“Engineer joins cash-strapped exterminator firm to battle monsters with his robot, facing budget constraints and harsh realities.”
Bullbuster
ブルバスター
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Synopsis
Engineer joins cash-strapped exterminator firm to battle monsters with his robot, facing budget constraints and harsh realities.
A young engineer, Tetsurou Okino, is transferred to a vermin extermination company called Hato Industries with the new robot Bullbuster that he developed himself. There, Hato Industries, a small company with little money, and its president Tajima are against a mysterious creature. There are fuel costs for robots, labor costs for pilots, and of course, wasting even a single bullet is unacceptable. Between their ideals of extermination and the reality of budgets, what does the future hold for Hato? (Source: Translated, edited from official website)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 11 sampled reviews
What 11 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 1.86 · split reception
3.9 pts
Recommenders 7.4 · others 3.5
↓ 1.27
Running avg · Oct 2023 → Sep 2025
- 7 “This is not an action anime. If you are looking for smash monsters and things go boom turn back now. This anime is more nice in the unique societal structures in Japanese companies and society and...”
- 7 “A decent start to a fairly niche work, Bullbuster is at least worth a try. First things first, the CGI of the creatures is absolutely shocking, especially in comparison to the mechas. The...”
- 7 “From the beginning of the series it is made clear that this anime will be slow, perhaps a little more than other "slice of life", and that what sets it apart is the "seriousness" with which the...”
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- Format 12 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 36m all episodes
- Aired Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 Fall 2023
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-23070 catalog