Kei Uzuki just unlocked a version of Taro Sakamoto that fans have wanted to see for years, and it is not the dad-bod store owner readers know today. Sakamoto Days Chapter 270 confirms Uzuki now has four personalities living inside him, and the newest one is built entirely around Sakamoto at the height of his killing days.
That reveal alone would be huge. But it also forces a question the fandom has been dancing around since the JAA arc started. If Uzuki’s version of Sakamoto is modeled on the assassin’s absolute peak, does that mean the Sakamoto fighting alongside Shin and Nagumo right now is objectively worse than he used to be?
What Chapter 270 Actually Reveals About Prime Sakamoto
Lu Wutang lays out the mechanics clearly in this chapter. Uzuki’s dissociative personalities do not just appear at random; they form in moments of extreme stress, near death, or the loss of someone close to him. His new Sakamoto persona traces back a full decade, to the night Uzuki nearly died fighting Sakamoto directly.
That timing matters a lot. This is not a copy of the retired shopkeeper readers followed through the early volumes. It is a snapshot frozen at the exact moment Sakamoto was operating at what the story itself is now calling his prime, before marriage, before Hana, before years away from fieldwork softened his edges.
Nagumo’s reaction says everything. He is stunned that Uzuki is still standing, still moving, still fighting at a pace that should not be possible after the beating he has already taken. Readers online are asking the same thing Nagumo is asking out loud. What kind of plot armor lets someone absorb this much punishment and keep going?
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Is Current Sakamoto Really Weaker?
Here is the nuance a lot of chapter recaps are skipping. Prime Sakamoto being terrifying does not automatically mean present-day Sakamoto has lost a step in actual skill. Uzuki is not fighting the real Sakamoto; he is fighting his own decade-old memory of him, sharpened by trauma and stress into something almost mythic.
Sakamoto Days has spent over 250 chapters building the idea that Sakamoto’s real strength was never just physical. His reads on an opponent, his improvisation, and his refusal to kill unless absolutely necessary have carried him through fights that should have gone badly on paper. A version of him stripped down to pure combat instinct, with none of that restraint, is a different weapon entirely, not necessarily a stronger one.
That said, the manga clearly wants readers to question it. Sakamoto has visibly slowed down since retiring, and the story has leaned into his weight gain and rusty instincts for comedy in the past. Chapter 270 is the first time that softer framing gets used as a genuine threat instead of a joke.
The bigger worry now is unpredictability. If Uzuki can flip between Sakamoto’s precision and Takamura’s raw aggression mid-fight with zero warning, Shin and the others are not just facing one dangerous opponent; they are facing a moving target that rewrites its own fighting style in real time.
Sakamoto Days Chapter 271 releases August 10, 2026.
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