SAKAMOTO DAYS — Characters & Cast

To protect his family and keep his promise not to kill. He atones by helping others.

He starts as a settled shopkeeper hiding his abilities and is gradually forced back into the assassin world. He never abandons the pledge to Aoi, and he shifts from private retirement to actively protecting a wider circle of people.

First the bounty. Then belonging, and the wish to prove his worth to the people who accepted him.

He arrives intending to kill Sakamoto and ends up working for him. He grows from an insecure low-ranked assassin into a capable fighter, and in the second part his psychic powers evolve to let him glimpse the future.

Survival and finding a place to belong. She also wants to honor her family's memory.

The sole survivor of a massacred mafia clan, she finds a new home at the store as the meat bun cook. Her backstory with her clan is explored further in later episodes.

To keep her family safe and her husband away from killing.

She is the family's emotional center and the reason Sakamoto lives as he does. The series uses her ultimatum to keep him tied to his promise.