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| Well, judging from how they resolved the time travel paradox issue with Hina relatively quickly, they'll probably be moving onto something better -- in fact we already know what it is: Bizon's return as Zogilia's highest authority. To be honest I'm just relieved by the fact that Hina didn't return to the same same timeline and was able to end up with Dio and Aoba. Overall this season has been pretty good. I must say this series kind of feels like Valvrave. Both series are made up of absolute nonsense from time to time and thus seem like joke series, but they wrap up nicely at the end and actually come off as serious pieces of work. And hey, the bro love is carried over in this series too! Of course, Valvrave went all over the place. At least with Buddy Complex we more or less have a framework of what's going on and I rather liked the relationship between Aoba and Dio and Aoba and Hina. The soundtrack is superb. The art is also pretty clean as far as I can tell. I almost wish that we will end up with a more fitting villain than Bizon, but I guess it makes sense given that he's the only plausible main antagonist at this point. Here's looking forward to season two. |
| Pretty forgettable series. Felt like each episode I watched was more or less the same as the last. Very bland MC, at least for my tastes. Perhaps a second season can turn things around. Will see. |
| OMG OMG OMG the time travel conclusion is just too awesome! They broke the time loop! Fantastic! I'm glad I held on to this show. Shall continue to wait for Season 2, time travel will still remain important to this show, given how this might be the curse of the Nectoribilium. |
| Well this was pretty meh. I did however want to watch mecha anime so this did the job. Too many stupidities in it for me to rate it high. Not to mention I hated Hina with passion and whole military command chain seemed retarded, on both sides. 4/10 If 2nd season comes I will probably watch it, simply because I am a sucker for sci-fi based things. |
| wow i relly loved this "final" episode especially since the conclusion actually made alot of sense (well ..way more sense than in similar timetravel paradox anime). i didnt like this show that much initially but it has grown on me and i enjoyed the second half of it much more. i was torn on the rating but the final episode managed to finish this season with a good and fitting ending which i value highly! 8/10 especially since i enjoy mecha anime with actually good looking mechs. season 2 yay! |
| Plot hole spotted. If Dio didn't stop Aoba and they destroyed Bizon's Mecha that'll mean that Aoba SHOULD have lived a normal life in his time period w/o ever going into the future! At the same this means that Hina would've stayed as a random Zogilia soldier would she not? |
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_Tako_ said: Plot hole spotted. If Dio didn't stop Aoba and they destroyed Bizon's Mecha that'll mean that Aoba SHOULD have lived a normal life in his time period w/o ever going into the future! At the same this means that Hina would've stayed as a random Zogilia soldier would she not? Multiple timelines yo |
| lol @ Bizon creating Zogillia just to kill Aoba? xD |
"What has two arms, two legs, and is alive? Not your favorite character lol! xD" |
| So much hate for Bizon, I mean the guy was just in love and he was like legibly in love he was pretty much the love interest for Hina till Aoba showed up, but then the confusing time thing makes it hard to recognize who was there first. In any case, this show has so much NTR, because technically Bizon was a good guy who got turned into a bad guy from all the crap that's happened to him he's not the one that forced Hina into the cockpit that doctor did, he did force a kiss though, but if she never met Aoba she prolly enjoy it and his blindly love for Hina turned him into a monstet. Which isn't that different from Aoba's love for Hina. if I could make the argument Hina is the real antagonist in the series, look at all the carp she puts people through lol(jk)Love is blind, here I don't hate Bizon though I feel extremely sorry for him. I dunno who second season Bizon is, but he was my favorite char from season 1, I don't care much about Aoba, I do like Dio though, hope they give him more char development. |
mangostickyriceMar 31, 2014 11:13 AM
| Wasn't aoba supposed to dissapear if hina didn't go in the time portal? If she didn't get there to get him in the past then how did aoba get to the future?! fuck you buddy complex 6/10 |
| Aoba saved Hina from the time loop T___T Bizon survived. Created Zogilla just to get revenge on Aoba : O. Current Bizon is gone right? Can't wait for Season 2 |
| mother fucking Bizon still alive hopefully he get sht on more in the 2nd season |
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| Bizon is such a possessive jerk. He rages too much. That guy at the end seems to be Bizon, still obsessing over killing Aoba -sigh- And Dio is such a Tsundere~ |
| Do you like cakes? You don't like cakes? I like cakes. |
| Wow that was surprising. Did not expect Hina to be in an infinite time loop, poor girl. (Imagine how many puberty she had to go through. sorry had to say this XD) New mechs look awesome again. God damn Bizon shut up and die. I was really laughing out loud when he was raging and shouting "CONNECT WITH HINA!!!!!" I love this series so much and im glad at least from the comments lots of people do too. It has a good storyline not the best but good. Great OP by Miho and fabulous ED by Choucho. Kinda expect it to not get resolve but damn its the 2nd show i watched this season that waited till the final moments to announce a season 2 like Hamatora. Felt like i got trolled. 9/10 DarkRyuusei said: Wasn't aoba supposed to dissapear if hina didn't go in the time portal? If she didn't get there to get him in the past then how did aoba get to the future?! fuck you buddy complex 6/10 Pretty sure the series's universe is working on the Multiverse concept |
ArcanaTraceMar 31, 2014 12:14 PM
tomotomo said: April Fool's Day story by official site http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0M7EB1TpJk It was very interesting. lmao what the fuck xD pretty cool tho. |
| Wtf? I thought Aoba shot Bizon out of his mech? Well, it seems he did travel to the past, and stayed there becoming a prune until the present future where he's a carbon copy of Darth Vader+Professor X, but less cool. Still didn't explain how they got into that time-paradox cycle in the first place. and now that the cycle has been broken, how the f*** did Aoba get to the future, if he himself stopped Hina from going into the past to send him in the future!? Then there's the damn hairpin's origin that's been bugging me since they showed it. Who was the yellow-eyed, black-haired dude from the endcard? Looks strangely similar to Aoba. This crappy end was obviously leading into a second season, but if by chance it gets canned, my score for this first season is going to drop. Edit: Forgot to mention; now that Hina isn't going back into the past (which makes me wonder which timeline she came from), she wouldn't be wearing that over-sized school uniform while young again and being found in that rubble by her adopted father, and thus not become a Zogilia solder, which means she wouldn't have even met Aoba! F*** your multiverse. Steins;Gate did it better. |
Estoy_GordoMar 31, 2014 12:35 PM
tomotomo said: That is very funny indeed!April Fool's Day story by official site http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0M7EB1TpJk It was very interesting. Here are some tidbits from the anime showing how tight the writing is: - Normally, two enemy pilots cannot communicate because both sides use enscripted communication. The reason Aoba can call Hina in ep13 is that stolen Luxon's cockpit was installed in her mech because Dr. Hahn hadn't been able to build a good coupling cockpit matching Elvira's creation yet as stated previously. That stolen cockpit still has Elvira's special coupling communication program so Aoba uses it to call Hina just as Dio did in ep8. Bizon doesn't know about it and he was very confused as the result. - Hina heard about Dio the first time in ep8. There, Aoba repeated her line: "Dio is waiting for you" verbatim. That's why Hina knows about the importance of Dio and says that to Aoba in previous time loops. - Portable Nectar canon (one that can be carried on mech instead of battleships) is first debuted by Alfred in ep3 and the Alliance was believed to have nothing like it. That's why the reveal of Aoba and Dio's new coupling mech with portable Nectar canons comes as a surprise for everyone. Better yet, those canons are the ones that destroy Bizon's mech, but beam attack is precise enough not to kill him so he can recover as the leader of Zogilia! - Gorgon canon's energy output is equivalent to 50 Megaton of TNTs. This is a homage to human's most powerful bomb ever created, the thermonuclear Tsar Bomba, measured power at 50 Megaton of TNTs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMYYEsKvHvk. That much power pluses the Quantum anomaly used by Coupling tech as well as Aoba and Hina's 120% Emphater level does make wormhole creation sound very plausible. Buddy Complex plays with Sci-fi elements pretty well. DarkRyuusei said: Wasn't aoba supposed to dissapear if hina didn't go in the time portal? If she didn't get there to get him in the past then how did aoba get to the future?! fuck you buddy complex 6/10 It does not look like time paradox but rather multiverse and I have talked about this theory earlier in the thread. |
ThangLongMar 31, 2014 2:32 PM
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_Tako_ said: Plot hole spotted. Aww, the words that burns my soul. |
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| Oh, and in case no one realized yet, the majority of the plot was revealed in ep1. Hina called her mech CVP-014A, which is in short for Coupling Valiancer Prototype-014A |
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| Bizon goes bye bye and then he comes back... Lovely. Looks like a second season is coming, not that I enjoyed the first season much but I'll still watch. |
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| See! SEE! See where his batshit-ness took him!? I think the one we really should blame is that creep Hahn. We get rid of one paradox-loop, and we face an interesting consequence. Ready for S2! Did the Gorgon blew up or did I miss something? The fight was difficult to follow completely and it's not even CGI. SO flashy. |
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| Thank you ThangLong for your insights, makes me appreciate this show more, at least in terms of the the time travel bits. I enjoyed few episodes here and there, the battle scenes were cool, I like the coupling system. Aoba is a nice guy, but I don't find him very interesting. I perferred Dio and Hina, and Fromm seems like a funner character too. This last episode though was pretty enjoyable, except for too much screaming from Bizon :/ that guy went nuts. |
| LOL I laughed my ass off when they called the new-types Luxon Next and Bradyon Next! Woah :o Hina and Aoba are freaking crazy xD I hope the 2nd season will have more plot development though. |
duderusMar 31, 2014 2:41 PM
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| I couldn't help but laugh when Bizon kept yelling "Connect with Hina" while having spasms in his cockpit. Now we wait for season 2. |
| This wasn't bad at all. It was very expected of them to end Hina's endless loop by having Aoba stop her, but anyways, definitely gonna watch the 2nd season and see how Bizon returned |
| Doesnt deserve a season 2. 4/10 for the series. If this gets a season 2 and not Gundam Builder Fighter i will be mad. |
| i cant believe this series is getting a s2. how fucking shitty. i enjoyed the anime (near the mid/end) but i dont think it deserves a s2. it was extremely mediocre. i wouldve been happy with where they left it. bizon dead, hina is now with aoba/crew. metatashi metatashi. BUT NOOOO... REVENGE OF THE SITH. oh well. you can only find a new country for the sole purpose of killing someone when you're fucking insane. 6/10 overall. |
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| this was a pretty strong midpoint episode. Action was good and we got some nice set up for season 2. Bizon twist at the end made me laugh but also got me excited. as for the series as a whole its really really average and it didnt do much well or much wrong leaving me feeling no real strong feelings one way or another with it. its a spot on 5/10 Though something is really bothering me, if hina went back in time to go get aoba because she met him in the current time, then why and how the fuck did she go back and save him in the first place if him going to the future is the only possible way they met, im afraid they may have just written themselves into a hole, ill wait till the end of season 2 to see if this is ever addressed but if not this is a drastic flaw |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
huanwu26 said: yeah it doesnt, but this is an extremely basic detail they may be messing up bigtime that makes the entire series impossibleEveryone screaming plot hole, let me tell you this, we are dealing with time travel it doesn't have to make perfect sense. also multiple timelines are impossible since bizon going back in time affected the present |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| This is easily the best episode. Now it's time for season 2. |
JizzyHitler said: huanwu26 said: yeah it doesnt, but this is an extremely basic detail they may be messing up bigtime that makes the entire series impossibleEveryone screaming plot hole, let me tell you this, we are dealing with time travel it doesn't have to make perfect sense. also multiple timelines are impossible since bizon going back in time affected the present And if he went into another universe, like many point out as an excuse, than he shouldn't exist anymore in this one. Show hinted quite the contrary. |
| So they were actually able to explain the whole time travel aspect in this episode and it didn't feel rushed too; that's awesome. And I was wondering what would happen to Bizon now that he fell back in time without a valiancer; since everyone saluted him at the end I'm going to assume that he created the zogilia we see today and he's there leader. I wonder if he put himself under Alfried to protect himself. But now we have time paradoxes everywhere. What happened first? Hina and Bizon going back in time or only Bizon going back in time? If it was the former who created zogilia because Bizon died and if it was the latter why was Aoba in the future because at that point Aoba should have either been an old man or dead not piloting a cockpit. Also I just rewatched the first episode and Hina called the wormhole the watchmaker's ... so is that hina from a different timeline as well? Either way I'm looking forward to season 2 and the answers it will hold. |
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