Buddy Complex

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Japanese: バディ・コンプレックス
English: Buddy Complex
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Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 6, 2014 to Mar 31, 2014
Premiered: Winter 2014
Broadcast: Mondays at 00:00 (JST)
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: Sunrise
Source: Original
Genres: ActionAction, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Themes: MechaMecha, Time TravelTime Travel
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.121 (scored by 4145541,455 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #37532
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #2288
Members: 92,138
Favorites: 234

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Synopsis

When ordinary high school student Aoba Watase is suddenly targeted by a giant robot known as a "Valiancer," he is saved by his mysterious classmate Hina Yumihara. After revealing that she and their robotic enemy are from the future, Hina suddenly propels Aoba 70 years forward in order to prevent his death.

Upon arrival, Aoba finds himself in the cockpit of a Valiancer called "Luxon," stuck in the midst of a firefight between the military forces of the Free Pact Alliance (FPA) and Zogilia Republic. After he shows high compatibility with an FPA pilot named Dio Weinberg, the two perform a successful "coupling," allowing them to share experiences and subsequently increase their capabilities and skills. Although Aoba is able to survive this unexpected battle, he is taken into custody by the FPA ship Cygnus, who wishes to interrogate him. While the student's main concern is whether he will ever be able to return home, what he doesn't realize is that he is about to get caught up in a war to protect the world.

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Jun 10, 2024
Nice little show, though it feels like it had enough steam to go at least for a 25 episode run, if not a full 50. I don't know why it wasn't longer... Amazingly, it does manage to wrap the story up well enough in a two-parter which is quite impressive. I wish there were more, though, and as a result there isn't as much to dig into and love as there might have been if it were longer.

It is very competent in just about everything it tries, though it does not break new ground anywhere really. If you've ever enjoyed a Sunrise mecha anime ...
May 1, 2022
Mixed Feelings
Story: 4 - Of the three original Sunrise mecha series from the early 2010s that didn't have a big name attached to them, Buddy Complex plays it the safest and by-the-book. The ongoing war in the series backdrop is the most generic real robot setting there is, it's not below average, it's decent at best.

But it does have some innovation or things done before but rarely seen like time travel and the titular buddy system.

The big issue with the story, though, is its pacing, most of the content it copies were series that did them in 2 to 4 cours, this does it in 1 ...
Apr 12, 2014
Second season? Seriously? I will probably watch it because it’s gonna be hard to make it more boring than first one, so maybe I won’t be so disappointed next time, but why just 4?
Story: 2/10
What story? Only the first and the last episode were really worth watching - even though the whole “time travelling” thing doesn’t make any sense… Hey, I’m really curious how Aoba got into the future first time? Cause there must have been reason for Bizon to find him in the past, right? But I expected too much – the whole plot aimed to explain how Hina got in Aoba’s ...

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