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It's been quite some time since i have started a new anime but better late that never! Although i watch a couple of other anime as well as some series i am always in search for more so if you have any suggestions go ahead and do so. Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens was actually a suggestion too that i saw in a comment through an anime site. Most of the times (or most likely never) i don't bother reading comments when i am watching an anime or a show cause of the many fanboys out there that get in my nerves. This time though reading that comment made me search a bit more about this anime.
General Info
As i already mentioned the anime is called Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens and it will have 12 23mins episodes it total. By now only 9 are out. It is a brand new anime that aired during the winter season at January 12 of 2018. The producers behind that anime are quite many like Sotsu, Warner Bros, KlockWorx, Tokyo MX and many more and the studio is called Satelight. Satelight studio has been a studio for many anime including Fairy Tail, Log Horizon and Hellsing Ultimate.
Aside from all the above that anime came from a light Novel. There can be different sources and ''roads'' for anime like manga, light novels, comic or even they can just start out directly as anime. It is an action one and if i can add it's one of those that use some brain behind any actions but i'll explain that later.
Story-Plot
Did the title confused you a bit? It sure confused me as i expected something that has to do with food and ramen as the title suggests. This is where the comment i read made me wanna dive into it. I had the thought that it will be another food related anime that wanna take the lights out of shokugeki no soma but imagine my surprise when i heard it's about hitmen.
So the story sets in Fukuoka a Japanese city that is rumored to has a 3% of her population work as assassins, hitmen,murderers, informants etc etc. The city looks like any normal city in our world but the show wanna point out the ''things'' that leave under it's surface. In that city a murder of a detective takes place and detective Banba wanna find out more of what's going on.
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Note that hitmen are so common that they have whole corporations full of them that anybody can go to and hire some of them. At the same time we introduced to Saitou a new hitman that has never kill a person who needs to go to Fukuoka to kill a target. Another one is the chinese Ling Xianming another hitman that likes to dress up as a girl ( blame japan :P ) trying to make more and more money out of targets and jobs he has in order to become ''free'' from the organization he works for.
There are a bunch of others that we get to meet during the first episode but don't worry, they take part in each episode and they have distinctive figures and characters that you gonna remember them all. So what happens is that Ling's target dies out of another hitman resulting in a huge loss of money while at the same time detective learns more about that underworld. Soon they meet each other as someone wants him dead and hire Ling for that but Ling is requesting his previous money in order to execute the order and the show goes on.
Is it Worth?
I wouldn't put that anime into my Top ones but it's not bad either. If you want something good to see in your spare time that won't last long the go and watch it. If you have better things to do then move on with your regular program. There are a couple of fighting scenes and some bloody and messy ones too that are actually quite good and i enjoyed them.
Don't expect anything fancy like superpowers, you are in the hitmen world and more accurately in the real world were people just use knives, swords,guns and bombs. I think they want to show us the hidden reality between every large city and that not everything that shines is gold.
What i liked a lot is that it can easily become a movie or a series. If you remember i said that i will explain later the ''brain'' thing i mentioned above. In this anime everything that happens has a logic behind it and a plan. It's not like we see in other anime a straight fight between the strongest. No in here everyone has it's role and merging all those roles together a master plan is born. From hacking to switching bodies and from hidden guns to tracking down others , this anime has it all!