Japanese light novel series
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Novel first volume cover
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Written by
| Chiaki Kisaki
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Illustrated by
| Hako Ichiiro
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Published by
| ASCII Media Works
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Imprint
| Media Works Bunko
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Demographic
| Male
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Original run
| February 25, 2014
? present
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Volumes
| 14
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Written by
| Chiaki Kisaki
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Illustrated by
| Kisara Akino
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Published by
| Square Enix
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Magazine
| Monthly GFantasy
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Demographic
| Sh?nen
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Original run
| July 2016
?
May 2017
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Volumes
| 2
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Written by
| Chiaki Kizaki
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Illustrated by
| Hako Ichiiro
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Published by
| ASCII Media Works
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Imprint
| Dengeki Bunko
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Demographic
| Male
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Published
| October 8, 2016
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Written by
| Chiaki Kisaki
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Illustrated by
| Chiako Nagaoka
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Published by
| Square Enix
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Magazine
| Monthly G Fantasy
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Demographic
| Sh?nen
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Original run
| August 2017
?
December 2018
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Volumes
| 2
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Directed by
| Kenji Yasuda
|
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Produced by
| - Takema Okamura
- Tomoyuki ?wada
- Noritomo Isogai
- Hirotaka Kaneko
- Masaru Seto
- Fumihiro Ozawa
- Noriko Dohi
- Mika End?
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Written by
| Sh?go Yasukawa
|
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Music by
| K?tar? Nakagawa
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Studio
| Satelight
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Licensed by
| Crunchyroll
(Worldwide rights outside of Asia)
[1]
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Original network
| AT-X
,
Tokyo MX
,
BS11
,
TVQ
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English network
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Original run
| January 12, 2018
?
March 30, 2018
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Episodes
| 12
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Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens
(
博多豚骨ラ?メンズ
,
Hakata Tonkotsu R?menzu
)
is a Japanese
novel
series written by Chiaki Kisaki and illustrated by Hako Ichiiro.
ASCII Media Works
have published fourteen volumes since 2014 under their
Media Works Bunko
imprint. The novel won the Grand Prize at the 20th annual
Dengeki Novel Awards
.
[2]
A
manga
adaptation with art by Kisara Akino was serialized in
Square Enix
's
sh?nen
manga
magazine
G Fantasy
between July 2016 and May 2017. It was collected in two
tank?bon
volumes. A second manga adaptation titled
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Dai 2-Sh?
, with art by Chiako Nagaoka, was launched on August 18, 2017 in the same magazine. It was collected in two
tank?bon
volumes.
An
anime
television series adaptation by
Satelight
aired from January 12 to March 30, 2018.
Characters
[
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]
- Zenji Banba
(
馬場 善治
,
Banba Zenji
)
- Voiced by:
Daisuke Ono
[3]
(Japanese);
Josh Grelle
(English)
[4]
- A
detective
who runs his own agency called the Banba Detective Office. Born and raised in Hakata, he loves
Tonkotsu ramen
,
Mentaiko
, and
baseball
. He is also the identity of the famous assassin known as The Niwaka Samurai.
- Lin Xianming
(
林 憲明
,
Rin Shenmin
)
- Voiced by:
Yuki Kaji
[3]
(Japanese);
Daman Mills
(English)
[4]
- A crossdressing hitman from
Kunming
, China. He is skilled with the knife. He came to Japan to look for his sister and to pay off a large debt incurred by his family. After finding out his sister was murdered by the very agency he worked for, he teamed up with Banba to kill them and joins him afterwards. His real name is Maomei, and he sold himself to help his family's poor financial situation. He would undergo brutal training to become an assassin for five years with the help of his roommate Feilang, who ended up betraying him during the final exam.
- Kazuki Sait?
(
?藤 和樹
,
Sait? Kazuki
)
- Voiced by:
Y?suke Kobayashi
[3]
(Japanese); Stephen Fu (English)
[4]
- A former baseball player who was kicked off the team for severely injuring a fellow player during a pitch. He becomes a contractor for Murder Inc. He is a new employee having recently moved from Tokyo to Hakata.
- Enokida
(
?田
)
- Voiced by:
Kensh? Ono
[3]
(Japanese); Kyle Igneczi (English)
[4]
- A skilled computer hacker who runs an information shop. He and Banba have a longstanding working relationship. He uses mechanical spiders as tracking devices to discreetly pick up information. His real name is Chihiro Matsuda (松田 千尋) and he is the son of Kazuo Matsuda, a member of Japan's House of Representatives. He was caught hacking and his father ordered his butler Yagi fake his death by sending him away to Hakata to allow him to live freely. He would dye his hair and assume the name of Enokida to cover his true identity.
- Jir?
(
ジロ?
)
- Voiced by:
Daisuke Namikawa
[3]
(Japanese); Aaron Roberts (English)
[4]
- A former hairdresser who runs his own hitman agency. He moved to Hakata after his lover was murdered to start his own agency, and has been Misaki's caretaker.
- Misaki
(
ミサキ
)
- Voiced by:
Aoi Y?ki
[3]
(Japanese);
Amber Lee Connors
(English)
[4]
- An elementary school student who assists Jiro in running his agency.
- Jose Martinez
(
ホセ?マルティネス
,
Hose Marutinesu
)
- Voiced by:
Tomoaki Maeno
[3]
(Japanese); Marcus D. Stimac (English)
[4]
- A torturer who immigrated from the
Dominican Republic
.
- Yamato
(
大和
)
- Voiced by:
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
[3]
(Japanese);
Eric Vale
(English)
[4]
- A host who works for the club Adam.
- Saeki
(
佐伯
)
- Voiced by:
Daisuke Hirakawa
[3]
- Director of a cosmetic surgery clinic.
- Shigematsu
(
重松
)
- Voiced by:
Kenji Hamada
[3]
(Japanese); Ben Phillips (English)
[4]
- A veteran detective who has a great working relationship with Banba. He investigates incidents that are not judged by the law.
- Genz? Gohda
(
剛田 源造
,
G?da Genz?
)
- Voiced by:
K?sei Hirota
[3]
- A chef who works at a ramen stand that Banba frequently dines at. He is a former hitman nicknamed G.G (Ji-Ji) who was the strongest in Hakata.
- Shunsuke Saruwatari
(
猿渡 俊助
,
Saruwatari Shunsuke
)
- Voiced by:
Yuichi Nakamura
[3]
- A hitman who formerly worked for Murder Inc. He is a
submarine-style pitcher
for a rival baseball team and he fights by throwing shurikens and other projectiles in the same manner. He was ace of Murder Inc, but he left Murder Inc and return to
Kitakyushu
where is his home. because he was fed up with the boring assignments he keeps on getting and want to fight a stronger opponent. With his new employer, he is assigned to kill the Nikawa Samurai and is determined to do it on his own terms. As such, he develops a rivalry with Banba and will help him out when he is threatened not wanting anybody else to kill him.
- Naoya Nitta
(
新田 巨也
,
Nitta Naoya
)
- Voiced by:
Masaya Matsukaze
[3]
(Japanese); Shawn Gann (English)
[4]
- A consultant who investigates child murders in Kitakyushu. He used to play baseball as Saruwatari's catcher, and as such he has a close relationship with him.
- Chegaru
(
チェガル
)
- Voiced by:
Kenjiro Tsuda
[5]
(Japanese); Chris Wehkamp (English)
[4]
- Siva
(
シヴァ
,
Shiba
)
- Voiced by:
Natsuki Hanae
[5]
(Japanese);
Justin Briner
(English)
[4]
- Irasawa
(
井良?
)
- Voiced by:
Atsushi Imaruoka
[5]
(Japanese);
Ricco Fajardo
(English)
[4]
- Feilang
(
緋狼
)
- Voiced by:
Nobunaga Shimazaki
[5]
(Japanese);
Alejandro Saab
(English)
[4]
- A hitman from
Beijing
who was Lin's training partner. He provided emotional support for Lin while at the assassin training grounds in China. However, he ends up betraying him at the final exam where the two had to fight to the death when he revealed that he killed his previous roommate. Lin apparently killed him to pass the exam, but he survived and has since made a living as a hitman in Beijing.
Media
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]
Novel
[
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]
No.
|
Release date
|
ISBN
|
1
| February 25, 2014
[6]
| 978-4-04-866316-8
|
2
| September 25, 2014
[7]
| 978-4-04-869009-6
|
3
| March 25, 2015
[8]
| 978-4-04-865063-2
|
4
| August 25, 2015
[9]
| 978-4-04-865387-9
|
5
| December 25, 2015
[10]
| 978-4-04-865677-1
|
6
| March 25, 2017
[11]
| 978-4-04-892832-8
|
7
| July 25, 2017
[12]
| 978-4-04-893290-5
|
8
| December 22, 2017
[13]
| 978-4-04-893589-0
|
9
| February 22, 2020
[14]
| 978-4-04-913085-0
|
10
| February 25, 2021
[15]
| 978-4-04-913642-5
|
11
| February 25, 2022
[16]
| 978-4-04-914235-8
|
12
| February 25, 2023
[17]
| 978-4-04-914891-6
|
13
| April 25, 2024
[18]
| 978-4-04-915741-3
|
14
| May 24, 2024
[19]
| 978-4-04-915742-0
|
Light novel
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]
Durarara!!
× Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens
[
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]
Manga
[
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]
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Dai 2-Sh?
[
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]
Anime
[
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]
An
anime
television series adaptation by
Satelight
aired from January 12 to March 30, 2018, as part of Dengeki's 25th anniversary.
[25]
The opening theme is "Stray"
(
ストレイ
,
Sutorei
)
, performed by
Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets
,
[26]
while the ending theme is "Dirty Bullet" performed by the jazz band TRI4TH.
[3]
[5]
Crunchyroll
simulcasted the series, while
Funimation
produced an English dub.
[27]
On June 18, 2020, the show was aired via Animax Asia on July 1.
[28]
The show is streamed throughout India under Muse India.
[29]
The show receive a release in Japan via Blu-Ray and DVD with Volume 1 released on April 27, 2018.
[30]
Volume 2 was released on May 30, 2018.
[31]
Volume 3 was released on July 11, 2018.
[32]
Stage play
[
edit
]
A
stage play
adaptation premiered from July 13 to July 21, 2019.
[34]
[35]
Reception
[
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]
Previews
[
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]
The anime adaptation's first episode garnered mixed reviews from
Anime News Network
's staff during the Winter 2018 season previews. Chris Farris solely reviewed the English dub version of the episode, criticizing the premise for lacking "punch and personality" to sell itself and felt the voice actors were "monotone" and weren't "distinct" enough with their performances (singling out Daman Mills' portrayal of Xianming as a standout), concluding that: "Ultimately, listening to this paradox just creates a feeling of surreal blandness." James Beckett found it to be a "dour premiere" that's "decent-looking" but lacks ambition and excitement to deliver its hitmen ensemble and their various storylines throughout the overall plot. Lynzee Loveridge found the production "middle of the road" but commended the crossdressing character of Xianming and was intrigued by the "interwoven threads" and "interlocking relationships" throughout the overall mystery. Jacob Chapman commended the handling of the
Ry?go Narita
-like "multitudinous subplots" that connect with each other but was critical of the serious tone clashing with the ridiculous setup, the cast of "blase and unlikable characters" and the production having a "mediocre art design" and "stiff animation", concluding that: "
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens
isn't a traditionally terrible show, but I don't think its lukewarm stabs at uniqueness made it any less of a slog to get through either."
[36]
Rebecca Silverman wrote that: "With a jazz-based soundtrack and a casual feeling about it,
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens
stands to be an interesting puzzle to piece together. It's definitely going to be worth figuring out where it's headed, because there are a few directions it could take as of now." Nick Creamer was critical of the mediocre aesthetic quality throughout the art and character designs, but gave praise to the natural transitions between characters and subplots, saying "[I]f you're looking for a convoluted crime drama, you could certainly do a lot worse." Theron Martin praised director Kenji Yasuda for handling the concept by having a "well-organized" plot and an ensemble cast that gets equal attention and sets up various scenarios between them, calling it "one of the season's sharper new entries so far."
[36]
Series reception
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]
Martin reviewed the complete anime series and gave it a B+ grade.
[37]
While giving note of some "distasteful story elements" and a lack of female representation in its ensemble, he praised the charm of its cast and their interactions with each other throughout the series and the production's "distinctive aesthetic" that gives them their visual appeal, concluding that: "If you can handle its graphic content, then
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens
is a highly entertaining series that may have been overlooked during the Winter 2018 season, but is well worth checking out for fans of its unique sub-genre."
[37]
Allen Moody, writing for
THEM Anime Reviews
, praised the series for its "nicely complex" and "elaborately conceived" ensemble cast and their various stories being "very well paced" and having a "moral framework" to them, concluding that he would like a continuation with more focus on Lin and Banba's entourage.
[38]
Silverman reviewed the
home video
release in 2019 and gave it an overall B grade.
[39]
She praised Lin's character development during the first and last arcs, the use of language and the balancing of both humor and dark elements, but was critical of how the show treats its female characters and the rest of the cast being just "one-note" quirky personalities, concluding that: "Although it can feel a bit uneven over the course of its four story arcs,
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens
is a fun show overall."
[39]
Notes
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]
References
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]
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(in Japanese).
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.
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(in Japanese).
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.
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.
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. Retrieved
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.
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(in Japanese)
. Retrieved
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.
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(in Japanese)
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.
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.
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.
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