Parents' Guide to Sakamoto Days

Parents need to know that Sakamoto Days is a comedy action anime about a former assassin fighting to protect the peace of his new life as a married family man. Each episode features combat with the "villain of the week," as Sakamoto (voiced in English by Matthew Mercer) and Shin (voiced by Dallas Liu) battle enemies both new and old. Violence includes gruesome deaths, gun fights, improvised weapons, martial arts, mentions of suicide, and verbal abuse. Villains show little mercy or compassion, while Sakamoto and Shin resolve to de-escalate situations without killing people. Language includes cursing ("s--t," "f----r," "damn," "bastard," "hell," "dumba--") and general crude language (e.g., "get off my dick"). Characters regularly threaten death and comment negatively on Sakamoto's body type ("tub of lard," "big fat creepy weirdo"). Adults smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol like sake and beer. There's some passing sex jokes and partial nudity showing a male character's bare torso. Sakamoto lives by example to help others leave behind a history of crime and violence to find new purpose in life.