Season 1 • Episode 38
LatestOozora Reiji isn't a lazy boy, he's just terribly unmotivated; all the clubs and activities he's joined don't interest him for long. That is, of course, until his best friend Yukino takes him to a underground arcade where an unbelievable virtual reality game is played - Dragon Drive - in which players fight each other with virtual dragons. Reiji ends up throwing all he's got into training a dragon so rare that the Dragon Drive staff are baffled. But soon Reiji learns that Dragon Drive isn't all it seems, and he might be the only one who can save an entire world from evil.
Practical Effects
Chibisuke's absurd evolution from potato to god
Sound
Early 2000s J-pop OP that lives rent-free
Romi Park
Oozora Reiji (voice)
Chinami Nishimura
Chibisuke (voice)
Rica Matsumoto
Mukai (voice)
Akemi Okamura
Sally (voice)
Emi Shinohara
Agent L (voice)
Issei Miyazaki
Ichirou Sumishiba (voice)
Jun Fukuyama
Agent G (voice)
Kazuo Oka
Guan-coo (voice)
Kazuo Oka
Old Man (voice)
Kenichi Suzumura
Hikaru Himuro (voice)
Kiri Yoshizawa
Ensui (voice)
Kohei Kiyasu
Kouhei Toki (voice)
Michael Shitanda
Daisuke Hagiwara (voice)
Miyu Matsuki
Sue (voice)
Ryuuzaburou Ootomo
Saizou Toki (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dragon Drive rode the Yu-Gi-Oh/Pokémon wave but predated the modern isekai boom by a decade—its 'game becomes real' twist was actually fresh in 2002.
Romi Park (Reiji) would later voice Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist—imagine Ed screaming about dragons instead of equivalent exchange.
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