Love makes us all do strange things. For Taro Sakamoto, it made him leave behind a successful career as a legendary hitman to run a convenience store. As he builds a new life for his wife and daughter, he has to deal with the increasingly bizarre collection of former enemies and allies from his old life. The Sakamoto Days manga has a pretty consistent release schedule if you’re looking for a unique mixture of frantic action and comedy.

How often do new Sakamoto Days chapters come out?

Sakamoto Days is published in Weekly Shonen Jump, which, as the name implies, releases new chapters on a weekly basis. While there are occasional missed chapters and hiatuses that happen, the Sakamoto Days release schedule has always been consistent among other Shonen Jump titles.

When is the Sakamoto Days 260 release date?

With new chapters of Sakamoto Days coming out every week, it is usually pretty easy to know when the next chapter will be released. Sakamoto Days chapter 259 was released on May 17, 2026. The next chapter will be Sakamoto Days 260 on May 24, 2026.

The upcoming Sakamoto Days release schedule is:

• May 24: Chapter 260
• May 31: Chapter 261
• June 7: Chapter 262
• June 14: Chapter 263

What time do new chapters of Sakamoto Days come out?

Like other Weekly Shonen Jump manga, like One Piece, new Sakamoto Days chapters typically come out on Sundays in the US, which is Monday morning in Japan. New Sakamoto Days chapters are released at 11:00 am EST on Sundays.

Where can you read Sakamoto Days?

Shueisha has made it remarkably easy for fans around the world to read Sakamoto Days. New chapters are added to the Shonen Jump app and the Viz Media website as soon as they are available in Japan. This means that you have no excuse not to get caught up on Sakamoto Days if you’ve got a subscription to either of these.

When is Sakamoto Days season 2 coming out?

The Sakamoto Days anime came out in January 2025 and was one of our most anticipated anime of the year. While it might have shocked some fans by being more of a comedy than the action series people expected, it did well enough that Sakamoto Days Season 2 was confirmed in December 2025. No release date for Sakamoto Days Season 2 has been announced yet, so we expect it may arrive in 2027. We’ll keep an eye out for any announcements however.

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