The project began with a manga series written by Yukino Kitajima and Yūki Kodama as the artist, with Yū Wazu adapting the original designs for animation.

The manga, Hamatora: The Comic, started serialization in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine in November 2013.

Additionally, a role-playing game titled Hamatora: Look at Smoking World developed by FuRyu was released in July 2014.

The series takes place in the year 2014 when selected humans called Minimum Holders have been discovered to possess supernatural abilities.

The story focuses on Minimum Holder Nice who forms a detective agency called "Hamatora" based in Yokohama and he starts gathering a large number of allies such as his partner Murasaki and assistant Hajime as well as enemies including several criminals.

The anime stars Ryōta Ōsaka, Wataru Hatano, Hiroshi Kamiya, Emiri Katō, Kiyono Yasuno, Jun Fukuyama, and Yuichi Nakamura among others.

As a result, those who graduate from Facultas are given extreme benefits and privileges that enable them to be highly successful in life, such as being entitled to any job or career they want with ease.

Sayuri Akatasuki requests for Nice and Murasaki to rescue her sister Shizuku, a Minimum Holder who can generate fire, from a criminal family.

In the week that follows, it is then revealed that Shizuku survived and faked her death so that she and Sayuri can live a new life without fearing her Minimum or Facultas and the Mafia family.

During the anime, Murasaki has joined Nice as a Hamatora P.I., where they prefer to sit around all day with their friends and wait for clients.

The culprit is Moral, a former professor from the Facultas Academy who wishes to give everybody Minimums in order to achieve equality.

Shortly afterwards, Nice is revived by the powers of Art's late brother, Skill (his heart had been transplanted by Moral years ago during an incident).

Voiced by: Yuichi Nakamura,[2] Sanae Kobayashi (Young) (Japanese); Andrew Love[3] (English) Voiced by: Yousuke Akimoto[2] (Japanese); Luis Galindo[3] (English) The anime series Hamatora: The Animation was announced in the 2013 50th issue of Shueisha's Young Jump magazine.

[11] Additionally, a series of "Character File" CDs are set to be released with the first two, respectively focused on Nice and Murasaki, on March 26, 2014.

"[5] A manga series, Hamatora: The Comic, written by Yukino Kitajima and illustrated by Yūki Kodama began serialization in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine in November 2013.

In addition, Hiroshi Kimura is also directing the anime, along with series composers and script writers Jun Kumagai and Touko Machida.

The series was simulcast-streamed by Crunchyroll with English subtitles in North America, Australia and other select parts of the world.

[24] Avex Group began releasing the series in Japan on Blu-ray and DVD volumes starting on April 25, 2014.

[34][needs update] A Nintendo 3DS game developed by FuRyu titled Hamatora: Look at Smoking World was announced in December 2013.

[43] Multiple writers from Anime News Network showed several opinions about the series' first episode which went from positive to one simply saying she did not care about it.

[44] Nicole MacLean from THEM Anime Reviews called it a "fun watch" while noting similarities with the comic book series X-Men.

Despite praising the threat Moral poses to Nice due to how he is a foil, Eisenbeis criticized some of the dark parts from the series as well as its anticlimactic finale.