Sakamoto Days Episode 5 Review: Weightshifter & Serial Killers
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Seriously?! Sakamoto burns so many calories in a few seconds that he turns into his former fit and hot self at the end of Sakamoto Days Episode 4. While I thought maybe it was just Mr. Boiled imagining the young Sakamoto in all his youthful glory, the hero actually turns thin out of the blue. Boo!
I mean, okay, this is an exaggerated, over-the-top anime where Sakamoto can catch bullets with chopsticks (or maybe even his teeth if he felt like it) but wasn’t the whole point of this show that a fat Sakamoto can do everything his thin version could? He should’ve bounced back and crushed Boiled with his belly. That would’ve been so much more hilarious than this sham of a thin Sakamoto beating Boiled to a pulp. In fact, he continues to be thin for a while and then reverts to his overweight self after downing a few pork buns. I cannot decide if it’s funny, or insulting, or just disappointing. Maybe if they turn him into a weight-shifter, it would continue being comedic – a guy who can completely alter his weight within seconds. So if he eats a heavy breakfast in the morning, he turns into a sumo wrestler, but if he runs a 20 km marathon in sixty minutes, he turns into a skinny model.
Honestly, I’m starting to lose interest in the show, even though I don’t have the same complaints about the animation quality that many other fans do. It’s not outstanding, but it’s decent enough to not be distracting. But let me not turn this episodic write-up into a full-blown rant and instead quickly write an objective review (from this sentence on).
Titled ‘Source of Strength’, episode 5 of Sakamoto Days actually begins with the fight between new character Obiguro and a drunk Lu, while Shin is being held captive by other armed men. However, the scene soon shifts to the face-off between Boiled and Sakamoto, which is going to have viewers super divided for sure.
Overall, this edition felt especially slow in the first few minutes, even though it’s supposed to be comical, owing to Lu’s drunken shenanigans. But the fights weren’t as fun, part of which could be that the background music does very little to elevate the thrill factor of the violent sequences. The second half of the episode becomes slightly interesting as it introduces the legendary ORDER. If viewers can remember, a hitman mentions ORDER in an earlier episode, claiming it’s a rumored and probably fictional group of super hitmen, hired to deal with other hitmen, and that Sakamoto was once a part of it.
Well, turns out ORDER is real, and its elite squad members are tasked with hunting down a serial killer who is murdering hitmen. How this ties to Sakamoto – who, of course, has taken a pledge not to kill anybody – will be intriguing to see in the next episode.
Watch ‘Sakamoto Days’ on Netflix.
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