Full Drive: Research Notes
Added 2024-02-22 00:00:03 +0000 UTCTucker
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.
- Kouji Miura (Blue Box)
- 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)
- A bunch of one shots:
- Notable people they were an assistant for
- Publishing
- Run Dates:
- October 23, 2017 to February 19, 2018
- Series it replaced
- Run Dates:
- 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.