Sakamoto Days, Vol. 11

SAKAMOTO DAYS サカモト デイズ #11

by Yuto Suzuki

Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He’s now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?!

When X’s forces attack the JCC, all hell breaks loose! While Satoda Sensei faces off with Kanaguri to protect the students, Sakamoto and Shin rush to secure Amane’s grandfather. But the whole situation gets even more hairy when Club Jam hypnotizes the entire school!

Genres: Manga, Action, Fiction, Comics, Comedy, Japan, Shonen

200 pages, Paperback

First published April 4, 2023

About the author

Yuto Suzuki (鈴木祐斗; Suzuki Yūto) es un mangaka japonés.

Reviews

[Ricarda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Man, I love it when characters use regular hammers as their standard weapon. That's so cool.

[Pash⁷ · Rating 4 out of 5]

[4.5⭐️] Thank you Sakamoto for never letting me down

[Christian Schultheiss · Rating 4 out of 5]

They cranked the action up for this volume! Honestly I couldn’t help but be drawn in especially to that epic outdoors fight with the chainsaw assassin girl, I mean talk about intense. I feel like the attention to detail and story quality and depth has also been honed and improved a bit which is great to see, although the humorous element was particularly lacking in this one, and I while I guess it doesn’t need to always be or stay funny, I feel like it helps break up the intensity a bit and make for a more complete story. That and we need a little more sakamoto family time, but I’m still one hundred percent strapped in and ready for this ride! 4.25/5

[Molly™☺ · Rating 3 out of 5]

With the gore gimmick running thin, Sakamoto Days needs to find a new trick to keep the momentum going before stale plots burn it out completely.

[Raya · Rating 5 out of 5]

quite possibly the best one yet

[fulcrum · Rating 4 out of 5]

natsuki and shin are precious to me

[Rod Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel like this started as a humor manga with a lot of goofy action scenes, but now it has transitioned to a straight-up battle manga with a little bit of humor on the side.

Mind you, it's a pretty decent battle manga, but it's not what I signed on for, as I tend to get bored with even decent battle manga series.

I still have a couple more volumes on hand from the library, so we'll see how it goes . . .


FOR REFERENCE:

Contents: Days 89-97-- Bonus Manga

[⋆｡˚꒰ঌ worm ໒꒱˚｡⋆ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Satoda sensei is such a good teacher. (；ω；)

[Ronald · Rating 3 out of 5]

So, as I said before the school days storyline here is not that fun. The focus of most of this volume is with the filmmaker villain is just not that interesting. The art is good.

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Volume 11 is an enjoyable volume that plunges the characters into the full-scale assault on the JCC (Japanese Criminal-Assassins) school. The action is fantastic, and the main event is a brutal, pretty intense fight between Satoda Sensei and a "Director Assassin" named Kanaguri. This showdown is a true highlight and has an excellent ending.

Overall, it's a really fun, action-packed volume. I'll be honest, though, there are so many goddamn factions and characters I'm starting to get really confused on who is who. Maybe reading the volumes so far apart wasn't my best idea. Saying that, the action is still fantastic, with some solid humor, and overall fun moments to be had. For its high-octane entertainment, it gets a 3.5 out of 5.

[c. a. · Rating 5 out of 5]

peak peak peak peak peak peak peak peak peak

[Mizuki · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you like a lot of fighting scenes this series is for you, though the character design and the art style is not my cup of tea.

[MajesticalLion · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume has been expertly weaving big action set pieces together with deep and personal character writing. It managed to satisfyingly focus on like 7 different characters and their ideals and backstories without feeling rushed. This manga is on another level.

[Annalise · Rating 5 out of 5]

Osaragi and Shishiba are actually going crazy rn😭👏

[Myriam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Epic 😍 somehow, someway I feel sad at seeing Yotsumura and Shishiba fighting.

[afton · Rating 5 out of 5]

2025 reread: this is such a fantastic volume. i wanted to reread this series physically this time around because i kew the bonus material in-between chapters would be wonderful. i escpeacially loved this volume because it hughlights the background artists that work on the manga. i genuinely also loved the fights outside of sakamoto’s during this volume as welll.

give me more sakamoto!

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.25/5
This arc has given Shin a lot more time to grow and feel better about his abilities, which I have really appreciated. There is also more character work with the side characters. The mangaka clearly does a lot of character work for the villains and provides good motivations across the board, which makes it easy to care about all of the characters. I'm excited to learn more about this world as we continue to delve further and further in in each volume.

[Holly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of great fight sequences! I don't know who's crazier, Kanaguri or Club Jam? Probably Club Jam, "Wheeeee! I've never been electrocuted before!" Lol good grief. Anyway, this is my favorite series. Can't wait for volume 12 :)

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muy disfrutables todas las peleas del tomo con sus buenos toques de humor y con muchas ganas del siguiente.

[Blake the Book Eater · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the fights in this manga so much! The fluidity of the action is just a delight to read.

[atlantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shishiba saved this volume tbh. I didn’t care for Club Jam at all, but the final 2 chapters got me hype again. I wasn’t familiar with his game. Shin's still my goat tho 🗣️🗣️

[DonutKnow · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the Seba brothers- brooding but with a strong value system 💪

[Célia ♡ · Rating 4 out of 5]

❑ Version : French

🌸 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐.

💮 Previously : Sakamoto Days #10 : ★★★★☆.

[Sophia Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love seeing all of them fight and all the skills they have. the arc is fun asf man I DONT WANT ANY OF THEM TO GET HURT (also ... always bet on the old fuckers because they are SKILLED)

[Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

kind of getting to the point in this series where I've forgotten most of the narrative stakes going on BUT it is still a joy to read.

[K · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nobara who?

[Belle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Old lady sensei is a boss.

[Ophélie Regat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Suite de l'arc JCC.

Madame Satoda affronte Kanaguri. Celui-ci profite qu'elle fasse passer le bien-être des élèves avant tout pour lui asséner un coup fatal. Dans le même temps, Taro et Akira arrivent à son chevet. Kanaguri en profite pour divulguer que la tante d'Akira, Rion, amie de lycée de Taro, a été tuée par Slur. Taro semblait le savoir et avait failli le dire à Akira quelques pages auparavant. A l'article de la mort, Madame Satoda crève un oeil à Kanaguri, elle meurt juste après. Le combat continue entre Kanaguri et Taro dans le CDI du lycée. Kanaguri ne s'intéresse qu'aux images qu'il filme pendant le combat, quand Taro détruit sa caméra, il utilise les smartphones des élèves présents (qui ne s'intéressent pas vraiment au combat en cours).

Dans le même temps, Club Jam a hypnotisé les élèves afin qu'ils cherchent la "Base de données". Du côté de Shin, Seba et Amane, les zombies lui poursuivent. Ils retrouvent le grand-père d'Amane. Seba s'est éclipsé afin de conclure un marché avec Club Jam. Il lui dira où se trouve la "Base de données" si en retour, il lui divulgue où est son frère. Club Jam en profite pour l'hypnotiser (ou pas). Seba semble d'être retourné contre Shin. Il jouait évidemment la comédie et à deux, ils combattent Club Jam. Malheureusement, celui-ci en profite pour réhypnotiser Amane. Il lui fait voir son père qu'il veut tuer. Très vite, l'intervention de son grand-père permet à Amane de retrouver des souvenirs d'enfance heureux avec son père. On ne sait pas pourquoi il les a oubliés. Shin finit par mettre Club Jam hors d'état de nuire.

A Kyoto, l'antenne de la FJA se plaint à Nagumo des dégâts causés par Yotsumura. Les membres de l'Ordre sont clairement mal vus. Shishiba affronte son ancien mentor avec l'aide d'Osaragi. Yostumura est accompagné d'une femme vêtue d'une tenue traditionnelle japonaise.

[Ilham Muradov · Rating 4 out of 5]

8/10

Chapter 89: Etsuko Satoda the oddball who rejected the invitation to join the order and chose a teaching career instead. I shot a movie about you a long time ago. Fiction, though.
Then I suppose this is the sequel?
No. I don't do sequels.
But I like Terminator 2 better!

Chapter 89: How many times do we have to retake this scene?
However long it takes to protect my students until your film is destroyed.

Chapter 90: There were 25 of us in our class. Only the two of us are still alive. People die too often in this world. We have to start by changing education.

Chapter 90: The girl whose Aunt was killed by Slur.

Chapter 90: Rising even after death to protect her student? Now that's what I call Japanese horror!

Chapter 91: I hear you can shoot movies with smartphones these days! It's good to embrace new techniques sometimes! When life gives you lemons, then challange yourself as a director!

Chapter 91: No matter how good the cinematography is if the script sucks, then it's a one-star dud.

Chapter 92: People who judge others by their appearances don't last long in this world.

Chapter 94: When did you escape the hypnosis?!
I was never under it to begin with.

Chapter 96: It's true that membership is limited to ten. But the roster has never been full.

Chapter 97: Gotta work on neck strength.

[dols]

it’s true that membership is limited to ten — but that roster has never been full. there’s plenty of room. if he wants a spot, he’s welcome to try.

- tHIS NATSUSHIN FEAST OH MY GOD sobrang bading
- nagulat ako may namatay talaga totoo pala yun kala ko bugbugan lang ditow
- tangina bwisit na bwisit na’ko kay kanaguri sa 22o lang i can excuse murder and violence but i draw the line at bodyshaming
- shishiba lore awww kaya pala siya yung cover hehe
- i love the ‘background’s background corner’ at the end of every chapter i’ve always been interested in the process so it’s nice to get a behind-the-scenes look!! i think it’s so cool that the mangaka’s assistants are given the share of the spotlight + the way they talk abt sakamoto workplace so passionately, it looks like they really love the work that they do there 🥺
- this is the volume where the first popularity vote was released ASAKURA SHIN FIRST PLACE DEASERRVEE
- ps i miss u lu xiaotang :(( balik na tayo sa conbini guys plz pagod na aku