An ordinary shopping trip drops Sakamoto and Shin straight into someone else's trouble when they meet Lu Shaotang, the daughter of a mob boss, who is on the run from a pair of twin assassins named Son Hee and Bacho.
Welcome to Sugar Park! is the anime's third episode, set within the Amusement Park Arc. A one-billion-yen bounty on Taro Sakamoto turns an ordinary family trip into a survival test, as former colleague Nagumo delivers the grim news and Lu…
Hard-Boiled is the anime's fourth episode, pushing the Amusement Park Arc forward. As bounty hunters swarm the theme park, Shin traces the attacks to the Dondenkai organization, and a trip into the haunted house ends with the family…
Source of Strength is the anime's fifth episode. Cornered by Dondenkai's Boiled and Obiguro, Sakamoto rediscovers his old instincts and commits to a serious duel to protect his family, while a task force called ORDER quietly begins looking…
Heisuke Mashimo is the anime's sixth episode and the start of the Lab Arc. A broke, hopelessly naive sniper sets out to collect the bounty on Taro Sakamoto, only to end up joining his team during a survival game tournament held for a…
Jurassic Bastard is the anime's seventh episode, part of the Lab Arc. Left to mind the store, Lu is abducted by a mysterious group, and Sakamoto and Shin's frantic chase to recover her is halted by Seba, an assassin who can turn himself…
Sakamoto's vs. the Lab is the anime's eighth episode. To rescue the captured Lu, Sakamoto and Shin storm a secret research facility overrun by Kashima's gifted killers, while below ground Lu meets Asakura, someone familiar with Shin from…
All Aboard is the anime's ninth episode, closing out this stretch of the Lab Arc. Shin and Heisuke team up against the invisible Seba as the facility collapses, while Sakamoto pours his full strength into a brutal fight with the…
The twelfth installment reopens the series as Slur turns a pack of freed condemned killers loose on the assassin world and ORDER scrambles its top agents to hunt them. A simple supply run turns lethal when Shin and Lu cross paths with one…
Cornered by the relentless Saw inside the wrecked store, Shin and Lu each break through to fresh strength and turn the fight around, while across town ORDER's Osaragi finds her lucky shrine visit rudely interrupted by the escaped killer…
With Dump buried and only two escapees left, the fights multiply: Shin recovers under a miracle chiropractor, Minimalist menaces Aoi at the family shop, and Heisuke tangles with Apart high atop Tokyo Tower.
Sakamoto's showdown with the final escapee plays out atop a tilting Tokyo Tower as Apart's tragic past pours out, while behind the chaos the mastermind Slur reveals the true scheme meant to upend the entire assassin world.
Learning the escapees were only bait, Sakamoto races to the assassin association as Slur's forces storm it. Amid Gaku's rampage and Takamura's arrival, Sakamoto finally sees the face behind the killer X.
Reeling from the discovery of X's identity, Sakamoto plots to infiltrate his old assassin school for intel, but first he and Shin must survive a lethal entrance exam that turns their passenger flight into an all-out battlefield.
The airborne exam becomes a free-for-all as candidates hunt engraved bullets. Sakamoto takes a timid gunslinger under his wing, Shin duels a germaphobe, and a deranged film-director proctor tears the plane apart.
The survivors wash ashore and roll into a third exam round, joined by three recommended prodigies. Among them is Toramaru, a fanatical Sakamoto worshipper whose adoration immediately sets her against Shin.
Shin and the fanatical Toramaru wage a duel over who adores Sakamoto more, while Sakamoto uncovers Akira's hidden link to an old friend from his past. Then Slur's remote-piloted puppet Shinaya erupts, plunging the entire exam into chaos.
Cornered by the remote-piloted Shinaya, Shin bands together with Mafuyu, Toramaru, and Kaji in a desperate bid to survive. When their ragtag teamwork alone proves not enough, Sakamoto finally steps in to end the rampage himself.
The second part's finale wraps the entrance exam and sets each player on a new path: Slur recruits, ORDER heads for Kyoto, and Sakamoto and Shin prepare to slip inside the assassin school for intel on X.
Bathhouse Roughhouse gives the crew a rare breather after a brutal fight, only for a public bath to prove anything but relaxing. By the episode's end a mysterious mafia figure arrives seeking Lu, dragging the group toward a high-stakes…
Casino Battle closes out the first run of the Sakamoto Days anime with an underground gambling showdown. Wutang stakes the truth behind Sakamoto's bounty against Lu's freedom, while Slur quietly dispatches fresh killers toward the group.
The Legendary Hit Man opens the Sakamoto Days anime, introducing a once-feared assassin who traded his deadly trade for family life. When his old junior Shin turns up asking him back into the killing world, the retired legend must decide…
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