Viz Media has shared a plethora of latest bulletins for upcoming titles for the Spring 2026 launch schedule. The corporate has unveiled a number of new titles set to reach in North America subsequent yr, together with Ichi the Witch and Bug Ego, a manga by ONE, the author of One-Punch Man. Nonetheless, some of the thrilling bulletins is that the Sakamoto Days’ spin-off, Sakamoto Holidays, will lastly obtain an English launch in Spring 2026. Sakamoto Holidays is a slice-of-life manga starring the identical characters from the mainline manga. Whereas the primary title is an action-comedy in regards to the titular character preventing would-be assassins that threaten his quiet life, Sakamoto Holidays has the lead fixing neighborhood crimes.
The spin-off deliberately has decrease stakes, specializing in the characters’ every day lives after they aren’t preventing towards over-the-top mercenaries and killers. The manga is by Tetsu Okawa, who served as an assistant to Sakamoto Days, whereas the idea for the spin-off was from the primary sequence writer, Yuto Suzuki. Sakamoto Holidays started publishing within the Saikyo Soar journal by Shueisha on July 4th, 2024. Viz Media can also be the North American writer of the primary Sakamoto Days manga, set to launch Quantity 18 on August fifth, 2025. The sequence presently has 22 volumes in circulation in Japan.
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What Makes the Sakamoto Universe Nice?
Sakamoto Days achieved rave opinions from followers and critics for its comedy and likable lead characters. The sequence stars a middle-aged man with a chubby look, who was secretly among the best hitmen within the enterprise earlier than retiring and settling down. Now with a Dad bod and a younger woman to maintain, he faces different hitmen and assassins at his comfort retailer. Beneath the situation of marrying her, he promised his spouse he would by no means take one other particular person’s life. Sadly, that promise turns into more durable to maintain as extra folks proceed concentrating on him as soon as they uncover his whereabouts. Fortunate for Sakamoto, he has allies like his protege Shin Asakura to guard his household in any respect prices.
Netflix launched the primary season of the anime adaptation on its streaming service in fall 2024, changing into one in every of its hottest anime titles. Netflix treats the Sakamoto Days anime as one in every of its high properties. Manga and anime have grown as a medium over the many years, incomes followers from all age teams and changing into some of the learn and seen content material on-line. Anime is anticipated to develop, with 2025 set to develop into the most important yr for the medium but, with corporations like Netflix, Viz Media, Amazon, and even Disney set to take a position extra closely. Although some sequence get misplaced within the sea of content material, success tales like Sakamoto Days show Netflix and Viz Media are appropriate in investing thousands and thousands in manga and anime.
