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Kimura Tomomi
Nakajima Atsuko
Takamatsu Shinji
This high-school comedy is based on a 4-volume manga that ended in 2015. The titular chacrcter is a 16 years old boy that is as much an idealized man as Mr. Gray is. Sakamoto is athletic, ha... Home Twitter
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Rating
| Vote |
6.5 |
| Average |
5.83 |
| Animation |
9 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Story |
2 |
| Character |
3 |
| Value |
6 |
| Enjoyment |
7 |
This high-school comedy is based on a 4-volume manga that ended in 2015. The titular chacrcter is a 16 years old boy that is as much an idealized man as Mr. Gray is. Sakamoto is athletic, handsome, studious, but his main attribute is style; to quote from the OP: “Everything he does is cool, cooler, coolest-o”.
Being the not-so-obscure object of desire of every girl and her mother (quite literally), is bound to excite the envy of the other boys; all of them want to see Sakamoto's pristine image get blemished. Those boys with delinquent habits, are willing to make the effort to achieve that. The show has a distinct One-punch-man feeling to it; the villains' careful laid plans are laid to waste by the equivalent of a single punch from Sakamoto. Actually it is a stylish move that looks initially silly, but ends up getting maximum cool points.
That way of acting sets the series tone; Sakamoto looks unapproachable, arrogant, and usually downright stupid; but he always has a selfless plan, to help his classmates while simultaneously manages to be kind to his “enemies”. The comedy stems from the absurdity of the situations that Sakamoto finds himself in and of course from when he increases the level of absurdity to resolve the situation with the aforementioned single cool-looking move.
Unfortunately, the comedy sometimes misses its target. Moreover, since there is no story whatsoever, but each episode is a series of sketches, it is vital that most of them are entertaining, which is not the case. The final negative element, probably an emanation of the lack of a storyline, is that there is no development, neither in characters, nor in plot.
So, Sakamoto offers a lot of laughs and some very original over-the-top situations. Even though the are a lot of uninteresting sketches, if we couple the good ones with the kindness that the series radiates, we have a good result. The twelfth episode concluded the series, but there is a thirteenth episode in the blu-ray, that the station didn't manage to air due to scheduling conflicts.
The worst part about Sakamoto is that it is probably the third-best original anime of the Spring 2016 season; a quite disheartening fact. 6.5/10.
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