Hamatora The Animation (2024)

silverwalls

Not Recommended

Asfaria

Mixed Feelings

Hamatora is an anime that showed plenty of promise at first. It could have been excellent if not for one major setback: most of the anime is filler. The story is actually great when it gets down to it, but having one of the most thrilling scenes of any show this season followed up by a beach episode before returning to the actual plot just destroys the mood and momentum this show could have built up much more. That's not the only problem, but it certainly is the biggest and most noticeable one.

Hamatora is an anime with a similar style to things like Persona 4 ...

ScarletCrystal

Recommended

“You have no business telling me that I’m strong or alone or whatever. In fact, it’s no one’s business to decide who’s weak or strong.” – Nice

Hamatora The Animation is one that will leave you excited, shocked, angry, and confused at some point. Set in the year that this anime aired, people in this world will have a power called a “Minimum”, therefore being called “Minimum Holders.” “It is an extraordinary power beyond the understanding of man that manifests whenever a specific condition is met in the form of an action.” Unfortunately, others won’t have this kind of power because they weren’t born or ...

Stark700

Mixed Feelings

Certain humans born with special powers. How many series have you watched involved some sort of a similar theme? What Hamatora delivers includes a package of characters known as “Minimum Holders”. Yet everything else it comes with is hardly anything but special. In essence, Hamatora is a sour bag of trite cliches formulated by its premise. For what it’s worth, this show’s is dense with minimal value.

To trace back a bit, we learn that there are special humans with abilities that are known as “Minimum Holders” in a setting known as Yokohama City. The titular title “Hamatora” is a collectively group of Minimum Holders ...

neropepero

Recommended

The progression of my reaction to Hamatora can be summed up as the following:

"Oh this is interesting..ok..ok?...wait, WHATTT?!?!

Hamatora is a mystery/supernatural based anime with some comedy mixed in. Sounds somewhat generic but what sets it apart are the unexpected twists, the small gaps within the story in this series, and the last episode.

The artwork and music are both not outstanding in particular. Enjoyable but nothing that screams "NOTICE ME, I WANT YOUR LOVE." There isn't much character development, however, that's not to say that there aren't interesting characters...I can think of at least 4 characters whose character and ...

BlueOla

Recommended

“All human beings can only perceive the world through the filter of their values. Mediocre values may be harmless, but they are also utterly worthless.” - Moral

Story (7/10)

Hamatora is the collective name of a group of detectives, who solve various cases in order to earn a living. Sounds rather standard, doesn’t it? Well, not exactly. All the members of Hamatora poses some superhuman power, be it incredible speed, or inhuman strength. These are known as ‘minimums’, rare innate abilities which only a small percentage of humans can use. Of course, regular citizens have no idea of existence of such individuals, in order to protect the ...

Swagstorm

Not Recommended

The concept of Hamatora sounded interesting, but its execution was horrid.
*Tiny bit of spoilers

Story 3

More then four of the episodes felt like filler episodes. Honestly can't remember the plot because they were so boring. The main story is very lackluster on top of that as it is little deeper then the description provided for an explanation of what the series is about.

Art 8

This is where this show excelled and made me watch the rest. The fights were so evenly distributed to all the characters you didn't begin to get bored of their lack of deviation of abilities or how they used they ...

xDarkrai

Recommended

Alright, first review. Anyways I felt the need to write this because this Anime is a hidden gem and it's also one of my favorites.

Story 7/10 - The plot had an interesting premise. People are born with super powers and they keep it hidden because they might get oppressed due to it. Hmm...sounds like X-Men. Anyways I don't know enough about X-Men to compare them further. The story starts out episodic with the Main Characters running a detective agency, doing whatever jobs they can to support themselves. All the while in the background the main plot slowly blooms until it matures and comes out. You ...

Keikaku2871

Recommended

Tried to keep spoilers to a minimum.

I am personally not a fan of animes with the tag "The Animation". My first was Persona4, which was a huge disappointment, followed by Devil Survivor 2 which was ok, and Danganronpa which had potential to become better but was needlessly butchered. But Hamatora The Animation is on a different league, and it probably wouldn't be good to club it with others with the same tag.

The art (not the character Art, no pun intended) was good, decent at its best, and nowadays most animes have great visuals and since it is not disturbing or anything imo Hamatora shouldn't really ...

Republic

Not Recommended

All the colours of the rainbow!!!

The best thing to say about the show is it's really colourful in a fresh way. This supplements the opening and endings really well.

Next to that there's not much to this show.
There's some really cool character designs, though it's just a shame they weren't given real character. Any character development is outshined by it's plot development. Which is funny 'cause... it's pretty awful.
Just as it seems like knows what direction it wants to go, it takes a very confusing turn everytime. Don't mistake this for plot twists 'cause it's nothing more than bad writing.
There's potential here, with the cool character ...

gaysocks

Recommended

Wasn't gonna write a review for this one. Did it anyways. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Story: 9
Hamatora gets a 9 in my book. Maybe I'm a sucker for episodic animes with a hidden plot backbone (Akuma no Riddle was a personal favorite of mine in this category) but I really feel like Hamatora took its plot in the right direction. Some episodes seem fillerish or too forced, but then by the end you realize that the events of the episode connected back to the plot all along! The last episode left me needing more, and when I found Re:_Hamatora, I was incredibly disappointed in the quality of the ...

pyrogate

Recommended

STORY (7)

Hamatora the Animation takes place in a world and time similar to ours except that there are people with supernatural abilities or "minimums". The story focuses on an odd jobs / detective group composed of minimum holders called Hamatora.

The series is mostly episodic following the adventures of the main protagonist, Nice, and his partner Murasaki. Majority of the episodes follow a format where each pair of Hamatora minimum holders take separate cases and as the episode concludes, it is revealed that all the cases are related. This would've been okay for the first few of the 12 episodes just to introduce what Hamatora does ...

Elfster

Mixed Feelings

Hamatora the Animation takes place in the world where some humans are born with superpowers. Pretty typical setting. Let's try again.

Hamatora the Animation takes place in the world where people are born inequal. Sounds vaguely familiar. I think I've seen this before. /looks around/

Hamatora the Animation takes place in the world where some of the powerful have The Idea how the world should be made right. Now /this/, depending on what they have in mind and how far they are ready to go, just might become interesting.

Did it? Well, it depends. On a surface it's somewhat entertaining story, with a few plot twists and a ...

Saber_Princess

Recommended

Hamatora The Animation is exciting at one point and confusing at another point. Nevertheless, there are actually a number of good reasons why you can enjoy this anime. :)

Story: 7/10

This anime is centralized in a detective-mystery-investigation theme that involves super-human powers and intertwined narratives that tell us an interesting and rather complicated story. As the series goes deep, the story actually becomes crazy and confusing at a certain point, and confusing it actually ends. Nevertheless, I really liked how it was portrayed as a surreal environment and yet it actually touches realistic concepts of discrimination and social systems. I find the individual cases itself interesting, ...

KatrinLouiseo24

Recommended

Synopsis:
The story revolves around "Minimum" —special hereditary powers discovered only in an extremely limited number of humans. Those who possess such powers are known as "Minimum Holders." The Hamatora is a group of freelancers that'll do anything in exchange for money and they do their jobs in pairs (Nice&Murasaki, Ratio&Birthday). The police, led by Art, usually asks help to the Hamatora.

Story:10
The story is very interesting. It leaves me hanging on every episode so I was like "I need to watch the next one!" "What will happen next?!". Everything is very awesome, It was very mind-shaking.. It'll leave you thinking. Also, added the intentions of every ...

Oixo

Recommended

When it comes to cliff hanger endings this should win a award.

---Story--- (7/10)
The story follows Nice and his adventures with the group of Hamatora a group of people who take up tasks for money and complete them with there Mininum powers.

---Art--- (9/10)
When it comes to the art of Hamatora it is above average and different. It is flashy and uses practially ever color in the rainbow. The fight seens are different and can get a bit gorie.

---Sound--- (6/10)
Music is nothing special the opening and ending are nothing really special or catchy.
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Caenn

Mixed Feelings

In the world which we live in chosen have been granted abilities of superhuman nature by birth, with the blessing of having power to claim salvation or devastation comes the ideology and battle between the weak and the strong. Should the episodes grasp your opinion or should it extinguish the flames of equality? Could it open your heart out for the people deemed without the fortune of having such, that is the question of and for private detective agency Hamatora.
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Story - [ 5 / 10 ] [ Has/Had potential only to be ruined by poor writing of two different minds ]

Main protagonist is a young ...

Naoki__

Not Recommended

Well, I'm sure I can't say anything new, more than these reviews already did, however, I'd like to give my personal opinion about this.

I happened to watch Hamatora because I love Pyscho-Pass, and this anime was in the recommendations. At first, I had faith, but then I lost it in the second episode I lost it. This is nothing like Psycho-Pass.

The characters are so poorly built is obnoxious to look at them, there's no background, the story is not interesting, rarely appealing. And if anyone can compare these two (Nice and Moral with Kogami and Makishima) please refrain yourself from committing such a crime. Moral ...

GonWithARose

Mixed Feelings

Unoriginal, predictable, repetitive and for the most part boring and “wanting”

When I start doing something -whether reading a book, watching a movie or in this case an anime- my attempt and “promise” –to call it somehow- is to watch it completely, it doesn’t matter how good or bad it is. Eventually you’ll –might- be able to find something that “catches” your eyes –whether a characters aptitude, or the art or even the soundtrack- so I’ll start this review, keep in mind that this is MY PERSONAL review, in no way I’m telling or trying to mess with your own opinion:

-STORY: 3-
From the start it was ...

Axernea

Mixed Feelings

I never drop a series (anime or tv), movie, book or manga, even if it sucks. I try to watch or read it till the end. Perhaps it's the hope that maybe, just maybe, it'll get better. Sometimes, it does get better. Sometimes it doesn't. I held the same hope for Hamatora.

Story: 3/10
The story revolves around "Minimum" or "minor miracle"—special hereditary powers discovered only in an extremely limited number of humans. Those who possess such powers are known as "Minimum Holders."
Could've been a lot more, but sadly failed. One of the worst villains too.

Art: 7/10
At first, it was really good. I love the colourful ...