What is the Sakamoto Days anime?

The Sakamoto Days anime is produced by TMS Entertainment, one of Japan's longest established animation studios, directed by Masaki Watanabe, and it premiered in January 2025 on TV Tokyo with global streaming on Netflix. It adapts the manga's opening movement: Sakamoto's retirement and store life, Shin's arrival, the first waves of assassins sent against the bounty, and the widening of the cast toward the series' organised underworld.

The release was structured in two cours, the industry term for a broadcast season block: the first cour in winter 2025 and the second from July 2025, continuing the adaptation deeper into the manga's arcs. Split cours have become the standard pattern for Jump adaptations of this scale, letting the production protect its action quality across a longer episode count than a single continuous run would allow.

Reception focused, predictably, on the fights. The manga's reputation rests on choreography that reads clearly on the page, and discussion of the adaptation has centred on how its animation handles that clarity, with the store set pieces and the amusement park and museum battles as the test cases fans compare shot by shot against Suzuki's panels. That comparison culture is itself a sign of the adaptation's role: it sends viewers back to the manga as the reference text.

On physical media, Japanese Blu-ray and DVD releases follow the cour structure in boxed volumes, and the anime's arrival measurably widened the market for the manga's paper objects, including the Jump issues this Library tracks. Viewers collecting the adaptation should confirm which cour a disc release covers, since packaging across the two halves is designed to sit together and is easily mismatched in listings.