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What Happened In Sakamoto Days Episode 2?
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Sakamoto Days’ Anime Skips The Manga’s Best Early Content To Get To The Plot
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Sakamoto Days Is Excellently Building Up An Exciting World
Sakamoto Days excellently followed up its premiere with episode #2, and it left plenty to be excited about for episode #3 and beyond. The show is slowly laying the groundwork for the type of story it wants to tell, especially with episode #2’s ending, and seeing how it all comes together will surely be great.
Following the Sakamoto Days premiere, Sakamoto Days episode #2 saw Sakamoto and Shin go shopping in Chinatown when they suddenly encountered a woman being accosted by thugs. As it turned out, the woman was Lu Xiaotang, the heir to a powerful Chinese mafia family, and after the murder of her parents, a rival mafia family was trying to kill Lu to get their hands on her family’s treasure, which Sakamoto and Shin ultimately stepped in to prevent. It was another episode that perfectly showed off Sakamoto Days’ excellent style, and whatever happens in episode #3 will surely be even better.
What Time Sakamoto Days Episode 3 Releases

As with previous episodes, the Sakamoto Days anime streams exclusively on Netflix, which can be accessed through the app or directly through the website. Assuming there are no delays, Sakamoto Days episode #3 will premiere on Saturday, January 25 at 6:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (PST), 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST), and 2:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and it will be available for streaming in both English and Japanese as soon as the series premieres.
What Happened In Sakamoto Days Episode 2?
Produced By TMS Entertainment; Directed By Akihiro Saitō, Masaki Watanabe, & Yoshihiro Nishio
In Sakamoto Days episode #2, “Vs. Son Hee and Bacho”, after being briefly accosted by Aoi when Shin made her think Sakamoto was killing people again, Sakamoto and Shin went to Chinatown to buy meat buns for the family. Unfortunately, the meat buns were destroyed when Sakamoto and Shin were caught up in a sudden fight between a young woman and some gangsters. The woman, for her part, could defend herself with martial arts, but nevertheless, Sakamoto and Shin subdued the gangsters and escaped the scene with the mysterious woman.
After escaping from Chinatown, the woman, Lu Xiaotang, explained that the people she was fighting were from the Danshokai, a rival mafia group who killed her parents and were now after her for the key to her family’s treasure vault. Sakamoto agreed to help Lu, but at that moment, the Danshokai’s hitmen, Son Hee and Bacho, arrived to try and kill them. At first, the two seemed to put up a good fight, but soon enough, Sakamoto and Shin defeated Son Hee and Bacho as Sakamoto remembered how Aoi taught him the importance of helping people instead of killing them.
After dealing with Son Hee and Bacho, Sakamoto and everyone took down the Danshokai and Lu reclaimed her family’s treasure vault, even discovering that Lu’s father left behind a bottle of wine he wanted to share with Lu when she was old enough to drink. The next day, Lu was given a job at Sakamoto’s convenience store, and Shin was finally let in on the family rules, the most important one being that they weren’t allowed to kill. As all that was happening, however, a mysterious group met to discuss how someone had placed a massive bounty on Sakamoto’s head.
Sakamoto Days’ Anime Skips The Manga’s Best Early Content To Get To The Plot

One thing fans of the Sakamoto Days manga will have undoubtedly noticed about episode #2 is that it skipped chapters #2 and #3 and went straight to adapting chapter #4, with some of chapter #2’s character moments being reworked into episode #2’s story. Both chapters were from when Sakamoto Days was more of an episodic series, and while chapter #3 didn’t add much to the story, the absence of Sakamoto Days chapter #2 from the anime erases a great joke satirizing manga fans who obsess over their favorite manga getting canceled.
It makes sense why those chapters were cut from the anime, of course. Not only do they not fit with the tone of the more plot-focused chapters to follow them, but chapter #3 had a rather anticlimactic reveal of Sakamoto’s gimmick of turning skinny in a fight, so this means the anime can make its more dramatic appearance its first appearance. Sakamoto Days cutting two chapters from the anime is ultimately to the story’s benefit, and even if someone does want to see what happened in them, it’s fortunately easy enough to find those chapters online.
Sakamoto Days Is Excellently Building Up An Exciting World

Sakamoto Days episode #2 was mostly just setup for the rest of the story, but it was a fun episode, regardless. Between the great introduction of Lu, the incredible action and comedy in every fight scene, and the excellent cliffhanger for what’s undoubtedly the overarching plot, Sakamoto Days episode #2 does a great job of moving the story forward both narratively and visually. Sakamoto Days continues to be one of the best anime of the winter 2025 anime season, and hopefully, episode #3 will be even better in that regard.
Be sure to watch Sakamoto Days episode #3 when it releases on Saturday, January 25.

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Sakamoto Days
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Sakamoto Days centers on Taro Sakamoto, a former top-tier hitman who has traded his life of crime for a peaceful existence running a convenience store. Despite his attempts to leave the underworld behind, Sakamoto's past catches up with him as old rivals and dangerous enemies reappear, threatening his newfound tranquility. Forced to defend his family and business, Sakamoto must draw on his lethal skills while navigating the humorous and unexpected challenges of balancing his ordinary daily life with the chaos of his former profession.
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*Availability in US
- Release Date
- January 11, 2025
- Main Genre
- Animation
- Cast
- Matthew Mercer, Dallas Liu, Rosalie Chiang, Rosie Okumura, Xolo Mariduena, Aleks Le, Alexa Bliss, SungWon Cho, Dushaunt Fik-Shun Stegall, Toru Uchikado
- Character(s)
- Taro Sakamoto, Shin Asakura, Lu Shaotang, Aoi Sakamoto, Heisuke Mashimo, Obiguro, Boiled, Son Hee, Bacho
- Creator(s)
- Yuto Suzuki
- Seasons
- 1
- Studio
- TMS Entertainment
- Creator
- Yuto Suzuki
- Streaming Service(s)
- Netflix
- Based On
- Manga