AM Driver

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AM Driver
Cover for North American DVD
Get Ride! アムドライバー (Get Ride! Amu Doraibā)
Genre	Mecha, Drama
Anime television series
Directed by	Yūji Yamaguchi
Produced by	Norio Yamagawa Masanori Miyake
Written by	Satoshi Namiki
Music by	Kazunori Maruyama
Studio	Studio Deen
Licensed by	NA: Illumitoon Entertainment Westlake Entertainment
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	April 5, 2004 – March 28, 2005
Episodes	51 (List of episodes)
Manga
Written by	Noriyuki Konishi
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	CoroCoro Comic
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	June 2004 – February 2005
Volumes	1
Video game
Get Ride! Amdriver: Senkō no Hero Tanjō!
Publisher	Konami
Genre	Tactical role-playing game
Platform	Game Boy Advance
Released	JP: July 22, 2004[1]
Video game
Get Ride! Amdriver: Shutsugeki! Battle Party
Publisher	Konami
Genre	Party game
Platform	Game Boy Advance
Released	JP: December 16, 2004[2]
Video game
Get Ride! Amdriver: Sōkoku no Shinjitsu
Publisher	Konami
Genre	Action game
Platform	PlayStation 2
Released	JP: March 10, 2005[3]

AM Driver, known in Japan as Get Ride! Amdriver (Get Ride! アムドライバー, Get Ride! Amu Doraibā), is an anime series produced by Studio Deen, TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems. It is directed by Yūji Yamaguchi, with Satoshi Namiki handling series composition, Eiji Suganuma designing the characters and Kazunori Maruyama composing the music. The series aired on TV Tokyo and its affiliate stations from April 5, 2004 to March 28, 2005. A manga adaptation by Noriyuki Konishi was serialized in CoroCoro Comic from the June 2004 issue to the February 2005 issue. Two Game Boy Advance games and one PlayStation 2 game published by Konami have also been released.

The series was the first completely original work produced by Nihon Ad Systems, who have previously only produced works based on manga and video games. As a result of various planning discussions, it was decided to develop a life-size hero with the concept of a person "putting on" a mecha by having a person in a power suit board the mecha and transforming and combining with the mecha, rather than a robot.