Audience reviews
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Doutei-kun
I love CYCLING, travelling to different places. :D
OVER DRIVE is a show based on Professional CYCLING.
What happens when a fundamentally coward, weak guy gets involved with something simply because of a person he has a crush on? His only motivation is his dream to ride with her on a bicycle in the near future. Let's see if he has enough guts to move forward. "The first step is the hardest" they say. LET'S CHEER HIM UP ON HIS JOURNEY TO GET HIS DREAM GIRL. Even if our friend doesn't get his desired girl, he may at least get something of equal importance, at least a motivation to move on.
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A guy decides something & dedicates his being to change himself just to be liked by the girl he has crush on. His path to become number one is not an easier one & he is not the first one…
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So, I haven't done a review on MAL and I feel like I should have done this a while back after how many times I have put animes I completed after I watched them. I just felt like doing this one because this was to be fair, my friend recommended this to me for months and I thought it'd be alright, and well... actually it was pretty bad.
Overall, the story in the least spoiler way possible but telling you the basic ways of it works is, the main character is the typical shounen anime character (especially in certain sports animes) who isnt particularly good at anything, but can cling to one thing. and thats biking. The main character, Mikoto, has a crush on the girl Yuki, and ends up riding the bike because he was persuaded into joining a club so she could get some money. The whole show is a…
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Imma just quickly jump to it. The main character is highly autistic. This anime is only going to impress and encourage you to watch it if you can relate with the main character (the only good quality he posses is his extreme determination)
Story: Asocial and extremely awkward, huge loser and good for nothing main character, he develops a crush on a popular girl at school. Pretty typical shit? She soon introduces him to bicycling and talks about some other deep shit that hits our main character pretty deep. He becomes obsessed with cycling and then enrolls in some local bicycling tournament.
In one instance where the leader of the bicycling club (who is his crush's big brother) tells him to look for more members to join. He puts up his crush's sexual photo as an advertisement, though no b…
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Ah, the puberty. A time in which we obsess over teen idols, or get angry about nothing, but above all, a time where we want to be acknowledged. So how does one get acknowledged? The best way, of course, is to prove anyone to be the best in something. After all, victors write history.
But it’s losers like Shinozaki Mikoto who are history.
Over Drive follows the protagonist and his journey on the bike, alongside the other members of the Sakura Bicycle Club. Their big dream is to participate in the Tour de France. But of course, it’s a long way until then – first, there are 11 episodes about Shinozaki learning to ride a bike and swooning over his crush Fukuzawa Yuki, introducing Yamato as well as the captain and Yuki’s brother Yousuke. Needless to say, it’s too long, and in my opinion a ch…
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Over Drive is the very definition of “underdog”. No one expects much from it, but it manages to defy expectations and come out victorious. It’s not as popular as other sports titles like Hajime no Ippo or Eyeshield 21, but it can easily go toe-to-toe with the best of the genre. It’s a sweet, exciting, sometimes funny and highly enjoyable title that manages to entertain from the get-go right up to the very end. This is my review.
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Story
The story of Over Drive centres around Shinozaki, a high school student who joins a cycling club upon discovering a love for the sport and with a lot of encouragement from his classmate, Fukazawa. As a member he strives and trains with the founders of the club, Yousuke and Kouichi, to become the greatest cyclist in Japan. Cycling is…
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I just want to say this anime is enjoyable tell a certain point in which it will make you wish it was over, overall a good enjoyable Sports anime, Needs a season 2. And needs to have more character development. I personally rated 7/10 for Plot it's self. I will say one thing this anime would have gotten at least 9/10 from me but you will understand when you watch it :) Have a great 12hours watching this anime it was exciting and pleasure to watch :)
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There will be a little Bias in this review, because after watching about 2-3 episodes of this show, i fell in love with it. This story is one of the biggest underdog stories in the anime world, i'd say even more so than Hajime no Ippo and EyeShield 21. In those 2 shows, the respective characters had strengths in their respective fields right from the beginning (Ippo=Great Power for Boxing, Sena=Great Speed for Football). But our MC here doesn't have any of that from the get go. He has to learn about his strengths and weaknesses and tries his absolute best to try to change. He doesn't want to live in a world where he is a weak individual. He wants to grow, and that's what defines him as our MC. They made cycling the most exciting thing for me, which by itself deserves a high score. I consid…
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The sports genre seems to be the most underrated genre in anime. I would scroll down the top anime list and see really highly rated sports anime like Hajime no Ippo, Kuroko no Basket, Slam Dunk, Major etc. but it would seem that at most, a sports anime would only have around ±15000 members. Which is a real shame because I find it to be the most entertaining genre of anime so far. Granted I have only seen 3(busy with the 4th) but it always seems to bring something unique to the table. Whether it be boxing, baseball or cycling, the show always seems to make a statement: you don't have to play, watch or enjoy this sport to enjoy this show. It can make you laugh, cry, frustrated and root for an animated character. Over Drive did this and more.
I watched Over Drive last year and ever since I…
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Overdrive, when you read the synopsis you might not feel very attracted to this anime, like lots of people aren't attracted to watching the sport cycling, a lot of people find it boring and uninteresting to watch, but that all depends on the person. When I heard there was an anime of it I was excited, but also a bit wary. Can this be interesting? Because the show would have to appeal to more than cyclist fans to be a bit successful.
And the answer is: Yes!, with a big explanation mark, for a slow sport as cycling, they made it very interesting while still keeping a lot of realism, it surprised me, no super powers, the sport itself, comedy and drama made this in one hell of an anime.
The story closely follows our protagonist Shinozaki Mikoto, an unpopular and non-athletic student, who ge…
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Before I share my review of Over Drive I would like to ask these following producers a question, XEBEC and Pony Canyon, WHERE THE HECK IS SEASON 2? Ok on to the review, now my style of reviewing is not about what anime has the best art and cute girls but how well the anime delivers it's content and the quality of the content. I DO not judge anime by overall perfection, but rather if I am satisfied, anime is an entertainment factor you enjoy, dislike or hate, it is not about perfection. So remember kids, in life whatever it is music or videos, it is all about enjoyment and not how perfect it is, that is precisely what we all desire from anime is it not? Sure we make sure we make no mistakes but in the end of the road, it is a matter of how we respond.
To be honest, when I imagined a cyclin…
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The Characters are what makes Overdrive different and really enjoyable. All of them has plenty of energy and when your finished with the anime it is sad to separate from the characters. The only problam i really had was the ending which was just a summary. There is also a little love story and it kinda sucks that they didn't finish it and left it untouch. Besides that Overdrive was enjoyable, so try it out. Happy Anime watching
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Over drive is a story about determination, patience, maturity and friendship as well as some hints of romance?! The anime starts off with mikoto a clumsy 15 year old boy with no ambition and nothing!? A girl frm his class fuzukawara introduces him to he world of cycling!? Slowly within a month he changes and all of he surrounding people change too!?
This anime is particularly amazing almost each episode there will be a shift between he present time and the past where the creators wnt to introduce the other charactrs lives, personalities qnd how they all got invloved in cycling!?
This story really moved me!? The animation, art, characters, storyline, visuals and sound are all amazing!? You need to watch it to knw how profound his anime is!? It has the prefect balance of evrythin: romance,…
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if u love sport animes then u gotta watch it becouse it just rocks
well the story is a bit slow and i think they couldn't make all of it to an anime but well it was cool so i enjoyed
it's about a boy who joins the school cycling team.sometimes u will get very excited and sometimes u will feel sorry for him.
it includes: romace,sport,comedy
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Tired of seeing the same anime story ????. Give this one a try. I really enjoyed this one as the sport they pick was not the most common for any anime sport show.
The show teach you about the sport and show the difference between type of racers. The main character is a "broken" character (kind of remind me of Shinji on Evangelion) which put his best effort to get his goal. Art is good. Music is above average I would say. And we have a background romantic story where a loser character will give everything for the girl he loves.
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Okey lets look from this point of view most of us think that sport animes are meh and etc. And we look at this anime called "OverDrive" which looks like another sport anime and about cycling! wow yeh?
But Wait lets try and watch it because "Overdrive" takes sports anime to a whole new level ... you would like to ask why? Well imagine some one devoting himself to cycling that bicycle itself is their friend or even their whole world... For more Read review below.
Story: "Overdrive" tells a story about a guy Shinozaki Mikoto who is lame at everything from his own life to the sports and girls ... hes being bullied and everything else like that then one day hes secret love Fukazawa asks him this question "Why don't you join our bicycle club?" and he agrees without thinking on how hard it coul…
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Yeah this anime is about bikes, no it isn't great, but no it isn't terrible. What I'm trying to say is this anime has great humor and some great dramatic moments, but once they start that whole bike race thing YUCK! Sure it's very dramatic, BUT YOU ONLY THINK THAT FOR THE FIRST FIVE EPISODES OF THE RACE. After that, you realize that this is going to be HELLA boring. The story sticks to the bike race and makes it even worse as they make tiny sub-stories about the characters' pasts for over 15 episodes!
Let me break this down.
-The little comedy in here 10/10
-Action 7/10, drags on way too long.
-Romance is 6/10, mostly because the chick is a jackass after the race, and feelings are never really affirmed.
Overall 6/10, don't expect much.
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This anime is about a boy who finds out the joy and romance in riding a bicycle. From the time he first rides his bicycle to his first race.
The story is unique in that its not everyday you have an anime about bicycle racing. What makes it so interesting is how they make bicycle racing sound so epic and how some unknown little loser can come out as one of the best. Like how they have different types of bicycle riders, climbers,sprinters,down-hil specialists,all rounders and so on.Although i felt that for an anime with romance as one of its genres it was quite a letdown as the romance was very suttle.
The artwork is good i guess,i dont really take into account the artwork so much but i feel that it was sufficient to bring out the action of the race.
The Opening song was very upbeat and i…
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First off, I must start by saying that I may be a little biased when reviewing this anime because I'm totally a sports anime fan. And having watched quite a number of sports animes, Over Drive came as a refreshing change for me.
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The protagonist of the story is your typical weak willed, unless, low self esteem guy in school. But what is different about his character to other similarly carved sports lead characters is that he has a sense of humor. Unlike other characters, he does not dwell on his uselessness much, which is definitely something i appreciate a lot, since these dwellings can drag on long and slow. Zzz. (Refer to Eyeshield21)
The race (there is only one) in the anime is surprisingly exciting and interesting. I just could not stop watching episodes after episodes of the…
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The main plot of this anime revolves around the cycling universe which for those who like sports anime is a good choice. Personally I don't like sports anime that much, however lately I've benn attracted to this new world and I've enjoyed it.
The story focuses only on one premise: the main character is a loser that's bullied by everyone and finds the only thing he may be good at, which is cycling. Of course he isn't working that hard because of this, but due to the fact that the girl he likes is the one that invited him to the cycling club. This teaches you that anyone can try their best when the right motivation comes into work....jajaja
The art is good and consistent during the length of the anime, except for the few scenes that use the computer animation to show certain thing which lo…
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Story : Is a nice story, and tells a lot about real cycling. It mentions things from real cycling, and thats positive, well, is not exactly like real cycling, but its not soo far at all.
However, sometimes is a bit boring, but still nice!
art: nothing special, but not so bad to give less than a 7.
sound: Well, sometimes it is a bit irritating, however i consider it not bad, so 7.
Character: I considered then well develloped, the anime mentions a lot of things about the charathers and thats good. Well, i didnt like some characters (yeah it normal, there are the ones we like and the ones we dont) but they are not really that bad, 8 sound nice.
Enjoyment:
I will be sincere. When i decided to watch this one, i told to myself...well i don´t think this will be a nice one, maybe for…
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