Comments on: RD Sennou Chousashitsu Review - 87,5/100

by: Cody

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:19:57 +0000

Great show I loved it. I’m a big fan of slice of life shows, and my views on them are a bit different. Most people think of them as a “nothing happens” kind of show, but I like to think of them as a “living” kinda thing so I really didn’t enjoy the slowness of how the show went on. I actually really enjoyed it. I’m not someone who likes needless drama just to spice things up. Kurenai handled that really well too.

Best episode in the series has to be 13 though. Blew me away how good it was.

by: zakuro

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:02:37 +0000

Geez. I’ve just realized you followed some of my favorite works in 2007-2008! Ghost Hound, RD, Himitsu, Natsume, Mouryo no hako… oh and, Kurozuka(!?)
Actually, of course, you are covering quite extreme number of animes, so probably no wonder that you reviewed almost all of my favorites (well… Kurozuka didn’t carry through. indeed….)
What struck me most about your blog on those animes, was that you really didn’t miss all the under-rated (or missed due to lack of subs?) animes - esp. the cases of RD, Himitsu, and Mouryou no hako! (Thank you so much!!!)

Besides, among the remaining, I do enjoy Michiko e Hacchin, and Xam’d, and still manage to follow Jigoku Shojo mitsuganae. Zeez… you got the last two eps quite right! The 12th finally flipped me out brilliantly;) and the punishment scene was absolutely fantastic! And, the 13th was really a surprise in the best way! JS gets serious at last. So glad I kept watching (but a bit reluctantly earlier, to be honest;)

Keep it coming!

by: Hoba-la

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:10:54 +0000

Just finished watching the series: it was fantastic. Thanks for blogging Real Drive; without it, I never would have held onto this show for so long!

Personal Comment on the Series:
I completely agree with your review. Less Minamo, plz! (I only say that because the character development she got in the last few episodes was enough to make you care about *any* character anyway)

And I will forever remember this series for trying to be “realistic”. Real character designs, real character development, real planet. We *are* all connected, and it’s nice to see an anime that manages to encourage those connections while still being entertaining (Dennou Coil comes to mind?).

by: Patrick Monti

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:22:23 +0000

Should have known that Shirow + Production IG wouldn’t fail me. Bad me four doubting it.

by: PhuzyBuny

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:33:10 +0000

I finally finished it because I wasn’t brave enough to watch it raw. But it was definitely one of the series that stands apart from the rest. High quality animation for each episode with consistency that one would come to expect from Production I.G. The story is really unique. One of my favourites for sure! Thanks for blogging!

by: Kurisu

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:48:10 +0100

No eye-candy? Huh? I think Real Drive looks overall better than something like Macross Frontier because the creators actually know how to use colours to please the human eye and provide very consistent animation. Emphasizing that the character design don’t aim for perfect bodies seems almost silly. They aren’t anorexic and don’t suffer from inflated breasts. These “flaws” are so minor, they just make them more human but on the normal real-life scale, they look still way above average. Haru isn’t your perverted cliched geezer but that kind of anime character should have extinct in the 1990s anyway. In case of Haru that could have been forgiven though considering that he has only really lived for 28 years despite his biologic age. So it wouldn’t be surprising if he acted much younger and preferred young women. It almost struck me as odd that he really behaved like some nice old guy.

Whatever. You can’t blame people for not watching this if there aren’t no subs. I’m not blaming the subbers but it’s clearly up to that kind of capable people to push or drown a current series. For anyone like me almost no knowledge of the Japanese language, Real Drive was an unreachable gem just in front of me.

The same goes for Kaiba, Edo Rocket and Emily of New Moon. It almost never happens to the super-popular series but I rarely care about those. Due to this I’m almost avoiding following any current series and rather fetch a batch once it’s finished. Of course that makes it more difficult to find others to talk about each episode. In any case, blog coverage doesn’t say much about quality or even popularity of some series.

by: saris

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:38:23 +0100

Great series. Too bad that many viewers isn’t interested in this just because there ’s no eye-candy. I have to praise production I.G. for their attempt to make such a creative anime. Hope there will be works like this in the future from them.