Fans Waiting for Sakamoto Days Anime MUST Read This Assassin Manhwa

Summary Killer Peter offers a fresh hitman story with unique quirks and a blend of John Wick and Sakamoto Days elements.

The webtoon features engaging action, humor, and an exciting storyline, while setting itself apart from Sakamoto Days.

Killer Peter's distinct art style, moodier protagonist, and captivating fight scenes make it an entertaining choice for fans of the genre.

For fans of Sakamoto Days, the concept of assassins trying to live quietly in retirement as they slip out of their prime is already a familiar one, but it's given new life in Naver Webtoon. Taro Sakamoto is a lovable and entertaining character who does his best to not break his family rules so he can maintain his happy, normal life. However, with webtoons constantly on the rise, another exciting hitman story is making the rounds with Killer Peter, featuring an aged hitman dying from cancer, with enough unique quirks as a series to feel fresh for Sakamoto Days fans.

Killer Peter has been available on Webtoon since November 1, 2023, and is still largely free to read, complete with fantastic artwork, comedic twists to complement its bombastic action, and an exciting overarching storyline. Unlike Sakamoto Days, the eponymous protagonist Peter often goes toward the action after an incident in Killer Peter's brilliant first chapter which mysteriously restores his body back to its prime, peak condition.

Now Peter must take the fight to Glory Club, encountering eclectic fighters and gathering surprising allies along the way.

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Killer Peter Blends John Wick and Sakamoto Days for Manhwa Fans

Webtoon's Hitman Comic Balances Humor and Brilliant Action

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Comparing Killer Peter and Sakamoto Days is easy enough, given they receive similar treatments in the first chapter, complete with inciting incidents in the form of strangers trying to assassinate them in their stores. It's also easy to compare the two stories to John Wick, as a predictable trope emerges connecting these series, each spun into motion by a home invasion, or storefront invasion, that brings out their killer instincts. Each of the characters, Peter and Sakamoto, are more than capable and cunning, either in Peter's advanced years, or Sakamoto's weight, able to fend off their assailants.

It's also easy to compare the two stories to John Wick, as a predictable trope emerges connecting these series, each spun into motion by a home invasion, or storefront invasion, that brings out their killer instincts.

Much like the infamous John Wick pencil story, Peter and Sakamoto have a knack for surprising improvised weapons, with early cases like spitting lozenges to stop bullets, or using mollusk tentacles like nunchaku. Sakamoto Days even uses impressive gunplay to set itself apart. However, the differences begin to grow when Peter immediately embarks on a quest to infiltrate his former organization, the seemingly benevolent Glory Club akin to John Wick's Continental and Sakamoto Days' Order. With a bounty on Peter's head starting at ₩7.6bn, similar to Sakamoto's predicament, it's easy to see the two having overlapping readership.

Killer Peter Is Different Enough to Feel Fresh

Style, Presentation, and Tone Go a Long Way

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While Peter's drastic transformation turning him back into a fit assassin being similar to how Taro Sakamoto can burn countless calories instantly to drop weight in battle, Killer Peter avoids feeling derivative of Sakamoto Days. Part of this is due to Webtoon's unique presentation, including music backdrops for critical chapters, a distinctively detailed and immaculate art style, and a moodier protagonist. Peter is an incredibly gifted assassin, able to get out of lethal binds with enemies who can seemingly dance around the edge of the laws of nature.

In Killer Peter's most consequential fights, a large portion of his confrontations give engaging backstories of his enemies, before Peter creatively defeats them, such as with superior fighting abilities, or hopelessly incapacitating them.

Killer Peter features strange abilities like Octoman's contortions and Sangdo Park's godly knife-fighting talents as well as the looming question of how Peter reverted to his prime, cancer-free body. Sakamoto Days features similarly uncanny or even unnatural abilities, but its delivery is different, with Sakamoto still in his twenties, wishing not to cross boundaries by killing his enemies, although Sakamoto Days occasionally goes to gory extremes. while in Killer Peter, Peter is willing to cross that line. With Webtoon's Killer Peter being entertaining and surprisingly funny, it's an easy choice for readers while they wait for the Sakamoto Days anime.