Japanese Fans Are Upset with the Sakamoto Days Anime
With the Sakamoto Days anime coming next week, over 80% of Japanese comments on their trailers are not exactly positive.
On December 26, 2024, Shonen Jump’s official Youtube channel released the 2nd full trailer for the upcoming Sakamoto Days anime.
However, a large majority of Japanese fans expressed much disappointment with the adaptation.
While there are louder criticisms towards the voice actors and their performances in the trailer, the action scenes received a ton of flak, with commenters noting that the action in the anime is not as exciting or creative as the manga.
Sakamoto Days is considered by fans to possess some of the best fight scenes in modern action shonen.
A Redditor also collected some deleted Japanese comments from the Main Trailer and Trailer 2, which are machine-translated into English:
Japanese fans are not happy with the upcoming Sakamoto Days Anime adaptation to the point the studio started deleting negative Japanese comments from YouTube trailers
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Some notable ones include:
Main Trailer:
The animation is not that bad, but the battle scenes in the original are so amazing that it just looks soo much inferior. (502 likes)
It’s sad that Sakamoto, a candidate for Jump’s next flagship, is being consumed like this as an average anime. Not only is the art bad, but the voice actors are not a good fit either, and I’ve been looking forward to it being made into an anime for a long time, so the disappointment is huge… It’s a work that could carry Jump in the future, so I wish they’d taken better care of it. (110 likes)
I wanted Bones to make it… (180 likes)
Trailer 2:
It’s a candidate for Jump’s flagship series. So this is the most important anime adaptation for that. Why did they leave it to TMS? (138 likes)
deleting negative comments does not change the fact that people are not happy with how TMS and Shueisha is handling one of its top series. You are just making the fans angrier. (English comment) (147 likes)
This manga, whose selling point is its dynamic and powerful action, can be made into an anime with this kind of artwork…? (145 likes)
Why does something like this happen to Lupin when the animation quality is so high? Well, there are a ton of other issues before that. (181 likes)
I’m a bit worried that there aren’t any action scenes in the PV. (752 likes)
The situation faced by Sakamoto Days is similar to the complaints raised against Chainsaw Man Season 1, most directed at the director Ryu Nakayama’s grounded vision that made the animation less colorful and complaints about the muted performances of the vocie actors.
Sakamoto Days Season 1 will premire on January 11, 2024, on Netflix and other platforms.
Source: Reddit
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