BBK/BRNK
BBK/BRNK, also known as Bubuki/Buranki, is a Japanese anime television series created by Sanzigen to celebrate their 10th anniversary. It aired from January 2016 to March 2016. The opening theme is "Beat your Heart" by Konomi Suzuki and the ending theme is "Anger/Anger" by Myth & Roid. The series is available for streaming on Crunchyroll.
A second season announced at the end of the first season's final episode, subtitled The Gentle Giants of the Galaxy aired from October 2016 to December 2016. The opening theme is "Reirō taru Junketsu wa 'Kōen' no Kairai o Hayarase, Gyōten ni Kirameku Akashi o Kizamu" by Megumi Han, and the ending theme is "so beautiful ;- )" by Mikako Komatsu.
Plot
Azuma Kazuki is a young boy living with his family on Treasure Island, a floating island several thousand feet above Earth that is inhabited by giant sentient robots called Buranki, all of which are "sleeping". However, several of the Buranki are killed to wake up, forcing Migiwa Kazuki, his mother, to send Azuma, his identical twin sister Kaoruko, and their father down to Earth and is killed in a Buranki named Oubu for safety, leaving her behind.Ten years later, Azuma, returning to a post-apocalyptic Shinjuku is captured by the authorities, but was saved by his childhood friend Kogane Asabuki, a user of a sentient weapon known as Bubuki, which also forms a Buranki's limbs. Discovering he is a Bubuki-user himself with the Heart of Oubu, Azuma and Kogane unite with three other Bubuki-users: Hiiragi Nono, Kinoa Ōgi and Shizuru Taneomi, to work together to seek and revive the lost Oubu, and discover the hidden truths behind the Buranki and the mysterious Reoko Banryū's tyranny over the post-apocalyptic Japan with her own Buranki: Entei.
Characters
Oubu
is a powerful Buranki once owned by Migiwa Kazuki. When the Buranki on Treasure Island started to awaken ten years prior to the series, she had her husband and two children sent down to Earth with it, crash landing into Japan's shores and causing much destruction in its wake. At some point, its limbs were reverted into Bubukis and returned to their owners, and all that remains is its skeletal husk stored in an underground Buranki Jail. In the present day, Oubu's Bubuki has been inherited by the children of their owners, now working with Migiwa's son Azuma, who has inherited its Heart, to reawaken Oubu and travel back to Treasure Island to find out the truth behind the Burankis.;Azuma Kazuki
;Kogane Asabuki
;Hiiragi Nono
;Kinoa Ōgi
;Shizuru Taneomi
Entei
is a Buranki owned by Reoko Banryū, rivalling Oubu in terms of power. 24 years prior to the series, a battle between the two Buranki ended up with Entei's limbs being permanently torn apart and destroyed, while Reoko mysteriously gained immortality as an outcome of the conflict. Since then, Entei uses a pair of pseudo tentacle-like limbs to battle, with Reoko constantly on the hunt for spare Hearts and parts strong enough to withstand Entei's power to once again complete Entei and exact her revenge on Oubu and Migiwa. Her comrades, dubbed the, however, now having lost their original Bubuki, use their own substitute Bubuki they won off from other users through battle, and continue to support Reoko till current day, even though their current weapons are not strong enough to form up Entei anymore.;Reoko Banryū
;Shūsaku Matobai
;Zetsubi Hazama
;Sōya Arabashiri
;Akihito Tsuwabuki
United States
A team of Bubuki-users from America, representing their Buranki. Due to their Buranki being rendered unusable as a result of Migiwa releasing an energy wave that deactivates all Buranki Hearts on Earth, they have been sent to Japan by a mysterious benefactor to fight Oubu's and Entei's teams for their working Hearts. Their Bubuki are named after film directors.;Epizo Evans
;Luis Garcia
;Farrah Umlauf
;Waglula Hara
;Domina Dorsey
Russia
The last of a clan of assassins, the Bubuki-users from Russia represent their Buranki. However, just like the United States' team, their Heart was deactivated by Migiwa, and are thus sent by the same mysterious benefactor to Japan retrieve functioning Hearts from Oubu's and Entei's teams, although using more rough and violent methods to achieve their goal.;Maxim Arsenyevich Balakirev
;Lyudmila Arsenyevna Balakireva
;Diana Arsenyevna Balakireva
;Ignat Bosporus
;Dersu Nizhny