Recently I’ve been noticing how shows built on one or two quirks quickly become boring. The quirk or funny bit might be very engaging initially, but it quickly loses it’s charm, and immediately becomes rather boring.
Sakamoto Days suffers from this issue. It’s very funny at the start. The funny quirk is that Sakamoto is like the most powerful assassin in the world, very skilled, basically undefeatable/invincible. But then Sakamoto finds a girl he likes, falls in love, gets married, has kids and becomes much more plump, and starts a convenience store. So world class assassin is casually running a convenience store. That’s kinda the funny part.
While more plump and less menacing looking, he is still very capable as an assassin though. I’m not why but the assassins in this story can move extremely fast, punch through steel and catch bullets with their hands. Sakamoto is basically Saitama from One Punch Man.
The story mostly copies the world built by John Wick but adds a funny twist to things.
I made it through season 1, but season 2.. I didn’t know why I was watching. It was rather boring. Animation was good and properly paced. But it didn’t matter, the quirk of Sakamoto being extremely strong had grown tiring.
There were meaningful attempts at making the side characters more relevant, their magical powers more powerful etc. But it didn’t really matter, the show revolved around Sakamoto and his quirk and the new characters introduced felt merely like side-characters introduced to waste time.
The characters who are supposed to be normal human beings managed to catch bullets just fine in the first season, doing the same thing in season 2 is not going to keep viewers interested. It’s too bad.. the animation, dubbing and other aspects of the show were quite well done. It’s still too hard to stay interested when you know that absolutely nothing could happen to the main characters and that the story isn’t really going anywhere.
They could probably get some kids to watch though, could be a lucrative business strategy. I won’t be continuing to watch this show though.