Anime Direct: Overdrive

Synopsis

Having a deep crush on Yuki Fukazawa, Mikoto then decides to get into his high school cycling club as Fukuzawa's suggestion, even though he has never practiced any sport before. Ironically, the club's leader is Yousuke, Fukuzawa's older brother and a renown road racer from his town. Yousuke's long time cycling partner and club's vice president Kouichi Terao sees in Shinozaki all the potential and courage necessary to become a road cycling legend. Mikoto learns fairly quickly and is thus thrown into the world of cycling.
(taken and edited from Wikipedia)

Episode's:

Genres:

Comedy

Love-Romance

Sports

Member Review

"Wow" was the word I used after finishing this Anime of after being up from 8:00am in the morning to 11:00pm, the opening was the first thing that caught my eye and unlike skipping it I kept watching it because of how awesome the song Winder is.

This is another sports Anime which focuses on a guy which grows as the Anime goes through each episode, but it only focuses on one race but you really get trapped in the story and watch on to see what happens next and how the main character changes even when hes tired, wet and losing. not to mention how all the characters develop in this Anime which is beautifully done, it also has romance ito it, but I did not like how it ended so they better make a 2nd series.

Overall this Anime gets a 8/10 and is very interesting to watch, its got comedy, romance, sports and a great story to it, and is brilliant!

~ Patov2

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Ending Themes

- Ep. 1-13 Saihate no Parade, by Merry

- Ep. 14- Koi Suzumi by DEL

Opening Themes

- "Winder ~Boku wa Koko ni iru~ " by Shounen Kamikaze

Characters

Mikoto Shinozaki
1st year student and the third member of the schools cycling club. Originally living a quiet boring life and getting bullied daily by the upperclassmen. Until one day when Yuki Fukazawa asks him to join the schools cycling club. He rejects this proposal at first as he doesn't remember how to ride one. But wanting to impress Yuki he tries to train in secret and during this (short) time he starts to actually like bicycles.

Yuki Fukazawa
1st year student and Mikotos big crush. She is Yosuke's sister. She was the one that introduced Mikoto into the cyclying world. Although she normally acts cold towards Mikoto there are some hints as to her true feelings towards him as the story progresses.

Yosuke Fukazawa
3rd year student and the captain of the schools cycling club. Has been bicycle racing since his early childhood, though not very much liked by his teammates as no one was able to keep up with him. The exception being his friend Koichi. Both Yousuke and Kouichi ended up leaving the cycling club and later on started their own. He excels in downhill racing.

Koichi Terao
3rd year student and the second captain of the schools cycling club, he is the childhood friend of Yosuke and 2nd member of the cycling club.

Takeshi Yamato
1st year student in the same class as Mikoto. When Mikoto first sees Yamato riding, he doesn't realize who he really is and decides that Yamato is someone he must defeat and later on befriends him still not realizing his true identity as the "black clothed rider" as yamato always wears all black when he's out cycling.