Hamatora

Hamatora
The cover of the first Hamatora: The Comic volume released on February 19, 2014.
ハマトラ
Genre	Adventure, mystery, supernatural[1]
Created by	Natsu Matsumai Yūki Kodama
Manga
Hamatora: The Comic
Written by	Yukino Kitajima
Illustrated by	Yūki Kodama
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	Weekly Young Jump
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	November 21, 2013 – December 11, 2014
Volumes	3
Anime television series
Hamatora: The Animation
Directed by	Seiji Kishi (Chief) Hiroshi Kimura
Produced by	Yoshikazu Beniya Hiroyuki Tanaka Kozue Kaneniwa Takeshi Ishigaki Mika Shimizu Hiroyuki Kiyōno Shūichi Takashino Izumi Takiuchi Naoki Matsushita
Written by	Touko Machida Jun Kumagai
Music by	Makoto Yoshimori
Studio	NAZ
Licensed by	AUS: Madman Entertainment NA: Sentai Filmworks
Original network	TXN (TV Tokyo, TVA, TVO), AT-X
Original run	January 8, 2014 – March 26, 2014
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Re:_Hamatora
Directed by	Seiji Kishi
Produced by	Yoshikazu Beniya Hiroyuki Tanaka Kozue Kaneniwa Mika Shimizu Hiroyuki Kiyōno Shūichi Takashino Hirotaka Toda Izumi Takiuchi Naoki Matsushita Yōko Baba
Written by	Jun Kumagai
Music by	Makoto Yoshimori
Studio	Lerche
Licensed by	NA: Sentai Filmworks
Original network	TXN (TV Tokyo, TVA, TVO), AT-X
Original run	July 8, 2014 – September 23, 2014
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Mini Hama: Minimum Hamatora
Directed by	Masaomi Ando
Written by	Yasuhiro Nakanishi
Music by	Akira Narasaki
Studio	Lerche
Original network	AT-X, dTV
Original run	November 2, 2015 – December 21, 2015
Episodes	8
Anime film
Fw:Hamatora
Directed by	Seiji Kishi
Written by	Jun Kumagai
Music by	Makoto Yoshimori
Studio	Lerche
Released	November 14, 2015
Runtime	68 minutes

Hamatora (ハマトラ, lit. "Yokohama Troubleshooter") is a Japanese mixed-media project created by Natsu Matsumai and Yūki Kodama. The project began with a manga series written by Yukino Kitajima and Yūki Kodama as the artist, with Yū Wazu adapting the original designs for animation. The manga, Hamatora: The Comic, started serialization in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine in November 2013. An anime television series, Hamatora: The Animation, by the studio NAZ premiered on TV Tokyo and ran for twelve episodes between January 8 and March 26, 2014. It was followed by a second series by Lerche starting in July 2014, Re:_ Hamatora. Additionally, a role-playing game titled Hamatora: Look at Smoking World developed by FuRyu was released in July 2014. Other related titles include a light novel and a stage play.

The series takes place in the year 2014 when selected humans called Minimum Holders have been discovered to possess supernatural abilities. The story focuses on Minimum Holder Nice who forms a detective agency called "Hamatora" based in Yokohama and he starts gathering a large number of allies such as his partner Murasaki and assistant Hajime as well as enemies including several criminals. The anime stars Ryōta Ōsaka, Wataru Hatano, Hiroshi Kamiya, Emiri Katō, Kiyono Yasuno, Jun Fukuyama, and Yuichi Nakamura among others.

The series has earned mixed criticism from publications for manga and anime. While the elements of mystery have been praised, the themes and animation have been less well received. It has also been often compared with X-Men for its plot and characters.