CATDOLL: Introduction to the new series "BUDDY COMPLEX Finale" in October 2014

"Buddy Complex" is written by Hajime Yatate, and the director is Yasuhiro Tanabe, who is an actor and was the assistant director of "Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere". The voice actors of the animation include Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Koki Uchiyama, Saori Hayami, Tomokazu Sugita, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Rina Sato, Kana Hanazawa, Marina Inoue, Tomoyuki Morikawa, Takahiro Sakurai, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Mutshin Tamura, Yumi Uchiyama, etc. It is an original robot animation created by Japan's SUNRISE company. It started broadcasting on January 5, 2014. The work describes the protagonist Aoba Watase, who attends high school in Tokyo. On the first day of school after the end of the summer vacation in 2014, he was attacked by an unidentified robot. He was then protected by his classmate Hina Yumihara and was forced to go to the future (2088) for unavoidable reasons. He met a boy named Hayabusa Dio Weinberg. Their encounter changed the fate of the world! An orthodox radish action drama that revolves around the friendship and growth of the two boys.

【Plot introduction】

Watase Aoba is a high school student at Seio High School. He has excellent athletic ability, a calm personality, and is very concerned about his friends. Yumihara Hina, who appears to have returned from abroad, is actually from the future world and came to this school to protect Watase Aoba.

On the first day after the summer vacation, a pilot from the Great Zogilia Republic who went back to the past due to an accident attacked Watase Aoba. In order to protect Watase Aoba, Yumihara Hina also boarded her own machine and fought the enemy. But in the end, the two of them came to the future world due to another accident. During the transfer process, Yumihara Hina only left a message "Dio is waiting for you" and then disappeared...

【STAFF】

Original work: Yatate Hajime

Director: Yasuhiro Tanabe

Series composition: BC-PRO

Character design and performance: Inayoshi Tomoshige/Inayoshi Asako

Chief animation supervisor: Tomoyuki Fujii/Kanta Suzuki

Mechanical settings: Suzuki Kanta / Tokuda Daiki / Kawahara Tomohiro / Ohkawa Hiroyuki

Combination design: Takeyuki Takahashi

Art Design: Jingu Tsukasa Kuniyuki / Kaneda Masahiko / Morioka Kenichi / Kimura Satoshi

Design supervision: Kazuo Miyake

Stunt Supervisor: Tomohiro Kawahara

Art Director: Koji Eto/Miho Sugiura

CG: Inomoto Eiji

Color design: Yokoyama Sayoko

Director of Photography: Tsunetaka Ema

Edited by: Daisuke Imai

Sound Director: Tsuruoka Yota

Music: Tatsuya Kato

Animation production: Japan Sunrise Co., Ltd.

Production: Buddy Complex Production Committee

【CAST】

Watase Aoba - Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Falcon Dio Weinberg (also translated as Falcon Dio Weinberg) - Koki Uchiyama

Yumihara Hina/Hina Riazan——Saori Hayami

Bison Gerafel——Takahiro Sakurai

Fromm Fantare - Yuki Kaji

Mayuka Nasu (also translated as Mayuka Nasu) - Kana Hanazawa

Agnese Rossetti - Marina Inoue

Alfred Galante - Tomoyuki Morikawa

Kurako Kogo - Hayami Prize

Rainer Kleinbeck - Atsuo Fujimura

Lee Condra - Tomokazu Sugita

Al Duran (also translated as Al Duran) - Yoshino Hiroyuki

Avira Hill - Rina Sato

Takim Vasili - Shimazaki Nobunaga

Chise Flambova - Ryohei Kimura

Falcon Fiona Weinberg (also translated as Falcon Fiona Weinberg) - Yuuki Aoi

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