All I needed to start reading **Sakamoto Days** was to know that Hiromu Arakawa, the legendary writer of **Fullmetal Alchemist**, called it one of her favorite manga in recent memory. Of course, she never misses. I’ve already devoured 25 chapters and can’t wait to continue to catch up. **Sakamoto Days** is about a former legendary hitman named Sakamoto who quits the gig because he falls in love, then starts a family and opens a convenience store in a small town. His former organization doesn’t take kindly to that, and thus puts a bounty on his head. Now Sakamoto and a couple of friends have to remove that bounty without breaking his wife’s number one rule: no killing! It’s cute as fuck, and almost made me tear up a few times? The writing in this manga is so restrained-yet-sincere that it somehow manages to punch me in the gut. And speaking of punches, this is some of the best drawn action I’ve ever seen in a manga. I tend to rewatch fight scenes from manga I read because sometimes the visibility is just tough to get — **My Hero Academia** and **Jujutsu Kaisen** were particularly bad about this. But **Sakamoto Days** is gorgeous to look at. Every panel is so clean and easy to parse that if I were an artist or mangaka that wanted to get into this genre, I’d be considering these volumes as study material. [[Gachiakuta - Manga|I’ve said before]] that I’m never truly going to form an opinion about a manga before I finish it — too often do they fall apart after a strong start. But I have high hopes for **Sakamoto Days**!