New Mixed-Media Project 'Hamatora' Announced

by Wind_Sr
Sep 30, 2013 3:55 PM | 49 Comments

On October 3rd, the upcoming issue of Weekly Young Jump will announce a new mixed-media project titled "Hamatora". The manga portion of the project will be written by Kitajima Yukinori, a game scenario writer for series such as Senran Kagura, and drawn by Kodama Yuuki, mangaka of recently adapted Blood Lad. The series will begin serialization in the magazine's 51st issue, which will be released the week of November 21, 2013.

The staff and cast of the project's TV anime portion will also be announced.

Staff:
Script: Machida Touko, Kumagai Jun
Series Composition: Kitajima Yukinori
Original Story: Matsumai Natsu, Kodama Yuuki
Original Character Design: Kodama Yuuki
Character Design: Wazu Yuu
Color Art: Fantasista Utamaro
Music Score: Yoshimori Makoto
Music Producer: DIVE II Entertainment
Animation Studio: NAZ

Cast:
Nice: Ohsaka Ryota
Murasaki: Hatano Wataru
Hajime: Kato Emiri
Art: Kamiya Hiroshi
Koneko: Kiyono Yasuno

Official site: http://hamatorapj.com

The scan further says that a game "and more!" will also be included in the project.

Source: Scans of Young Jump Magazine via ANN

Hamatora (manga) on MAL
Hamatora The Animation on MAL

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Shadow-Chan said:

Three: Katsuki Murase

Yes, been waiting forever for him to get a new voice role! One of the greatest and underused voices of anime IMO.

Nov 6, 2013 2:26 AM by Elite60

Not saying it was not legit but just expressing the interesting, even baffling, arrangement by Avex to distribute information ;-)

Nov 2, 2013 6:27 AM by symbv

Looks like an official channel to me as I'm redirected to that channel uploaded videos from the movie page. Also at AGF today Hamatora stand showed the airing schedule to be 2014. I can't zoom more, but it's definitely at January according to visitors.

Nov 2, 2013 6:24 AM by Shadow-Chan

^ Interesting as the schedule information does not seem to be available in the PV or the official anime website. The account "Avex Other" that houses the PV is also interesting, as it has only 6 videos uploaded, quite a small number if it were used as an official account for Avex Group to upload videos.

Nov 2, 2013 5:44 AM by symbv

symbv said:

mio6 said:
When is the animation planned for?

Not announced yet.

Reading the latest PV description, Hamatora is planned to start Jan 2014.

Nov 2, 2013 2:44 AM by Shadow-Chan

Laciie said:
A PV with animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0FdejcFf0

This looks great visually so far so I'm pretty excited, plus that list of voice actors!

I like the coloring thing they got going on along with the animation, the fight scenes should be good.

Oct 25, 2013 10:48 AM by VioLink

Dat voice cast again. <3

Oct 25, 2013 3:10 AM by phoenixalia

coughing
VOICE CAST YES YES YES
coughing

Oct 22, 2013 4:04 PM by Clouded-Flame

A PV with animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0FdejcFf0

This looks great visually so far so I'm pretty excited, plus that list of voice actors!

Oct 22, 2013 12:41 PM by Laciie