Real Drive

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name = Real Drive


caption =
ja_name = RD 潜脳調査室
ja_name_trans = RD Sennō Chōsashitsu
genre = Science fictionInfobox animanga/Anime
title =
director = Kazuhiro Furuhashi
writer = Masamune Shirow (original concept)
Junichi Fujisaku (series composition and screenplay)
studio = Production I.G
network = NTV
first = 2008-04-08
last =
episodes =
episode_list = Infobox animanga/Manga
author = Production I.G & Masamune Shirow (original work)
Momotarou Miyano (art)
publisher = flagicon|Japan Kodansha
demographic = Seinen
magazine = flagicon|Japan Magazine Z
first = April 26 2008
last = ongoing
volumes =

nihongo|"Real Drive"|RD 潜脳調査室|RD Sennō Chōsashitsu is an anime TV series, created by Production I.G and Masamune Shirow. "Real Drive" is produced in collaboration with Japan's largest commercial broadcaster, Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV), and premiered in Japan on NTV on 8 April 2008.

toryline and setting

"Real Drive" is set in 2061 AD, fifty years after the development of the Network society. The new infrastructure was to create a utopia where people could directly connect at the level of consciousness. But new social problems, such as personal data leaks and disinformation surface. People still must rely heavily on the Network and are unable to abandon it.

In due course, a new Network realm with more effective security measures was developed. This was called "Meta Real Network", nicknamed "The Metal."

The Metal holds personal memory data in "bubble shells". These are supposedly protected virtual online organic cyber-enclaves. The Metal eventually pervades the everyday lives of people.

People gradually learned to release and explore their instincts within the environment of the Metal. The unleashed instincts cause some individual's consciousness to drown in the sea of information and to be exposed to the pressures of desire.

Meanwhile, norms and regulations continue to bind their real world lives. Friction between the two worlds manifests as troublesome aberrations.

Cyber Divers are experts who investigate and decipher these aberrations in the Metal.

Characters

;nihongo|Masamichi Haru|波留 真理|Haru Masamichi:anime voices|Katsuji Mori:"Age:" 81:The protagonist of the series. A diver of "The Metal" and long time friend of Eiichiro Kushima. Masamichi was in a diving accident while testing an early Meta-Real technology and was in a coma for 50 years before awakening as an old man.

;nihongo|Minamo Aoi|蒼井 ミナモ|Aoi Minamo:anime voices|Kanae Oki:"Age:" 15:An intern for hired by Masamichi Haru and Sister of Souta Aoi. Originally hired to replace Holon during a leave for maintenance, she became a permanent employee after she helped guide Masamichi back from a dive gone wrong. Unlike the other humans and some animals in the story, she does not possess a Cyberbrain augmentation, and requires electronic accessories to access The Metal.

;nihongo|Souta Aoi|蒼井 ソウタ|Aoi Sōta:anime voices|Hiroki Takahashi:"Age:" 22:Employee of the EISF and brother of Minamo Aoi.

;nihongo|Holon|ホロン|Horon:anime voices|Ayako Kawasumi:"Age:" 1:An android who helps Masamichi Haru with daily life in his old age and assists him in his search for "the answer in the sea."

;nihongo|Eiichiro Kushima|久島 永一朗|Kushima Eīchirō:anime voices|Keiji Fujiwara:"Age:" 82:Director of the EISF and friend of Masamichi Haru. While as old as Masamichi, his body has the appearance of a twenty-eight year old man.

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*Original concept: Production I.G, Shirow Masamune
*Original concept assistance: Crossroads
*Original creator: Masamune Shirow
*Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
*Series Composition: Junichi Fujisaku
*Character Design: Tetsuro Ueyama
*Music: Yoshihisa Hirano, Hideki Taniuchi
*Animation Production: Production I.G
*Broadcaster: Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV)
*Production Assistance: CROSSROAD

External links

*ja icon [http://www.ntv.co.jp/RD/ Official site]
*ja icon [http://www.production-ig.co.jp/contents/works_sp/1740_/index.html Production I.G Site Worklist]
*ja icon [http://www.productionig.com/contents/works_sp/62_/ Production I.G Site Worklist English Translation]
*en icon [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMCWPheNp7Y Youtube Trailer]
*en icon [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8941 Anime News Network]
Production I.G