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Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens (TV)

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Alternative title:
博多豚骨ラーメンズ (Japanese)
Genres: mystery
Themes: assassins
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: At first glance, Fukuoka seems like a peaceful city, but under the surface, crime is running rampant. The city's Hakata ward is home to the professionals of the underworld: professional killers, detectives, informants, professional revenge seekers, those skilled in torture, and more. And according to urban legend, even a "killer of professional killers" exists in the city. When stories of the men in the underworld are told, a "professional killer murder" appears.
User Ratings: 142 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Excellent: 16 votes (sub:14, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 52 votes (sub:38, dub:9, raw:1, others:4
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Arabic subtitled
1 Indonesia subtitled
)
 Good: 41 votes (sub:36, dub:5)
 Decent: 17 votes (sub:12, dub:4, others:1
1 Vietnamese subtitled
)
 So-so: 10 votes (sub:9, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 219 users, rank: #3634 (of 9508)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.324 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.2422, rank: #2471 (of 9647)
Weighted mean: 7.315 (Good+), rank: #2306 (of 9647) (seen all: 7.35 / seen some: 6.76 / won't finish: 4.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.330 (Good+), rank: #2016 (of 7263)
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2018-01-12
Opening Theme:
"Stray" by Kishida Kyōdan & The Akeboshi Rockets
Ending Theme:
"Dirty Bullet" by Tri4th
Insert song:
"DIRTY DROP" by TRI4TH (ep 4)
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Blu-ray + DVD combo
    Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens - The Complete Series (BD+DVD) 2019-03-05 (from $52.88)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Kenji Yasuda
Series Composition: Shogo Yasukawa
Script:
Shinsuke Ōnishi (eps 7-9)
Shogo Yasukawa (eps 1-6, 10-12)
Storyboard:
Hideaki Kurakawa (eps 7, 11)
Hiroshi Tamada (ep 6)
Hitomi Ezoe (eps 5, 10)
Junichi Wada (ep 8)
Katsumi Ono (ep 12)
Kenji Yasuda (eps 1-6, 9)
Takayuki Yamamoto (ep 10)
Takumi Narita (ep 10)
Thomas Romain (OP, ED)
Episode Director:
Kazunobu Shimizu (ep 7)
Kenji Yasuda (eps 1, 12)
Norihiko Nagahama (eps 3, 8)
Takayuki Yamamoto (5 episodes
eps 2, 5, 8, 10-11
)

Takeshi Nishino (eps 4, 9)
Takumi Narita (eps 6, 12)
Toshiaki Kanbara (ep 11)
Unit Director: Kenji Yasuda (OP, ED)
Original creator: Chiaki Kisaki
Original Character Design: Hako Ichiiro
Character Design: Hideki Inoue
Art Director: Katsuhisa Takiguchi
Chief Animation Director: Hideki Inoue (eps 1, 6, 12)
Animation Director:
Hideki Inoue (OP, ED)
Yukiyoshi Shikiji (eps 6, 12)
Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
Cgi Director: Hiroyuki Goto
Director of Photography: Atsushi Iwasaki

Art Setting: Maho Takahashi
Assistant Art Director: Ryo Kobayashi (小林良)
Background Art: Tomoyasu Hosoi (Studio Tulip; eps 1-2, 4-10)
CG Producer: Hideaki Hata
Chief animator: Akihiro Taniguchi
Color design: Chie Tanimoto
Composite Engineer: Eric Honda
Editing: Shūji Matsumoto
Imageboard: Vincent Nghiem (OP, ED)
Key Animation:
Akihiro Taniguchi (OP; eps 1, 5-6, 11)
Hideo Amemiya (ep 6)
Hiromi Muranaka (ep 2)
Hiroyoshi Iida (8 episodes
eps 2-5, 7-8, 10-11
)

Kazunori Takada (ep 1)
Nobuyuki Matsuo (ep 4)
Shinichi Wada (ep 11)
Takeshi Nishino (eps 4, 9)
Toshiharu Sugie (OP; ep 6)
Vincent Nghiem (ED)
Yukiyoshi Shikiji (ED)
Recording Adjustment: Takayuki Yamaguchi
Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama
Special Effects: Ayaka Iida
Sub-Character Design: Miho Nagisa (渚美帆)
Theme Song Performance: Kishida Kyōdan & The Akeboshi Rockets (OP)
Vehicle Design: Yoshio Mizumura
Daisuke Ono as Zenji Banba
Yūki Kaji as Lin Xianming

Aoi Yūki as Misaki
Daisuke Hirakawa as Saeki
Daisuke Namikawa as Jirō
Kenji Hamada as Shigematsu
Kenshō Ono as Enokida
Kousei Hirota as Genzō Gōda
Masaya Matsukaze as Kyonari Nitta
Tomoaki Maeno as Jose Martinez
Yūichi Nakamura as Shunsuke Saruwatari
Yūsuke Kobayashi as Saitō

Akira Kuwabara as Employee (ep 10)
Atsushi Imaruoka as Irasawa
Chihiro Hashimoto as Woman (ep 1)
Daisuke Ogura as Store Manager (ep 1)
Hiroki Tōchi as Munakata
Hiromichi Tezuka as Henchman (eps 3-4, 6, 10)
Hyang-Ri Kim as
Announcer (ep 5)
Female Employee (ep 8)
Ichiko Tanabe as Akemi (ep 1)
Ikuji Nose as Buyer (ep 9)
Junichi Yanagita as
Abe (eps 5-6)
Assassin (ep 2)
Guy (ep 1)
Man A (ep 9)
Manabu Kuroiwa (ep 7)
Newscaster (ep 3)
Sheung Wan Henchman (ep 11)
Thug (ep 8)
Kenji Fukuda as Nguyen
Kenji Yamauchi as Matsuda (ep 8)
Kenjiro Tsuda as Chegaru
Kōichi Sōma as
Boss (eps 1-2)
Boss B (ep 5)
Elderly Man (ep 11)
Henchman (ep 4)
Middle-Aged Man (ep 7)
Myoken (ep 10)
Umpire (ep 12)
Mami Amano as Lin's Mom
Misato Murai as Child (ep 9)
Motomu Kiyokawa as Yagi
Mutsuki Iwanaka as
Cat-Killer (ep 2)
Henchman (eps 3-4)
Man (eps 7, 10)
Man B (ep 9)
Player on Enemy Train (ep 12)
Sheung Wan Henchman (ep 11)
Takashi (ep 1)
Thug (ep 8)
Yamamoto (eps 5-6)
Naomi Kusumi as Wang Longfang
Natsuki Hanae as Siva
Natsumi Fujiwara as Reiko Asakura
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Feilang
Ryota Ohsaka as Yusuke Harada
Ryou Sugisaki as
Gang Member (ep 12)
Henchman (eps 3-4)
Ryūnosuke Watanuki as
Boss A (ep 5)
Henchman (eps 4, 6, 10)
Trainer (ep 9)
Satoshi Mikami as Tony Lau (eps 10-11)
Sayaka Harada as Woman (ep 8)
Sayaka Ōhara as Sayuri
Shinji Kawada as Suzuki
Shinsuke Sugawara as Thug (ep 8)
Shinya Hamazoe as Shinohara
Shizuka Ishigami as Qiaomei (eps 1-2)
Shōta Yamamoto as Ivanov Hisashi
Shuka Saitō as Woman (ep 8)
Takao Mitsutomi as
Henchman (ep 6)
Man (ep 5)
Takaya Kuroda as Li Ruixi
Takehito Koyasu as Shotarō Harada
Tomoko Tsuzuki as Child (ep 9)
Yōhei Azakami as Karimura (ep 7)
Japanese companies
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Jeremy Inman
Translation: Nita Lieu
ADR Script: Aaron Dismuke
Executive producer: Gen Fukunaga
ADR Engineer:
Albert Chang (ep 12)
Austin Sisk (eps 1-3, 5-12)
Domonique French
James Baker (eps 11-12)
Peter Hawkinson (ep 4)
Xavier Earl (eps 7, 9-12)
ADR Supervisor: Peter Hawkinson
Assistant ADR Director: Anthony Bowling
Assistant producer:
Samantha Herek
Zach Bolton
Editing: Sebastian Rigler
Head Writer: John Burgmeier
Lead ADR Engineer: Domonique French
Materials Coordinator: Trenton Jons
Mix Engineer: Gino Palencia
Quality Check: Megan Denton
Senior Video Editor:
Daniel Mancilla
Jeremy Jimenez
Special Thanks To: Gregory Lanson
Subtitle Timing: Andy Ellis
Subtitle Translation: Lee Francis
Talent Coordination: Tara A. Williams
Translation Check: Rebecca Cottrill
Daman Mills as Lin Xiaming (Hayashi)
Josh Grelle as Zenji Banba

Aaron Roberts as Jiro
Amber Lee Connors as Misaki
Ben Bryant as Genzo Gohda
Ben Phillips as Shigematsu
Chris Gardner as Shunsuke Saruwatari
Eric Vale as Yamato
Kent Williams as Saeki
Kyle Igneczi as Enokida
Marcus D. Stimac as Jose Martinez
Shawn Gann as Naoya Nitta
Stephen Fu as Saito

Aaron Dismuke as
Macro
Takashi (ep 1)
Alejandro Saab as Fei-Lan
Anastasia Munoz as Reiko Asakura
Anthony Bowling as Gwen (eps 1, 5)
Austin Tindle as Yusuke Harada
Beth Lipton as Akemi (ep 1)
Brian Mathis as Matsuda
Brienne Olvera as Kim (ep 10)
Chris Guerrero as Wang
Christopher Wehkamp as Chegaru
Dallas Reid as Shinohara
David Wald as Munakata
Felecia Angelle as Sayuri
Ian Sinclair as Shotaro Harada
Jarrod Greene as Zhang
Jeremy Inman as
Shigematsu 
Unoyama (ep 10)
Jim Johnson as Ivanov
Joe Cucinotti as Lee (eps 6, 11)
Justin Briner as Siva
Justin Pate as Myoken (ep 10)
Mark Stoddard as Yagi
Nolan Chapa as Yamamoto (ep 6)
Ricco Fajardo as Irasawa
Samantha Herek as Qiaomei (eps 1-2)
Tyson Rinehart as Suzuki (eps 6, 11-12)

English companies
Broadcaster: Animax Asia
Internet Streaming:
AnimeLab (Australia and New Zealand)
Crunchyroll
FUNimation Entertainment (dubbed)
Wakanim (Nordic countries and the Netherlands)
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll
Spanish cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll
Italian cast
(none)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll (Brazil and Portugal)
Portuguese cast
(none)

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