D-Live!!

D-Live!!
D-Live!!
D-Live!! cover Volume 1.jpg
Japanese cover of D-Live!! published by Shogakukan. Satoru Ikaruga is featured riding a jetski in the sewers.
ドライブ!!
(Doraibu!!)
Genre Action, Adventure
Manga
Written by Ryōji Minagawa
Illustrated by Ryōji Minagawa
Published by Shogakukan
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Original run April 15, 2003November 8, 2006
Volumes 15 (List of volumes)
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D-Live!! (ドライブ!! DoRaibu!!?) is Ryōji Minagawa's manga series made after Project ARMS, published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine. The story is about Satoru Ikaruga, a high school kid multi-driver nicknamed "genius driver" who can drive almost any vehicle, working for a multinational specialist company called the Almighty Support Enterprise (ASE). He is called whenever ASE is hired to solve a case which involved vehicle driving, most of the time working with other ASE agents to resolve situations assigned to them by various clients.

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Plot

Satoru Ikaruga is just an ordinary high school student who enjoys eating food. Unknown to most of his classmates and teachers, he is an operative of the Almighty Support Enterprise as a vehicle driving specialist. He is deployed worldwide while being supported by various ASE agents in accomplishing cases assigned to them by their clients.

Characters

Satoru Ikaruga

A high school boy who do part time job with ASE Japan Branch as a vehicle driver specialist. His father was a friend of Hajime Mozu and also an ASE driver who died in doing his job.

Hatsune Shimizu

A high school girl, the mechanic specialist of ASE Japan Branch. Her dream is to make her late father's motorcycle racing team wins the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race. She almost made it with Satoru riding her bike, but an accident happened that made Satoru didn't finish the race.

Hajime Mozu

Chief of ASE Japan branch. He is an ex-ASE vehicle driver specialist, Satoru was trained by him. He is sometimes cruel to Satoru by cutting his payment if Satoru made any mistake in doing his job.

Clever Owl

He is ASE USA branch's specialist in spying and infiltrating. He is also a playboy and thinks that he is the next James Bond. He always gets sick if traveling in a vehicle, especially if the driver is Satoru. Only Mozu can make him not sick in a vehicle.

Rika Karasuma

ASE Japan Branch's specialist of geology. A beautiful woman who is lecturer in a university in Japan.

Publication

D-Live!! has been published with 15 volumes under Shogakukan after being serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine. For France and French-speaking countries/territories, it was published by Editions Kabuto with 5 volumes published prior to its termination.[1][2] In Hong Kong, Jonesky is responsible for publishing all of its volumes in Chinese.[3] Planet Manga published D-Live!! in Italian.[4] It is published in South Korea by Samyang Comics.[5][6] Tong Li published the manga in Taiwan.[7]

Reception

D-Live!! had been selected among one of the most recommended manga to read at the 9th Japanese Media Arts Festival in 2005.[8]

References

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