Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto

[Zati]

Summary: To the south of Japan, there lies a lush green island called Southern Cross Isle. One night, a boy by the name of Takuto Tsunashi washes up on the shore of the island alone. Having swum from the mainland alone and without any possessions, this boy enrolls in the senior high level in the school on the island - Southern Cross High School.

With his bright and positive personality, he starts to mix with various students in the school and builds relationships with many of them, including Wako Agemaki and Sugata Shindou. But this school hides a deep secret. There are sleeping giants hidden under the ground called "Cybuddies".

There are about 20 of these giants, and they are just some of the various secrets kept by everyone on the island: The secret movements of the mysterious organization known as "Kirahoshi Juujidan". The songs of the shrine maidens. And even Takuto himself will soon come to embrace a great secret...

This island in the southern territories surrounded by the blue sea and the blue skies is the stage where the "Eulogy of Youth" filled with love, dreams and friendships, will begin.
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Studio: BONES
Genre: Action, Mecha, Shounen
Links: ANN, AniDB, Official
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Episode 1: gg - Episode 1
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This show has excellent potential. It's directed by the same person who did Ouran High School Host Club and Soul Eater! The production values are very high on this one. BONES are at the helm of this, so quality is to be expected.

[animus]

Star Drive Episode 1 - gg

Just found it on TT, downloading. Expectations aren't too high but we shall see.




Edit - Watched the first episode.

?_? <-- My face throughout the whole episode.

[Zati]

That is exactly how I felt, too. I had no idea what was going on. Going to be a fun and bizarre series, though.

The animation, voice acting, humor, and everything else was very nice. I was definitely impressed, but I'm not going to praise it too much as of right now. I've been reading/hearing some comparisons to Gurren Lagann, and even Code Geass, but I think it's more like Gurren Lagann, lol.

My fingers are crossed. Hopefully, this series will be doozy, and not a failure.

Fabulous!

[Ryllharu]

Star Driver = flamboyantly gay RahXephon
(both series are by BONES)

I liked the character design, and the cast was pretty good, but I hate the mecha design, and it's not even trying to make sense. It was good until Takuto just burst out of nowhere with no warning or any prior hint that he could control the mechs all on his own without the masks or anything. There is a certain level of breaking self-established rules I can handle with mecha series, and that surpassed it.

I think I'm going to pass.

[Death13a]

?_? <-- My face throughout the whole episode.

I concur

Well i still watch kinda reminds me of Gurren Lagann, they just kinda skip all stuff leading galactic battles

[Archangel]

Well i still watch kinda reminds me of Gurren Lagann, they just kinda skip all stuff leading galactic battles

Yeah, just replace all the GAR with flamboyant homosexuality and they're pretty much the same, with both the characters and the mechas

A fine example is how the protagonist is prettier than the heroine

[Kraco]

Homosexuality aside I found this show to be pretty promising. I like a main character who seems to know what he wants and claims it without useless chatter. Wako was also a refreshingly open minded and energetic person. The only thing that I found more than dubious was the name Galactic Pretty Boy... Nobody should be able to call that even in the middle of a fight and still maintain a serious expression.

I don't really know what's going on but such a thing bothers me less than knowing exactly what's going on and will go on from the first minutes like it's with too many stock shounen shows.

[Shadow Skill]

Reminds me of the dance and pose scenes from Dragon Ball Z. fun none-the-less.

[Kraco]

Episode 2 - gg




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A little bit more was learned in this episode, like that the shady masked dudes possibly want to take over Earth by ripping those mechas out of the zero space into normal space (now that's original for villains...). However, I considered more important the fact everybody and their pet foxes seem to know of the Cybuddies so unlike one would expect from a series like this, it's apparently no great secret.

Good thing Takuto didn't get kissed, though.

[Archangel]

Again drawing parallels with Gurren Lagann, it seems we won't have any idea what the hell is going on until the later episodes

Still, the kisses and giant robots seem to be doing a well enough job in keeping me interested so far

[Marik]

[gg] Star Driver - 01v2 [898EDA8C].mkv
[gg] Star Driver - 02v2 [8EFDABA9].mkv

Patches

01 Changes
- Phase 4 line fixed.
- Zero time song added.
02 Changes
- 9:18 redone. Translator originally interpreted Bank Pres to be the one saying “But Head isn’t the leader”.
- 14:00 fixed.
- 15:00 fixed.
- 19:55 fixed.
- Zero time song added.

I wish they'd remove all those damn commercials.

[Kraco]

I wish they'd remove all those damn commercials.

They have been including them since forever so I don't think they are disappearing any time soon. They actually start to bother me only when I rewatch the show. Or when it's the same bloody commercial in every episode.

[Marik]

They have been including them since forever

Hrmm, really? I don't remember there being any commercials in Nyan Koi, Kampfer, or even Highschool of the Dead. Thankfully, this is the only show that they release I'm interested in.

[Archangel]

It's not a constant but they've been around for a while now, it's just another troll that you're better off ignoring

[Marik]

[gg] Star Driver - 03 [8A012BA4].mkv

[Nipponsei] Star Driver OP Single - GRAVITY 0 [Aqua Timez].​zip

[Kraco]

An interesting job to clean a gator's pool while the gator is home as well.

I wonder why Wako is always just standing in the bubble doing nothing. If I understood correctly, the fish maiden did have a cybuddy of her own, even if she didn't put up much of a fight. This series would be a bit more interesting if Wako also did something else than watch from afar how Galactic Pretty Boy beats all her (and also his, I guess) enemies one by one.

[Marik]

This series would be a bit more interesting if Wako also did something else than watch from afar how Galactic Pretty Boy beats all her (and also his, I guess) enemies one by one.

Yeah. The whole beating a different member of the enemy side at the end of every episode shtick is pretty boring. Hopefully, we'll get a decent opponent for the "Pretty Boy" sometime soon that can make it past being a one episode wonder.

The Cybuddy system has to be annoying for the good guys. You can be minding your own business, then someone decides they want to fight you, and then all of a sudden, you're being pulled into another dimension without any say-so whatsoever.

Takuto should have taken a dive and spent some time receiving kisses from Kanako. That other girl had already offered to make him food for the month and he still would have received the normal amount of pay.

[RyougaZell]

Yeah, its getting annoyed we see the same formula each episode. The next one seems interesting on the preview, but Im afraid we'll get the same formula yet again.

[Marik]

[gg] Star Driver - 04 [891F361E].mkv

[RyougaZell]

Hmmm. It was a good change I guess. No evil guy of the week, instead using one of their allies. An illusion and no fight. Don't know if it was a good change or not, but at least I didn't feel bored this episode thanks to the growing relationship between Takuto and Wako.