Real Drive
| Real Drive | |
Screenshot of the title card for Real Drive
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RD 潜脳調査室 (Āru Dī Sennō Chōsashitsu) |
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| Genre | Action, Cyberpunk, Science fiction |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Kazuhiro Furuhashi |
| Produced by | Takeshi Wada (Production I.G) Toshio Nakatani (NTV) Yasuo Ueda (VAP) Yousuke Kasahara |
| Written by |
Masamune Shirow (Original concept) Junichi Fujisaku (series composition and screenplay) |
| Music by |
Yoshihisa Hirano Hideki Taniuchi |
| Studio | Production I.G |
| Original network | NTV, GyaO, Sapporo TV, Chūkyō Television Broadcasting, Animax, Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation, YTV, TV. Shinshu, Tochigi TV |
| Original run | April 8, 2008 – October 1, 2008 |
| Episodes | 26 |
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| Written by | Production I.G, Masamune Shirow (Original work) |
| Illustrated by | Momotarou Miyano |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Magazine Z |
| Original run | April 26, 2008 – January 26, 2009 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Light novel | |
| Real Drive: Redeemable Dream | |
| Written by |
Production I.G, Masamune Shirow (Original work) Yoshinobu Akita |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Male |
| Published | August 5, 2008 |
| Volumes | 1 |
Real Drive (Japanese: RD 潜脳調査室 Hepburn: Āru Dī Sennō Chōsashitsu?, literally "RD Mind-Diving Investigation Office") is an anime TV series created by Production I.G and Masamune Shirow (known for the Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed franchises) under the directorship of Kazuhiro Furuhashi, produced in collaboration with broadcaster Nippon Television (NTV). The series revolves around an information network known as "The Metal", and the series centers on Masamichi Haru, a paraplegic old man who was in a coma for 50 years after a test dive using Meta-Real technology went horribly wrong. After awakening from his coma, he starts searching for the "answer in the sea".
The series aired on NTV and other channels from April 8, 2008 to October 1, 2008. A manga adaptation by Momotarou Miyano was serialized in Magazine Z from the April 2008 to January 2009, with two volumes sold between August 22, 2008 and February 23, 2009 by Kodansha. A light novel adaptation by Yoshinobu Akita was published by Kodansha on August 5, 2008.
2061 AD. Fifty years have passed since mankind developed the Network society. It was anticipated that this new infrastructure would realize a utopia where people connected with each other at the level of consciousness. However, new social problems such as personal data leaks and proliferation of manipulated information began to surface. Nevertheless, people still relied on the Network to exchange information, and proved unable to opt to abandon it.
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