(L) Buddy Complex

[Westlo]

Anime by Sunrise, airing this Winter, saw the trailer posted on GAF, looks like Sunrise trademarked the name a month ago and that's the only news so far until this trailer came out.

http://buddy-complex.jp/

Will edit in staff, synopsis, cast etc once translated.

[Kakkou]

Cast:

Aoba Watase: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Jyunyou Dio Weinburg: Koki Uchiyama
Hina Yumihara: Saori Hayami

Gengo Kuramitsu: Sho Hayami
Lene Kleinbeck: Ayumi Fujimura
Lee Conrad: Tomokazu Sugita
Jarl Duran: Hiroyuki Yoshino
Elvira Hill: Rina Satou
Mayuka Nasu: Kana Hanazawa
Anessa Rossetti: Marina Inoue

Alfried Gallant: Toshiyuki Morikawa
Bizon Gerafil: Takahiro Sakurai
Tarjim Vasily: Nobunaga Shimazaki
Lasha Hakkarainen: Mutsumi Tamura
Margaret O'Keefe: Yumi Uchiyama

[darkchibi07]

Hina Yumihara: Saori Hayami

Did her character just get killed in the freakin' PV? What the hell?

Of course it's probably a ruse.

[Duo Maxwell]

Staff

Original: Hajime Yatate
Director: Yasuhiro Tanabe
Series Composition: BC project
Character design and animation director: Tomoshige Inayoshi, Asako Inayoshi
Chief animator: Tomoyuki Fuji, Kanta Suzuki
Mechanical Design: Kanta Suzuki, Hiroki Tokuda, Tomohiro Kawahara
Set design: Takeshi Takahashi
Design Works: Noriyuki Jinguji, Masahiko Ikeda, Kenichi Morioka, Satoshi Kimura
Studio Director: Kazuo Miyake
VFX Director: Tomohiko Kawahara
Art Director: Koji Eto, Miho Sugiura
CG Producer: Eiji Inomoto
Color scheme: Sayoko Yokoyama
Director of Photography: Tsunetaka Ema
Edit: Daisuke Imai
Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
Music: Tatsuya Katou
Animation Production: Sunrise

Studio 8 is doing this show.

You know, I have a feeling they don't care about Horizon anymore. I'm still keeping my belief that there will be season 3, but it's fading as time passes.

[Nachtwandler]

My hopes for Valvrave S3 now crushed even more. But yay, my favorite Studio 8 is working on it

[kuromitsu]

So this is VVV's less shiny, more retro younger brother? We'll see, we'll see.

The title, though. At this rate they might as well called it "Girls, Start Your Engines."

[darkchibi07]

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

My hopes for Valvrave S3 now crushed even more. But yay, my favorite Studio 8 is working on it

Studio 8? Isn't their series output tend to be more towards a heavier female cast? This seems like every other mecha show other Sunrise studios could have done.

[Nachtwandler]

How is studio 8 female oriented? Their most famose works are Mai Hime, My Otome, Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo, Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon, Accel World and Love Live. Most of it are action series with mechas

[MisaoFan]

Watching the PV reminded me of Valvrave all over the place and I really want to watch it since I'm starting to get addicted by giant robots thanks to it!

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by darkchibi07

Studio 8? Isn't their series output tend to be more towards a heavier female cast?

Yes, but their output also tends to be respectable.
I'd have much preferred Accel World or Horizon to something like this though...

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

How is studio 8 female oriented? Their most famose works are Mai Hime, My Otome, Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo, Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon, Accel World and Love Live.

He said "female cast"...

[darkchibi07]

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

How is studio 8 female oriented? Their most famose works are Mai Hime, My Otome, Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo, Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon, Accel World and Love Live. Most of it are action series with mechas

That's why I said heavier female cast as in a lot more females in the cast and as protagonists. This series seems uncharacteristic for Studio 8 because that's not the case.

[Nachtwandler]

Oh. For some reason I mistook "cast" and "audience"

[Kunagisa]

Originally Posted by Duo Maxwell

You know, I have a feeling they don't care about Horizon anymore. I'm still keeping my belief that there will be season 3, but it's fading as time passes.

Thanks for the staff list.

At first, I thought this was at least hinted back all the way March for the "old Studio 8 staff" mostly, hence the joke with a new Xenoglossia. Now I don't know what to think because the staff looked rather mixed ... While I don't think there's a season 3 for Horizon anyway, I don't think there's much interference if they're still thinking about that since they definitely have enough staff. In the intro page they did say this is from the Horizon + Love Live group?team?; in addition to Love Live season 2 being April and I honestly don't think a mech anime from Sunrise would run for less than 1 season (despite split cour being a good possibility) there are probably a ton of schedule overlap anyway.

EDIT: Well seems like from twitter lots of Horizon's staff's on this as well, so there's that.

Also goddamn it Sunrise, why couldn't you use the smartphone characters as main (think these are the leads for the Dengeki Maou comic version too)?!?!? Chloe and Yuria look so much better than Hina (Setsuko anyone?).

Website

I guess picked up for the Kawahara Tomohiro and Katou Tatsuya for now, but the mech design's seriously mediocre/subpar, and something seems off about the color scheme (which I also think is better in the game PV). I think still have to watch the anime first, because Horizon's first PV's color seemed off at the time too.

YouTube

https://youtu.be/ec6tLPL2hrY

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In the end though, more robo/mech robo anime from Sunrise is always welcomed (except for AGE).

[darkchibi07]

Originally Posted by Kunagisa

Thanks for the staff list.

At first, I thought this was at least hinted back all the way March for the "old Studio 8 staff" mostly, hence the joke with a new Xenoglossia. Now I don't know what to think because the staff looked rather mixed ... While I don't think there's a season 3 for Horizon anyway, I don't think there's much interference if they're still thinking about that since they definitely have enough staff. In the intro page they did say this is from the Horizon + Love Live group?team?; in addition to Love Live season 2 being April and I honestly don't think a mech anime from Sunrise would run for less than 1 season (despite split cour being a good possibility) there are probably a ton of schedule overlap anyway.

Also goddamn it Sunrise, why couldn't you use the smartphone characters as main (think these are the leads for the Dengeki Maou comic version too)?!?!? Chloe and Yuria look so much better than Hina (Setsuko anyone?).

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That's bizarre. Why didn't they use those designs where it clearly appeals towards the otaku?

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by Duo Maxwell

You know, I have a feeling they don't care about Horizon anymore. I'm still keeping my belief that there will be season 3, but it's fading as time passes.

They can forget about Horizon and Valvrade 3, this one'smore interesting!!!

[Nachtwandler]

With Horizon sales it would be stupid to forget about it. And Studio 8 has nothing to do with Valvrave as far as I know

[kuromitsu]

Wait, why would VVV have a 3rd season anyway? It looks like it's going to wrap up nicely in season 2, unless they want to end with a movie or something.

[Nachtwandler]

No. It looks like 4 eps won't be enough to wrap it.

[kuromitsu]

That's what you think. :3 I think it'll be enough if they keep focusing on the story. And a movie end is becoming more and more likely.

[Guardian Enzo]

VVV is also not a huge seller - just pretty decent - so a movie or 3rd season was never a sure thing.

BC looks like pretty garden-variety Sunrise McMecha based on the PV. But then who knew VVV was going to be as batshit as it turned out to be...