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| Real Drive | |
 Title card for Real Drive | |
| RD 潜脳調査室 (Āru Dī Sennō Chōsashitsu) | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Production I.G Masamune Shirow |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Kazuhiro Furuhashi |
| Produced by | Takeshi Wada (Production I.G) Toshio Nakatani (NTV) Yasuo Ueda (VAP) Yousuke Kasahara |
| Written by | Junichi Fujisaku |
| Music by | Yoshihisa Hirano Hideki Taniuchi |
| Studio | Production I.G |
| Original network | Nippon TV |
| Original run | April 8, 2008 – October 1, 2008 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Production I.G Masamune Shirow (original work) |
| Illustrated by | Momotarou Miyano |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Magazine | Magazine Z |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | April 26, 2008 – January 26, 2009 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Light novel | |
| Real Drive: Redeemable Dream | |
| Written by | Production I.G Masamune Shirow (original work) Yoshinobu Akita |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Male |
| Published | August 5, 2008 |
| Volumes | 1 |
Real Drive (Japanese: RD 潜脳調査室, Hepburn: Āru Dī Sennō Chōsashitsu, literally "RD Mind-Diving Research Division") is an anime TV series created by Production I.G and Masamune Shirow (known for the Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed franchises) under the directorship of Kazuhiro Furuhashi, produced in collaboration with broadcaster Nippon Television (NTV). The series revolves around an information network known as "The Metal", and the series centers on Masamichi Haru, a paraplegic old man who was in a coma for 50 years after a test dive using Meta-Real technology went horribly wrong. After awakening from his coma, he starts searching for the "answer in the sea".
The series aired on NTV and other channels from April 8, 2008, to October 1, 2008. A manga adaptation by Momotarou Miyano was serialized in Magazine Z from April 2008 to January 2009, with two volumes sold between August 22, 2008, and February 23, 2009, by Kodansha. A light novel adaptation by Yoshinobu Akita was published by Kodansha on August 5, 2008.