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Sakamoto Days celebrates 50,000 Twitter followers with the release of a new visual

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A new “OTHER” visual has been released for the upcoming Sakamoto Days TV anime adaptation, to celebrate the anime's official Twitter account reaching over 50,000 followers last week. The anime will premiere in Japan in January 2025 and will stream weekly on Netflix worldwide.

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© Yuto Suzuki/​SHUEISHA, SAKAMOTO DAYS PROJECT

The anime's Twitter account is also holding a giveaway for 30 lucky winners who will receive a t-shirt with the newly released image. Participants must follow the account and repost the post, and have until August 31, 2024 at 00:00 JST to do so.

Masaki Watanabe (Bakumatsu, Fighting Spirits: Mirage) is directing the anime, with Taku Kishimoto (Blue Castle) as a series screenwriter and Yo Moriyama (MegaloBox Director and Co-Sub Character Designer et al.) as character designers. TMS Entertainment is responsible for the production of the animation.

Meanwhile, the main voice actors of the anime include:

  • • 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 Cinema as Hana Sakamoto
  • • Miyari Nemoto as Pisuke

The anime is based on the manga series by Suzuki bosswhich began publication in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on November 21, 2020. As of August 2024, 18 tankobon volumes have been published.

Sakamoto Days, Anime, Key Image, NetflixSakamoto Days, Anime, Key Image, Netflix
© Yuto Suzuki/​SHUEISHA, SAKAMOTO DAYS PROJECT

Viz Media publishes the Sakamoto Days Manga in English for North America, with the main summary described as follows:

Since leaving the underworld, Sakamoto has lived peacefully. He runs a local shop with his lovely wife and child and is a little… out of shape. But one day, a figure from his past pays him a visit and makes him an offer he can't refuse: return to the world of assassins or die!


source: Sakamoto Days – Official Anime Twitter

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