Sakamoto Days Season 2 will premiere on Netflix in January 2027 with director Daisuke Nakajima taking over and three new cast members joining TMS Entertainment's hit adaptation.
Sakamoto Days Season 2 is set to premiere on Netflix in January 2027. A new teaser trailer and visual confirmed a director change at TMS Entertainment, along with three new cast additions for the anime's next chapter.
Daisuke Nakajima, who directed episode 22 of the first season, has been promoted to chief director for Season 2. Masaki Watanabe, who helmed the first season, moves into a supervising director role. The rest of the core creative team remains intact, with Taku Kishimoto returning for series composition, Yo Moriyama handling character design, and Yuki Hayashi composing the music. TMS Entertainment continues as the producing studio.
The transition suggests a smooth creative handoff rather than a sharp departure, with Nakajima already having demonstrated his grasp of the series' kinetic action sequences and comedic timing during his Season 1 work.
The teaser introduced three new cast members and their respective roles. Kikunosuke Toya joins as Amane, a top student at the Japanese Closest College (JCC) who holds antagonistic views toward the Assassin's Alliance. Misa Watanabe voices Etsuko Satoda, the JCC's longest-serving teacher and a former trainer of protagonist Taro Sakamoto. Shinshū Fuji rounds out the new additions as Yotsumura, a mysterious founding member of the shadowy organization known as ORDER.
Tomokazu Sugita returns as the voice of Taro Sakamoto, the retired legendary hitman whose quiet convenience-store life has been anything but peaceful since the first season upended it.
Season 2 will adapt the JCC infiltration arc from Yuto Suzuki's original manga, published in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump. The teaser footage shows Sakamoto going undercover as a student teacher disguised as his wife Aoi, while his partner Shin poses as an infiltrating student. The preview teases fierce battles ahead and glimpses of returning characters from Season 1.
New key art for the season features Sakamoto and Shin positioned back-to-back. Sakamoto wields a pen his chosen weapon for the JCC exams while Shin sports new glove equipment. The season will also explore subplots involving ORDER members on a Kyoto assignment and delve into the shared history connecting young Sakamoto, Nagumo, Rion, and the enigmatic Slur.
The announcement arrives on the heels of a successful live-action Sakamoto Days film adaptation, which earned 1.5 billion yen during its opening period in Japan. The anime's first season, which ran for 22 episodes, helped establish the franchise as one of Netflix's marquee anime properties.
All episodes of Sakamoto Days Season 1 are currently streaming on Netflix. Season 2 will debut exclusively on the platform in January 2027, though a specific day has not yet been announced.
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