Real Drive (RD Sennou Chosashitsu )
 

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A new Production IG and Masamune Shirow colaboration for April 2008
http://www.productionig.com/contents...01_/index.html

Original Story:
Production I.G / Shirow Masamune
In collaboration with:
CROSSROAD
Director:
Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Chevalier D'Eon)
Series Composition:
Junichi Fujisaku (Blood+)
Character Design:
Tetsuro Ueyama

A cyberpunk anime with Shirow involved that interesting.

Hmmm, high expectations?

Kazuhiro Furuhashi? HELL YEAH! He delivers on high expectations big time.

That synopsis is salivating. Oh man, I'm so in!

Oooh, this sounds interesting.

Looking forward to this and with high expectations.

Shouldn't it be "incidents that lay..."? Whatever, at least the concept may be exploited fairly nicely by the actually good side of IG's visual studio.

Somebody please tell me Haru can also be used as a male name ... =/
Reading through the story gives me huge deja-vus. Come on Shirow break that shell already. We know you can do something other than near-future-where-man-machine-reality-counciousness-tehinterweb clashes.

Why change the formula for the sake of change? He does it well in a genre that's been unfashionable other than his stuff. His stuff fills a niche. There aren't a lot of strong female characters where they're unquestionably tough as nails bitches and there isn't a lot of cyberpunk out there.

Not for the sake of change obviously. He has been using that formula for years now, he has touched every subject from cybersecks to death. He did create a rich world so I'm guessing he can do it again.

To be honest, I don't even think these are new stories that Shirow is making. He's just pulling out old crap from years ago for IG to animate.

He even said Ghost Hound dates back to something he created more than 10 years ago.

Masamune Shirow + Production I.G. + Cyberpunk?

I'M SO FUCKING IN!

Well if Ghost Hound is any indication, then the old stuff is great too. :D

sounds very william gibson-esque. tentatively looking forward to this one.

Well, it's hard for me to not to have some high expectation towards this... I mean, it's scripted/created by Shirow, it's directed by Furuhashi, and it's animated by Production I.G., and it's cyberpunk. And I wish that the promo image was bigger.

Do freakin' want.

Same here, along with I'd assume many Shirow or GITS fans, hopefully with at the very least the same care and writing quality that SAC got to help create the new setting and characters. With what they were able to pull off in SAC and other recent shows I can't wait to see what they can do A/V wise. And I'd definitely enjoy another amazingly strong female lead to compliment the awesome Major.


I know what you mean, it's hard to keep my expectations in check, but I hope I can since there's still the wait :)


Couldn't have said it better, and I'm also with you I certainly hope the lead is another rare female character like the Major. If that's what he wants he should really just watch Ghost Hound as it has the potential to be very good and is practically on the opposite end of the scale.

Trailer time http://www.ntv.co.jp/RD/movie/rd_320.asx
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...-posted-online

Thanks for the link!

The screens within the trailer with the animation are small, but the trailer confirmed that as expected with their big staffers, this show is going to be gorgeously animated.

Man, I can't wait till April and a bunch of these new shows.

Oh man, oh man, oh man.

This show is going to rock so much. I can't wait...

I'm glad I saw this thread; it's on my list now, too.

I'm amused that this show appears in exactly one posting in the "Spring, 2008, Anticipated Series" thread, and in one of the poster's signatures.

Production I.G. really likes to make shows like this. Ghost hound and now this.

Can't say that I fully understand it, but I'll be looking out for this show.

If ghost hound is old stuff then bring moreof the old stuff.

This is very intresting, as others have said: cyberpunk+Shirow+IG=win!

But I hope it won't be too similar to GitS:SAC.

can never have enough good cyberpunk anime.

Finally got around to watching the PV and I'm looking forward to this even more now, don't know if I'll follow it weekly or just watch a few and save the rest to marathon through like I'm doing with Ghost Hound. Guess it depends on how much the first few episodes grab me and how often subs are released for it.

New (proper) Trailer from the TAF 2008:
http://www.dannychoo.com/blog_entry/...Production+IG/

Oh I forgot to bump this thread with that, anyway the animation looks fucking awesome and I'm really digging the design of the older female main character.

The trailer looks mighty professional. And it just reeks of Patlabor (and GITS of course, but mentioning that is redundant), especially in BG art style.

In fact, I'd venture to say that it looks very mid-90s-ish in every detail except the angry bishounen character, which is a new thing that anime got to have. 8)

First off isn't it unusual for a director to be directing two shows in the same season? Kazuhiro Furuhashi is doing this as well as Studio DEEN's Amatsuki.

Secondly anyone know the name of the older main female character? I just want to see who is voicing her, thanks in advance!

Main character = Masamichi Haru (VA Katsuji Mori)
Young girl = Minamo Aoi (VA Kanae Oki)
Guy with a split haircut = Eichiro Kushima (VA Keiji Fujiwara)
Angry bishounen = Sota Aoi (VA Hiroki Takahashi)
Older girl taking off helmet = Holon (VA Ayako Kawasumi)

Oh win I was hoping for Ayako Kawasumi, guess she will use something similar to her Kurau voice and I must've missed Keiji Fujiwara on the VA list when I was looking before, good to see him getting more roles, thanks again!

He's in a ton of stuff these days. Gundam and Baccano and new Birdy remake.

That blog said that Is it true?

The trailer looks great. I have to say that i am a little bit dissapointed with Ghost Hound. Don't get me wrong, its a nice and solid series, but i was expecting something different from Shirow.
Real Drive looks and feels more like his other work, and i hope it has more Gits vibes than Ghost Hound.

The trailer says it :p

Yay, animation quality looks top-notch. And I also missed Fujiwara Keiji in that list before, it's nice to see here, considering he was my favorite male seiyuu last year.

Oh wow...this is a TV series right ? If this is the Animation quality were getting, it will be epic.

No need to say more. IG and Shirow is winning formula for me. I will be waiting for it.

Looks very GitS (the first movie). They goin for the retro character design again? :)

Oh my God. This looks absolutely gorgeous.


WOW.