Sakamoto Days: The Legend Who Traded Hits for a Cash Register
At a Glance
- Creator: Yuto Suzuki
- Manga: Weekly Shonen Jump, serialized since November 2020, 25+ collected volumes
- Anime: TMS Entertainment, streaming exclusively on Netflix
- Status: Ongoing — past chapter 260 and into the story's final arc
- Season 2: Slated for January 2027
From Legendary Hitman to Convenience Store Clerk
Taro Sakamoto used to be the best hitman alive — the kind of reputation that made other assassins nervous just hearing his name. Then he walked into a convenience store one afternoon, met the clerk behind the counter, and that was the end of his career.
Her name was Aoi. He fell for her on the spot, quit killing for good, and married her. They had a daughter, Hana, and eventually took over running that same store together.
Somewhere in the years since, Sakamoto also put on a lot of weight. It hasn't slowed him down when it counts.
The Rule That Keeps Him Behind the Counter
That contrast is the joke Yuto Suzuki built an entire Weekly Shonen Jump hit around, and it still hasn't worn thin. The bounty on Sakamoto's head never went away, so every so often some hopeful young hitman wanders into the shop looking to collect.
Sakamoto deals with them using whatever's within reach — a barcode scanner, a broom, whatever's sitting on the shelf — all while sticking to the one condition Aoi set when they got married: go back to killing, and the marriage is over.
The manga has been running since November 2020. It's now well past 260 chapters and deep into the arc Suzuki has openly billed as the story's endgame, though nobody's said how long it'll take to play out.
Sakamoto Days Characters to Know
Shin Asakura, Sakamoto's former protégé, can read minds after a childhood accident at a research lab left him with an ability nobody planned for. These days he mostly uses it to eavesdrop on customers and translate for a boss who talks in maybe four words a scene.
Nagumo, Shishiba, and Osaragi — three operatives from the shadowy task force called Order — keep circling back into the family's orbit, dragging Sakamoto's old world closer whether he wants it there or not. Xiaotang Lu, a mafia heir who'd rather throw punches than run a syndicate, more or less moved in and never left.
Heisuke Mashimo, a onetime Order recruit who switches sides early on, and Uzuki, one of the story's more sympathetic antagonists, are two more names that come up constantly once readers get further in. It's a big cast for a series set mostly behind a cash register, and somehow almost all of them earn their panel time.
Watching Sakamoto Days
TMS Entertainment adapted the manga into an anime that airs exclusively on Netflix — it isn't on Crunchyroll, which trips up a fair number of first-time searchers. Season 1 ran 22 episodes across two parts in 2025, pulled in over a hundred million hours watched worldwide, and got a second season greenlit that December at Jump Festa, currently slated for a January 2027 premiere.
The English dub is better cast than most: Matthew Mercer voices Taro Sakamoto opposite Tomokazu Sugita in the original Japanese, and Dallas Liu plays Shin Asakura alongside Nobunaga Shimazaki. For a show that leans so heavily on deadpan comic timing, getting the dub cast right mattered more than usual, and it shows.
Reading Sakamoto Days
The manga updates weekly, and Shueisha makes it simple to keep up through official channels:
- Shonen Jump app — new chapters the same day they go up in Japan
- MANGA Plus — free, official, in English
- Viz's website — the publisher's own reader
Twenty-five volumes deep, it's still one of the rare action series you can hand to someone who swears they don't read manga — and have them show up the following Monday asking what happened next.
Quick Questions
Is Sakamoto Days finished?
No. It's ongoing, currently past chapter 260 and into the arc Suzuki has described as the story's endgame — with no announced end date yet.
Is Sakamoto Days on Crunchyroll?
No. The anime streams exclusively on Netflix; it isn't available on Crunchyroll, Hulu, or Prime Video.
How many episodes does Sakamoto Days have?
Season 1 ran 22 episodes across two parts in 2025. Season 2 is in production, aiming for a January 2027 premiere.
Who created Sakamoto Days?
Manga artist Yuto Suzuki, who has written and drawn the series for Weekly Shonen Jump since November 2020.
When does Sakamoto Days Season 2 come out?
Netflix has slated it for January 2027, following its announcement at Jump Festa in December 2025.