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Netflix's Sakamoto Days anime isn't bad - it just isn't the genre you were expecting
Fans might be going into the series expecting it to blow them away with the John Wick comparisons, but it is really just trying to make them laugh.
After what felt like a lifetime of waiting, the first few episodes of Sakamoto Days have landed on Netflix. The oddball story of a former hitman who fell in love and retired with his wife and daughter has been one of the big manga success stories in recent years, but fans have been a little surprised by some of the action so far in the series. That isn’t because the Sakamoto Days anime is bad – it is because it isn’t the genre you were expecting it to be.
The easiest comparison to Western media that people tend to make with Sakamoto Days is the John Wick movies, but that is a bit unfair. While I’ve loved John Wick’s rampages across increasingly deadly landscapes, it was a very different beast to Sakamoto Days. What the first two episodes of Sakamoto Days highlight is that it isn’t
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