Sakamoto Holidays, the spinoff to Yuuto Suzuki’s Sakamoto Days, is heading toward its climax. Tetsu Ōkawa, who writes and draws the series, reported the news on Saturday.
Ōkawa launched the spinoff in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in July 2024. Shueisha shipped the fourth collected volume on August 4, and Viz Media put out the second English volume on August 18. So the series is still early by volume count, but the story has reached the point where it is heading for a close.
That timing lines up with something bigger. The original Sakamoto Days announced in July that it is heading to its climax too, and it entered its “final battle” arc back in August 2025. Both halves of the franchise are now converging at once.
What the spinoff actually is
Sakamoto Holidays follows Taro Sakamoto, a former legendary assassin who now runs a neighborhood store in the Ikoraizaka shopping arcade. The main series puts him in gunfights. The spinoff puts him in a shopping district that needs revitalizing, with the goal of making it the most peaceful arcade in town.
The comedy comes from the mismatch. Sakamoto and Shin catch a shoplifter, the shoplifter comes back with his gang, and the two of them have to defend themselves without spilling blood, keep Hana from finding out, and still finish the housework. Viz describes the series as “a hilarious spinoff” in its own copy, which is about as close as a publisher gets to a wink.
It is a lower-stakes book by design. The main series runs on escalating assassination plots. The spinoff runs on neighborhood problems solved by a man who could solve them with a gun and refuses to. That is a good place for a comedy to live, and it explains why the two titles can run side by side without stepping on each other.
Where the franchise stands
Suzuki launched Sakamoto Days in Weekly Shonen Jump in November 2020, after publishing a one-shot called “Sakamoto” in Jump Giga in December 2019. Shueisha published the 29th volume on November 4. The series reached 18 million copies in circulation worldwide as of August.
The anime premiered on TV Tokyo and its affiliates on January 11, 2025, and landed on Netflix the same day. The first season’s second part followed in July 2025. A second season is set for January 2027.
There is also a live-action film, directed by Yūichi Fukuda, who has spent the last decade turning manga into movies. If that name sounds familiar, it is because he is also directing the live-action Mashle film opening in March 2027.
Why the simultaneous endings matter
Shueisha does not usually wind down a spinoff at the same moment the parent series enters its last stretch unless the two are being managed as one property. Running them out together means the whole Sakamoto timeline can close in a coordinated way, and it means the collected editions can be scheduled so that readers finishing one have the other waiting.
For the anime, the arithmetic is less comfortable. Season 2 arrives in January 2027. If both manga wrap up around the same period, the anime will be adapting material that is already finished, which removes the risk of catching up to the source and stalling. It also gives the production team a clear ending to aim for, if the series gets that far.
That last part is the real question. A second season commissioned before the manga concluded usually comes with an expectation that more will follow, but anime continuations depend on disc sales, streaming numbers, and how much material is left to adapt. A finished manga is easier to plan around than a running one.
What is not known
Neither announcement came with a chapter count. Ōkawa said the spinoff is reaching its climax, not that it ends next week, and nothing in the report puts a number on the chapters remaining. Climax announcements in Weekly Shonen Jump routinely precede a year or more of chapters, so treat this as a direction rather than a schedule.
What to read first
If you have not touched either series, start with the main Sakamoto Days. The spinoff assumes you already know who these people are and why a retired hitman doing grocery runs is funny. Reading Holidays first is like starting a sitcom at the spin-off season.
If you are already caught up, Holidays is the lighter read, and it holds up better in short bursts than the main series does. Four volumes is a weekend. If you want to see how Shueisha has been handling endings across the rest of the lineup, Kemono Jihen’s climax run is the closest comparison right now.
Source: Anime News Network
Featured image: Cover art for the Sakamoto Holidays manga, via Anime News Network.
