Netflix has announced that it will be streaming the upcoming Sakamoto Days TV anime adaptation weekly worldwide in January 2025. One new episode will be released weekly on the streaming platform.
Masaki Watanabe (Bakumatsu, Battle Spirits: Mirage) is directing the anime series, with Taku Kishimoto (Blue Lock) as series screenwriter and Yo Moriyama (Megalo Box director and co-sub character designer et al.) as character designer. TMS Entertainment is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast includes:
- • Tomokazu Sugita as Taro Sakamoto
- • Nobunaga Shimazaki as Shin Asakura
- • Ayane Sakura as Lu Shaotang
- • Ryota Suzuki as Heisuke Mashimo
- • Nao Toyama as Aoi Sakamoto
- • Hina Kino as Hana Sakamoto
- • Miyari Nemoto as Pisuke
The anime is based on the manga series by Yuto Suzuki, which began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on November 21, 2020. Seventeen tankobon volumes have been released as of June 2024, with an 18th volume set for release on August 2, 2024.
Viz Media releases the Sakamoto Days manga in English for North America, describing the synopsis as:
Time has passed peacefully for Sakamoto since he left the underworld. He’s running a neighborhood store with his lovely wife and child and has gotten a bit…out of shape. But one day a figure from his past pays him a visit with an offer he can’t refuse: return to the assassin world or die!
Source: Netflix Tudum Blog
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