Sakamoto Days Seems to be Like 2025’s First Shonen Hit

There’ve been loads of shonen anime that’ve hit it off with audiences over the previous few years, like Spy x Family, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Dan Da Dan. 2025 plans to get proper into the swing of issues with Sakamoto Days, which obtained a contemporary new trailer earlier this week.

Primarily based on Yuto Suzuki’s ongoing manga and developed by Studio TMS (Blue Field), the sequence facilities on Taru Sakamoto, a famend hitman who gave up his methods after assembly Aoi, the love of his life. Flash ahead a number of years, and Taru’s placed on some kilos and is now working a comfort retailer with Aoi and their daughter Hana. However you don’t depart the hitman life so simply, and outdated enemies resolve to return gunning for him, assuming that he’ll be straightforward pickings. He gained’t be, each as a result of he’s nonetheless obtained his outdated hitman abilities, however he’s additionally obtained assist in his worker Shin, himself an ex-contract killer who additionally occurs to have powers of clairvoyance. Y’know, regular hitman abilities.

Do you just like the goofy antics in a mean episode of Spy x Household? It appears like Sakamoto Days is hoping to be as foolish and enjoyable as that, since we see Sakamoto stability being each an unimaginable ass-kicker and in addition a superb household man. It’s obtained a few of its personal distinctive vitality, although: he might not be in his prime anymore, however in excessive conditions, his physique reverts to his authentic skinny self, and with twice the facility behind his hits. And the enemies coming his manner are a colourful bunch, from a man with rocket-powered gloves to a nudist archer and the daughter of a Chinese language mob boss.

If all this feels like your jam, then you definately’ll be happy to listen to Sakamoto Days hits Crunchyroll and Netflix on January 11, 2025, with a second arc hitting in July.

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