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Originally Posted by Powerman293

What was people's general opinion on Drive? I know Ghost was disliked, but what about Drive? From early impressions I heard of the show, it seemed like it was the PreGaim Neo Heisei 2 parter BS.

Well everybody else has summed up the general opinion quite nicely but here's my take on it, which is a bit different:

Episodes 1-11: Genuinely great stuff, and the "generic" style works to its advantage given it came after f***ing Gaim. It's a sort of "return to form" after the more avant-garde stylings of its predecessor.

Episodes 12-24(ish). Genuinely pretty rough. Mach kind of shook the status quo up in a bad way at first and overall the writing just seemed to take a bit of a dive. It was aiming a bit higher than the first quarter and while it hits the mark occasionally it falls flat a lot of the time.

Episodes 25-47: Genuinely great stuff, but in a different way. If the Neo-Heisei formula is really "BS" to you you'll be happy to know the show starts to get a lot more serialized while still acting within the same basic structure. The writing is pretty sharp by this point too.

Episode 48: It's got some great moments but *meh*.

So yeah, Drive is pretty good. I'm really fond of it myself but I don't think I would call it great or anything. Absolutely worth a watch.