No Self Help Books Here

Don’t read unless you’ve seen!! I’ve been thinking and digesting this last chapter.

The main theme of Sakamoto Days has been that everyone deserves a second chance and therefore no one ever deserves to be killed, especially because we don’t know what their own life is like. Who says we get to take it away?

Nagumo and Uzuki bring up the fact that Uzuki has killed and will continue to do so. So unless you completely capture and make it unable for him to escape before he repents, he will repeat the killing and repeat the power. Obviously Uzuki is hurting and he deserves the chance to be good, have retribution, and choose to apologize. He deserves the chance to rectify for putting a bounty on Sakamoto, for killing many, and for putting multiple kids & families in danger.

Nagumo, on the opposing side, brings the same question that JJK has as well: what happens when someone you save goes on to kill a person or being?

We don’t know much about Nagumo’s family or history. We know he’s from an elite and infamous family of spies. And we know he’s transferred from the spy department to assassins department in the JCC. As of the switch, his only known family left was Rion Akao and Taro Sakamoto. One who is dead and the other is almost dead (I don’t think he’s dead yet). That’s his only family. And the guy who has killed both (nearly), is planning on killing more.

Nagumo has always been morally teetering, but he has always respected Taro (despite his teasing), he’s always supported him. He’s now in a moral conflict that I think was well thought out (development wise), because he trained with Sakamoto because he betrayed the new JAA for him. But he’s also never had to (after officially joining the Sakamoto allies) be told, “our rule is no killing” despite already knowing the existence of the rule. Sakamoto never told Shishiba “no killing”. But Nagumo is his friend.

So new potential theory: Nagumo accidentally kills Sakamoto when Sakamoto’s last bit of energy goes into stopping Nagumo from giving the final blow on Uzuki. Nagumo = devastated. Uzuki sees Sakamoto’s death and internalizes it, becoming the new Sakamoto to live on taro’s dream of the new jaa with a chain convenience store front. Everyone’s going to end up alright besides Nagumo of course. Because Nagumo just killed his last friend in the og trio.

Two things since the previous chapter dropped for Sakamoto Days!

1 I hope someone finds Shin! I hope he’s good. I don’t want him to just be passed out in a random alley for too long! Despite the civilians in this story being mostly npc’s, there’s still other people around and I don’t want shin to get hurt. Hopefully we see him again soon!

2 with the prediction of Sakamoto Taro’s death, I think there’s truly two options that Yuto Suzuki is planning.

One option is that Kei Uzuki/Slur develops a Sakamoto Taro personality and someone kills him while in that personality, and effectively, the real Sakamoto cannot save Uzuki, making it tragic that he couldn’t keep his promise to Kashima.

The other option is Nagumo turns into Taro and is killed while dressed/disguised as Sakamoto Taro. Nagumo is known for being disorienting, and that’s a strength of his, so it could become his fatal flaw as well in the end. This would also be incredibly tragic because Nagumo is a favourite character of many and is best friends with Sakamoto.

It would also be tragic cuz there aren’t a terrible amount of major deaths in the Sakamoto fandom (some include: Haruma, Rion Akao (which was not a major major death cuz we’ve known she’s dead for while but a major factor in the story), Takamura, Hyo, Gozu, Carolina Reaper, and Tasuka Ando). There are a good amount of minor characters’ deaths (Oki, Laser Yamamoto, Sei Asaki, Shinto Yotsomura, minimalist, dump, saw, Sochi Amo, Uda, Kobayashi, and Higuchi), but something really popular with Yuto Suzuki’s plots are that those you think are dead aren’t really (cough gaku cough cough).