Real Drive

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Real Drive
RD 潜脳調査室
(RD Sennō Chōsashitsu)
Genre Science fiction
TV anime
Director Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Writer Masamune Shirow (original concept)
Junichi Fujisaku (series composition and screenplay)
Studio Production I.G
Network NTV
Original run 2008-04-08 – ongoing
Manga
Author Production I.G & Masamune Shirow (original work)
Momotarou Miyano (art)
Publisher Flag of Japan Kodansha
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Flag of Japan Magazine Z
Original run April 26, 2008 – ongoing

Real Drive (RD 潜脳調査室 RD Senno Chosashitsu?) 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 the 8th of April 2008.

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[edit] Storyline and setting

2061 AD. Fifty years have passed since mankind developed the Network society. It was anticipated that this new infrastructure would realize an utopia where people get 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 abandon it.

In due course, a new Network realm with more effective security measures was developed. This was called Meta Real Network, usually abbreviated as "the Metal."

The Metal accommodated personal memory data within protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves called bubble shells and eventually pervaded the everyday lives of people.

However, people gradually learned to release and explode their instincts within the secure environment of the Metal. The unleashed instincts pushed each individual's consciousness to drown in the sea of information and to be exposed to the pressures of desire. Meanwhile, norms and regulations continued to bind their real world lives. Thus, strange frictions between the two worlds began to manifest themselves as aberrations beyond the bounds of the imaginable. Experts who challenged the deep sea of the Metal to investigate and decipher such aberrations were called cyber divers.

[edit] Characters

Masamichi Haru (波留 真理 Haru Masamichi?)
Voiced by: 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.
Minamo Aoi (蒼井 ミナモ Aoi Minamo?)
Voiced by: 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.
Souta Aoi (蒼井 ソウタ Aoi Sōta?)
Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi
Age: 22
Employee of the EISF and brother of Minamo Aoi.
Holon (ホロン Horon?)
Voiced by: 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.
Eiichiro Kushima (久島 永一朗 Kushima Eīchirō?)
Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara
Age: 82
Director of the EISF and friend of Masamichi Haru. While practically as old as Masamichi, his body resembles the age of a middle aged man.

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