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... you score Hamatora? Click here to vote! ⏎Bamboo Dong ⏎ Rating: 2 ⏎ Review: ⏎ Despite its psychedelic color explosions and gravity-defying action scenes, Hamatora is a giant bore, thanks to its mashup of generic characters, lazy supernatural elements, and its inability to comprehend what makes successful detective stories engaging and entertaining. Perhaps if the show were just a detective series, it would slide under the radar, but no. Somewhere in the backs of the minds of the creators, they decided that the only way to make the series even remotely interesting would be to give it the crutch of magic s, bringing it into the realm of other such series like Get Backers, Darker Than Black, and all the other dozens of shows out there that are variations of People-With-Powers-Solve-Crimes-And-Crack-Jokes. The end result is one of cheapness and desperation, clawing at anything with fast movements and bright colors to beg viewers to stay. ⏎ Imagining for a minute that Hamatora wasn't a tired regurgitation of super-powered magic s (in this show, they call them "Minimum Holders" because a cryptic name was needed), as a simple detective story, it's at best mediocre. The problem is, it gives no reason for viewers to care either about the cases, its victims, or the criminals involved. It doesn't even involve clues of any kind, so it misses its chance of being a play-along type show. Instead, the mystery aspect of the show is just a reason for our Minimum Holders to wriggle their way into a variety of criminal situations, so they can rage at each other with Technicolor action scenes barfed out of a kaleidoscope. ⏎ I suspect that over the course of the next few episodes, the detective aspect of the show will fade away, only to be replaced by a rehash of all the guys-with-powers shows that have come before it. We'll likely be forced to watch the main character's crazy soundsplosion rainbow attack at least over and over again, until our eyes grow numb. Needless to say, I'm not particularly taken by any aspect of Hamatora, and will likely shelve it until a domestic release. ⏎ Hamatora is available streaming at Crunchyroll. ⏎ Carl Kimlinger ⏎ Rating: 3 ⏎ Review: Let...