Sakamoto Days Episode 10 Review: Baths, Bullies, New Enemies

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“Knowing when you can rest, so you can stay at your best is part of being first class”

This is already my favorite quote from Sakamoto Days, uttered by the legendary hitman protagonist, Taro Sakamoto. Kinda makes me want to take this Saturday off and relax too, but, oh well, I’ll rest later.

Titled “Bathhouse Roughhouse,” episode 10 of the anime begins with Shin complaining about how exhausted he is after their fight at the laboratory with a whole bunch of new villains. So Taro, the boss-man, takes everybody to a bathhouse to relax and rejuvenate. It’s a family day out! But, of course, Taro and his team always seem to attract assassins, so even at the bathhouse, someone recognizes the retired hitman from his bounty posters. We all know what’s going to happen next.

Instead of direct combat or battles like in episode 9, this edition of Sakamoto Days features more ingenious and silly methods used by a new amateur hitman to kill our protagonist. It’s a comedic episode, with Sakamoto and Shin trying different things at the bathhouse, all of which are tweaked to cause maximum discomfort. The second half of the episode, however, shifts focus to a new subplot about some mafia men looking for Lu.

This was a pretty hilarious episode, and for the first time, I’m really starting to appreciate Nobunaga Shimazaki’s voice acting for Shin. He does an excellent job capturing the various moods of the mind-reader, especially in a little scene where Shin shivers with excitement after he takes a dip in a ‘high power jet bath’. Sakamoto doesn’t do much, but gets to be an invincible God chilling in water, while an enemy tries all sorts of tricks to annihilate him.

Honestly, after watching enough of Sakamoto Days, I’m starting to think that maybe all the hate the anime is getting on social media is undeserved, especially since the last few episodes (including this one) were pretty fun. But I haven’t read the original manga, so I obviously cannot objectively judge how different the anime is from the manga! I suppose non-readers like me can quietly enjoy the advantage of not feeling disappointed by the changes the creators have made in the anime adaptation.

You can watch the series on Netflix or Crunchyroll.

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