Sakamoto Days Looks Like 2025’s First Shonen Hit

There’ve been plentifulness of shonen anime that’ve deed it disconnected with audiences implicit the past fewer years, similar Spy x Family, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Dan Da Dan. 2025 plans to get close into the plaything of things with Sakamoto Days, which got a caller fresh trailer earlier this week.

Based connected Yuto Suzuki’s ongoing manga and developed by Studio TMS (Blue Box), the bid centers connected Taru Sakamoto, a renowned hitman who gave up his ways aft gathering Aoi, the emotion of his life. Flash guardant respective years, and Taru’s enactment connected immoderate pounds and is present moving a convenience store with Aoi and their girl Hana. But you don’t permission the hitman beingness truthful easily, and aged enemies determine to travel gunning for him, assuming that he’ll beryllium casual pickings. He won’t be, some due to the fact that he’s inactive got his aged hitman skills, but he’s besides got assistance successful his worker Shin, himself an ex-contract slayer who besides happens to person powers of clairvoyance. Y’know, mean hitman skills.

Do you similar the goofy antics successful an mean occurrence of Spy x Family? It feels similar Sakamoto Days is hoping to beryllium arsenic silly and amusive arsenic that, since we spot Sakamoto equilibrium being some an unthinkable ass-kicker and besides a bully household man. It’s got immoderate of its ain unsocial energy, though: helium whitethorn not beryllium successful his premier anymore, but successful utmost situations, his assemblage reverts to his archetypal skinny self, and with doubly the powerfulness down his hits. And the enemies coming his mode are a colorful bunch, from a feline with rocket-powered gloves to a nudist archer and the girl of a Chinese mob boss.

If each this sounds similar your jam, then you’ll beryllium pleased to hear Sakamoto Days hits Crunchyroll and Netflix connected January 11, 2025, with a 2nd arc hitting successful July.

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