Sakamoto Days Chapter 263 — Gaku Is ALIVE: Japanese Fans React, Crying With Relief — "My all-time favorite is back. I started bawling."
サカモトデイズ263話 楽は生きていた 日本のファンの反応
“Not gonna lie, I FREAKED OUT the second I saw it…! So happy he's alive!!”
マジで最初見た時ビビった、、、！ 生きてて嬉しい！！
Sakamoto Days Chapter 263 brought back Gaku (楽) — and Japan's reaction was less analysis, more raw relief. The most-liked comments are people openly admitting they'd been quietly grieving a character they were sure was dead, only to be hit with "he's alive" — and many say they straight-up cried. From there the thread splits two ways. One half is pure emotion ("my all-time favorite, I was bawling"), the other dives into the dread hiding inside the good news: Gaku referring to "the geezer who killed me" has fans convinced he's still hovering somewhere near death. Then come the theory threads only manga readers this deep would run — Gaku vs Slur incoming, a Gaku-and-Nagumo tag-team to take Slur down, the possibility that Takamura is alive too ("if arms can be reattached, why not a torso and legs?"), and the question of exactly which old footage of X is playing on that monitor. With the Netflix anime's Season 2 teaser fresh in everyone's feed, it's the perfect window into how Japan actually took the news.
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 43)
- @ゆう-i4g2p👍 23
Honestly, nothing has ever made me this happy.
もうほんとにこんなに嬉しいことはない
- @ライム-g5z👍 9
He's my all-time favorite character, so thank god he's alive———— I straight up cried!!
人生の最推しだから生きてて良かったーーー 泣いちゃいました!！
- @K.R.OO.R.K👍 29
Gaku's my fave, so I'm genuinely so happy. 😢
楽推しだしまじでうれしい。😢
- @Mai-q1p7n👍 8
I'd been so down thinking Gaku was dead — this twist could legit kill me (in the best way).
楽死んだと思ってめちゃくちゃ凹んでたからこの展開は死ねる
- @いお-0924👍 16
So, so glad he's alive.
生きててよかったぁ
- @聖-c6x👍 10
Gaku woke up! I'm so happy! (>ω<)
楽起きた!嬉しい!(>ω<)
- @ZATU_Ryuchannel👍 27
Gaku's just so cool, isn't he.
楽かっこいいよな
- @柴犬-h2v👍 0
Yeah, I really do love Gaku. So cool!
やっぱり楽好きだなぁ！かっこいい！
- @スラハch-q1z👍 23
Gaku calling him "the geezer who killed me" is genuinely scary — like he might really be hovering on the edge of death.
楽が俺を殺したジジイって言ってるからまじで死を彷徨ってそうで怖い
- @sam_ryu1👍 0
Seriously, what is going on with this guy's life force.
まじで生命力どうなってん
- @足湯-p3x👍 20
So Gaku was alive this whole time…! Also… I'm getting this feeling Takamura might be alive too? Is it just me?
楽生きとったんか…！ なんか、やっぱ篁さん生きてる感じするんやけど…俺だけ？
- @スラハch-q1z👍 3
I mean — if this is happening, Takamura coming back too is totally on the table.
てか、篁さんまで復活の可能性あるやん。
- @ザワ景👍 1
Calling it now: Takamura's consciousness transfers into Gaku.
楽に篁さん移る展開
- @島田南👍 0
I mean, I never thought Gaku would just die like that. But Takamura got chopped into how many pieces — is his death actually confirmed?
まぁあのまま死ぬとは思ってなかったけどな でも篁は体何分割に斬られたから死んだの確定？
- @ヒノノニトン-m2x👍 1
So the "if you can reattach an arm, you can reattach a torso and legs too" theory turned out to be right after all.
やはり腕接合できるから上半身と下半身も接合できるやろ理論はやっぱり間違ってなかったんだ
- @まさ-f2q5i👍 1
So are we headed for a Gaku vs Slur showdown?
これは楽VSスラーの展開になるか
- @NOKOMUKU👍 9
Gaku vs Slur, here we go!
楽vsスラーか！
- @shilvestr👍 0
Plot-wise, maybe Nagumo and Gaku tag-team to take Slur down? If so, that would be SO emotional.
展開的に南雲と楽がタッグになってスラー倒しにいくんかな？だとしたら激エモい
- @紫門BackEndr👍 17
We might get to see Gaku vs Nagumo again, too.
また楽vs南雲が見れるかも
- @吉田コック👍 1
But I love both of these guys, so honestly I just want them to end up on the same side.
でもこの戦いどっちも好きだから、仲間になってほしいな
- @魚_gyo👍 1
Gaku's back! I'm so happy! …But does this mean Gaku and Slur are going to have to fight each other…?
楽くん復活しましたね！嬉しいです！ 楽くんとスラー戦うことになっちゃうんですかね…？
- @ほりぐちきゅうり👍 65
I love Takamura so much, this is hilarious.
篁だいすきでおもろい
- @赫-z4q👍 4
I wonder which era of X that footage on the monitor is from. At this point I really want to believe the Takamura personality is gone for good.
モニターに映ってるのはXのいつの映像だろう さすがに篁人格は消えたと信じたい
- @みたらし団子-t2e👍 7
Isn't Gaku way too sharp?
楽鋭すぎん？
- @みたらし団子-t2e👍 1
Like, how does he even know — it's just an image on a screen. Kinda terrifying lol lol
@椿-r3c8 なんでわかるんだろうね〜、画像なのに。怖っwww
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