaiah Colbert is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow them on Twitter @ShinEyeZehUhh.
source https://www.ign.com/articles/sakamoto-days-anime-finally-gets-netflix-premiere-window-and-itll-take-a-cue-from-delicious-in-dungeon-for-its-release-schedule