Hamatora | |
The cover of the first Hamatora: The Comic volume released on February 19, 2014.
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ハマトラ | |
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Genre | Action, Mystery, Supernatural |
Manga | |
Hamatora: The Comic | |
Written by | Yukino Kitajima |
Illustrated by | Yūki Kodama |
Published by | Shueisha |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Weekly Young Jump |
Original run | November 21, 2013 – December 11, 2014 |
Volumes | 3 |
Anime television series | |
Hamatora: The Animation | |
Directed by |
Seiji Kishi Hiroshi Kimura |
Written by | Tōko Machida Jun Kumagai |
Music by | Makoto Yoshimori |
Studio | NAZ |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TV Tokyo, TVA, TVO, AT-X |
Original run | January 8, 2014 – March 26, 2014 |
Episodes | 12 |
Anime television series | |
Re:_Hamatora | |
Directed by | Seiji Kishi |
Written by | Jun Kumagai |
Music by | Makoto Yoshimori |
Studio | Lerche |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TV Tokyo, TVA, TVO, AT-X |
Original run | July 8, 2014 – September 23, 2014 |
Episodes | 12 |
Anime television series | |
Mini Hama: Minimum Hamatora | |
Directed by | Masaomi Ando |
Written by | Yasuhiro Nakanishi |
Music by | Akira Narasaki |
Studio | Lerche |
Original network | AT-X, dTV |
Original run | November 2, 2015 – December 21, 2015 |
Episodes | 8 |
Anime film | |
Fw:Hamatora | |
Directed by | Seiji Kishi |
Written by | Jun Kumagai |
Music by | Makoto Yoshimori |
Studio | Lerche |
Released | November 14, 2015 |
Hamatora (ハマトラ?, lit. "Yokohama Troubleshooter") is a Japanese mixed-media project. The project began with a manga series written by Yukino Kitajima and Yūki Kodama as the character designer, while Yū Wazu is adapting the design to the illustration. The manga, Hamatora: The Comic, started serialization in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine in November 2013. An anime television series, Hamatora: The Animation, by the studio NAZ premiered on TV Tokyo and ran for twelve episodes between January 8 and March 26, 2014. It was followed by a second series by Lerche starting in July 2014, Re:_ Hamatora. Additionally, a role-playing game titled Hamatora: Look at Smoking World developed by FuRyu was released in July 2014. Other related titles include a light novel and a stage play.
The series takes place in the year 2014 when selected humans called Minimum Holders have been discovered to possess supernatural abilities. The story focuses on Minimum Holder Nice who forms a detective agency called "Hamatora" based in Yokohama and he starts gathering a large number of allies such as his partner Murasaki and assistant Hajime as well as enemies including several criminals. The anime stars Ryōta Ōsaka, Wataru Hatano, Hiroshi Kamiya, Emiri Katō, Kiyono Yasuno, Jun Fukuyama, and Yuichi Nakamura among others.