Audience reviews
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Naoki__
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 is just another white-haired villain, as every other villain of every other anime. Nice is your average anti-hero who knows he's powerful but who's not willing to help. Seriously…
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I loved this anime. The story is catching and interesting but some points could have been improved. Like the reason of the big bad boy to do big bad things. But I really liked it and wasn't bothered at all by it. Things are different when it comes to the second season though. You can't say the art is not amazing, I mean, look at all these colors this is really the point that I like the most about this anime! The characters could have been more developped and more, I wish there was an evolution between the beginning and the end of the anime and the thing is there is none. But some characters are still interesting. Even though it has bad point I really really enjoyed watching this anime and I like how the plot develops, until some point. Overall I give an 8 because I still think this is a go…
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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 second season (I could go more into that, but let's just say I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as season 1). The only real problem I have with it is the direction season 2 took, but maybe I should leave that out of my revi…
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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 effect when Minimum Holders use their ability and the combination of colours is also good-it seems fresh.
In some episodes, especially in ending ones, the art quality dropped a bi…
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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 get the main villain etc. It's not really deep either, and the episodic start and jumping around might turn people off. It's not bad by any means though.
Art 8/10 - Personally, I think the Art…
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“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 minimum holders from discrimination due to envy. A safe balance, allowing for a normal life for all humans. What happens when a certain someone who desires t…
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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 designs and a chance to make a good story, asking questions on what is morally correct in this world.
The show gives you this sensation. It's like y…
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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 characters, it'll give you questions that'll make you curious of what's behind it.
"Hamatora the Animation", an anime that'll make yo…
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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, since despite its shallow slash dark nature, it actually presents to be case closed but later be…
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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 back story intrigue me.
Yes, the beginning is somewhat slow, there is a random filler here and there. The entire series snowballs quickly after the la…
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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 boy seemly named [Nice] During the story we will not know much of the history of him nor the very close partner that he works al…
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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. ---Characters--- (8/10)
There is nothing better then having interesting and different characters. When you have characters that are all different in fashion, powers, ways of thinking, personality. Its better then having your generic school envir…
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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 few seemingly random episodes (beach!), presented in bright acid-colored animation. Not bad overall, not particularly good either. On the other hand though underlying themes…
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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 founded by a young man named Nice. Having graduated at the top of his class at Facultas Academy, he forms this group as a detective agency to solve supernatural cases. Whethe…
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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 doing fights till the last episode. It almost felt like the numerous boring characters were just there to be pretty to look at and watch fight.
Sound 6
Was decent suffered from the same problems as th…
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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 or Danganronpa which are based on video games (though Hamatora's game has yet to actually be made...). It centers around a group of crime fighting, mystery solving "superhumans" called "Hamatora" and the other similar groups of peop…
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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 be judged too much on this factor. The sound though was cool and definitely flows with the atmosphere, in fact moral's ost is one of the best I have heard in horror genre.
According to th…
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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 but it drags almost until the end. In my opinion, there were episodes which could've been better spent focusing on the main plot. If the series was longer, i…
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“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 gifted with it; and that’s when the main conflict starts to head in. They would be seeking power because they are the “weak.”
Hamatora itself is made out of a group of people who accept job…
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Hamatora was a show I was quite interested in prior to its airing. Looking at the key visuals, the characters looked interesting; and the preview video showed some cool superpowers with flashy and colorful animation. But you may think the synopsis doesn't really sound interesting - cool guys fighting with superpowers are an overused trope in anime, to the point where it gets cliché. But wait, Hamatora throws some detective elements into the mix! So, does that make Hamatora an interesting, outstanding watch that puts the superpower guy cliché into good use? Well, as you can see on my final score, I don't share that opinion. Frankly, Hamatora - The Animation turns out to be a really underwhelming show that ends up forgettable quickly after completing it.
Set in a city where a small group of…
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