Series synopsis
Hand Shakers, also known as ハンドシェイカー is a Japanese action & adventure animation sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on Tokyo MX on January 11, 2017. It ended on March 29, 2017. It stars Soma Saito and Sumire Morohoshi.
Tazuna is a high school student, living in Osaka, who loves to fiddle around with machines. One day, he receives a repair request from an university laboratory. He accepts the request and ends up meeting a girl named Koyori, who has been bedridden for a very long time. Suddenly, Tazuna and Koyori get pulled into a whole different world called “Ziggurat”. In this world, there are Hand Shakers, two people who touch hands and create the Nimrod. Their goal is to defeat other Hand Shakers in order to ...
Premise
Tazuna is a high school student, living in Osaka, who loves to fiddle around with machines. One day, he receives a repair request from an university laboratory. He accepts the request and ends up meeting a girl named Koyori, who has been bedridden for a very long time. Suddenly, Tazuna and Koyori get pulled into a whole different world called “Ziggurat”. In this world, there are Hand Shakers, two people who touch hands and create the Nimrod. Their goal is to defeat other Hand Shakers in order to gain an audience with “God”, who will grant them wishes. Protect with your own Hands!
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Soma Saito as Tazuna (voice)
- Sumire Morohoshi as Koyori (voice)
Guest cast
- Daisuke Namikawa as Voice of God (voice)
- Fumie Mori as Cook (voice)
- Wakana Kowaka as Riri's Mother (voice)
- Junichi Yanagita as Riri's Father (voice)
- Yusuke Kobayashi as Tomoki (voice)
- Sora Amamiya as Musubu (voice)
- Satomi Sato as Tazuna's Mother (voice)
- Shintaro Asanuma as Tazuna's Father (voice)
- Karin Matoba as Karin Matoba (voice)
- Kentaro Tone as Dr. Akutagawa (voice)
- Emiri Kato as Mrs. Akutagawa (voice)
- Saori Hayami as Shigure (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 13 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 1 | July 26, 2017 | July 26, 2017 |
| Season 1 | 12 | January 11, 2017 | March 29, 2017 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go ago Go | July 26, 2017 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Conductor to Contact Tazuna is a young boy who loves to fix things. But his life takes an unexpected turn when he meets a girl who's lying on a hospital bed in an electronically locked lab. When he takes her hand, he finds out that he can never let go, or she will die. On top of that, he has to battle a man and his partner in something called the Ziggurat, and he doesn't have a power of his own. Can he unlock the might of the Hand Shakers? |
January 11, 2017 |
| 2 |
Lead by Red Tazuna and his new friend Koyori have a problem: If Tazuna lets go of Koyori's hand, she'll die! Can he take her home with him and explain to his parents why he now has to live with a girl? And how's he going to take a bath with her!? |
January 18, 2017 |
| 3 |
Blade and Dagger Tazuna meets Chizuru and Hayate, the pair who's car he fixed on the day he met Koyori. They're workers for a major food corporation in the area, and they offer to treat him and Koyori to dinner as a thank you. But after the meal, they reveal that they're actually Hand Shakers themselves! |
January 25, 2017 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Tokyo MX |
|---|---|
| First aired | January 11, 2017 |
| Last aired | March 29, 2017 |
| Runtime | 23 minutes |
| Status | ended |