Fuuto Tantei

Shoutarou Hidari, a hard-boiled private investigator from the Narumi Detective Agency, lives for the sake of protecting the peace in the city of Fuuto alongside his inquisitive partner, Philip. One fine night, Shoutarou encounters a mysterious woman named Tokime, who is soon linked to several cases of homicide and theft. Shoutarou's investigation leads him to people using "Gaia Memories"—memory units similar to thumb drives holding vast amounts of data—to turn into formidable beasts called "Dopants." While the majority of Gaia users were put down by the detective team in the past, a number of them still remain, posing a great threat to public safety.

Once more, Shoutarou and Philip, Gaia users on the side of justice, must fight as Kamen Rider W—the renowned hero safeguarding Fuuto—to eradicate the nest of villainous Dopants, all while uncovering Tokime's true identity and confronting the long-forgotten past.

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Tokime Main

Sekine, Akira Japanese

Hidari, Shoutarou Main

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

Philip Main

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Terui, Ryuu Supporting

Furukawa, Makoto Japanese

Narumi, Akiko Supporting

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Gojou, Kazuha Supporting

Itou, Miku Japanese

Jinno, Mikio Supporting

Horiuchi, Kenyuu Japanese

Kagamino, Kuuya Supporting

Kusunoki, Taiten Japanese

Moriguchi, Monako Supporting

Machico Japanese

Bandou, Yukiji Supporting

Ono, Daisuke Japanese

Furuya, Daisuke Producer

Masuo, Masashi Producer

Naitou, Megumi Producer

Kabashima, Yousuke Director, Storyboard, Animation Director

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Oct 17, 2022

ProtoDrive

Recommended

tl;dr if you like KR W you will love this, if you haven't seen KR W then I HIGHLY recommend watching that first

Are you a fan of Kamen Rider W? Are you itching for more of it? If the answer to even one of those questions is yes, then this anime is for you. It's essentially an all-new story that is set after the original series, featuring the cast you know and love.

But first, for those who are unfamiliar with Kamen Rider W: I highly, highly suggest watching it first before you go into this. The anime just assumes that you've seen all 49 ... episodes and 2 movies of the original series from start to finish, so it does a little amount of effort in refreshing your memory. Some major things are just straight-up unexplained because they've already been touched upon in the tokusatsu, and there are a lot of plot developments and character motivations that will go over your head if you haven't seen the original series at all. Certain scenes also lack emotional impact if you don't fully know the context behind them. Obviously, you're still free to try if you want—the chief producer has said that the anime is indeed made with newcomers in mind, but from what I have seen so far, it feels like the opposite. I imagine the anime will be so much less fun and more puzzling/confusing if you go in blind.

That said, if you're already a fan of Kamen Rider W or at least have fond memories of watching it, then you will love this anime. Fuuto PI is both a sequel and a love letter to the original W with a ton of neat little callbacks and references to its tokusatsu predecessor. The story is just what you'd expect from W: A thrilling supernatural mystery with some occasional light-hearted moments. It takes place in good ol' Fuuto, and the anime makes use of it really well. Many characters from the original series, no matter how minor, make appearances here and there in the story. A lot of iconic sets are featured as well, such as the Narumi Detective Agency which has been unfortunately demolished in real life. Both of these things combined make the windy city feel alive and familiar, almost like returning to an old home.
Henshin effects are also recreated in a much more flashy fashion than in the live-action, but the anime keeps certain trademark sound effects to remind you that you are still watching the same Kamen Rider you know and love. Some of the music is basically even just 1:1 renditions of the original series' soundtrack and it WILL hit you in the nostalgia bones.
It's based on a tokusatsu series, after all, so action-wise, the anime will not leave you wanting. The animation is solid, smooth, and slick—and thanks to it, we get the kind of action that just isn't possible in a weekly live-action drama medium. Dynamic fast-paced fight sequences, bike chase scenes with no regard to Japanese traffic safety laws, et cetera.

The only downside I can think of is that the voice actors might take a little while to get used to. The seiyuus do a fine job in bringing the characters to life, but it's going to feel a little jarring compared to the original at first. Just don't go in here expecting to hear Renn Kiriyama and Masaki Suda.
(But at least the ED song is sung by the actors of Eternal and Skull, and it SLAPS.)

Overall, it's a good, enjoyable anime—just one that is geared toward a very specific audience. If you are interested in watching the original series but don't know where to start, feel free to reach out to me. I'll be more than willing to help out!

(A repost and slightly minor edit of my previous review, which had 46 votes at the time of deletion.)

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Oct 17, 2022

Ff_ncteen

Recommended

As someone who has watched Kamen Rider before and having Kamen Rider W as my favourite one out of all of them, I really enjoy this anime series although it's such a shame that it consists of 12 episodes only :') [like if you compare it to the episode of the Kamen Rider W live action, 1 eps of Kamen Rider W takes about 3-4 episodes of Fuuto Tante (if you get what I mean)] But anyways I really enjoy this anime series a lot that I really stay tune to every Monday for this one ><

Will I recommend it or not? Honestly, I prefer ... for those who haven't watched Kamen Rider W live-action to watch that first before watching this anime because in the anime you can say that you might not understand some parts of the scenes, so yeah, if you don't want to get confuse to whats going on, I recommend to watch the Live action first as this is the sequel of the Live-action series.

But to those who have watch the Liva Action I really HIGHLY recommend you guys to watch it especially to those who loves Kamen rider W

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Oct 17, 2022

Uji_Gintoki_Bowl

Mixed Feelings

Fuuto Tantei is a detective story. Nothing more, nothing less. Well, maybe it's a little bit more because of the Kamen Rider stuff. I don't know anything about Kamen Rider culture in general, but the idea of two dudes being genius Power-Ranger-detectives is slightly-outlandish-but-entertaining, if nothing else.

I was immediately drawn into this show because of the amazingly jazzy soundtrack, complete with badass sax riffs and an incredible ED (including the visuals!). The animation and art style are also pretty interesting because of the constant transformations that have to do with their Kamen Rider identities. The voice actor (Tachiki Fumihiko) behind the transformation sound effect deserves ... a raise because anyone else sure as hell wouldn't be able to make a USB stick sound badass. Barring this though, I don't know if there is much else to be seen here.

Frame and sound reuse seems to be weirdly pervasive in the work, despite all of the creative style oozing from the show. The same battle track seems to play for a good 50% of serious fights, and reused visuals (and SFX) during transformations are fairly evident.

On the whole, the story starts off as an incredibly immersive mystery, complete with a red herring and a satisfying conclusion (and a hot girl-). After this first arc passes though, it almost feels like we are getting a repeat of what has already transpired, but with a different context each time. Though there is a clear progression, it gets less and less interesting as the story builds up to its climax, paradoxically.

Though it is the case that the show gets less interesting as things progress, it certainly isn't the case that it isn't interesting at all. I'm a sucker for detective stories in general, and seeing a good deduction by some unbelievably genius detectives is always a good time. I would highly recommend this to anyone that is okay with some generic Power-Ranger-esque fights and is looking for an immersive-ish mystery to last them a few hours.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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	Poll: Fuuto Tantei Episode 12 Discussion 3miL - Oct 16, 2022	49 replies	by Rinaisty »» Sep 24, 7:05 AM
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	Poor writing but decent IMMABEAST - Oct 16, 2022	14 replies	by IfIspeak »» Jan 31, 3:22 PM
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