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Heat Guy J

type	tv series
director	Kazuki Akane
producer	Tetsuo Genshou Atsushi Sugita Shinjirou Yokoyama Tetsuya Tomioka
writer	Kazuki Akane
music	Try Force
studio	Satelight
network	TBS
first	1 October 2002
last	25 March 2003
episodes	25 + OVA
episode list	List of Heat Guy J episodes

Heat Guy J (ヒートガイジェイ) is a Japanese anime television series created and directed by Escaflowne director Kazuki Akane and animated by Satelight.

Heat Guy J was licensed and distributed in the U.S. in 2003 by Pioneer (which subsequently became Geneon Entertainment). It was re-released by Funimation in the fall of 2009. The first 13 episodes of the show were also broadcast on the cable channel MTV2. A one volume manga was created based on the series, and was licensed and distributed by Tokyopop. The show was picked up for a UK DVD release by Manga Entertainment starting in March 2006. It was packaged in double DVD sets to make up for the long delayed release of the series.

Plot

Heat Guy J chronicles the adventures of a young Special Services officer named Daisuke Aurora and his android partner known simply as "J". The pair live and work in the fictional, futuristic Metropolis of "Judoh" (Jewde), where the understaffed and underfunded Special Services Division of the Bureau of Urban Safety has its headquarters.

Characters

Special Services

Special Services (特務課), a division of the Bureau of Urban Safety (都市安全管理局中央司令部本部長), is tasked in investigating and preventing criminal activity from happening in Judoh. Their headquarters is designed after the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, New York.

Daisuke Aurora (ダイスケ・アウローラ) - Department of Security, Central Headquarters Special Services Employee, age 21
Nicknamed "Dai-chan" (or "Dice"). Cool and laid back, Daisuke is one half of the Special Services Bureau's investigative team. He prefers action to paperwork, but when he's not out on the street fighting crime, he's often seen in various states of in-action. Although he never really shows it, Daisuke is quite compassionate and has a strong sense of justice. However, he has deep and painful memories of the vanishing of his mother and his father (a politician) being murdered by an android. The only memento of his father is a bullet pendant he wears around his neck.

J (ジェイ) (also known as "Heat Guy J") - Special Services Android, 3, appearance of a 40-year-old man
An android with incredible power, J was created in cooperation between a government facility and a civilian enterprise; androids are illegal in Judoh, but a special exception is made for J, much to the dismay of wary city officials. Despite his hulking size, J can run at enormous speeds and packs a powerful punch. However, after prolonged bouts of action, J must cool himself down by venting a great deal of superheated air from pipes mounted on his shoulders, making a sound like a howling wolf. J is maintained by the Civilian Enterprises Sect technician Antonia Bellucci. It is said that J is modeled after Antonia's father. This is probably why J seems to be so human sometimes, with a noble character and strong beliefs on things like how a man should act.

Kyoko Milchan (キョウコ・ミルシャン) - Department of Security, Central Headquarters Special Services Auditor/Accountant, age 21
A young auditor and accountant for Special Services, Kyoko is strait-laced and always plays by the rules. This causes her stress when dealing with Daisuke, whom she often scolds. However, she eventually develops feelings towards Daisuke, after letting go of her crush on his brother Shun.

Shun Aurora (シュン・アウローラ) - Government Investigative Office of Department of Security, Central Headquarters General Manager, age 27
Daisuke's older brother and the General Manager of the Bureau of Urban Safety, Shun prides himself on his rational and logical thinking. Shun's logical nature is usually in conflict with Daisuke's more impulsive personality. This causes a gap between the two brothers, despite the fact that Shun raised Daisuke after their father's death at the hand of an android. Another point of contention between them is Shun's inability to forgive his mother for leaving their family when Shun was 9 and Daisuke 3. Shun is responsible for the partnership of his brother with J.

Phia Oliveira (フィア・オリヴィエラ) - Central Headquarters, General Manager's Secretary, age 27
Phia is Shun's head secretary over at the Bureau of Urban Safety office. She is very reliable although she seems to take enjoyment in seeing Shun and Daisuke argue.

Friends

Antonia Belucci (アントニア・ベルッチ) - Sect Employee, age 24
An employee of the civilian enterprise "Sect," (the company responsible for creating J) she is responsible for J's maintenance. She still mourns the death of her father at an early age and was responsible for creating J in his image and personality. She worries and cares a lot for J. Daisuke also harbors a secret crush on Antonia.

Ken Edmundo (ケン・エジムンド) - Galea Police Investigation Inspector, age 33
A crime scene investigator who is constantly annoyed with the Special Service Agency, he usually scolds and antagonizes Daisuke when he arrives on the scene. He does, however, help Daisuke on various occasions, and is a valuable ally in many of the Special Services cases.

Monica Gabriel (モニカ・ガブリエル) - Photographer, age 10
To earn money for herself, her mother and her donkey, Parsley, Monica works as a photographer who operates by wagon in the city of Judoh. She wants to preserve the long dead age of photography (which explains why she has so much trouble making a sale). However, she has accumulated a great deal of information on Judoh and its business trends. Her mother, Christina, is an unemployed degenerate drunk, and for the most part sponges off her daughter's meager earnings and sleeps off her hangovers inside the wagon during the day. Monica is a friend of Daisuke and gives him important advice and information whenever he needs it.

Enemies

Clair Leonelli (クレア・レオネリ) - Current leader, or "Vampire", of the Company Vita Crime Syndicate, age 19
Clair inherited his title of Vampire, head of the crime syndicate Company Vita (カンパニー・ビィータ), after his father, Lorenzo Leonelli, died at the beginning of the series. He lives in his father's shadow and constantly flashes back to instances of both physical and emotional abuse. Being compared to his father is his biggest weakness as well as the easiest way to anger him. Due to his father's abuse, he is also unpredictable and emotionally unstable. He struggles to retain the loyalty of the other crime leaders in the city, who fear his dangerous personality. He causes much trouble for Daisuke and J though he is by no means the pair's only problem.

Giobanni Gallo (ジョバンニ・ギャロ) - Clair's bodyguard, age 27
Giobanni is Clair's constant companion and his most consistent guard. He was originally an orphan from the slum area until Lorenzo Leonelli adopted him to be Clair's older brother.

Mauro (マウロ) - Advisor to the Leonelli family, age 63
An important adviser who has worked for the Leonelli family for generations. His loyalty towards the family is unwavering, and he constantly worries about Clair.

Mitchal Rubenstein (ミシェル・ルビンスタイン) - Clair's bodyguard, age 25

Other

Shogun (将軍) - Dry goods store owner, age 72
The former boss of a crime syndicate, Shogun has grown old and now lives a simple life as a dry goods store owner. However, he still keeps tabs on the Underground and often passes on his knowledge to Daisuke, whom he raised following the death of Daisuke and Shun's father.

Boma (ボマ) - Mercenary, age unknown
A mysterious and silent refugee who is searching for his missing sister Usagi (うさぎ). After being sent to Magnagalia Prison for a crime he committed in the past, he was given the head of a wolf as his punishment, but he promptly escapes to Judoh, disguising his wolf-like features with a holographic device. Boma is a skilled swordsman, wielding a monomolecular blade, and makes a deadly enemy (and later, a powerful ally) for Daisuke and J. It is later revealed that in his past life as a thief, his best friend Brad betrayed him as part of a setup by a crime syndicate. Boma killed Brad, unaware that the latter was planning to help him escape to Judoh. Furthermore, Usagi was the name of Brad's late sister, and Boma used her name as a safe word to shield his mind from the Beastmaster's brainwashing techniques.

Romeo Visconti (ロメオ・ビスコンティ) - Galea Police Investigation Inspector, age unknown
A crime scene investigator who works under Edmundo. He secretly investigates a money laundering scheme and its connections with Noriega before he is killed in the slums in an accident that was set up by Noriega.