📖 MangaSakamoto Days Chapter 263 — Gaku Is ALIVE: Japanese Fans React, Crying With Relief — "My all-time favorite is back. I started bawling."
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.