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Even a little trip to buy some delectable, authentic Japanese pork buns can be dangerous if you’re running errands with retired legendary hitman Taro Sakamoto.
Titled “Vs. Son Hee and Bacho,” episode 2 of the anime series Sakamoto Days starts with a relaxed scene of Shin Akasura stacking shelves in Sakamoto’s convenience store. Shin started off as a hitman dispatched to murder Sakamoto in Sakamoto Days Episode 1. However, in an amusing turn of events, he ends up quitting his life of crime, like Mr. Sakamoto, and becoming his employee instead. And if you remember, Shin can read minds!
Episode 2 follows Sakamoto and Shin on a harmless outing to shop a little and pack some pork buns, but right after Sakamoto gets his parcel of steaming buns, a teenage girl crashes into them, ruining the food and bringing chaos—a bunch of nefarious mafia men are trying to kill her. Instead of minding his own business, Sakamoto decides to help the girl, so a reluctant Shin does the same.
It’s a cutesy, fun little episode, which introduces the girl as Lu Shaotang, a feisty character who can fight grown men with tai chi and is set to become one of the primary characters of Sakamoto Days. The episode also includes some flashbacks to explain how Sakamoto’s wife, Aoi, turned him into a complete domestic family man. The running gag about Sakamoto killing Shin in his mind continues in this episode and remains pretty funny.
Overall, episode two is a little more entertaining than the pilot, packed with violent but humorous fight sequences that feature two creepy twin contract killers dispatched to get rid of Lu. But they’ll have to get through the gentle-looking Sakamoto first, whom they grossly underestimate.
Watch ‘Sakamoto Days’ on Netflix.
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