We continue our chronicles on the novelties of this winter with an anime from the catalog of Crunchyroll, Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens. Get ready to dive into a world where crime is a business!
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens
Original title: 博多豚骨ラーメンズ
Alternative title: Hakata Pork Bones Ramens
Number of episodes: Ntotal shadow unknown
Season: Winter 2018
Broadcast: from 12/01/2018 to ?
Themes: Murder – Crime – Detective – Daily
Kinds: Action – Drama – Mystery
Animation studio: Satelight
Streaming platform: Crunchyroll
Director: Yasuda Kenji
Character designer: Inoue Hideki
Music: Nakagawa Kotaro
Scriptwriter: Yasukawa Shogo
Synopsis :
On the surface, Fukuoka appears to be a peaceful city, but it is plagued by crime. It has become the field of action of the hitmen, but a rumor suggests that one of them eliminates these murder professionals. People seeking revenge, informants, torture specialists… Members of a detective agency come across all sorts of unsavory people, but does this notorious killer of assassins really exist?
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This review may contain spoilers regarding the first episode of the anime. To read at your own risk!
A world of hitmen!
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens transports us to a world where you can hire hitmen if some people displease you. A neighbor too noisy? Call an agency to have him killed, nothing could be simpler, right? For this, the story takes you to the city of Fukuoka, a city where 3% of the inhabitants are hitmen.This first episode flies over different characters and allows us to soak up the general atmosphere. In addition, some questions are already asked and give us the desire to discover the following episodes in order to know the answers! The actions take place relatively quickly to set the scene, but it gives a certain rhythm to the episode and for our part, reinforces our desire to know more about the plot and the characters.
Now let's move on to animation. We are pleased to find the Satelight studio (Nanbaka, Log Horizon) which, as we expected, provides quality graphics that make this beginning of the season very pleasant to discover. The animations are fluid, the colors are attractive and the rendering of it all makes for a very attractive and satisfying episode to watch.
Now let's look at the characters. We are presented with a small number of professional / beginner hitmen, detectives, thugs, … . They come from different backgrounds but all stay in the same field, since that's what the anime will focus on. Some characters are extravagant and let us imagine comical scenes, full of actions, crimes and assassinations.
We do not really know what to expect for the rest of the events, but we will discover them with great pleasure. The world of crime is vast and we hope for scenes full of action, suspense and twists!
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens is for now an anime that has caught our attention and we will not fail to follow the rest of the adventures of these hitmen. And you, what did you think of the first episode of this winter novelty at Crunchyroll?
