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Hero TV Sets Premiere of Fantasista Doll, Buddy Complex

Philippine television channel HERO TV revealed the premiere schedules for the Fantasista Doll and Buddy Complex anime on Friday. Fantasista Doll will premiere on July 8 at 6:30 p.m., and Buddy Complex will premiere on July 11 at 8:00 p.m.

HERO TV previously revealed both anime as part of its 2016 lineup.

In Fantasista Doll's science-fiction story, Uzume Uno (played by Ayaka Ōhashi) is an ordinary second-year middle school student who comes into possession of five "dolls" who fight and power up with special cards. The cast for the dollls include Minami Tsuda as Sasara, Sora Tokui as Katia, Chinatsu Akasaki as Shimeji, Akiko Hasegawa as Akari, and Sayaka Ōhara as Madeleine. The main cast also performed the opening and ending theme songs.

The series premiered in Japan in July 2013. Hisashi Saito directed the anime at the studio Hoods Entertainment from Gorō Taniguchi's original concept. Hiromi Kato adapted Anmi's original character designs for the anime and also served as chief animation director, and Yasuharu Takanashi provided the music.

Sunrise's robot television anime series Buddy Complex revolves around the friendship and coming-of-age of two boys. It begins with Aoba Watase, a boy who goes to high school in Tokyo and lives a carefree daily life. On the morning of his school's opening ceremony after summer vacation, he goes to campus as usual, but he has a chance encounter with another boy. The other boy's name is Jyunyou Dio Weinberg. Their encounter will soon alter the fate of the world.

The series premiered in Japan in January 2014. "Hajime Yatate," the collective pen name for the Sunrise animation staffers, is credited with the original story concept. Yasuhiro Tanabe (episode director on Battle Spirits: Brave, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere) directed the series off scripts supervised by the "BC Project." Tomoshige Inayoshi and Asako Inayoshi served as both character designers and animation directors. Kanta Suzuki, Hiroki Tokuda, Tomohiro Kawahara, and Hiroyuki Taiga designed the mecha. Tatsuya Katou composed the music. True contributed the opening theme song "Unisonia," while ChouCho performed the ending them "Ano Sora ni Kaeru Mirai de."