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Netflix Unveils Sakamoto Days Anime's New Teaser, English Dub Cast
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Netflix unveiled a new English-dubbed teaser trailer and the English dub cast for the television anime of Yuuto Suzuki's Sakamoto Days manga on Thursday.
The English dub cast includes:
- Matthew Mercer as Taro Sakamoto
- Dallas Liu as Shin Asakura
- Rosalie Chiang as Lu Shaotang
- Rosie Okumura as Aoi Sakamoto
- Xolo Maridueña as Heisuke Mashimo
- Aleks Le as Nagumo
- Lexi Cabrera (Alexa Bliss) as Obiguro
- SungWon Cho as Boiled
- Du-Shaunt "Fik-Shun" Stegall as Son Hee
- Toru Uchikado as Bacho
Netflix lists the anime's "Part 1" with 11 weekly episodes, and confirms that it will stream "Part 2" this July.
Tomokazu Sugita stars as Taro Sakamoto. Other cast members include:
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Shin Asakura
- Ayane Sakura as Lu Shaotang
- Nao Tōyama as Aoi Sakamoto
- Ryōta Suzuki as Heisuke Mashimo
- Natsuki Hanae as Nagumo
- Taku Yashiro as Shishiba
- Saori Hayami as Osaragi
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Hyo
- Hōchū Ōtsuka as Takamura
- Daisuke Namikawa as X (Slur)
Masaki Watanabe (KADO - The Right Answer, Bartender, several Battle Spirits anime) is directing the anime at TMS Entertainment. Taku Kishimoto (BLUELOCK, Haikyu!!, Moriarty the Patriot) is overseeing the series scripts, and Yō Moriyama (Lupin the IIIrd: Goemon's Blood Spray, Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen's Gravestone) is the character designer.
Vaundy performs the opening theme song "Hashire Sakamoto" (Run, Sakamoto). Conton Candy will perform the ending theme song "Futsū" (Normal).
Suzuki published a one-shot titled "Sakamoto" in Jump Giga in December 2019, and then launched the main manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in November 2020.
Viz Media and MANGA Plus are publishing the manga in English digitally. MANGA Plus describes the manga:
Taro Sakamoto was the ultimate assassin, feared by villaines and admired by hitmen. But one day...he fell in love! Retirement, marriage, fatherhood and then... Sakamoto gained weight! the chubby guy who runs the neighborhood store is actually a former legendary hitman! Can he protect his family from danger? Get ready to experience a new kind of action comedy series!
Viz Media is also publishing the manga in print.
Source: Press release
