Over Drive

Title:Over Drive
OverDrive
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Notables: Animation - JC Staff
Animation - Xebec
Mikoto Shinozaki is a loser. Clumsy and bullied by the boys, his only skill is drawing. Yuki Fukazawa is the school beauty. She sits next to Mikoto and he sketches her profile when she isn't looking. One day she walks in after school and catches him. He asks to draw her but the drawing he made is her in a bikini. She throws the drawing away but she noticed that he had an inner fire that she last saw in Ryonosuke while drawing her. She asks him to join the bicycle club. That night, he has a dream of riding a bicycle with Yuki behind him...in a swimsuit.

Watch Mikoto as he challenges other cyclists on the road to the Tour De France.

26 TV episodes.
Animation by XEBEC.

OverallArtAnimationCharacter Design MusicSeries StoryEpisode StoryReviewer
Watch 9 10 8 10 10 Anonymous #2770 [series:1584#2770]
I watched 20 episodes and i say its a great series so far a shame its only 26 episodes Although the basic plot in ep 1 is horrible it gets amazing after that

Last updated Monday, November 12 2007. Created Monday, November 12 2007.
Unevaluated Forbin [series:1584#1573]
Analysis : 1 Episode Watched
  • Drama : Low
  • Action : Low
  • Comedy : Low
  • SciFi : Low
  • Ecchi : Low
Well the premise I wrote above is about how this episode went. It's about cycling. It wasn't a bad episode at all and I was REALLY surprised at how well Xebec draws......until I saw the JC Staff credit at the end. Then I realized that Xebec farmed this out and is taking all the credit.

I also noticed that Shimano (Gear Maker) and Trek (Bicycle Maker) sponsored this episode and they even appear in the OP (for a split second)..hehe

More after I see more.

PS : And of course I'm such a noob for not checking for Over Drive, instead of OverDrive

Last updated Sunday, April 29 2007. Created Sunday, April 29 2007.
Unevaluated chibi [series:1584#2380]
2 episodes seen so far. Another looser teenage boy finding himself through a sport. Mikoto gets beat up for his lunch money and doesn't even know how to ride a bike, but finds he has a strange affinity for riding once he's talked into joining the school's bike club. The show is interesting enough that I'm going to give it a try, though the hero is so inept and ignorant that it's sometimes painful to watch.

Last updated Saturday, April 21 2007. Created Saturday, April 21 2007.

Other Sites
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TV Tokyo (Japanese Language) Web Site http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/overdrive/
Wikipedia posting for the Tour de France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_France

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