In the end, Netflix is about to debut the much-anticipated action-comedy anime Sakamoto Days this weekend and, to have fun, the streamer has shared one remaining trailer introducing viewers to Taro Sakamoto. As soon as a legendary hitman on the high of his sport, he deserted his career to quiet down together with his household and run a comfort retailer. Leaving the prison life behind is not straightforward, nevertheless, and it is not lengthy earlier than his previous catches up with him and threatens these he loves. The footage exhibits Sakamoto utilizing his fabled expertise to guard the comfortable life he is constructed, with Vital Function host Matthew Mercer lending his voice to the previous killer for the star-studded English dub.

Starting like a tense motion thriller, the brand new teaser offers a glimpse at Sakamoto’s outdated lifetime of slicing by means of and mowing down gang members with ease and putting worry into the hearts of everybody within the prison underworld. Nevertheless, all of that adjustments when the love of his life, Aoi, begs him to vow her that he’ll by no means kill once more. Similar to that, he retires, will get married, has a toddler, and grows into an chubby, unassuming comfort retailer proprietor that younger fellow former murderer Shin Asakura can barely acknowledge. His expertise have not light one bit although, and he’ll want every thing from his potential to catch bullets with chopsticks to his fearsome hand-to-hand expertise to fend off the myriad of colourful characters who wish to declare the 1 billion yen bounty on his head. Though he is free to beat the tar out of them (and revenue from the bandages they’ve to purchase), if he violates the household rule and kills anybody, he’ll be served his divorce papers on the spot by a vengeful Aoi.

Sakamoto Days guarantees a mix of silliness and heat household fuzzies with motion and excessive stakes as Sakamoto and his comrades defend their little household. It is based mostly on Yuto Suzuki‘s wildly fashionable manga of the identical identify serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Soar and hails from director Masaki Watanabe and Dr. Stone manufacturing firm TMS Leisure. Talking to Tudum, Watanabe desires to make sure that, whereas the sequence will provide loads of laughs, the motion won’t ever take a backseat and can replicate the identical depth he felt studying its supply materials:

“After I first had the possibility to learn Sakamoto Days, I keep in mind how electrifying the highly effective motion scenes had been. Maintaining that feeling on the coronary heart of manufacturing, I wish to take all of the parts distinctive to the display — motion, colour, and sound — to make Sakamoto Days a dynamic and fast-paced anime, whereas maintaining in thoughts the humor sprinkled all through the unique. We intend to faithfully painting the character of Sakamoto, the household man and the killer who doesn’t kill. Our employees are placing their all into this, so keep tuned!”

‘Sakamoto Days’ Boasts a Star-Studded English Dub Solid

Including to the thrill for the sequence is the English dub forged, which sees Mercer joined by a mixture of Netflix and anime favorites. Dallas Liu, who performs Prince Zuko within the live-action Avatar: The Final Airbender, voices Shin, with Cobra Kai‘s Xolo Maridueña as Heisuke Mashimo, Solo Leveling‘s Aleks Le as Nagumo, Turning Pink‘s Rosalie Chiang as Lu Shaotang, multi-talented YouTube star Rosie Okumura as Aoi, and Scrumptious in Dungeon‘s SungWon Cho as Boiled. Additionally on board are WWE celebrity Lexi Cabrera, higher referred to as Alexa Bliss, Tik-Tok sensation Du-Shaunt “Fik-Shun” Stegall, and Toru Uchikado.

Sakamoto Days Season 1 Half 1 will function 11 episodes airing weekly beginning this Saturday, January 11. Half 2 will debut someday in July.

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