Line #50 Anime/Hamatora


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3	In this world, a small percentage of the population has superpowers, and these people are called Minimum Holders. The series follows a group of detectives, who are all Minimum Holders, and their adventures as they take cases throughout Yokohama City. Meanwhile, the Yokohama police are completely puzzled trying to solve the case of a SerialKiller who targets only Minimum Holders...
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5	Hamatora is a mixed-media project created by Natsu Matsumai and Yūki Kodama. It has a manga by Yukino Kitajima and Yūki Kodama published in Weekly Young Jump magazine starting in November 13 2013, an anime airing from January 9 as part of the Winter 2014 lineup, and a 3DS video game called ''Hamatora: Look at Smoking World'' was released in summer of 2014. A second season of the anime aired in the summer 2014 lineup.
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7	Also available: [[Characters/{{Hamatora}} a character list.]]
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9	''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Definitely]]'' should not be confused with ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}''.
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11	!The tropes in this series include:
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13	* AboveGoodAndEvil: [[spoiler:Moral shows signs of being one. He sees it not as good and evil, but as weak and strong. The strong do the crimes and the reason for the strong getting punishment is because the weak are jealous the strong could even do the crime in the first place.]]
14	* TheAce: Nice, who [[spoiler:graduated from Facultas with the highest grades in the school's ''history'', and is so great that his existence and Minimum are kept a secret.]]
15	** Also Murasaki, who scored the second highest at Facultas.
16	* AerithAndBob: You've got names like Hajime and Murasaki alongside Ratio, Birthday, Art, and Nice.
17	* AllGaysArePromiscuous: PlayedForLaughs in Episode 5. [[spoiler: Turns out it wasn't by choice.]]
18	* AnimationBump: Re:Hamatora features greatly improved animation and coloring.
19	* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: [[spoiler: Moral offers Art Minimum powers [[InsaneTrollLogic so that he could be a proper friend to Nice]]. Art refuses, and Moral promptly shoots him to death.]]
20	* AntiClimax: Expect the most exciting, tense scenes to end in the most mundane way possible. For example, [[spoiler: Episode 10 ending in Nice finally meeting Moral, and at the beginning of 11... [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu he takes him to Nowhere Cafe]]]].
21	* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: During the hot springs episode when the girls were taken hostage, [[spoiler: the terrorists dimiss them as they were not interested in them]]. This enrages Honey, prompting Koneko and Hajime to join in (the former not entirely sure why, the later because dinner would be cancelled).
22	* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Theo's teacher turns out to be one of these]]
23	** In episode 10, some Mininum haters are viciously attacked and Three's LoonyFan is beaten to death by random strangers.
24	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Non-romantic example with Nice and [[spoiler:Murasaki]] in Episode 7 of ''Re:Hamatora''.
25	* BeachEpisode: Episode 8.
26	* [[BewareTheNiceOnes Beware Nice:]] He can be quite harsh despite his name.
27	* BigEater: Hajime. Koneko even says it's rare for her to share her food with anybody she's just met.
28	* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:Moral is defeated, and Art is alive, everything seems well... and then as Nice is looking at Moral, Art points his gun at Nice's head. Fade to black, gunshot, credits.]]
29	** [[spoiler:He survived]].
30	* BookEnds: ''Re: Hamatora'' ends in the same way its opening begins.
31	* BrainInAJar: [[spoiler:''A huge room with hundreds of them'', taken from people with Minimum powers.]]
32	* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler: Moral to poor Art in Episode 3, to the point he lost his usual composture and grabbed him by the collar.]]
33	* BreatherEpisode: Episode 7 of ''Re:Hamatora'', in spades.
34	* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Theo goes into a HeroicBSOD when he finds out his beloved teacher, who was supposedly supporting him throughout the bullying he was receiving, was the one inciting the bullies in the first place.]]
35	* TheCasanova: Murasaki's client's deceased father was revealed to be sleeping with a number of women.
36	** Episode 7 features a man who has slept with a number of idols, and isn't shy about it at all.
37	* CastFullOfPrettyBoys
38	* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: In Episode 7, Birthday is flirting with a woman at the hospital. Later, she is revealed to be Moral's assistant.]]
39	** [[spoiler:Said assistant, whose name is Momoka, is revealed to have an even bigger role in the story, being the "Saikyou" supporting/collaborating with Art and the Freemums.]]
40	* ChildhoodFriends: Ratio and Birthday.
41	* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler: The last episode ends in one.]]
42	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Birthday is kinda odd.
43	* ComfortFood: [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/d716fb73b70be28690f02b94e43f6632/tumblr_n17nspCe4n1s8sotmo1_500.gif Hajime shares her meal with Nice in episode 7]] to confort him which says a lot considering what a glutton she is.
44	* CovertPervert: Nice at least in the manga.
45	** He's not so Covert in the anime.
46	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Some spoilerific examples.
47	* CursedWithAwesome: Lampshaded. The teenager who went berserk in episode 3 after being used by Moral is happier than ever as noted by Nice.
48	* DarkerAndEdgier: Literally, Re:Hamatora's color scheme is darker than the first season's. It is also more serious and plot-driven.
49	* DefectiveDetective: Hajime might not have the best personality, but in the manga Hajime shows she can assist Nice in solving cases.
50	* DirtyOldMan: Murasaki's client's deceased father, in addition to his affairs. [[spoiler:His impregnable safe was full of dirty magazines.]]
51	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In Re:Hamatora, [[spoiler: Art extracts Minimum powers from their Holders, saying he'll take all their sins, and uses them on himself. He can also revive from death. [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Really subtle]].]]
52	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The ending theme, ''Hikari'', is sung by Murasaki's VA, Creator/WataruHatano.
53	** Re:Hamatora's ending theme, ''Brand New World'', is performed by Ayami, Chiyuu's VA.
54	* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: In episode 11.
55	* EmotionlessGirl: Hajime gives off this vibe.
56	* EnemyMine: The reason for [[spoiler: Art]]'s alliance with the Freenum
57	* EvolvingCredits: The opening theme had three different animation sequences, and the third one remains for the rest of the show. On the other hand, the first version of the ending theme was covered in {{Engrish}} [[SpoilerOpening spoilers]]. Doubles as a BilingualBonus.
58	* {{Expy}}: The first chapter of the manga, Nice's client looks just like [[Manga/BloodLad Fuyumi]]. The character designs were done by Blood Lad's mangaka.
59	** Moral will remind to more than one ''Anime/PsychoPass'' viewer of the BigBad Shogo Makishima not only for their physical similarities but also their roles as philosophers and criminals.
60	** The villain in Episode 6 was totally channeling [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando]], [[CatchPhrase MUDA MUDA MUDA]] included.
61	** The Maou in [[spoiler: the drug dealer's fantasy]] in Episode 8 is Seymour from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' with a color swap.
62	** In the first episode of the second season, the {{Yandere}} girl resembles Rui from Anime/GatchamanCrowds. (Or even better, Katze impersonating him).
63	* EyepatchOfPower: Ratio has one, which hides his Minimum.
64	* FairCop: Art.
65	* FantasticRacism: Inverted. Minimum Holders, especially those who graduate from Facultas Academy, get better treatment than most [[{{Muggle}} Muggles]].
66	** Episode 10, reveals that the populace didn't know about it.
67	* FauxlosophicNarration: The first episode starts with one. It turns out it's Murasaki trying to tell Nice that he can't withdraw 430 yen (about $4.15) out of a bank.
68	* FourIsDeath: [[spoiler:Murasaki]]'s hospital room is ''444''. As if that weren't enough, his friends make it worse by bringing a potted plant. A camellia, to boot. [[labelnote:note]]As Ratio points out, potted plants are considered bad luck. And red camellias mean bad luck for warriors.[[/labelnote]]
69	* TheGlassesComeOff: And when they do, Murasaki's Minimum activates.
70	* GoodCopBadCop: Ratio and Birthday pull this in Episode 6, with Ratio as the Good Cop and Birthday as the Bad Cop (in a hilariously over the top way). It works, except for [[spoiler: what happened during "the Bad Cop leaves" part]].
71	* GoodOldFisticuffs: Ratio uses brass knuckles, since his Minimum isn't combat-based.
72	* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: Moral shoots Art to death five times, Art comes back and shoots Moral 5 times to death]].
73	* HotSpringsEpisode: Episode 5, but it involves less fanservice than usual. It goes for HilarityEnsues instead.
74	* HyperlinkStory: The three separate jobs in episode 1, turned out to be all related.
75	** Every episode is like this. Throw-away gags, random background characters and the like will probably converge in the case solution at the end.
76	* {{Hypocrite}}: PlayedForLaughs in Episode 5. A woman hires Nice and Murasaki to track down her boyfriend, whom she suspects to be cheating on her. She expresses her utter disgust at the idea of him "touching her with the same hands he touches other women". He was part of ''her harem'', mind you.
77	* IJustWantToBeSpecial: [[spoiler:Moral suspects that Art deep down wants a Minimum as well, having gone to Facultas Academy but never developed one. Based on how Art [[FreakOut reacts]], he might not be entirely wrong]]
78	** The villains of the first two episode are this as well. [[spoiler: Wanting Minimums so much to use Moral's drugs. The first episode villain went so to say [[SmugSuper Minimum Holders are beyond humanity.]]]]
79	* IWantThemAlive: Murasaki's superior wishes to have Nice return to Facultas alive.
80	* JapaneseDelinquents: A gang defies Theo in Okinawa because he's in their territory. PlayedForLaughs though, since they are more ridiculous and [[LargeHam hammy]] than they are menacing. [[spoiler: They are in good terms by the end of the episode. [[HoYay Theo and their leader, especially]].]]
81	* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Moral deliberately let Art got closer to his phone as he's dying, only to prevent him from picking up Nice's call at the last second. And then he shoots him.]]
82	* KillingIntent: Murasaki accidentally shows one in the manga's first chapter which causes to Nice to respond with his own killing intent.
83	* IRejectYourReality: [[spoiler:Nice Disapproves Moral's view of the world, believing even the weak are strong when accepting themselves.]]
84	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Murasaki is more willing to take jobs with the higher payout. While Nice wants to take the job that does the most good regardless of the price.
85	** The villain in Episode 6 is a case of this too.
86	* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:As evidenced by episode 3, Nice has some shades of this.]]
87	* MaleGaze: Nice to his client in the first chapter.
88	* MissionControl: Koneko seems to serve as this for Hamatora.
89	* MoodWhiplash: Quite often, sometimes even veering into BlackComedy.
90	** Episode 5 is about a [[MachoCamp gay terrorist]] trying to make his favorite idol regain popularity after a scandal [[HilarityEnsues with a ridiculous plan that involves working out and making other men gay]]. At the end of the episode, [[spoiler: Gasquet is looking at some data with another investigator... and then promptly stabs him in the back, while smiling maniacally. Cue credits.]]
91	** Episode 7 manages to be even worse. [[spoiler:The episode ends with [[KickTheDog Moral killing Art in the cruelest way possible]], complete with an accoustic version of the ending theme playing in the background. Cut to the next episode's preview, with all the characters cheerfully and loudly talking about going to the beach.]]
92	** Episode 8 goes back and forth between HilarityEnsues and the aftermath of the previous episode.
93	* MundaneUtility: So far both Nice and Birthday have used their minimum for everyday things. Which include
94	** Nice using his super speed to get to the front of the line for a sandwich. As well as using it to catch food that Hajime dropped (after he blatantly states he [[HypocriticalHumor would not]] use his minimum for something mundane).
95	** Birthday tried to use his Minimum as well as Ratio's to pretend to be a fortune teller. Much to the latter's annoyance.
96	* MyBelovedSmother: Hamatora's client in the third episode is a mother that is focused on making sure that children are not given anything that might "hinder their development".
97	** [[spoiler:Horribly {{Deconstructed}}, her actions made her son feel like she thought he was a loser as he didn't have a Minimum.]]
98	* NewTransferStudent: Only for episode 2.
99	* NiceGuy: [[MeaningfulName Nice]].
100	** [[IronicName Subverted]] as the plot progresses. He has his share of JerkAss moments.
101	* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:In the manga Hajime's heart stops beating and she wakes up some minutes later without any apparent problem.]]
102	* OrphanageOfLove: [[spoiler:Three]] runs one.
103	** OrphanageOfFear: [[spoiler:Rumored as this on national TV thanks to a deranged fanatic. And when his plan fails, he sets the place on fire, but Nice, Murasaki, Three and Honey are there [[SavingTheOrphanage to save the day]].]]
104	* PartingWordsRegret: [[spoiler: Art and Nice have a nasty argument because Art doesn't want Nice to meddle in his work. Later, Nice calls him to talk things over... too bad Art is now bleeding to death, and just when he's about to pick up, [[KickTheDog Moral steps on his hand and opens fire on him]].]]
105	* PerpetualPoverty: The reason why the Hamatora end up accepting whatever job is thrown at them.
106	* [[spoiler:PowerDegeneration: As of Re:Hamatora, Minimum holders start to suffer secondary effects after using their powers.]]
107	* {{Private Detective}}s: A whole group of them.
108	* ReallyGetsAround: [[spoiler: The former idol in Episode 5 had to retire because he was found to be in a ''18-way relationship''.]]
109	** The client in Episode 7 too, with a lot of Idols. And damn if he isn't proud of it.
110	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A great one from Nice to [[spoiler:the MonsterOfTheWeek's mom]] in Episode 3.
111	* SayMyName: MOOORAAAAL!!
112	* SequelHook: The shows ends in [[spoiler: a huge {{Cliffhanger}}]] and the message "To Be Continued".
113	* SeventhEpisodeTwist: [[spoiler: Moral kills Art in Episode 7.]]
114	* ShipTease: Abundant between Nice and Hajime in Episode 9 of ''Re:Hamatora'', following [[spoiler:the reveal of how Nice and Hajime met each other at Facultas in the episode prior, which in itself contained a fair bit of this trope]].
115	* ShockAndAwe: Birthday's Minimum, which he activates by biting a taser.
116	* ShoutOut: In Episode 5 of ''Re:Hamatora'', [[Anime/TigerAndBunny Murasaki cooks fried rice, then serves on plates shaped like a tiger and a rabbit]]. Nice even muses about that making them 'Usatora' [[labelnote:note]]Usagi = rabbit, tora = tiger[[/labelnote]] instead of 'Hamatora'.
117	** Episode 7 has a RunningGag of [[spoiler:Murasaki]] getting thrown off his bed. Every time it happens, it's followed by a slow motion Replay with the first ending played in the background, just like in Anime/AngelBeats. It's worth noting that both shows were directed by Creator/SeijiKishi.
118	* TheStoic: Ratio and Murasaki don't show much emotion.
119	* SuperEmpowering: [[spoiler:Moral's goal. Not that bad, if it didn't include killing off Minimum holders and using their brains to do it. With the added side effect if your body isn't suited for one, you become a Hulk like monster]]
120	* SuperheroSchool: There are allusions to an Academy people with powers attend, and judging from what Nice remembers of it, [[TrainingFromHell it was quite shady]].
121	* SuperSpeed[=/=]FlashStep: Nice's Minimum.
122	* SuperStrength[=/=]GravityMaster: The brute from episode one can makes things weightless, but it comes off as SuperStrength.
123	** Murasaki seems to have general Super Strength though.
124	* TakeThat: This show is so fond of this trope that [[TakeThat/{{Hamatora}} it has its own page]].
125	* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: [[spoiler: Moral is quite hinting at this.]]
126	* ThoseTwoGuys: Ratio and Birthday
127	* VisualPun: When Rei [[BlackComedyRape asks Theo if his butt hurts]] at the end of Episode 5, there is a huge, suspiciously blushed peach covering the screen...
128	* WallJump: Murasaki does this in episode 2.
129	* WeirdnessMagnet: The cases the Hamatora deals with are far from simple, or normal to begin with.
130	* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Some of the Minimums are kinda worthless. [[spoiler:Episode 2 really shows some of these powers. One of Theo's bullies had the ability to speed up time. Not as cool as you would think, his power was to use a stop watch to speed up a timer. It only sped up the time by a few minutes at best each time he used the power]]
131	* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: When [[spoiler:one of the bullies that torment Theo shows up again, he uses a time bomb to blow up a school, and is speeding it up with his Minimum. He even screams, with his power, he can use a time bomb as a grenade. Nice just [[LampshadeHanging quips]] why doesn't he just uses a grenade]].
132	* WithFriendsLikeThese: Poor [[spoiler:Murasaki]] in Episode 7 of ''Re:Hamatora''.

Context Anime / Hamatora