Sakamoto Days Part 2

SAKAMOTO DAYS 第２クール

7.9(121,521)

MAL Score

Ranked #904

Popularity #1084

Action
Comedy
Adult Cast
Organized Crime

Episodes: 11
Duration: 25 min per ep
Aired: Jul 15, 2025 to Sep 23, 2025
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Former hitman Tarou Sakamoto has already survived wave after wave of assassins ever since a massive bounty was placed on his head, yet peace with his beloved family still feels out of reach. A shadowy and notorious figure called Slur raises the stakes by bringing a band of deranged death row inmates to Japan—killers who will stop at nothing to hunt down their assigned targets.

Sakamoto isn’t the only one in the crosshairs: the list includes others as well, among them Sakamoto’s convenience store staff, Shin Asakura and Lu Shaotang. With chaos spreading and the Order—Japan’s most elite assassins—entering the fray, Sakamoto and his allies are forced to stay on constant alert to protect what matters most.

Otaku Consensus

Sakamoto Days Part 2 lands best when Masaki Watanabe’s direction lets TMS Entertainment turn assassin encounters into readable, high-impact set pieces; early reactions repeatedly singled out the Order’s showcase as the cour’s most convincing escalation. The 11-episode run is viewed as a stronger action adaptation than a pure gag vehicle, with the main criticism being that the comedy and character chemistry can feel uneven next to the fight animation, while Netflix’s handling was cited as dulling some episode momentum.

Why You Should Watch

If you want John Wick-style assassin geometry without prestige-drama gloom, Part 2 is the Sakamoto Days cour that leans hardest into combat as slapstick engineering. It scratches the same itch as Spy x Family’s domestic-crime absurdity and Gintama’s deadpan escalation, but with Shounen Jump shootouts, criminal organizations, and a convenience-store found family anchoring the chaos. The appeal is not mystery; it is watching an adult cast treat professional murder like an overcomplicated workplace problem, then watching TMS Entertainment turn each encounter into a clean, physical gag machine. Viewers who bounced off the first part’s softer comedy may still find more bite here, because the Order material gives the season a sharper power ceiling and the 11-episode run keeps the pressure compact.

Key Characters

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Tarou Sakamoto
Sakamoto works as an anti-John Wick joke with real weight: a legendary adult professional whose domestic priorities make every burst of violence feel both absurd and personal.
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Shin Asakura
Shin is the series’ most useful emotional barometer, bridging convenience-store normalcy and assassin-world pressure without draining the comedy out of either side.
L
Lu Shaotang
Lu gives the found-family angle a sharper edge, adding texture to a cast otherwise defined by gangs, guns, and professional killers.
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Slur
Slur stands out as an organizing menace, the kind of villain whose presence makes the criminal factions feel less random and more structurally dangerous.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
TMS Entertainment’s animation is the cour’s most discussed upgrade, with viewer reactions specifically praising the fights as fluid, impactful, and creatively staged rather than merely fast.
2
The Order material became an early reception flashpoint; a preliminary MyAnimeList review highlighted their arrival as the moment Part 2 starts with a bang and clarifies the top tier of the assassin world.
3
The season’s 11-episode structure, aired from July 15 to September 23, 2025, gives Part 2 a tighter action-cour rhythm than a standard 12- or 13-episode block.
4
Its genre mix is unusually specific for a shounen action comedy: AniList’s high-confidence tags include Crime, Assassins, Criminal Organization, Urban, Gangs, Guns, Konbini, Found Family, and Primarily Adult Cast.
5
Taku Kishimoto handles series composition, which matters for this cour because the adaptation has to balance gag timing, faction escalation, and action continuity inside a shorter-than-usual episode count.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The anime adapts Yuuto Suzuki’s manga, with Masaki Watanabe directing and Akihiro Saitou credited as assistant director for Part 2.
Fun fact 2: The visual pipeline credits are unusually easy to map: You Moriyama handled character design, Yukiko Maruyama served as art director, Manami Sasa handled color design, Bolun Cai directed photography, and Aya Hida edited the series.
Fun fact 3: Jin Aketagawa is credited as sound director, a key role for a cour built around gunfire, impact comedy, and rapid shifts between deadpan dialogue and combat noise.
Fun fact 4: Reception was strong but not runaway: the season held a MyAnimeList score of 7.91 from 121,521 votes, with a rank of #904 and popularity placement of #1084.
Fun fact 5: AniList tracked the show at 79/100 with 1,752 favourites, closely matching the MyAnimeList consensus that Part 2 is well-liked primarily for action execution rather than universally praised for comedy.