Yuuto Suzuki’s “Sakamoto Days” is coming to a close. The manga is approaching its climax, nearly a year after its “final battle” began in August 2025, according to reports, which on the confirmation in the Weekly Shonen Jump issue 34.
No date or chapter count was given in the announcement.
That’s the whole update, and it reads as both exciting and frustrating. Exciting in that there is finally an end in sight. Frustrating in that no one has said how far off that horizon actually is. Weekly Shonen Jump opted for the single word “climax” and left the rest up to readers.
If someone tells you exactly when the series will end or how many chapters are left, they’re guessing. Weekly Shonen Jump did not specify either one, and no other outlet has more to go on than that same issue.
That vagueness matters because Sakamoto Days has become one of Weekly Shonen Jump’s bigger hits, and its ending will have ripples for everything built on top of it, from a second anime season that’s already booked to a live action film that just posted big numbers of its own.
Weekly Shonen Jump and the Final Battle
The climax was confirmed in issue 34, and it’s worth marinating on how long the final battle had already been going on by that point. Suzuki launched it in August 2025. Readers had been inside that fight for almost a year before the magazine printed the word climax.
That’s a long final battle by anyone’s standards.
There’s something about scale here, even if there’s no chapter count attached, a story arc that takes up the better part of a year before anyone officially calls it a climax. Suzuki’s not rushing to the landing, and the space between “final battle begins” and “heading to climax” implies he’s been working toward this moment with space to work.
Suzuki’s Road: From Jump Giga to Weekly Shonen Jump
Sakamoto Days didn’t begin as a weekly commitment. Suzuki first tried out the concept in a one-shot published in Jump Giga in December 2019, titled “Sakamoto.” It worked, clearly. The full series began in Weekly Shonen Jump in November 2020, less than a year after that one-shot chapter ran.
Not every one shot jumps from a trial run to a weekly series. This one did.
Sakamoto Holidays, Viz Media, and Two Prose Novels
Manga transcended its weekly chapters. Viz Media and MANGA Plus publish it digitally in English, with Viz also doing print. A spinoff, Sakamoto Holidays, premiered in Saikyō Jump in July 2024. Suzuki’s story was also made into prose twice, with novels coming out in April 2023 and December 2024.
There aren’t many ongoing Jump serials that get a spinoff, and two novels before the main story is even finished. Sakamoto Days got there while the story was still ongoing.
Netflix, TV Tokyo, and a Second Season Coming in 2027
The anime also underwent a similar expansion. Season one was released on TV Tokyo, its affiliated channels, and Netflix on January 11, 2025. It was followed in July 2025 by a second part of that season. A second season is now set to premiere in January 2027.
That is a year and a half between the second half of season one and the beginning of season two, a long wait for anyone already caught up.
The Live-Action Film’s Opening Numbers
Sakamoto Days was also made into a live-action series. The movie, which premiered on April 29, sold 346,000 tickets for 478 million yen in its first three days. By the eighth day, the figures had risen to 1.14 million tickets and 1.5 billion yen.
Those are good numbers, full stop, for a manga adaptation.
Ticket sales more than tripled from day three to day eight, showing a steady word of mouth as opposed to a front-loaded opening weekend carrying the whole run.
What Weekly Shonen Jump Isn’t Saying
Here’s the honest truth: nobody outside Suzuki knows how many chapters are left. “There is no date or chapter count for “Heading to its climax,” and any particular one attached to this story right now is speculation dressed up as news.
What is actually confirmed is plain. The final battle began in August of 2025. Now, almost a year later, Weekly Shonen Jump has told readers the end is finally in sight. Suzuki has been taking his time building this out: a one-shot in 2019, a weekly series in 2020, a spinoff and two novels in between, and an anime already expanding into a second season. Plus, there’s a live-action film that sold over a million tickets in its first eight days. The real surprise would be a patient ending, not a rushed one.
The anime’s second season will air in January 2027. By then, will the manga have finished, or is it still working through its climax? That’s the real question worth watching. Every platform this story exists on today, from print to Netflix to movie theaters, the source material is heading toward its ending, but it’s still moving forward.
A lot is happening all at once.”
If you’ve been with Sakamoto Days since the first one-shot back in 2019, you’ve waited this long. It is better to have a patient end than a hurried one.
As long as Weekly Shonen Jump doesn’t say otherwise, week-to-week is the only honest way to follow it. The magazine is guessing at anything more specific, not somebody.
