TV series
Absolute Duo
Overview
This is the story of Tooru Kokonoe who has enrolled at Kouryou Academy, a school which trains students in wielding Blaze, soul powered weapons to prepare them for the Dorn Agency's special peacekeeping corps. When Tooru is partnered with a mysterious girl: Julie Sigtuna, he finds he has to overcome many hurdles to ensure their teamwork and fighting skills are up to par for the duration of their training.
Details
- First air date
- 2015-01-04
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 12 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure
- Network
- AT-X
- Production
- 8bit, feng, Media Factory, AT-X, Showgate, KADOKAWA, Digital Network Animation, Studio Pastoral, Studio Deen, BLADE
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Nozomi Yamamoto as Julie Sigtuna (voice)
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Thor Kokonoe (voice)
- Ayaka Suwa as Tomoe Tachibana (voice)
- Haruka Yamazaki as Lilith Bristol (voice)
- Nozomi Nishida as Sarah (voice)
- Kentaro Ito as Grave Phantom (voice)
- Manami Tanaka as Otoha Kokonoe (voice)
- Mami Uchida as Momo Kibitsu (voice)
- Natsuki Hanae as Aoi 'Tora' Torasaki (voice)
- Takahiro Sakurai as K (voice)
- Tomomichi Nishimura as Equipment Smith (voice)
- Yoshihisa Kawahara as Tatsu (voice)
Creators and crew
- Keisuke Kaminaga - Producer
- Uesama - Producer
- Hidetake Komiya - Producer
- Mika Shimizu - Producer
- Makoto Ito - Producer
- Kazuo Onuki - Producer
Episodes
Episode 1: Blaze
It is Tooru Kokonoe's first day and he attends the entrance ceremony for Kouryou Academy where all the students have to demonstrate their capabilities with their Blaze weapons.
Episode 2: Duo
Tor and Julie settle in as roommates until the time comes to form official Duos. Each has an ideal partner in mind, but will they get what they want?
Episode 3: Avenger
Tor and Julie face an unexpected hurdle at the end of their mock-battle tournament. Julie confronts Tor about someone from his past.
Episode 4: Exception
Transfer student Lilith Bristol joins Tor's class and immediately flaunts her status as an Exception. Tor and Julie go into town for some shopping.
Episode 5: Level Up
The Rite of Sublimation has given Tor and his friends upgraded powers. Lilith has another proposal for Tor ahead of a challenging inter-class battle.
Episode 6: Survive
Lilith ropes her fellow students into fighting her in a battle royale. A mysterious figure shows up out of nowhere with his own plans for Lilith.
Episode 7: Silver-Blonde, Yellow Topaz
The class is off to a seaside summer camp, but this is Koryo Academy. No ordinary school function is complete without some kind of combat.
Episode 8: Selection
A week of training is capped off by a day at leisure--and where better to unwind than at the beach? Miyabi takes a big step in her feelings about Tor.
Episode 9: Rebels
Koryo Academy is under attack! Tor and Julie work together in battling the chief of the marauding corps, while Tomoe searches for a missing Miyabi.
Episode 10: Reign Conference
Miyabi is still MIA as Koryo Academy prepares to host the mysterious Reign group. Tor presses Lilith for answers about Absolute Duo.
Episode 11: Killing Game
Tor and his friends confront the Rebels in Smith's grand killing game. Tomoe realizes she knows little about her Duo. K challenges Tor to a rematch.
Episode 12: Absolute Duo
The idea of wanting to protect someone is still foreign to K, so in a dramatic, no-holds-barred faceoff, Tor decides to show him how it's done.
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