Sakamoto Days Episode 12 Review: Shin Unlocked!

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This is how you come back from a break if you’re an action anime: with lots of gruesome deaths, blood, and a bunch of murderous psychos on the loose! Taro Sakamoto is back to catching bullets with chopsticks in part 2 of season 1 of the action anime series ‘Sakamoto Days’, while hundreds of assassins and hitmen look to finish him off.

Also Read: Sakamoto Days Season One Part One Review

Based on the Japanese manga series by Yuto Suzuki, the anime adaptation is directed by Masaki Watanabe and produced by TMS Entertainment. Titled ‘Overload’, episode 12 of ‘Sakamoto Days’ opens with back-to-back brutal killings carried out by a bunch of crazy death row convicts, all of whom are tasked with eliminating Sakamoto and team.

Almost all crucial characters of the show make an appearance in this edition, including the legendary members of the ‘Order’, the super-elite team of assassins that Sakamoto used to be a part of. The primary focus of this episode of ‘Sakamoto Days’ is on the death-row convicts and the carnage they cause. One of them called Saw, a dramatic bulky serial killer, goes after after Shin Asakura and Lu Shaotang, when the two of them are out shopping.

Just like most antagonistic assassins featured in the series so far, Saw is an overconfident killer, but he’s quite theatrical and talks non-stop about how he enjoys giving people an ‘exciting’ death. He humiliates Shin and Lu, hoping crushing them to their deaths would be a blink-and-miss job, but of course, it isn’t.

I think this was a great start to part 2 of the anime, it includes a generous dose of violent action, along with comedic moments. The animation quality remains the same, or if anything it might’ve gotten better, because I didn’t find any reason to complain. Now that all the primary character personalities are well-established for non-manga readers too, this comeback of ‘Sakamoto Days’ was very entertaining!

The episode wraps up with a thrilling twist, as Shin taps into newfound combat potential, setting the stage for an electrifying showdown between Sakamoto’s sidekicks and the deranged serial killer.

Watch Sakamoto Days on Netflix.

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