Hey Guys,
when i visited the Connichi 2015 i looked into the serie Hamatora. The first to episodes were alot of fun and seemed like it could become very dark. So i bought it. If it really holds what i thought it promised me we will see here.

Simular

The first thing that came to my mind was that it is very simular to Get Backers. What is actually not a bad thing. I loved Get Backers. It was a funny serie with amazing characters and a very dark theme. Everything a story needed the only thing that was bad about Get Backers was the fanservice and that sometimes the sidecharacters had more story than my favorite maincharacters.
The setting is very simular they seem to be bancrot all the time, have mysterious powers and have their office in a cafe and are detektives. Even the two main characters are simular. Nice is a lot like Ginji. He is sweet, don’t care about money, he cares about people, and seems a little unwordly but just at the first look. Behind that they have a deep life experience and knows that he is important.
Murasaki is the one that looks at the money and is cool and don’t show much of his feelings, but cares alot behind that mask.
From the way the ‘enemy’ is acting it reminds me of Psycho Pass and that is not a bad thing either.

Two teams

So there are these one team Nice and Murasaki. Hajime is a girl that is often with them. She is always eating something and is the reason for alot of funny scenes. I am sure that she has powers too, but in the first two episode is nothing seen of it.
Than there is another Hamatora team – Bithday and Ratio. The team dynamic is simular. Birthday is the one that is always wants fun. He is flirting, eating and making magic tricks. Ratio is the silent guy that has problems showing his feelings – like they are alien to him.

Minimum Holder

That is the name for the people like the Hamatora crew – people with powers. It seems like these powers are no secret. Some people have this power and are so different to the other peoples. It also looks in the first two episodes that a few doctors seems to work with them. Which mostly isn’t something good. There are people like the Hamatora crew that take these powers to do good things and of course people they always met that using them to do bad things. So at first it looks very simple and the cases in the first to episodes seems more like fun cases but the cases in the second episode makes a turn and become very cruel. Also we learn from the first episode on that there is a serial killer that kills only Minimum Holder. So alot of potential to become more.

The Enemy

The one that seems to be responsibly for many things like the synthetic minimum holder going on his account. But is he responsibly for the murder? He is a little crazy but this is what makes it so interessting. He is working for a world were everyone is the same. He wants to make people stronger. But he opinion about strenght is not really right. For him people how can kill people are the strong ones and the people who want to punish them are the weak.

Relationships

Birthday and Ratio are pretty good team and always together. They have a conaction… they depend on each other. Ratio needs Birthday to live his life the way he does. Without Birthday he want fall into the deep black.
Alot of the stuff that is spoken about is about sameness, about being equal in their abilities. Can someone who is not a minimum holder be equal to a minimum holder and can they be friends. Can they conexist and give each other what they need? This is what this is all about. Art seems to not have minimum and is Nice friend. Sadly we don’t have much about the relationship between these two. I really hope we will have this relationship explored in season two.
Murasaki and Nice has also a really interessting dynamic. It seems like Murasaki is fighting to get Nice attention. Murasaki was always the best and than Nice came. Here again it is sad that we didn’t saw much about the relationship between them.

The End (with spoilers)

The serie is about tolerance, about being different and what it can mean. It is about human nature, about power and what to do with it. It is about choices and the serie is making a job. The serie is fun and gives us themes to think about. It is honest and warm and also cold and real.
It is sad that the relationship did come a little short but i hope this will come in season two.
And this season i need to watch now -right now.
How could they let it and like that? To everyone who had watch it (no spoilers for season two please), why do you think Art shot him? Do you think he really shot him? Why is Art still alive?