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Buddy Complex (TV)

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Alternative title:
Товарищеский комплекс (Russian)
バディ・コンプレックス (Japanese)
버디 컴플렉스 (Korean)
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: On the first day back after summer break, high-school student Aoba is attacked by a giant robot that appears out of the sky. As he's pursued through the city, his classmate Hina appears in a robot of her own. She rescues him, and tells him cryptically that "Dio is waiting for you," before she disappears. This begins Aoba's new life as the pilot of the Free Treaty Alliance against the Great Zogiria Republic.
User Ratings: 248 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 6 votes (sub:5, raw:1)
 Excellent: 30 votes (sub:28, others:2
1 Russian dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Very good: 72 votes (sub:67, dub:1, others:4
2 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Good: 59 votes (sub:55, raw:1, others:3
3 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 38 votes (sub:35, dub:1, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 So-so: 21 votes (sub:21)
 Not really good: 9 votes (sub:8, raw:1)
 Weak: 7 votes (sub:6, others:1
1 Vietnamese subtitled
)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:3, others:2
1 Korean subtitled
1 Russian edited dub
)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 446 users, rank: #2295 (of 9509)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.936 (Good), std. dev.: 1.705, rank: #4169 (of 9648)
Weighted mean: 6.855 (Good), rank: #4263 (of 9648) (seen all: 6.93 / seen some: 7.45 / won't finish: 4.22)
Bayesian estimate: 6.889 (Good), rank: #3824 (of 7274)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
2013-12-29 (ep 1 special broadcast on Tokyo MX TV & Bandai Channel)
2014-01-05
2016-07 (Philippines - Hero TV)
2016-07-11 to 2016-07-27 (Philippines, Hero TV)
Opening Theme:
#1: "Unisonia" by True
Ending Theme:
#1: "Ano Sora ni Kaeru Mirai de" by Choucho
News: Show:
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Buddy Complex - The Complete Series [Essentials] (Sub.Blu-ray) 2019-06-18 (from $22.49)
    Buddy Complex - The Complete Series (Sub.Blu-ray +DVD) 2015-11-17 (from $35.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yasuhiro Tanabe
Series Composition: BC Project
Script:
Kurasumi Sunayama (eps 4, 9, 12)
Noboru Kimura (eps 5, 8, 11)
Tatsuhiko Urahata (eps 1-3, 7, 13)
Yuuichi Nomura (eps 2, 6, 10)
Storyboard:
Kazuo Miyake (ep 1)
Kōichi Ōhata (ep 11)
Kunihiro Mori (eps 10, 12)
Takao Abo (ep 12)
Takayuki Tanaka (eps 7, 13)
Tetsuya Watanabe (eps 3, 6, 9)
Tomohiro Kawahara (ep 1)
Yasuhiro Tanabe (eps 1, 5)
Yoshimitsu Ohashi (ep 2)
Episode Director:
Hiroshi Ikehata (ep 2)
Kenjirō Okada (ep 11)
Kōsuke Kobayashi (ep 7)
Osamu Kamei (ep 13)
Tatsuma Minamikawa (eps 4, 10)
Tomokazu Tokoro (eps 8, 12)
Tsuyoshi Tobita (ep 9)
Music: Tatsuya Katō
Original creator: Hajime Yatate
Art Director:
Koji Eto
Miho Sugiura
Chief Animation Director:
Asako Inayoshi
Tomoshige Inayoshi
Animation Director:
Kanta Suzuki (Mecha; OP; ep 1)
Ken Ōtsuka (Mecha; ep 3)
Koji Nagatomi (Chara; ep 4)
Masahiro Yamane (Mecha; eps 2, 8)
Minami Yoshida (Chara; ep 1)
Mitsuaki Takabe (Chara; ep 5)
Naohiro Ōsugi (Chara; ep 4)
Satoshi Kimura (Chara; ep 3)
Tomoshige Inayoshi (Chara; OP)
Toshiyuki Komaru (Chara; ep 1)
Yasuhiro Saiki (Mecha; ep 4)
Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
Director of Photography: Tsunetaka Ema
CG Producer: Eiji Inomoto
Color design: Sayoko Yokoyama
Composite:
Akiyo Yamaura (T2 Studio; ep 6)
Takeo Goto (T2 Studio; eps 6-7)
Design Cooperation: Masahiro Yamane
Editing: Daisuke Imai
Editing Assistant: Jin Nogawa
In-Between Animation: Hiromi Masuko (ep 4)
In-Between Check: Hiromi Masuko (eps 4, 8)
Key Animation:
Airi Ishikawa (ep 12)
Akane Imada (ep 9)
Akira Ono (OP; eps 3, 5-6)
Asako Inayoshi (OP; eps 2, 9, 11-13)
Atsuko Inoue (eps 4, 11)
Atsushi Itou (eps 5, 11)
Chihiro Nishikawa (ep 7)
Daisuke Ishibashi (eps 8, 10)
Daisuke Kamei (OP; 7 episodes
eps 1-2, 4-5, 9, 12-13
)

Daisuke Takemoto (eps 7, 11)
Eiichi Akiyama (ep 6)
Eiji Komatsu (eps 1, 3, 9)
Eizo Kawada (ep 7)
Emi Udagawa (eps 6, 8)
Eriko Iida (eps 2-4, 11)
Fumika Kimura (ep 13)
Hidetoshi Ōmori (eps 9, 13)
Hirokazu Hisayuki (ep 11)
Hiromi Masuda (ep 4)
Hiroshi Yamamoto (7 episodes
eps 1-2, 4-5, 8, 10, 13
)

Hiroyuki Hojo (ep 11)
Hiroyuki Koizumi (eps 4, 8, 13)
Hiroyuki Ochi (eps 4, 8)
Kanta Suzuki (ep 13)
Katsuya Shigehara (eps 3, 7)
Katsuyuki Yamazaki (OP; eps 3-9 odd, 13)
Kazuaki Imoto (eps 1, 10)
Kazuhiko Yokota (ep 8)
Kazuhiro Muto (eps 1, 3, 11)
Kazuhiro Nasu (ep 12)
Kazuma Kikuchi (ep 2)
Kazuyoshi Takeuchi (OP)
Kei Ōhashi (ep 7)
Keiichi Honda (6 episodes
eps 4, 7-9, 11, 13
)

Keiko Ichihara (ep 6)
Keiko Nagamine (eps 6, 10)
Keisuke Watanabe (ep 5)
Keita Watanabe (ep 12)
Keizou Ichikawa (eps 1-3)
Ken Ōtsuka (OP)
Kōichi Shimoda (ep 10)
Kōichi Takai (eps 2, 6, 9, 13)
Koji Nagatomi (OP; 5 episodes
eps 1-2, 6, 11, 13
)

Kōta Sera (ep 2)
Kouhei Hashimoto (eps 6, 12)
Kyūma Ōshita (eps 2, 10)
Makoto Shimojima (eps 8-11)
Manabu Imura (OP; 7 episodes
eps 2, 4-6, 9, 11, 13
)

Masahiko Kaneda (eps 1-5, 11, 13)
Masahiko Yoda (ep 2)
Masahiro Yamanaka (ep 12)
Masahiro Yamane (OP)
Masami Imai (eps 1-2, 4, 12)
Masami Nagata (OP; 6 episodes
eps 1-2, 5, 7, 11, 13
)

Masashi Nomura (ep 10)
Masato Nishikawa (ep 7)
Masayuki Ozaki (ep 6)
Masayuki Satō (ep 7)
Midori Yoshii (eps 9, 12)
Miki Ogino (ep 7)
Mina Ōsawa (eps 1, 3)
Minami Yoshida (OP; eps 1, 6, 10-12)
Mitsuaki Takabe (OP; eps 1-4, 12-13)
Mitsuhiro Okumura (eps 4, 8)
Miyuki Inoue (ep 10)
Nanae Yonemoto (ep 6)
Naohiro Ōsugi (OP; eps 1, 6, 11)
Naoko Masui (ep 1)
Naomi Okita (eps 9-10, 13)
Naoto Abe (ep 3)
Natsuki Egami (OP; eps 1, 5-7, 11)
Nozomi Goto (eps 6-7, 11)
Rei Aoi (ep 12)
Rika Kato (ep 3)
Ryo Ishimaru (ep 13)
Ryou Kodama (ep 7)
Ryuji Tsuzuku (ep 1)
Sakurako Mitsuhashi (eps 4-6, 10)
Saori Suruki (ep 7)
Satomi Matsuura (ep 5)
Satoshi Harayama (5 episodes
eps 2, 4, 8, 11, 13
)

Satoshi Kimura (ep 2)
Seiji Masuda (ep 6)
Shinichi Shigematsu (ep 11)
Shinichi Takahashi (eps 7, 10, 12)
Shinichi Wada (eps 3, 11)
Shinsuke Gomi (ep 6)
Shinya Kameyama (ep 5)
Shinya Tateyama (eps 2, 6, 9)
Takanori Suzuki (eps 4, 7)
Takashi Maruyama (ep 3)
Takashi Tsuda (ep 7)
Tatsuma Minamikawa (ep 13)
Tatsuo Nakajima (ep 4)
Tatsuya Urano (ep 7)
Tetsuya Wakano (ep 8)
Tomoaki Sakiyama (eps 12-13)
Tomohiro Kawahara (OP; eps 5, 12-13)
Tomohiro Koyama (ep 13)
Tomokazu Tokoro (ep 8)
Tomoko Fukunaga (ep 8)
Tomoko Nitta (ep 10)
Tomomi Ishikawa (eps 6, 8)
Tomoshige Inayoshi (OP)
Tomoyuki Fujii (eps 8-9)
Tomoyuki Kanno (eps 2, 6, 12)
Tomoyuki Makabe (ep 3)
Tōru Shigeta (eps 5, 9, 13)
Tōru Yoshida (eps 9, 12)
Toshihiko Araki (5 episodes
eps 2-3, 6-7, 13
)

Toshiko Baba (ep 10)
Toshinari Yamashita (ep 4)
Toshiyuki Hashimoto (ep 12)
Toshiyuki Komaru (ep 5)
Wakako Shigemoto (ep 1)
Yasuhiro Saiki (OP; eps 3-4, 11, 13)
Yasunori Matsuki (ep 6)
Yoko Komaki (ep 9)
Yoshihiro Maeda (ep 1)
Yousuke Kabashima (OP)
Yousuke Obuchi (ep 2)
Yūichi Nakazawa (eps 2-3, 13)
Yūichi Yoshida (OP; eps 1-2, 4-5)
Yuka Koiso (ep 13)
Yukari Watanabe (eps 4, 9)
Yūko Yamamoto (5 episodes
eps 1, 4, 8, 11, 13
)

Yumie Wada (ep 4)
Music Production Management: Manabu Kuroda
Planning Producer: Noriaki Tanaka
Recording: Satoshi Yano
Recording Assistant: Mai Sunaba
Set Design: Takeyuki Takahashi
Sound Effects: Hiromune Kurahashi
Sound Production: Yoshimi Sugiyama (Rakuonsha)
Special Effects: Yukiko Kakita (T2 Studio)
Special Skills Director: Tomohiro Kawahara
Studio Director: Kazuo Miyake
Theme Song Performance:
ChouCho
True
Kōki Uchiyama as Jyunyou Dio Weinberg
Saori Hayami as Hina Yumihara
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Aoba Watase

Ayumi Fujimura as Lene Kleinbeck
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Jarl Duran
Kana Hanazawa as Mayuka Nasu
Marina Inoue as Anessa Rossetti
Mutsumi Tamura as Lasha Hakkarainen
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Tarjim Vasily
Rina Satō as Elvira Hill
Ryōhei Kimura as Tusais Frambois
Shō Hayami as Gendo Kuramitsu
Takahiro Sakurai as Bizon Gerafil
Takehito Koyasu as Wilhelm Hahn
Tomokazu Sugita as Lee Conrad
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Alfred Gallant
Yumi Uchiyama as Margaret O'Keefe

Aoi Yūki as Jyunyou Fiona Weinberg
Arthur Lounsbery as
Alliance maintenance member A (ep 11)
Garcian Bass
Vajra operator (eps 7-10)
Eiji Miyashita as
Cygnus' doctor (ep 4)
Green (eps 6, 10)
Protective Division adjutant (ep 7)
Ryazan family hacker (ep 11)
Schoolteacher (ep 1)
Soeharto
Hideyuki Umezu as Director (ep 6)
Hiroaki Yoshida as Operator (eps 1, 13)
Hiroshi Naka as
Jyunyou Sadamichi Weinberg
Richardson (eps 9, 13)
Hiroshi Tsuchida as Nestor Viktorovich Dorzhiev
Kazuaki Itō as Ga Sirojanko (eps 7-8, 13)
Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi as Konev (ep 6)
Mai Goto as Tsubasa Watase (ep 1)
Miina Obata as Tomoyo Watase (ep 1)
Minoru Shiraishi as Saburouta Ogisaka
Nobuyuki Kobushi as
Alliance instructor (eps 7-8)
Don Naher
Kagan (eps 12-13)
Ryazan family aide (eps 10-11)
Ryūsuke Ōbayashi as Alessandro Fermi (ep 9)
Shōta Chōnan as Junichi Suhara (eps 1, 4)
Takahiro Miyake as Male student (ep 1)
Takashi Onozuka as Mikhailov (ep 2)
Takashi Oohara as Ryuutarou Imaki (ep 1)
Yousuke Akimoto as Viktor Ryazan
Yūki Kaji as Fromm Vantarhei
Yutaka Iwanami as Benesh (ep 2)
Japanese companies
2D Works: T2 Studio
3D Modeling: Studio Easter (Backgrounds)
3DCGI: Orange
Animation Production: Sunrise
Composite: T2 Studio
ED Card Composite: 10GAUGE (ep 15)
Internet Streaming: Bandai Channel
Modeling Cooperation: Betop Japan
Monitor Graphics:
Capsule
T2 Studio
Official Home Page Production: 10GAUGE
Production Cooperation: Zero-G (ep 8)
special effects: T2 Studio
English staff
English cast
(none)
English companies
Internet Streaming:
Animax UK (UK)
AnimeLab (Australia and New Zealand)
Daisuki
FUNimation Entertainment
Hulu
Tubi TV
Licensed by:
Anime Limited (UK & Ireland; cancelled)
FUNimation Entertainment
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: FUNimation Entertainment (Latin America)
Licensed by: FUNimation Entertainment (Latin America)
Spanish cast
(none)
Tagalog cast
Tagalog staff
(none)
Leslie Paraboles as Jyunyou Dio Weinberg

Alexx Agcaoili as Bizon Gerafil
Irvin Salazar as Fromm Vantarhei

Tagalog companies
Broadcaster: HERO TV
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: FUNimation Entertainment (Brazil)
Licensed by: FUNimation Entertainment (Brazil)
Portuguese cast
(none)

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