Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto

nathandouglasdavis Apr 8, 2019

1

My first thought was to call this a satire of cool people, but then I realized that Sakamoto's mannerisms aren't reflective of actual "cool" people from reality but rather of a series of tropes that manga frequently use to evoke the idea of coolness. So instead of calling this a satire, it would be more accurate to call it a parody of this type of character from manga. Sakamoto doesn't let anything perturb or surprise fem; fe's always in control of the situation to such an extreme level that it's supposed to be funny. But most of the time, it's not very funny--it's just exaggerated. As I was reading the "Omake" extra chapter, Sakamoto's over-the-top physical capabilities reminded me of the sensei from Assassination Classroom...just thought I'd mention that. Each chapter builds up to one climactic, ridiculous scene, but none of these central scenes are laugh-out-loud funny and in the really bad chapters, they're not even funny at all. The mediocre humor combined with the atrocious art makes this a very forgettable manga.

pup9439 Jan 14, 2023

5

This has a few good ideas in it but it's a long way from being a masterpiece.  If you like that teacher character in Spy x Family who's fixated on doing things elegantly, you'll probably like the main character who is also supremely elegant.  Sakamoto, although a common high school boy, is kind of a Mr Jeeves-like character, who is mysteriously good at everything.  He'd make the ultimate butler.  While he's drawn as very handsome, I didn't like the way so many extra characters are drawn as ugly or fat.  Also some of the gags did not work on me.  It's readable, and it's only 30 chapters, but, after getting hooked by the first chapter, I found the rest a bit meh.  Edit: the ending was well written and quite poignant.

PharuanUndearth Jun 6, 2016

6.3

Don't take the score to be bad, it's just an overall score this is one of those low-scoring mangas that definitely deserves to be read once, but only once. As of all my manga sources, there are only 20 chapters, not the 27 this and another site have but I digress. The story gets such a low score for many reasons it ends way too soon, but then again there was no end goal for the series either just Sakamoto doing his thing being Sakamoto and the end fight never really happened; yet. Seeing as this mangaka likes to take a six-month break from time to time, usually once a year. The main overall story is really just random things that happen to Sakamoto. Well it's a very engrossing read and the art is very good, characters are different from what I'm used to so they get an ok score. Again it is worth one read but no more.