History Anime / BuddyComplex

*** Take a look at a FreezeFrameBonus in Episode 7. While the cockpit specially designed for the coupling system is being explained, you can clearly read ''Pacific Rim Neuroscience Institute''.
** Hina's Fortuna and Karura resembles [[Anime/TekkamanBlade Tekkamen Rapier and Aki]] and the former even uses a twinblade.

*** Take a look at a FreezeFrameBonus in Episode 7. While explaining the cockpit specially designed for the coupling system, you can clearly read ''Pacific Rim Neuroscience Institute''.

A continuation was announced mere hours after the show finished its run in the form of a two-part OVA released in September 2014 which concludes the story.

* ObviouslyEvil: The Empire army's commander controls the 666th Independent Mixed squadron, which is fighting Aoba's squad. Plus, [[{{Expy}} his appearance reminds people]] [[MobileSuitGundam of a certain maniacal prince...]]

* TakingYouWithMe: Evgeni[=/=][[spoiler:Bizon]] tries to do this to [[EarthShatteringKaboom the whole Earth]]''.

** During an military operation, after being cautioned not to hit the civilian vessels on a military base, an Zogilian answered, that "there is no way in hell he would do something that disgraceful", although in a flashback, Zogilian military was shown to bomb civilian sectors of a city.

* {{Brainwashed}}: Wilhelm Hahn brainwashes [[spoiler:Hina]] with some kind of drug to comply with any order given in battle, even when it would to kill [[spoiler:Aoba Watase]].

* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: Hilariously, the credits of episode one list the enemy pilot's seiyuu as ???, in an attempt [[TheProducerThinksOfEverything to stop fans from piecing together his identity too early.]]

*** Unfortunately [[spoiler: this just sets the ''real'' loop back on track. Hina originally met Aoba in college. Hina vanishes during the initial Coupling tests, and pilots the Luxion first time around. She fights Bizon and they both get sent to the past. Hina goes to Sell High then finds out that so did Aoba. Bizon shows up and they continue their fight, then get sent forward in time where Hina ends up de-aged further in Zogilia, thus starting the above inner loop]]

*** Unfortunately [[spoiler: he seems to simply have set off ''another'' loop.]]

A continuation was announced mere hours after the show finished its run in the form of a two-part OVA set to release in September 2014.

A continuation was announced mere hours after the show finished its run in the form of a two-part OVA set to release in October 2014.

A continuation was announced mere hours after the show finished its run.

The story follows Aoba Watase, an all around OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent from the year 2014. However, his normal life suddenly ends when a HumongousMecha with an AxCrazy pilot obsessed with killing him suddenly lands in the schoolyard. Aoba is rescued by his classmate and former friend of the mecha pilot, Hina, who reveals that both she and the other pilot are from the future. In order to escape, Hina travels back through the portal that sent the enemy pilot to the past to begin with, leaving Aoba with a message: Dio is waiting for him. (No, not ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure that]]'' Dio.)

* GratuitousRussian: The Zogillian salute is apparently translates "Glory to Zogilia" from Russian.

** During an military operation, after being cautioned not to hit the civilian vessels, an Zogilian answered, that "there is no way in hell he would do something that disgraceful", although in a flashback, Zogilian military was shown to bomb civilian sectors of a city.

* ForWantOfANail: In all previous timelines, Aoba and Dio failed to connect using Skyfire and Bladeknight. This time around, they did, leading to shared memories on both parts. [[spoiler: Because Dio sees Aoba's memories, he helps Aoba to rescue Hina from the singularity, instead of stopping him in previous timelines.]]

** [[spoiler: Also the epitome of the AwesomeButImpractical part, as it turns out that firing it even once costs Zogilia a years worth of Nectroibium. It's actually mentioned that firing the cannon too many times could ''bankrupt'' the country.]]

A second season was announced mere hours after the show finished its run.

** [[spoiler: Also a little deconstruction, as it turns out that firing it even once costs Zogilia a years worth of Nectroinium. The Alaska base commander is actually warned that firing the cannon too many times could ''bankrupt'' the country.]]

* WaveMotionGun: [[spoiler: The giant Nectar cannon, code-named "Gorgon", being constructed by Zogilia in Alaska. It becomes operational much sooner than Alliance intelligence estimated thanks to Alfried's scheming and takes out half their fleet when fired. And it's also partly responsible for opening the time portal.]]

* SwirlyEnergyThingie: The time portal fits this to a T.