These are the characters from Hamatora. Keep in mind that since both the manga and the anime feature different stories (the anime is a sequel to the manga), some tropes only apply to one adaptation.
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Hamatora
As a whole the groups shares this:
- Aerith and Bob: We have Japanese names like Hajime and then we have Nice.
- Awesome, yet Impractical: Most of their Minimums come with several disadvantages that they have to make up by applying tactics.
- Everyone Went to School Together: Well, to Facultas except Hajime and Koneko. Not everyone were together though.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Nice had problems with Murasaki, Birthday and Ratio the first time they met in the manga.
- Good Is Not Soft: They aren't very nice to their clients.
- Guest-Star Party Member: At least Nice, Hajime, Ratio and Birthday appear in the Looking at Smoking World trailer
- Team Spirit: A bit in season 1's finale.
- True Companions: They appear to be this in the anime despite bad first meetings in the manga.
- Weirdness Magnet: The cases the Hamatora deals with are far from simple, or normal to begin with.
Nice
Voiced by: Ryōta Ōsaka (JP), Adam Gibbs (EN)
"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. "
The main character. Nice is the leader of the detective agency Hamatora. While initially appearing as the only detective alongside Hajime in the manga, by the anime's time he has attracted several allies. Easy-going and kind, but he is always suffering from lack of money. His Minimum, Sonic Minimum, consists of manipulating sound to generate Super-Speed. He is the top graduate from Facultas Academy, owner of incredible power, and his identity is hidden for this reason. Nice detests the academy and it is believed an incident happened to him to make him quit it and abandon every support they offered him.
- Anti-Hero: While often portrayed as a friendly guy who will help others, the manga and some episodes from the anime have scenes where he reveals the dark side of his personality
- The Ace: Top graduate in Facultas Academy.
- Awesome by Analysis: For some reason he is a detective.
- Awesome, yet Impractical: His Minimum has a limited usage and can only be used at a determined distance.
- Back from the Dead: Presumed dead after the riots, but comes back at the end of the first episode of season 2, after the 3 month Time Skip.
- Badass Boast: "I won't let you get your way. Why do you think that is? Because I don't like you."
- Badass Fingersnap: How he activates his Super-Speed.
- Bad "Bad Acting": In Re: Hamatora. Quite ironic considering he was so eager in the first acting from season 1. Then again, it could be related with the fact he had to act as Hajime's wanna be lover.
- Bash Brothers: With Murasaki.
- Berserk Button: In the manga's first two chapters he get angry when being told about Facultas.
- In the anime, Takahiro's death.
- Also in the same manga Birthday nearly killing Hajime has him go berserker.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He's very nice alright, but don't cross him or you'll regret it. He's also good at manipulating people.
- Big Brother Instinct: Although his relationship with Hajime is not clear, Nice tends to be very friendly with her.
- Big Damn Heroes: In episode 6 with Murasaki.
- Character Development: In the manga he is a Covert Pervert who gets angry easily whereas in the anime he is far more coolheaded and Birthday takes over some of his pervert points
- Character Name Alias: He always likes adding Tarou to his name.
- Child Prodigy: Facultas' training made him into both a intelligent and physically outstanding young adult.
- Childhood Friends: With Art and his brother.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: He is willing to help anyone in trouble, no matter the pay.
- Combat Pragmatist: In the manga he comes up with several strategies to make up for Awesome, yet Impractical powers.
- Covert Pervert: In the manga his Male Gaze is quite active in the first chapter.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Gives one to Takahiro Ito.
- Didn't See That Coming: Even he didn't see coming Art's betrayal.
- Did I Just Have Coffee with Moral?
- Expy: Appearance-wise, of Haruto from Valvrave the Liberator. They even have the same VA.
- He also looks like an older version of Enma Kozato from Reborn! (2004) who even had bandages all the time.
- In a deeper look, he looks like an expy from Kazuma from Anime/Scryed based on how both wish to be free, often rely on brute force rather than brains, have a partner and a younger female friend.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Even without his Minimum, Nice can fight Minimum Holders one-on-one.
- Fighting Your Friend: Ratio in Re: Hamatora.
- Frantic Object Concealment: Season 2 hinted the possibility of Nice having a pornographic DVD in secret. While it is never confirmed, in the next episode Nice wonders what happened with one of his important DVDs.
- Friendly Rivalry: With Murasaki.
- Good is Not Nice: Excuse the unavoidable lame puns but Nice is often quite harsh with people such as the mother from episode 3 or anybody who brings up Facultas in the manga.
- I Just Want to Be Free: His childhood goal
- Invincible Hero: Expect this from The Ace. His deductive abilities are quite good while in combat he does receive a single wound for most of season 1. In contrast, he is more vulnerable in the manga and Re: Hamatora.
- Headphones Equal Isolation: Averted, he's very open to people.
- It would be
Fridge Brilliance after episode 7. Nice only feels alone when he uses his headphones for his minimum because he is the only one with such unmatched power.
- It would be
- The Hero
- Kid Hero: He's only 17, making him one of the youngest cast members.
- Heroic Safe Mode: He more or less does it in the manga. When Hajime is nearly killed by Birthday, he manages to come up with a strategy to negate Birthday's Minimum a second before he starts fighting against Ratio.
- Does it again in episode 12.
- He's Back!: in season 2
- Hidden Depths: While Nice enjoys life, according to Moral he dislikes standing out so much as the only strong person. Him telling Murasaki in episode 2 that not all people are weak appears to be foreshadowing of this.
- I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: In episode 12 when facing Moral.
- Insane Troll Logic: After Gasuke dies, he is set to stop Art. Because Art must have made himself cry, of course.
- Involuntary Battle to the Death: In Re: Hamatora
- I Reject Your Reality: Disapproves Moral's view of the world, believing even the weak are strong when accepting themselves.
- It's Personal: The case with Moral after Takahiro's death.
- Jerkass: Has one or two moments in the manga and anime when his Berserk Button is activated.
- Lonely at the Top: According to Moral, anyways.
- Love at First Sight: Upon meeting Hajime for the first time, Nice started blushing much to how the older Nice narrating the event comments he was not sure about what exactly was happening to him. In the finale, Nice admits he has feelings for Hajime.
- Magnetic Hero: In the manga he first appears working alone with Hajime. Some time later in the anime, he has attracted several allies.
- Male Gaze: A lot in the manga.
- Manipulative Bastard: Shows shades of this.
- Megaton Punch: How he does most of his Minimum.
- Mundane Utility: 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 would not use his minimum for something mundane).
- Mysterious Past: Even episode 7 notes that something happened to him in Facultas.
- New Transfer Student: Only for episode 2.
- Nice Guy: Heh. Or is he?
- "No More Holding Back" Speech: In episode 11 he claims that in society although there are both weak and strong people who torment each other, he believes the weak can also be strong admitting their weakness.
- Not Distracted by the Sexy: In the manga he isn't the least bit impressed with seeing Honey in the pool and instead goes to talk to another girl.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Art is bugged by similarities between him and Moral.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: He knew Art was hiding Moral's existence from him all along. He also does it in the manga to hide the times he finds important clues.
- One-Man Army
- Our Hero Is Dead: Oh wait, he isn't.
- Perpetual Poverty: His tendency to accept lowly paid jobs results in this.
- Platonic Life-Partners: With Hajime.
- Pointless Band-Aid: Has three on his face.
- Power Degeneration: Suffers one in Re:Hamatora.
- The Smart Guy: He's a very capable detective.
- Real Men Can Cook: Averted. He tries giving cooking a shot in Re: Hamatora but results aren't pretty good.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red Oni to Murasaki. Ironically, he wears blue.
- Serious Business: The way he takes school food in the second episode is far from being normal.
- Say My Name: MOOORAAAAL!!
- Ship Tease: With Hajime in Re: Hamatora.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: He is very friendly when talking with others. However, he is quite cold when fighting. Ratio and Birthday Nice started acting like his age in Re: Hamatora.
- Super-Speed
- Super-Empowering: As a result of having Skill's Minimum.
- The Promise: Makes one to Hajime during their time in Facultas.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Does one in episode 3.
- Troll: In Episode 9, he messes up with Honey when she's clearly distraught about Three, for no reason other than making her angry.
- Tsundere: Turns out he's this for Murasaki.
- Unknown Rival: To Moral although Nice soon starts learning about him.
- Unstoppable Rage: When he discovers Hajime in shock after using her Minimum.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: In the Beach Episode.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Art.
- Welcome Back, Traitor:He punches Art though.
- Worthy Opponent: To Moral.
- Why Don't you Explode this?: In episode 2.
Murasaki
Voiced by: Wataru Hatano (JP), David Wald (EN)
"People like you disgust me. You can't even face your own weakness."
Nice's partner. A no-nonsense guy who cares only about money, and considering their situation, you can't blame him. He is originally a graduated from Facultas who ordered him to retrieve Nice to the Academy and ended joining his detective business. His Minimum is called Small Miracle, activated when he takes off his glasses.
- A Friend in Need: He gets beaten up by Moral just to tell Nice to relax and go back to his quiet self if he wants to defeat Moral.
- The Ace: Second top graduate in Facultas Academy.
- Always Second Best
- Always Someone Better: Still, he doesn't like how Nice overshadows him.
- Bad "Bad Acting": He doesn't even give it a try.
- Bash Brothers: With Nice in the anime.
- Big Damn Heroes: In episode 6 with Nice.
- Brought Down to Normal: Having spent so long around Hajime after her powers activated, his Minimum degenerates the fastest and he ends up losing it entirely.
- Butt-Monkey: A bit in the manga where not only Nice destroys his car but he even feels that Hajime is looking down at him.
- Character Development: From the manga development, he spends a lot of time overcoming his inferiority complex to Nice.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Appears to have this in the manga.
- Cool Teacher: In episode 2.
- Cultured Badass: His comments often involve citing famous phrases.
- Expy: In the manga he looks like an older version of Wolf from Blood Lad.
- Friendly Rivalry: With Nice.
- Four Is Death: Comical example. His hospital room is 444 and a lot of bad stuff happens to him due to his friends.
- The Glasses Come Off: How his power is activated.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he's reluctant to take jobs with the low payout. It doesn't stop him from helping out when Nice accept the jobs.
- Hidden Depths: He can easily read Nice's thoughts, most notable in episode 7. In fact , he talks it out with Nice out into making up with Art without Nice even talking.
- Improvised Weapon: He uses an anchor in episode 6 and the finale.
- Killing Intent: Accidentally leaked in the manga's first chapter.
- The Lancer: In the anime.
- Likes Older Women: Implied.
- Man With A Mission: In the manga his objective is taking Nice back to Facultas.
- Mean Character, Nice Actor: While he is not the biggest jerk, in episode 2 he tricks a student by being very to her.
- Mr. Exposition: In the manga.
- Not Quite Dead: In Re: Hamatora.
- One-Man Army: In episode 11 he beats nearly all Minimum Holders alone.
- Real Men Can Cook: He's an accomplished housekeeper, if only because Nice won't do anything.
- Power Degeneration: Suffers one in Re:Hamatora.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue Oni to Nice. Ironically, he wears red.
- Smug Super: In the manga, he is extremely arrogant. Annoyed at the idea that Nice is better than him.
- The Stoic
- Not So Stoic: When dealing with Nice's antics, and after recording an embarrassing TV ad in Episode 4.
- Super-Toughness: His ability.
- This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: In episode 11.
- Tsundere: Joked to be this in the drama CD
- Wall Jump
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: He wishes to be acknowledged by Nice in episode 11.
- With Friends Like These...: He suffers a lot of pain in Re: Hamatora 7 due to his friends.
Hajime
Voiced by: Emiri Katou (JP), Christina Kelly (EN)
"I'm hungry..."
A short, silent girl. She's eating all the time. Unlike most of her comrades, Hajime is not a former student from Facultas. Nevertheless, she has a Minimum Holder that makes her a strong fighter. She is one of the founders of Hamatora, assisting Nice in his cases during the manga. In the anime, her role is more inactive. As revealed in Re Hamatora, Hajime is one of Moral's former test subjects from Facultas. The only survival from the experiments, Hajime was locked in a cell until she met Nice who promised to take her away and meet the world.
- Action Girl
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl
- Amazon Brigade: With Koneko and Honey in episode 5.
- Anti-Magic: Her Minimum, and the reason for everyone else's Power Degeneration.
- Berserk Button: Takahiro's death.
- In the flashbacks when a young Nice is shot by Facultas.
- Big Eater: Oh hell yes. Most of her appearances show her eating something, usually at Nice's expense.
- Comfort Food: She shares her meal with Nice in episode 7
◊ to comfort him which says a lot considering how gluttony she is.- She does the same with Honey in Episode 9.
- Chekhov's Gun: In the manga there is small sequence where Hajime is in shock for some pages and she recovers. It is later revealed she has the Healing Factor.
- Comically Missing the Point: When suggested with the idea of Hajime going to prison due to stealing food, Nice claims Hajime would never do that, and she agrees saying she would never be caught.
- Dark and Troubled Past: As a child, she was experimented on at Facultas, and witnessed other children turning into monsters.
- Defective Detective: She might not have the best personality, but in the manga Hajime shows she can assist Nice in solving cases.
- Emotionless Girl: All she cares about is eating.
- Empty Shell: She witnessed horrible events at Facultas, making her lose any fear or emotions. She gets better after meeting Nice, though.
- Forgotten First Meeting: With Nice.
- Healing Factor
- Hidden Depths: The season 2 trailers have been hinting at this.
- It's All My Fault: In Re: Hamatora she takes the blame for Murasaki losing his powers and Nice being shot.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: She remembers her Dark and Troubled Past thanks to Momoka.
- Little Miss Badass: When properly motivated.
- Lost Food Grievance: In the manga even if she does it almost completely emotionless.
- Meaningful Name: Nice gave her the name 'Hajime' (meaning "start") to give her a new beginning. He also suggested 'Start'.
- Mission Control: In the manga
- No One Could Survive That!: In the manga her heart stops beating and she wakes up some minutes later without any apparent problem.
- One-Man Army: In the manga.
- Only a Flesh Wound
- Platonic Life-Partners: With Nice especially in the manga.
- Protectorate: To Nice.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning
- Ship Tease: With Nice in Re: Hamatora.
- Shorttank
- Superpowered Evil Side
- Super-Speed: Although not her explicit ability, she's apparently just as fast if not faster than Nice.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Hamburgers and a lot of curry.
- Token Mini-Moe
- When She Smiles: It's often related with food or in season 2, Nice.
- You Are Number 6: Success Number 01 was her name up until Nice gave her the name Hajime.
Odd Jobs
Birthday
Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (JP), Blake Shepard (EN)
"I just think we're missing out if we're not trying different things and having fun. Life's too short."
A fun-loving boy with a childish personality. His Minimum allows him to generate electricity at will when biting a taser. Ever since he was a kid, he was suffering through a strong disease which caused him to bond Ratio when he used to predict people's deaths. This disease also caused Birthday to be expelled from Facultas.
- Affectionate Nickname: He calls Ratio 'Ratio-cchi' in the last episode.
- Beware the Silly Ones
- Childhood Friends: With Ratio.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He has a strange way of thinking, and comes up with the weirdest ideas.
- Combination Attack: With Ratio in episode 6.
- Cool Shades: Which he never takes off.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Don't let his behaviour fool you, he's a very capable fighter.
- Expy: Of Ginji Amano.
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: 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 what happened during "the Bad Cop leaves" part.
- Living Emotional Crutch: To Ratio
- Lovable Sex Maniac: When he gets arrested in Episode 2, the team's first guess is that he groped someone. Later he comments on Honey's breasts. While right next to her and Three.
- Manchild
- Mundane Utility: Birthday tried to use his Minimum as well as Ratio's to pretend to be a fortune teller. Much to the latter's annoyance.
- Out-of-Character Moment: In Episode 4, he gets rather serious when saying you should have fun when you're still alive.
- It turned out to be Foreshadowing for his illness.
- Porn Stash: Owns lots of dirty magazines, as revealed in Re:Hamatora.
- Power Degeneration: In the second season, using his Minimum makes him hooked on electricity.
- Shock and Awe
- Soap Opera Disease: He got surgery for it when he was a child and survived miraculously, but there's the risk he might relapse in any moment.
- Stepford Smiler
- Together in Death: The drama CD has been hinting at this with Ratio.
Ratio
Voiced by: Yūichi Nakamura (JP), Andrew Love (EN)
Birthday's partner. A doctor with artificial arms and an eyepatch sealing his power, which consists of X-Ray Vision. This power used to torment him as a kid as he predicted people's deaths but meeting Birthday made him open up to others as the ill teenager told him he would not die regardless of his predictions. Ratio is also a former member of Facultas who dropped it to become a doctor after Birthday was expelled.
- Awesome by Analysis: By using his Minimum and checking somebody's muscles, he can understand where other people will move.
- Berserk Button: Don't mess with his car!
- Childhood Friends: With Birthday.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: As a doctor, he will heal anybody in need.
- Cloud Cuckoo Landers Minder: He's the one who deals with Birthday's crazy antics the most, being his partner and all.
- Combat Medic
- Combination Attack: With Birthday in episode 6.
- The Comically Serious
- Creepy Child: Used to be this, predicting when people would die and all. People saw him as an Oracular Urchin.
- Curtains Match the Window
- Dark and Troubled Past/Friendless Background: He was alienated as a child because he could predict when people were going to die. He had no friends until Birthday showed up.
- Declaration of Protection: To Birthday in episode 6.
- Elemental Powers: His arms can shoot fire in the manga.
- Eyepatch of Power: It seals his Minimum.
- Fighting Your Friend: Nice in Re: Hamatora.
- Find the Cure!
- Genius Bruiser
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: 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 what happened during "the Bad Cop leaves" part.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: He sees himself as useless for not being able to save Birthday and Chiyu.
- Hospital Hottie: Parallel to his Hamatora activities, he also works at a hospital.
- Involuntary Battle to the Death: In Re: Hamatora
- Moment Killer: He stops Birthday from hitting on one of his nurses.
- Mundane Utility: Birthday tried to use his Minimum to pretend to be a fortune teller.
- Not So Above It All: Despite his stoic exterior, he makes a fool of himself as much as Birthday does. Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize he spends as much time as he can with Birthday, no matter how crazy his ideas can be, because he may lose him any time soon.
- Power Degeneration: In the second season, using his Minimum makes him overheat.
- The Precious, Precious Car
- Sharp-Dressed Man
- The Stoic
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome
- Together in Death: The drama CD has been hinting at this with Birthday.
- X-Ray Vision
Bodyguards
Honey
Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (JP), Margaret McDonald (EN)
A cheeky young girl who is capable of seeing the future 10 minutes in advance on her tablet-like device after biting on a lollipop. She works alongside Three and often Art. At an early age, she met Three who promised her to protect her no matter the cost and thus is close to him.
- Amazon Brigade: With Koneko and Hajime in episode 5.
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: During the hot springs episode when the girls were taken hostage, 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).
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Her powers consist of gathering a bunch of information of a certain zone and analysing it. Then the future visions appear on her tablet.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Birthday can't help but comment on her assets. Honey herself knows how to use them to her advantage, though.
- Companion Cube: She's been seen kissing and rubbing her face against her tablet.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Originally she was assigned to assassination cases which resulted in her looking for another option and become a bodyguard to protect lives.
- Emotional Regression: Later in the series, when Honey's powers run their course Honey mentally regresses to a small child for a time.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Her Girlish Pigtails are uneven.
- Genius Sweet Tooth: Her powers are triggered by munching on some tiger-shaped candy.
- Gratuitous English: "Get you!"
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Tiny Girl to Three's Huge Guy.
- I Call It "Vera": She calls her tablet Mighty.
- Power Degeneration: In the second season, using her Minimum makes her regress her mentality to that of a child.
- Promotion to Parent: After she decides to help Three running the orphanage.
- Refusal of the Call: Quite literally She refuses to stop aiding the police in stopping the Minimum Holders after being discriminated and losing her rights to take care of the orphanages. However, she takes the call afterwards.
- Seers: Her Minimum lets her see the future.
- Supernatural Tablet: Her Mighty is the only way her visions appear.
Three
Voiced by: Katsuki Murase (JP), George Manley (EN)
Honey's bodyguard. A giant-like man who protects her no matter what. He has a soft side, though. His Minimum Holder gives him beast-like appearances and enhances his physical strength. He is a former mercenary who run an orphanage which was burned scarring him in the process. Motivated by his promise to protect the young Honey, Three starts another orphanage in order to raise the children of the people he killed so that they would avenge their parents. However, Honey opposes him and joins his cause to tell the chidren revenge is not appropiate.
- The Atoner: Both played straight and subverted. He runs an orphanage for the victims of war since he was directly responsible for the deaths of their parents, but he expects them to kill him in revenge.
- Badass Preacher: While he isn't exactly confirmed to be a preacher, he dresses like one and is very religious.
- Berserk Button: Messing with Honey
- The Big Guy
- Blood Knight: In his soldier days.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center/Real Men Wear Pink: He enjoys Shoujo manga. He even claims he can't fight properly if he isn't done reading.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He used to be an extremely bloodthirsty soldier who killed lots of people in war.
- Death Seeker: He's raising the children in the orphanage in hopes they will kill him in revenge for their parents someday.
- Expy: He could be a considered a mix between Beast from X-Men and Heinkel from Fullmetal Alchemist.
- Friend to All Children
- Gentle Giant
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Huge Guy to Honey's Tiny Girl.
- Mistaken for Dog
- My Greatest Second Chance: He sees Honey as this to the children he failed to protect once.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: He's used to be known as Bloody Beast.
- Panthera Awesome: He looks like a lion.
- Power Degeneration: In the second season, using his Minimum makes him lose his mind.
- Promotion to Parent: After the war, he founded an orphanage for the victims.
- Redemption Equals Death: He apparently believes in this.
- Revenge Before Reason: Averted. After having several doubts he decides not to kill Masayoshi and use his power to save the kids from the orphanage.
- Serious Business: He reads manga even during work.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: In the Beach Episode.
- "X" Marks the Hero
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Tells this to Art in the first season.
Nowhere
Master
Voiced by: Atsushi Ono (JP), Carl Masterson (EN)
The owner of the cafe Nowhere. He is always making meals for the Hamatora's members and works for the Minumum Agency.
- Good-Guy Bar
- Have We Met?: To none other than Moral.
- Old Master
- Saloon Owner
Koneko
Voiced by: Kiyono Yasuno (JP), Nancy Novotny (EN)
A young girl in charge of negociating jobs for the Hamatora.
- Amazon Brigade: With Hajime and Honey in episode 5.
- Cat Girl: Her mouth has the typical shape, and she wears a fake tail. Which she is somehow able to control.
- Meaningful Name: It literally means Cat Girl.
- Mission Control
- Only in It for the Money: At least that's what she tries to tell Nice.
- Team Mom
Police
Art
Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (JP), Leraldo Anzaldua (EN)
A police agent in charge of the Minimum Holders murder cases, and friends with the Hamatora, especially Nice. He went to Facultas Academy with his younger brother who died by a terrorist group against Minimum holders according to the ending credits. Despite graduating from Facultas, Art has been unable to awake his own Minimum which often bothers him. In the case to arrest Moral, Art is against letting Nice join his cause due to his complex. Moral tries to make Art join him under the promise of a Minimum but Art decides he does not need it become Nice's friend and equal. He is killed by the criminal shortly afterwards.
Until, that is, the final episode, where Art reappears and kills Moral. It is then when Art points his gun at Nice's head and the episode ends. In season 2, Art finds that he has the Regeneration Minimum and is out to "collect sins" by removing Minimums from the Minimum Holders and allow them to be normal people.
- Anti-Villain: He wishes an utopia regardless of methods.
- At Least I Admit It: Admits being a coward in season 2.
- Badass Normal: A competent cop despite his lack of powers.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Calm and collected, yet make him mad like Moral did, and he will lose it.
- Big Bad Friend: From season 2.
- Came Back Wrong: Post-revival, he's gone rogue, attempted to kill both Nice and Murasaki, and is stealing Minimums from any Holder he can find.
- Childhood Friends: With Nice.
- Dark Messiah: Wishes to remove all the Minimums which he considers sins regardless of his methods.
- Determinator: He graduated from Facultas Academy despite not having a Minimum out of sheer effort.
- Disney Death
- Ditto Fighter: In Re:Hamatora, he fights using multiple Minimums stolen from their holders. So far, he can actively use:
- Blow You Away: Taken from un-named gang leader. Art can create extremely strong winds that can even create standing whirpools. He also used this power to escape the Hamatora
- Paper Master: Taken from Paper. He can use his blood to activate any origami he creates and make it real
- Projected Man: Taken from Hikaru. He can project himself to appear is places where he is not at
- Green Thumb: Can grow giant plants from the ground. Taken from an unknown minimum user.
- Driven to Suicide: In the end he doesn't die though
- Easily Forgiven: by his friends although Nice and Hajime punch him.
- Enemy Mine: He joins forces with Freenium due to this.
- Expy: He shares several similarities with both L-elf and A-drei from Valvrave the Liberator.
- Evil Former Friend
- Face–Heel Turn
- Fair Cop
- Fatal Flaw: His stubborness and refusal to let Nice help in Moral's case caused his death.
- Friend on the Force: He is this to the Hamatora. In Re:Hamatora, he's no longer this.
- Green-Eyed Monster/I Just Want to Be Special: It's implied in his conversation with Moral that he has a complex for being a Muggle.
- Healing Factor: Only it's activated by dying.
- He's Back!
- Immortal Life Is Cheap: If something happens like, say, his arm gets cut off, then he just needs to kill himself off real quick and it'll grow back.
- In Touch with His Feminine Side: Kind, soft spoken, beauty mark, neatly cut hair, have a sweet tooth...etc...the list goes on. Official articles mention this as well.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: He remembers killing Skill thanks to Moral.
- Muggle Best Friend: To Nice.
- Mega Manning: Via injecting himself with Minimums he steals from others. This does cause a strain on his body, like it would with anyone else, but since he can die and recover then it's a pretty simple to work around.
- Nice Guy
- Not Himself: According to Nice in episode 12. Maybe he has a point?
- Old Cop, Young Cop: To Gasuke's old cop.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: He is annoyed at Nice giving the police several advices to the point he requires help from his teacher to overcome his insecurity.
- Playing with Syringes: How he stores other people's minimum power
- Real Men Wear Pink: His ties, his heeled shoes.
- Stabbed Mid-Sentence: By Moral
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: As if it wasn't enough he stabs Nice in the chest to bring despair to Hajime and active her Minimum.
- The Team Normal: The only member of the main cast so far who doesn't have any sort of power. He is, actually, revealed to have the Regeneration Minimum.
- Thanatos Gambit: Played with. He lets Murasaki kill him just so that his Regeneration Minimum would trick the public into making them believe he is The Messiah.
- That One Case: He's focused on getting Moral arrested.
- Took a Level in Badass
- Utopia Justifies the Means
- Villainous Breakdown: Has one in Re: Hamatora after accomplishing his goal.
- You Are What You Hate: He hates Minimum Holders.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist
- We Used to Be Friends: With Nice.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: With Moral, as he takes a long time to shoot him given the chance and when he does, its too late. In Re: Hamatora, while his objective is to kill Nice, he never does, even when the opportunity presents itself. Notable examples are episode 2's flashback when he doesn't shoot Nice until he turns around (And even then, it's shoulder rather than torso or head), and episode 5 where he uses his spike minimum to slow Nice down but not actually injury him.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: To the Freemum's members.
Gasuke
Voiced by: Yousuke Akimoto (JP), Luis Galindo (EN)
An officer interested in Minimum Holders. He's Art's partner.
- Big Brother Instinct: He is often concerned about Art's mental state.
- Cool Old Guy
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Courtesy of the Freenums. First his body is made many times as heavy, then his blood is boiled by the Freenums leader. By the time Nice and Murasaki find him, he's laying on a pool of his own blood, bleeding from nearly everywhere.
- He Knows Too Much
- Killed Off for Real: In Re:Hamatora.
- It's All My Fault: In Re:Hamatora, he feels guilty for Art's current behaviour, believing he should have paid more attention to him.
- I Warned You: Despite being warned not to, he gets too involved with trying to help Art and gets killed because of it.
- Old Cop, Young Cop: To Art's young cop.
- Parting-Words Regret: Even as he's dying, he tries to make Art open to him. It doesn't work.
- Sacrificial Lion
- Spell My Name With An S: Is it Gasuke or Gasquet?
Black Cosmos
Moral
Voiced by: Yuki Ono (JP), Chris Patton (EN)
A sociopathic, ruthless man who claims to be trying to balance society, by taking innate Minimum Holders' powers and giving them to Muggles. Except it involves killing them to remove their brains. He is a former instructor from Facultas who realized Nice's loneliness as a result of standing out and thus wishes for more Muggles to become equals to Nice. Moral's Minimum allows him shapeshift.
In starting a revolution and a terrorist attack to force non-Minimum Holders to obtain their own during despair, Moral injects himself the Forbidden Minimum to prepare for his fight against Nice. The new Minimum allows him to warp and overwhelm Nice but also deteriorates his body when Nice takes the upperhand. As Moral faces defeat, he is shot and killed by Art previously believed dead.
- Above Good and Evil: Shows signs of being this. 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.
- Affably Evil: Oh so very much. He may be an insane sociopath, but he's very amusing and quirky.
- Ax-Crazy
- Big Bad/Disc-One Final Boss
- Brain in a Jar: Owns possibly hundreds of them, and he calls them his lovers.
- Becoming the Mask: Notable example. He needs to behave like Art properly to avoid being discovered which he finds complicated.
- Break Them by Talking: To Art in his debut.
- Deal with the Devil: All the deals in which he gives people Minimums are this.
- Dissonant Serenity: Always smiling
- Dark Messiah: He even claims he wants to be messiah.
- Dead Person Impersonation: He infiltrates the police as Art after killing him.
- Evil Counterpart: To Nice. They both stand out thanks to their traits and are not happy with the status quo. However, Nice has not given up on the world while Moral wants to change it.
- Face Death with Dignity: He found him dying at Art's hands was appropiate.
- Friendly Enemy: To Nice.
- Graceful Loser
- Have We Met?: To none other than Master.
- Insane Troll Logic: Lives and breathes this trope. Just look at the Above Good and Evil entry, for starters.
- So you devote your life to change the world so that a guy isn't Lonely at the Top anymore. What do you do? Kill his best friend, of course!
- Ironic Name: Moral is precisely what he lacks.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Oh boy.
- Killed Off for Real: He is shot by Art.
- Love Makes You Evil
- Mad Scientist
- Manipulative Bastard: He's extremely good at using people's weaknesses in his benefit.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family
- Non-Action Big Bad: He rarely fights with the famous exception of him attacking and killing Art.
- Pragmatic Villain: Very much so. He allows Art to get close to his phone for some seconds just for the hell of it, but then empties a gun on him in an instant. Later he impersonates him, but he's aware that his contact with Nice must be minimal or else he will easily find out what's going on.
- Ironically enough, this comes back to bite him in the ass later: since he killed Art instantly, he was able to revive, and in the end, return the favor.
- Serial Killer: He's behind all the Minimum Holders murders.
- Super-Empowering: His goal.
- Super-Power Meltdown: The use of two Minimums deteriorates his body
- Super Serum: How he gets his second Minimums
- Teleport Spam
- There's No Kill like Overkill: First stabs Art. Then he shoots him like crazy.
- The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: It escalates quickly.
- Villainous Breakdown: Appears to have down when Takahiro makes up with his mother just to kill him depressed he could not make the kid stronger.
- Villain Teleportation
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: And he kills those who he impersonates for better effect. Except for Gasquet, probably.
- White Hair, Black Heart
- Xanatos Gambit: A revolution and a terrorist attack all to force non Minimum Holders to get their powers.
- Unknown Rival: To Nice although Moral soon learns he is being chased by him.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: Fair opportunities for everyone justify mass murdering, yep.
- Yandere: For Nice, hoo boy.
Momoka
Voiced by: Megumi Ogata (JP), Carli Mosier (EN)
Moral's assistant. She's a florist. Also a super hacker thanks to her Minimum. With her help, Moral is able to reach people who wish for Minimum powers. She took care of Art after his supposed death. In Re:Hamatora, she is seen working with the Freenums.
- Chekhov's Gunman: She first appears in Episode 7 as the girl Birthday tries to flirt with at the hospital.
- The Cracker: A super hacker at Moral's service, and she's also used her powers to improve her own business. Responsible for setting up the chaos in episode 10.
- Code Name: Saikyou.
- Dragon Ascendant: To Moral
- Driven to Suicide: Realizing she really has nothing to live for makes her kill herself.
- Dying Dream: Sees Moral offering her a black flower before deciding to kill herself.
- Facial Markings: A flower like one on her eye.
- Fiction 500: She wins millions per hour.
- Flower Motifs: Complete with a flower-like mark on her eye.
- For the Evulz: Confesses to Hajime that this is her prime motivation.
- The Hedonist: Being bored in life its her main motivation and she herself confesses having tried all kinds of pleasure to satisfy that boredom.
- It Amused Me: Says to work purely by this, having already experienced all the wonders and joys of life.
- Let's You and Him Fight: Sets this agains Nice and Ratio to dispose of the later.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: The evening gown she changes into after she takes Hajime has a plunging neckline that reaches her stomach.
- The Unmotive: Lacks her own ego. Right at the end she doesn't even see any reason to live.
- The Woman Behind the Man: She's the Saikyou who is funding Freenums.
Freemums
Shunichi Ishigami
Voiced by: Ryota Takeuchi (JP), John Gremillion (EN)
The de facto leader of Freemum who appears in Re: Hamatora. He is also collabrating with Art.
- Ambition is Evil: As it turns out, he just kind of wants to rule his own tiny kingdom.
- Boiling Blood: Can subject the target to intense heat to the point where blood boils out.
- Enemy Mine: They join forces with Art due to this.
- Kick the Dog: Killing Gasuke and giving Mursaki life-threatening injuries.
- Killed Off for Real: Gets shot by Art.
- I Just Want to Be Free
- The Starscream: To Art.
Mamiya
Voiced by: Koji Takahashi (JP), Bryan Kaplun (EN)
A member of the Freemums, he acted as a guard to prevent non-minimum holders from entering the club. His current minimum power is unknown.
- The Cracker: Not to the same extent as Momoka but was able to hack in to the Yokahama jail and activate the knockout gas.
- Enemy Mine: They join forces with Art due to this.
- I Just Want to Be Free
- Lethal Chef: His Minimum resolves around cooking.
Suzuki
Voiced by: Keisuke Goto (JP), Mark X. Laskowski (EN)
A member of the Freemums who can make masks of another human being that are indistinguishable from the original. Needs to see the person's face contorted with fear of death in order to do so.
- Enemy Mine: They join forces with Art due to this.
- Gonk
- I Just Want to Be Free
Others
Mao
Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (JP), Mike Yager (EN)
An information broker who occasionally provides the Hamatora with hints. For a price, of course.
- Big Eater: Whenever he appears, he's eating.
- Only in It for the Money
- Mysterious Informant: He's a big help to Nice in most cases, but all we know about him is his name.
- Recurring Traveller: Not that recurring since the plot hardly ever moves from Yokohama, but when the Hamatora go to Okinawa, he's right there as well.
Theo
Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (JP), Greg Ayres (EN)
A high school boy who hires Nice and Murasaki in Episode 2. He's a victim of bullying, and wants to find his teacher who has gone missing. Said teacher was the one behind the bullying. After the case is solved, he matures and becomes a Recurring Character.
- Ambiguously Gay: At first, his devotion towards his teacher is justified in that he was his only hope during his bullying or so he thought. But then in Episode 5 he's very drawn to the masseuse at the inn, and Nice invokes this trope.
- Episode 8 basically slams the point home: he's very much into men.
- Break the Cutie: But he gets better.
- Broken Pedestal/Heroic BSoD: When he finds out his teacher was behind the bullying all along, the poor kid loses it. He gets better, though.
- Butt-Monkey: And it's a plot point. Nice uses his pitiful appearance as bait to catch a drug dealer, arguing Theo gives off the vibe of someone who would take an escapism drug.
- Childhood Friends: With Rei.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Even if he didn't fight against the guy from episode 8.
- Driven to Suicide: Has admitted having thought about this in his debut.
- Expy: Of Makoto Naegi from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
- Horrible Judge of Character: When he likes someone, expect them to be evil. Lampshaded by Nice.
- Likes Older Men: He has been called this by Nice due to his devotion to his teacher, followed by later interest in a Masseuse.
- Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Played for Laughs.
- Not Distracted by the Sexy: Rei tries to catch his attention while wearing a swimsuit, but he isn't interested at all.
- Ordinary High-School Student
Rei
Voiced by: Ayaka Ohashi (JP), Juliet Simmons (EN)
Theo's best friend. A kind and dependable high school girl.
- Childhood Friends/Platonic Life-Partners: With Theo.
- Covert Pervert: After the gay terrorists get dealt with in Episode 5, she asks Theo if his butt hurts.
- Deadpan Snarker: She enjoys making fun of Theo, too.
- Ms. Fanservice: In the Beach Episode.
- Nice Girl
- Sadist: Appears to have shades of this during the casting episode.
- Satellite Character: Her whole character consists of being next to Theo at all times.
Takahiro Ito
A young student who became super strong and berserker after making a deal with Moral. He is defeated by Nice and arrested shortly afterwards. In episode 10, Takahiro is freed by Moral's group Black Cosmos and goes to the Hamatora to request to recover his original body. He eventually decides to protect his mother using his new acquired powers from the Minimum Holders. Just as he saves her, Moral activates a bomb inside his body and dies.
- Cursed with Awesome: Takahiro is happier than ever as noted by Nice.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He explodes...
- Defeat Means Friendship
- Foil: To Art if he had accepted Moral's offer.
- Improbable Weapon User: He uses a security sign as a weapon in his debut.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: His mother.
- I Just Want to Be Badass: After seeing Murasaki's fight
- I Just Want to Be Normal: After being defeated.
- I Just Want to Be Special: The reason for becoming what he is.
- Killed Off for Real
- Monster of the Week: Yet he wasn't a monster.
- My Beloved Smother: Deconstructed horribly
- Nice Guy: Surprisingly considering his appearance.
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: As pointed by Nice, he just wanted to show off.
- Super-Strength
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth
- Vocal Dissonance
Chiyu
Voiced by: Ayami (JP), Kasi Hollowell (EN)
A young female artist friend from Birthday and Ratio ever since highschool. In her debut episode she is kidnapped by her own manager and her old friends go to rescue her. She is later revealed to be a Minimum Holder
- Chameleon Camouflage
- Damsel in Distress: She is kidnapped in her debut.
- Find the Cure!
Doktor
Voiced by: Katsuhisa Hoki (JP), Rutherford Cravens (EN)
A member from the Minimum Agency and Honey's father. He wishes to put an end to the riots caused by the Minimum Holders.
- Asshole Victim: He is nearly killed by Freemum.
- Jerkass
- Totalitarian Utilitarian: His man defining trait.
Shizuku
A young female Minimum Holder able to produce fire.
Souken
The protagonist of Hamatora: Look at Smoking World. He is a high school student who awakens his own Minimum and meets the Hamatora members across several fights.
