Sakamoto Days Season 2: The Character Trailer, a January 2027 Netflix Return, and What Collectors Should Watch
Sakamoto Days Season 2 has a fresh character trailer and a firm window: the hit action-comedy returns to Netflix in January 2027. The new trailer, spotlighted in August 2026, puts three additions to the cast front and center and teases the story's shift toward the assassin-training storyline that fans of the manga have been waiting to see animated. For a series built on retired-hitman gunplay, deadpan comedy, and a growing roster of colorful killers, a new season means one thing for collectors: renewed demand for figures of Taro Sakamoto, Shin, and the expanding cast.
What the New Trailer Confirms
The Season 2 character trailer introduces three new roles voiced by Toya Kikunosuke, Misa Watanabe, and Shinshu Fuji, among them Etsuko Satoda, described as Sakamoto's former teacher. Netflix will stream the season exclusively, continuing from the first season's 22 episodes that aired across two cours in 2025. TMS Entertainment returns to produce, with Daisuke Nakajima stepping in as director while first-season director Masaki Watanabe moves to a supervising role; series composer Taku Kishimoto and character designer Yo Moriyama are back, keeping the look and rhythm consistent.
Story-wise, the season pushes deeper into the underworld. As Bleeding Cool put it, Sakamoto and Shin "infiltrate JCC (Japan Cleaner Culture) — Japan's assassin training institution" to dig up intelligence on the elusive figure known as X, also called Slur, while ORDER members face a new threat in Kyoto. It is a darker, higher-stakes turn than the domestic-comedy beats that opened the series.
Why This Matters for the Franchise
Sakamoto Days began in 2020 as a Weekly Shonen Jump manga by Yuto Suzuki and has kept a steady release cadence, with its 28th volume arriving in August 2026. The Netflix anime widened that audience worldwide, and Season 2's assassin-institution arc is exactly the kind of action-forward material that tends to drive a wave of new merchandise — from poseable figures to capsule-toy lineups. When a Shonen Jump action title gets a globally streamed second season, prize figures, scale figures, and gashapon of its leads and newcomers usually follow the hype cycle.
What Collectors Should Watch
If you are building a shelf around modern Shonen Jump action, Season 2 is a natural on-ramp. Watch for figures of Sakamoto in his heavier, action-mode form and of Shin, the two anchors most likely to headline any lineup. Newly introduced characters can be worth grabbing early, since first-wave figures of freshly animated faces sometimes become harder to find once a season ends. As always, buy the sculpts and poses you genuinely love rather than chasing every release — a focused Sakamoto-and-Shin duo display often looks better than a crowded shelf.
Where to Shop
Akibato doesn't have a dedicated Sakamoto Days collection yet, but fans of its stylish gunfights and hitman cast tend to also collect other Weekly Shonen Jump action series. If you want to expand a shelf in the same vein, browse Chainsaw Man collectibles at Akibato, or dig through the store's wider anime figure collection for scale and prize pieces that pair well with an action-anime display. Both ship worldwide from Japan.
Sources
- The Movie Blog — Sakamoto Days Season 2 Anime Releases New Character Trailer
- Bleeding Cool — Sakamoto Days Season 2 Character Trailer Introduces 3 New Faces
- Anime Trending — Sakamoto Days Season 2 Reveals January 2027 Start, Teaser Trailer and Visual
- Netflix Tudum — Sakamoto Days Season 2 Character Trailer and Release News