PickFlick
Absolute Duo

Absolute Duo

TV-MA2015•24m•7.8/10
AnimationComedyAction & Adventure

Ratings

🎬TMDb
7.8/10(158)

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.

Open in PickFlick

Production

8bit, feng, Media Factory, AT-X, Showgate, KADOKAWA, Digital Network Animation, Studio Pastoral, Studio Deen, BLADE

Language

JA

Status

Ended

First Aired

January 4, 2015

Last Aired

March 22, 2015

Networks

AT-X

Trailers & Videos

Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
US
No providers available for this region.
Seasons & Episodes
Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.
Season
Blaze
E1
Blaze
Air date: 2015-01-04
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.
Duo
E2
Duo
Air date: 2015-01-11
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?
Avenger
E3
Avenger
Air date: 2015-01-18
Tor and Julie face an unexpected hurdle at the end of their mock-battle tournament. Julie confronts Tor about someone from his past.
Exception
E4
Exception
Air date: 2015-01-25
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.
Level Up
E5
Level Up
Air date: 2015-02-01
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.
Survive
E6
Survive
Air date: 2015-02-08
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.
Silver-Blonde, Yellow Topaz
E7
Silver-Blonde, Yellow Topaz
Air date: 2015-02-15
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.
Selection
E8
Selection
Air date: 2015-02-22
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.
Rebels
E9
Rebels
Air date: 2015-03-01
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.
Reign Conference
E10
Reign Conference
Air date: 2015-03-08
Miyabi is still MIA as Koryo Academy prepares to host the mysterious Reign group. Tor presses Lilith for answers about Absolute Duo.
Killing Game
E11
Killing Game
Air date: 2015-03-15
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.
Absolute Duo
E12
Absolute Duo
Air date: 2015-03-22
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.

Cast

Nozomi Yamamoto

Nozomi Yamamoto

Julie Sigtuna (voice)

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Thor Kokonoe (voice)

Ayaka Suwa

Ayaka Suwa

Tomoe Tachibana (voice)

Haruka Yamazaki

Haruka Yamazaki

Lilith Bristol (voice)

Nozomi Nishida

Nozomi Nishida

Sarah (voice)

Kentaro Ito

Kentaro Ito

Grave Phantom (voice)

Manami Tanaka

Manami Tanaka

Otoha Kokonoe (voice)

Mami Uchida

Mami Uchida

Momo Kibitsu (voice)

Natsuki Hanae

Natsuki Hanae

Aoi 'Tora' Torasaki (voice)

Takahiro Sakurai

Takahiro Sakurai

K (voice)

Tomomichi Nishimura

Tomomichi Nishimura

Equipment Smith (voice)

Yoshihisa Kawahara

Yoshihisa Kawahara

Tatsu (voice)

Yui Horie

Yui Horie

Sakuya Tsukumo (voice)

Yukari Tamura

Yukari Tamura

Rito 'Usa-sensei' Tsukimi (voice)

Ayaka Imamura

Ayaka Imamura

Miyabi Hotaka (voice)

Recommended

Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut

Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut

6.7
2021
TV Show

The first astronaut in human history was a vampire girl. Following the end of World War II, the world-dividing superpowers, Federal Republic of Zirnitra in the East and United Kingdom of Arnack in the West, turned their territorial ambitions toward space. Both countries have been competing fiercely for development. East history 1960. Gergiev, the chief leader of the Republic, announces the manned space flight program Project Mechtat (Dream), which, if successful, would be the first feat for humankind. At that time, Lev Leps, a substitute astronaut candidate, is ordered to perform a top secret mission. The "Nosferatu Project"—a program that experiments with vampires prior to manned missions—will use Irina Luminesk as a test subject, and Lev is to monitor and train her. Even while trifled by the walls of the race and ego of the nations, Lev and Irina share a genuine sentiment as they aim for the universe.

Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut

2021
6.7
You are Ms. Servant

You are Ms. Servant

7.5
2024
TV Show

Hitoyoshi, a high school kid who lives alone, hears a knock on his door. He opens it to find a strange girl offering to be his maid. She has beautiful black hair, graceful manners, and…a dark past as an assassin. But despite her deadly background and lack of household skills, Hitoyoshi takes her in. As she adjusts to her new life, she begins to experience emotions she’s never felt before.

You are Ms. Servant

2024
7.5
Tawawa on Monday

Tawawa on Monday

6.3
2016
TV Show

The anime follows a salaryman who has a chance meeting with a girl named Ai on the train. They begin to meet every Monday on the train, with the man serving as her bodyguard on the crowded commute while they chat.

Tawawa on Monday

2016
6.3
Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight

Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight

7.3
2018
TV Show

The story is set in the 15th century, during the Hundred Years' War between France and England over the succession to the French throne. Montmorency, the son of a noble, immerses himself in the studies of magic and alchemy at a royal knight training school. However, following France's crushing defeat at Agincourt, the school is dissolved. Having lost everything and now a wanted man, Montmorency, who had just become an alchemist, encounters a mysterious village girl named Jehanne.

Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight

2018
7.3
The Pet Girl of Sakurasou

The Pet Girl of Sakurasou

7.6
2012
TV Show

Sorata Kanda, a high school sophomore living in Sakurasou, the den of their academy's problem children, spends his days being dragged around by the strange residents, swearing he's going to escape Sakurasou one day.

The Pet Girl of Sakurasou

2012
7.6
Classroom of the Elite

Classroom of the Elite

8.4
2017
TV Show

Kiyotaka Ayanokouji enrolls at the prestigious Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Academy, but is assigned to Class 1-D, where students with behavioral problems are housed. The school awards points equivalent to 100,000 yen per month and allows unusual freedom in classes, masking a more complex system.

Classroom of the Elite

2017
8.4
Witch Craft Works

Witch Craft Works

8.0
2014
TV Show

Takamiya Honoka is a regular student whose only problem seems to be that he sits next to Kagari Ayaka, the school's #1 beauty. They have never spoken to each other before and any small interaction between them immediately results in her fanclub beating him. Yet when a falling part of the school's building is about to send him to the afterlife, it's Kagari that comes to his rescue. Only... she's dressed as a witch, carrying him in her arms and floating on a broom?! Kagari tells him it is her mission to protect him and that now she can finally protect him openly rather than undercover.

Witch Craft Works

2014
8.0
Mr. Nobunaga's Young Bride

Mr. Nobunaga's Young Bride

7.8
2019
TV Show

Nobunaga was a teacher who was waiting for that kind of dating sim event to happen in real life. One day, a 14 year old girl named Kicho appears in front of him, saying that she's his wife?! Apparently she came from the Warring States era and seems to have mistaken Nobunaga for the Oda Nobunaga and tells him that she wants to have his children. An age-gap love comedy featuring a teacher with a dating sims brain and a princess with a warring states era brain!!

Mr. Nobunaga's Young Bride

2019
7.8
Azur Lane

Azur Lane

7.5
2019
TV Show

When the "Sirens," an alien force with an arsenal far surpassing the limits of current technology, suddenly appeared, a divided humanity stood in complete solidarity for the first time. Four countries formed Azur Lane, paving the way for the improvement of modern warfare, which led to an initial victory. However, this tenuous union was threatened by opposing ideals, dividing the alliance into two and humanity became fragmented once again. As a seasoned and experienced fighter, the "Grey Ghost" Enterprise shoulders Azur Lane's hope for ending the war. But behind her stoic persona hides a frail girl, afraid of the ocean. Even so, she continues to fight as she believes that it's the only purpose for her existence. Amidst the neverending conflict within humankind, the keys that could unite a fragmented race might exist: a soldier coming to terms with her mysterious personality and camaraderie between those with different ideals.

Azur Lane

2019
7.5
Rage of Bahamut

Rage of Bahamut

7.7
2014
TV Show

Two thousand years ago, the black-and-silver-winged dragon, Bahamut, terrorized the magical land of Mistarcia. The humans, god, and demons that inhabited the land united forces against the fiend and sealed its power into a key which was split in two, one half protected by gods and the other protected by demons. Now, Mistarcia is a peaceful realm – until a human woman steals the god’s half of the key. Based on the immensely popular digital card game, Rage of Bahamut: Genesis is an exciting blend of action and fantasy.

Rage of Bahamut

2014
7.7
Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou

Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou

7.7
2018
TV Show

Shiina Aki is constantly being treated like a girl due to his feminine looks so he decides to move to Tokyo to attend middle school in an attempt to change himself. However what awaits him in his new home, Sunohara-sou, is the kind-hearted caretaker, Sunohara Ayaka. Along with the three female members of Aki's new middle school's student council, Yukimoto Yuzu, Yamanashi Sumire & Kazami Yuri. And so begins Aki's new life in Tokyo living with 4 girls.

Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou

2018
7.7
Killing Bites

Killing Bites

7.7
2018
TV Show

Yuuya Nomoto was horrified to discover that the vehicle he was driving was being used to kidnap a high school girl, but he's even more shocked when the girl, Hitomi Uzaki, literally tears her kidnappers to pieces instead! Then she forces Yuuya to drive her to an arena where she bets the value of his organs on herself to win in a death match against a half-lion hybrid! Even more astonishing: Hitomi wins! That's because she's a Therianthrope, a genetically engineered fighter created specifically for the underground death matches known as Killing Bites! And now that Yuuya has been pulled into this dark underworld, he has no choice but to continue working for Hitomi. Because who's going to fight against a girl who's part honey badger?

Killing Bites

2018
7.7

Similar TV Shows

Blade Dance of Elementalers

Blade Dance of Elementalers

6.4
2014
TV Show

Only a pure maiden can have the privilege to contract with a spirit. Priestesses, who can summon spirits from Astral Zero, the world of spirits, and have full command of their power, are called elementalists. Kamito Kazehaya is the only male with this privilege, and due to what happened in the past he comes to Areisha Spirit Academy where priestesses are trained to become elementalists. He is then told that he is to transfer to the school, form a team with priestesses to compete in Blade Dance where the most powerful elementalist is chosen, and win.

Blade Dance of Elementalers

2014
6.4
Aldnoah.Zero

Aldnoah.Zero

7.6
2014
TV Show

In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission discovered a hypergate to Mars on the surface of the moon. Soon a war breaks out between Earth and Mars, and Martian soldiers begin to descend from the sky, riding steel giants, intent on exterminating humanity.

Aldnoah.Zero

2014
7.6
Pokémon Origins

Pokémon Origins

7.3
2013
TV Show

Follow Red as he travels through the Kanto region, encounters Team Rocket, battles his rival, and challenges the Pokémon League!

Pokémon Origins

2013
7.3
Major

Major

8.4
2004
TV Show

Honda Goro the son of a famous baseball player loves nothing more than baseball itself. His biggest dream is to show his father that he can become the best pitcher in the world despite all the hardships he had to endure he keeps on running towards his goal at full speed.

Major

2004
8.4
Desert Punk

Desert Punk

5.8
2004
TV Show

In the future, Japan is a wasteland. In the Great Kanto Desert, scattered humans eke out a living in the hot sand. Among them, a short-statured man they call "Sunabozu" makes a living as a bounty hunter. Like a demon of the sand, he seems unbeatable. Yet, like all men, he has a particular weakness for the opposite sex...

Desert Punk

2004
5.8
The Skull Man

The Skull Man

6.5
2007
TV Show

Otomo City: where freedom and justice have atrophied to the bone; where conspiracy rules the day and death stalks the night... Death in the form of the Skull Man, a literal Grim Reaper whose skeletal grin presages grisly mayhem and murder, even to the monstrous mutants that haunt the city's underworlds! To investigate a bizarre slaying, journalist Minagami Hayato and photographer Kiriko Mamiya must stalk this ultimate predator, through a festering cadaver of a city where the corruption flows in rivers as deep and foul as the sins of the reigning elite, and unearth a secret so shocking that an entire city has been turned into a tomb to contain! In a nightmarish necropolis where nothing is as it seems, vengeance comes in the form of a living Death's-Head!

The Skull Man

2007
6.5
Aoi Bungaku Series

Aoi Bungaku Series

6.8
2009
TV Show

An animated adaptation of six classical Japanese literature pieces, including No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) and Run, Melos (Hashire, Melos) by Osamu Dazai, Kokoro by Natsume Souseki, Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen) and The Spider's Thread (Kumo no Ito) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita) by Ango Sakaguchi.

Aoi Bungaku Series

2009
6.8
Denki-gai

Denki-gai

6.6
2014
TV Show

A blush-inducing, coming-of-age comedy about manga-loving book store employees!! The unique cast of characters -- all hard-core manga fans and maniacs of some sort -- work at comic shop “Uma no Hone.” On a daily basis, they display new releases, shrink-wrap comics, shudder at their lack of feminine qualities, question their love for porn literature…and basically have fun while working hard (?). Girls and guys call each other by nicknames and some begin to develop close relationships! It’s non-stop humor and romance in this book store rom-com!

Denki-gai

2014
6.6
Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea

Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea

7.7
2013
TV Show

Long ago, all humans lived beneath the sea. However, some people preferred the surface and abandoned living underwater permanently. As a consequence, they were stripped of their god-given protection called "Ena" which allowed them to breathe underwater. Over time, the rift between the denizens of the sea and of the surface widened, although contact between the two peoples still existed. This show follows the story of Hikari Sakishima and Manaka Mukaido, along with their childhood friends Chisaki Hiradaira and Kaname Isaki, who are forced to leave the sea and attend a school on the surface. There, the group also meets Tsumugu Kihara, a fellow student and fisherman who loves the sea. Hikari and his friends' lives are bound to change as they have to deal with the deep-seated hatred and discrimination between the people of sea and of the surface, the storms in their personal lives, as well as an impending tempest which may spell doom for all who dwell on the surface.

Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea

2013
7.7
Gundam Reconguista in G

Gundam Reconguista in G

7.0
2014
TV Show

The Universal Century, a history marked by space colonization and space warfare, has passed. Humanity's prosperity, which ushered in a new era known as the Regild Century (R.C.), was believed to endure alongside global peace. In RC 1014, Bellri Zenam, a pilot in training of the Capitol Guard is somehow chosen by the G-Self - a highly maneuverable Mobile Suit of unknown origin - to lead to uncover hidden truths that will shake the peace of the Regild Century era.

Gundam Reconguista in G

2014
7.0
Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]

Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]

8.0
2014
TV Show

This story focuses primarily on the heroine Rin Tohsaka. After her father’s death, Rin enters the Holy Grail War as the sole heir to the prestigious Tohsaka Household, with her servant Archer. But, she soon finds out that Shirou Emiya, a boy from her high school has gotten himself involved in the battles and unexpectedly saves him when he is fatally injured. Before long, Rin sets out to strike down the conspiracies surrounding the Holy Grail War along with Shirou and his summoned servant Saber. And so, the story begins to explore the truth behind Shirou’s powers and the nature behind his unyielding will to become a “hero.” © TYPE-MOON, ufotable, FSNPC

Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]

2014
8.0
Terror in Resonance

Terror in Resonance

7.8
2014
TV Show

In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to stop the paranoia spreading across the population. While the world searches for a criminal mastermind to blame for this tragedy, two mysterious children - children who shouldn't even exist - masterfully carry out their heinous plan. Cursed to walk through this world with the names Nine and Twelve, the two combine to form "Sphinx," a clandestine entity determine to wake the people from their slumber - and pull the trigger on this world.

Terror in Resonance

2014
7.8