''AM Driver'', known in Japan as , is an
anime
is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ...
series produced by
Studio Deen
is a Japanese animation studio founded in 1975 by former Sunrise producer Hiroshi Hasegawa, along with a team of ex-Sunrise animators. The studio owns three subsidiaries: Danny Donghua (), a Chinese sub-contracting studio; Megumi (め組), a di ...
,
TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as is a Japanese television station that serves as the flagship of the TX Network.[Nihon Ad Systems
, NAS for short, is a Japanese anime production and character merchandising company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the advertising agency Asatsu-DK. The "Ad" in its title is an abbreviation for "Animation Development". Along with Sony Pictures ...]
. It is directed by
Yūji Yamaguchi
was a Japanese anime director who directed the ''Fate/stay night'' TV series and the ''Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (film), Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works'' film.
Career
Yamaguchi directed several anime series, including ''Angel ...
, with Satoshi Namiki handling series composition,
Eiji Suganuma designing the characters and Kazunori Maruyama composing the music. The series aired on TV Tokyo and its affiliate stations from April 5, 2004 to March 28, 2005. A manga adaptation by Noriyuki Konishi was serialized in ''
CoroCoro Comic
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The name comes fr ...
'' from the June 2004 issue to the February 2005 issue. Two
Game Boy Advance
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games and one
PlayStation 2
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game published by
Konami
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have also been released.
The series was the first completely original work produced by Nihon Ad Systems, who have previously only produced works based on manga and video games. As a result of various planning discussions, it was decided to develop a life-size hero with the concept of a person "putting on" a
mecha
In science fiction, or mechs are giant robots or machines, typically depicted as piloted, humanoid walking vehicles. The term was first used in Japanese (language), Japanese after shortening the English loanword or , but the meaning in Japan ...
by having a person in a power suit board the mecha and transforming and combining with the mecha, rather than a robot.
Plot
The story takes place in the future world of Earth, which has been under attack by mechanical life forms known as "bugchines" for several years. The masses were living in fear, as no weaponry could stand up to the bugchines. To turn back this menace, warriors called AM Drivers are trained and armed with special weapons. The AM Drivers constantly fight to protect the general public. The most popular AM Drivers get larger budgets with which they may purchase more powerful weapons and defenses.
Characters
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List of episodes
References
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{{Yūji Yamaguchi
2004 anime television series debuts
2004 manga
Mecha anime and manga
Studio Deen
TV Tokyo original programming
Anime with original screenplays