Bike Anime
08-10-08, 10:14 PM
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 1,143
Bikes: Many. Ralieigh sports`s, Raleigh Superbe, sears Spaceliner, Firestone supercruisers, many vintage mountain bikes, random cruisers, and other unique bikes.
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 2 Times
in
1 Post
Bike Anime
I watch Anime, and then I found this! An anime called Over Drive, heres some info
Tour de France – it is the biggest bicycle race in the world. Now, a new achievement is about to be recorded in the history of Tour de France. The top racer is a Japanese boy named Shinozaki Mikoto.
"Why don't you join our bicycle club?" said Fukazawa, Shinozaki Mikoto's secret love.
Unfortunately, despite being a high school student, he doesn't know how to ride a bike. With no real idea of what the bicycle club is, he earnestly practices. After he overcomes this challenge, while he pedals along, something that was smoldering in his mind for 15 years ignites.
"I want to devote myself to bike riding."
Experiencing failure with his friends and rivals, he pedals towards becoming the top racer.
Tour de France – it is the biggest bicycle race in the world. Now, a new achievement is about to be recorded in the history of Tour de France. The top racer is a Japanese boy named Shinozaki Mikoto.
"Why don't you join our bicycle club?" said Fukazawa, Shinozaki Mikoto's secret love.
Unfortunately, despite being a high school student, he doesn't know how to ride a bike. With no real idea of what the bicycle club is, he earnestly practices. After he overcomes this challenge, while he pedals along, something that was smoldering in his mind for 15 years ignites.
"I want to devote myself to bike riding."
Experiencing failure with his friends and rivals, he pedals towards becoming the top racer.
08-10-08, 11:08 PM
#2
Lone Star
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Houston, Tx.
Posts: 561
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Yep, seen it long ago. Read the manga too. Wanna see my Overdrive back ground on my computer? Here it is.
Yeah it's a pretty good series. It's been out for a long time.
Yeah it's a pretty good series. It's been out for a long time.
Last edited by Tex_Arcana; 08-10-08 at 11:17 PM.
08-11-08, 07:04 AM
#3
Calamari to go
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Falls Church, VA
Posts: 3,113
Bikes: Trek 750
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Seen it. I think I posted a fan-sub link to it last year.
As animes go it is so-so. Overall graphic quality is low average. Too much panning across stills. Mediocre background work. Some of the cycling sequences are pretty good as action scenes. Good closeups of the gears working.
Characters were mostly not that interesting, and the main character Shinozaki made me cringe several times.
My big problem was with the premise of the story. Shinozaki, a high school kid who has never ridden a bike before is recruited to join the school cycling club, and after just a month of riding he does a 100 miles race against pros and goes head to head with the race favorite in a sprint....come on! At least they didn't have the kid winning the race.
The race that takes up the last half of the series just doesn't feel like a plausible race. And I think they could have had the back-story scenes earlier in the series instead of splitting up the race scenes.
But it's about cycling, so I enjoyed it.
added
Over Drive isn't that old. Anime came out middle of last year, don't know about the manga.
There is another cycling (but not racing) anime from the mid 90's called "Golden Boy". Animation quality is generally better than Over Drive but it's more of a hentai adventure (drugs and sex) than a sports anime.
Not that I'd know anything about that sort of thing.
As animes go it is so-so. Overall graphic quality is low average. Too much panning across stills. Mediocre background work. Some of the cycling sequences are pretty good as action scenes. Good closeups of the gears working.
Characters were mostly not that interesting, and the main character Shinozaki made me cringe several times.
My big problem was with the premise of the story. Shinozaki, a high school kid who has never ridden a bike before is recruited to join the school cycling club, and after just a month of riding he does a 100 miles race against pros and goes head to head with the race favorite in a sprint....come on! At least they didn't have the kid winning the race.
The race that takes up the last half of the series just doesn't feel like a plausible race. And I think they could have had the back-story scenes earlier in the series instead of splitting up the race scenes.
But it's about cycling, so I enjoyed it.
added
Over Drive isn't that old. Anime came out middle of last year, don't know about the manga.
There is another cycling (but not racing) anime from the mid 90's called "Golden Boy". Animation quality is generally better than Over Drive but it's more of a hentai adventure (drugs and sex) than a sports anime.
Not that I'd know anything about that sort of thing.
Last edited by cc_rider; 08-11-08 at 09:50 AM.
08-11-08, 12:17 PM
#4
PatronSaintOfDiscBrakes
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: BicycleSPACE warehouse in SW Washington DC
Posts: 6,980
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 4 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
Triplets of Belleville,FTW.
__________________
C'dale BBU('05 and '09)/Super Six/Hooligan8and 3,Kona Dew Deluxe,Novara Buzz/Safari,Surly Big Dummy,Marin Pt Reyes,Giant Defy 1,Schwinn DBX SuperSport,Dahon Speed Pro TT,Brompton S6L/S2E-X
C'dale BBU('05 and '09)/Super Six/Hooligan8and 3,Kona Dew Deluxe,Novara Buzz/Safari,Surly Big Dummy,Marin Pt Reyes,Giant Defy 1,Schwinn DBX SuperSport,Dahon Speed Pro TT,Brompton S6L/S2E-X
08-11-08, 12:28 PM
#5
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 2,589
Mentioned: 5 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 238 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 3 Times
in
3 Posts
Originally Posted by cc_rider
There is another cycling (but not racing) anime from the mid 90's called "Golden Boy". Animation quality is generally better than Over Drive but it's more of a hentai adventure (drugs and sex) than a sports anime.
Not that I'd know anything about that sort of thing.
Not that I'd know anything about that sort of thing.
Huh, now that you mention it, I guess Golden Boy really was a bike story... he's going on a really extended tour and taking temp jobs along the way...
08-11-08, 12:37 PM
#6
I like my car
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 1,747
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Sport anime is just... scary. Initial D was interesting enough, but that's about it..
However I should get around to finishing Golden Boy, that was a good anime..
However I should get around to finishing Golden Boy, that was a good anime..
08-11-08, 01:28 PM
#7
Calamari to go
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Falls Church, VA
Posts: 3,113
Bikes: Trek 750
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Originally Posted by dynaryder
Triplets of Belleville,FTW.
Originally Posted by ShadowGray
Sport anime is just... scary....
.Prince of Tennis is still popular but I don't know why.
I liked Bamboo Blades from last year, but I used to do fencing and kendo.
And Shion-no-O was really a murder mystery who-done-it.
I've only seen a couple of the Golden Boy episodes. Maybe it's time to Netflix the rest.
08-11-08, 08:44 PM
#8
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 1,143
Bikes: Many. Ralieigh sports`s, Raleigh Superbe, sears Spaceliner, Firestone supercruisers, many vintage mountain bikes, random cruisers, and other unique bikes.
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 2 Times
in
1 Post
.
Golden boy owns lol, That Anime inspiered me to do lots. lol
08-12-08, 09:19 AM
#9
Calamari to go
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Falls Church, VA
Posts: 3,113
Bikes: Trek 750
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Originally Posted by HSean
Golden boy owns lol, That Anime inspiered me to do lots. lol
