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Funimation Streams Buddy Complex Conclusion Specials

North American distributor FUNimation Entertainment announced on Monday that it will stream the two-part conclusion to the Buddy Complex anime, Buddy Complex: Into the Skies of Tomorrow (Buddy Complex Kanketsu-hen -Ano Sora ni Kaeru Mirai de-). The first half is already available streaming for Funimation subscribers and the second half will launch for subscribers on Tuesday, September 30 at 12:00 p.m. EDT.

The first part premiered on Tokyo MX on Monday and the second part will premiere on Tuesday. Both parts will stream on BandaiChannel for free from October 1 through October 8, and then ship on Blu-ray in Japan on November 21 along with a English subtitles, a drama CD, special booklet, and smart phone game code.

The special's website describes the story, which contains spoilers for the ending of the earlier television series:

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Aoba, along with Dio, set free Hina from the chains of fate and chose to live in a new future. Around this time in Zogilia, a mysterious man who harbors hatred for Aoba secretly begins to make his move ….

The new anime will feature the main cast and staff from the television series.

• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Aoba Watase 
• Kōki Uchiyama as Jyunyou Dio Weinberg 
• Saori Hayami as Hina Yumi Hara 

• Original creator: Hajime Yatate 
• Director: Yasuhiro Tanabe 
• Series Composition: BC Project 
• Character Design/Animation Director: Tomoshige Inayoshi, Asako Inayoshi
• Mechanical design: Kanta Suzuki, Tomohiro Kawahara, Hiroyuki Taiga, Hiroki Tokuda
• Music: Tatsuya Katou 
• Animation Production: Sunrise

The robot anime revolves around two boys, Aoba and Dio, in a war brewing in the future. It premiered in January, and both Funimation and Daisuki streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.