Sakamoto Days anime revealed a new visual featuring the titular character to celebrate 50,000 followers on the official X/Twitter account. TMS Entertainment is animating the adaptation, slated to premiere in January 2025. It will stream on Netflix.
Masaki Watanabe is directing the anime, with Taku Kishimoto on the series composition. Yo Moriyama is in charge of the character designs and Yuto Suzuki is doing the screenplay. The previously announced cast includes:
- Tomokazu Sugita as Taro Sakamoto
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Shin Asakura
- Ayane Sakura as Lu Xiaotang
- Hina Kino as Hana Sakamoto
- Ryota Suzuki as Heisuke Mashimo
- Miyari Nemoto as Piisuke
- Nao Toyama as Aoi Sakamoto
The anime will adapt Yuto Suzuki’s Sakamoto Days (stylized as SAKAMOTO DAYS) manga, which has been serialized since 2020 in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. VIZ Media licensed the Sakamoto Days manga in English and the series is also available on Shueisha’s Manga PLUS platform. The plot is described as:
Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hitman considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He’s now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?!
Source: Official Twitter/X
© Yuto Suzuki, SHUEISHA / SAKAMOTO DAYS Production Committee
