Dragon Drive, Volume 2

Dragon Drive #2

by Ken-ichi Sakura

The tale of a loser kid who gets whisked off into a magical world where it turns out he and his little but, powerful dragon may play a part in saving the world itself!

Reiji Oozora is a total loser! Not good at anything especially schoolwork! One day his friend Maiko Yukino offers to share her class notes with him to help him out on the condition that he takes her wherever she wants to go. She takes him to a secret place where a virtual reality game called Dragon Drive is played. Reiji signs up, gets his own dragon, which ends up being the smallest and weakest in the game! Because of its tiny size Reiji names the dragon Chibi. Right after joining the game Reiji and Maiko are sent to battle a classmate who has as crush on Maiko named Daisuke. Reiji runs from the battle and just when it seems like he can't win his dragon does something impossible! It suddenly powers up and defeats the much larger dragon. Reiji wins and is suddenly addicted to this new exciting game.

A staff member of the Dragon Drive virtual reality game named Agent L realizes that there is something incredible about Chibi's performance and invites Reiji and Maiko to a special training room. There she reveals the real purpose of the game is for players to bring out their dragon's true potential. Just then a strange girl riding a dragon appears and takes them to a fantastic magical world. It turns out it this world is in peril of being taken over by an evil group called RI-ON and the only thing that can possibly stop them in none other than Reiji's little dragon! Thus the adventure begins!

Genres: Manga, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Dragons, Graphic Novels, Fantasy

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2007

About the author

Also known as Ken'ichi Sakura.

Ken-ichi Sakura made his debut in Monthly Shonen Jump with the manga Fabre Tanteiki, which was in 2000. He began Dragon Drive in the March 2001 issue of Monthly Shonen Jump, which went on to be a successful anime and even bred its own video games. His latest work, Kotokuri, began running in March 2006's volume in Monthly Shonen Jump.

Reviews

[Sidney Staples · Rating 5 out of 5]

So exciting to see Reiji continue to buy into Dragon Drive and work to get better. He is such a good person at his core and I can’t wait to see what he and his friends overcome in the new world they are in.

[Olivia W. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it!

[Judith Groen · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's great! Really entertaining story so far :)

[Dusty Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still a fairly paint by numbers Shonen. Not bad but not remarkable. Fun and light hearted. Pacing seemed a little to fast in this volume tho. I’ll at least give it one more volume.

[Krystal Caloia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow, what a twist, a parallel universe!!

[Bara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Už ani nevím, kdy přesně jsem začala číst mangu a už vůbec nemám ponětí, kdy jsem se dostala přímo k této manze, ale tehdy jsem zdaleka nebyla tak sečtělá jako dnes, takže na mě i slabé příběhy udělaly dojem lehce. A možná, že ty 4* u prvního svazku jsou spíše z nostalgie, než objektivní hodnocení, protože ten 1. díl jsem přečetla dávno předtím, než jsem se dozvěděla, že existuje něco jako goodreads a na lidskou paměť se, jak známo, nedá plně spoléhat.

Postavy jsou nezajímavé, příběh je klišoidní, ani moc vtipné to není. Kresba je průměrná, taková zkratkovitá, kvůli čemuž jsou nepřehledné hlavně akční scény.

Jsou tam draci, to je na tom pěkné.

Myslím, že si ještě hodně rozmyslím, zda budu pokračovat ve čtení. Přesto jsem ráda, že jsem aspoň dorazila 2. svazek (před x lety jsem skončila přesně uprostřed druhého dílu, protože na manga čítárně toho víc nebylo), takhle vím, že je nejvyšší čas sundat si růžové brýle a postavit se tomu, že se mi změnil vkus. Doufám, že k dobrému. :)

[Corbin Beck · Rating 4 out of 5]

(please note: i read this on my own time)this was a manga or comic book as other people would call it. this was about a high school student named reji. one he got introduced to dragon drive, the host, agent l gives him a place to train his dragon , chibi (a small dragon that is really weak or so reji thinks). he dodges his friend (and probly his only friend) Maiko. when he finds out that he's been sneaking around with agent l' she takes it the wrong way. then chibi's true power shows. also they find out that dragon drive is not just a game.

[Hannah Belyea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reiji is really beginning to enjoy DRAGON DRIVE after being introduced by Maiko, but neither of them could have guessed that the game has deep connections to the real world! Sakura gives fans another enjoyably entertaining entry that expands this fun and vivid world. If dragons are real, then what does it mean for their gaming partners?!

[Quent Pembrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

The cast of characters is very colorful.

[The Third Place A Teen Library]

F SAK dd v.2

[Blaze Schmoock · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it great book. It had really good detail in the illustrations and the word went perfectly with the pictures.

[Michaela]

really good but same as the first if you not into it you not goinh to like it