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D-Live!!

D-Live!!
D-Live!! cover Volume 1.jpg
Volume 1 of D-Live!! as published by Shogakukan on April 15, 2003. Satoru Ikaruga is featured riding a jetski in the sewers.
ドライブ!!
(Doraibu!!)
Genre Action, Adventure
Manga
Written by Ryōji Minagawa
Illustrated by Ryōji Minagawa
Published by Shogakukan
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Original run 20022006
Volumes 15 (List of volumes)
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D-Live!! (ドライブ!! DoRaibu!!?) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ryōji Minagawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine from 2002 to 2006. The manga tells the story of Satoru Ikaruga, a high schooler nicknamed "genius driver" who can operate almost any vehicle and works for a multinational specialist company called the Almighty Support Enterprise (ASE). Ikaruga is called whenever ASE is hired to solve a case which involves vehicle driving, most of the time working with other ASE agents to resolve situations assigned to them by various clients.

Satoru Ikaruga is just an ordinary high school student who enjoys eating food. Unknown to most of his classmates and teachers, he is an operative of the Almighty Support Enterprise as a vehicle driving specialist. He is deployed worldwide while being supported by various ASE agents in accomplishing cases assigned to them by their clients.

A high school boy who do part-time job with ASE Japan Branch as a vehicle driver specialist. His father was a friend of Hajime Mozu and also an ASE driver who died in doing his job.

A high school girl, the mechanic specialist of ASE Japan Branch. Her dream is to make her late father's motorcycle racing team wins the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race. She almost made it with Satoru riding her bike, but an accident happened that made Satoru did not finish the race.

Chief of ASE Japan branch. He is an ex-ASE vehicle driver specialist, Satoru was trained by him. He is sometimes cruel to Satoru by cutting his payment if Satoru made any mistake in doing his job.

He is ASE USA branch's specialist in spying and infiltrating. He is also a playboy and thinks that he is the next James Bond. He always gets sick if traveling in a vehicle, especially if the driver is Satoru. Only Mozu can make him not sick in a vehicle.

ASE Japan Branch's specialist of geology. A beautiful woman who is lecturer in a university in Japan.


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