Sakamoto Days Episode 19 Review: Deadly Team Battles
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Akira stitching shirts mid-air after their flight crashes in ‘Sakamoto Days’ had us in stitches! Only in anime can a character start sewing in the air, although, well, you never know with over the top live-action action movies. It would be fun to see Ethan Hunt in the ‘Mission Impossible’ movies stitching a parachute amid clouds after being kicked off an aircraft by villains.
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Titled ‘Exam, Stage Three‘, episode 19 opens with the few survivors of the crash as the JCC academy announces the next stage of the exams. With most candidates already dead, the evaluators assign a surprisingly simple team mission to keep the casualty count low. But in a twist, three “special candidates” arrive by boat to join the third stage, shaking things up.
What makes this edition of ‘Sakamoto Days’ interesting is the fact that Taro Sakamoto and Shin are not on the same team, so they will have to fight as rivals. If you remember, Shin is very serious about passing the JCC exam without any help, so he assertively tells Sakamoto not to go easy on him. In some convenient turns, clean freak Mafuyu is on Shin’s team, while Akira ends up in Taro’s group along with the comedic character “Kill Baby.”
Except for a brief scene featuring antagonist Slur and his lackeys, the episode completely focuses on the stage three team competitions. And despite the invigilators hoping for fewer deaths, participants are allowed to use whatever weapons and means they want to win the exams. Since it’s clearly been established that most participating students are psychos who’d kill their rivals in a heartbeat to seal their spot in the assassin academy, some deadly team battles unfold.
The pacing drags at times, but the episode stays engaging thanks to an intriguing reveal about Akira’s link to Sakamoto’s past. With any luck, upcoming episodes will dive deeper into flashbacks from Sakamoto’s JCC days.
Watch Sakamoto Days on Netflix.
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