Sakamoto Holidays Chapter 1: Sakamoto's Day Off

This gag-driven spinoff chapter reopens with the familiar flashback to Sakamoto's glory days as a dreaded killer, a career cut short by love and a quiet retirement. In the present, a customer strolls out of the store, and Aoi notices he looks thinner than he did on the way in. That customer is in fact a shoplifter, and Shin, reading his thoughts from a nearby bridge, calls him out.

Cornered, the thief grabs a bystander at a vending machine and threatens the hostage's safety, only for that hostage to reveal himself as the heavyset Sakamoto and lay him out with one punch. Walking home, Shin gripes that this is only the latest in a run of shoplifting incidents, and the two trade thoughts on Sakamoto's no-killing, no-blood policy and his hardest ongoing mission of keeping his family safe.

Aoi then points out that the pair forgot to actually buy dinner while dealing with the thief. She heads out to shop herself and leaves Hana with them, prompting Sakamoto to insist they earn back her trust by cleaning and repairing the shop.

A gang of delinquents from a neighboring town, tied to Riki Kanehira, comes seeking payback and ambushes the group up on the rooftop during laundry. Sakamoto and Shin dispatch them without spilling blood and, crucially, without letting Hana catch on.

Kashima is shown speaking by phone, revealing the harassment was a scheme to hurt the store's business. Resolved to protect his family's peace, Sakamoto declares he will make the rowdy shopping district the calmest in the city, teasing renovations to come.

Sakamoto's Day Off launches the Sakamoto Holidays spinoff, a lighter offshoot of the main manga, and spans forty-three pages. It was released on July 4, 2024.

The cover gathers a wide cast, among them Sakamoto, Shin, Lu, Heisuke, Hyo, Nagumo, Osaragi, Takamura, Shishiba, and Kanaguri. The closing pages tease numerous characters across different locations.