Full Drive: Research Notes

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Title:

• Full Drive

Author

• Ono, Genki 小野 玄暉（おの げんき)
  • Oh-no, Gain-key

Characters

• Shiraishi, Marin
  • Shee-rye-ee-shee, Mah-reen
• Matsuzaki, Touru
  • Mah-tsɯ-zah-key, Toe-rɯ
• Hagen Wolf
  • Hah-gen, Vohlf
  • W is pronounced like /v/ in German
  • The O here is actually pronounced like “oh,” unlike the “oo” sound in the English word.
• Tamashiro, Dan
  • Tah-mah-shee-roe, Dahn
  • His name is a pun, of course. “Tama” is “ball,” “shiro” is “white.”
• Idou / “Icchan”
  • Ee-っ-chahn
  • (I used っ to stand for the moment of silently building pressure before pronouncing the following consonant because there’s no way of conveying that with Roman letters)
• Narukawa, Atsushi
  • Nah-rɯ-kah-wah, Ah-tsɯ-shee
  • The “u” vowel in Atsushi is likely whispered when not spoken slowly, so it can sound more like “Ats’-shi”
• Koshino
  • Koe-shee-no
• Ohtomo
  • Oh-toe-moe
• Takizawa, Koumei
  • Tah-kee-zah-wah, Koe-may
• Kan, Akifumi
  • Kahn, Ah-kee-fɯ-mee
• Nanjou, Yukiya
  • Nahn-joe, Yɯ-kee-yah

Other

• Setagaya Tennis Academy
  • Seh-tah-gah-ya
• Ohzono Middle School
  • Oh-zoh-no
• Seiran Middle School
  • Say-rahn

MaxyBee

• Genki Ono
  • Notable people they were an assistant for
    • Kouji Miura (Blue Box)
      • Helped out for a while and drew an illustration for the author, who posted it on twitter.
  • Notable people they had as assistants
    • None known
  • Other works
    • A bunch of one shots:
      • Bloom in Love, Mikoto (2011, Jump Treasure Award runner-up, published on Weekly Shonen Jump’s website)
      • Gun-cutting Sword in the Heart (2013, Jump LIVE)
      • Dobu no Kyuuki (2014, Jump NEXT)
      • Red-Haired Acho!! (2015, Weekly Shonen Jump)
      • Haruka Kanata (2016, Jump GIGA)
      • Draconil (2019, Weekly Shonen Jump)
      • Yaksha Camellia (2021, Weekly Shonen Jump)
• Publishing
  • Run Dates:
    • October 23, 2017 to February 19, 2018
  • Series it replaced
• Isobe Isobee Monogatari ~Ukiyo wa Tsurai yo~ by Ryo Nakama (2013-2017, 16 volumes, hit)
  • Author of High School Family
• Series that replaced it
  • Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege Akutami (2018-present, 25+ vols, MEGA-HIT)
• Series that started at the same time as it
  • Lycopene the Tomatoy Poodle by Koji Oishi (2017-present, 8+ vols, it’s complicated) (transferred to Jump Plus in 2018 with chapter 38)
  • Golem Hearts by Gen Oosuka (2 vols, flop, Shonen Flop episode 2 and episode 52)
• Chapters/Volumes:
  • 16 chapters/3 volumes

Manga Itself / Misc thoughts

• Viz Media ran this in their digital magazine for its first three chapters as part of its Jump Start initiative.
• Volumes 2 and 3 each contain two one-shots, meaning at least half of each book isn’t even Full Drive. Buyer beware for six years ago, I guess.
• The author states that he focused a lot on fashion with Marin, as girls look best when dressed up and otherwise she’d be in a jersey all the time.
• Chapter 11 has extra pages to promote the series. According to the author the chapter was well-received for its focus on Marin, and improved the series ranking temporarily, so it kind of worked.
• Volume extras include:
  • Comedy sketches between chapters
  • Profiles (vol.2-3, Marin and Dan saved for last)
  • A 3-page strip where Dan, Atsushi and Marin go out for McDonalds
  • One-shots! Vol 2 has ‘Bloom in Love, Mikoto’ and ‘Gun-cutting Sword in the Heart’. Vol.3 has ‘Dobu no Kyuuki’ and ‘Red-Haired Acho!!’.
• Pure conjecture, but reading the one-shots before Full Drive got published makes me think the author is a big fan of Hiro Mashima (Rave Master, Fairy Tail), and Fukuchi Tsubasa (The Law of Ueki). Like his early art style is just uncannily like the both of them.