D-Live!!
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is Ryōji Minagawa
Ryoji Minagawa
' is a Japanese manga artist born in Sumida, Tokyo.He was invited with Spriggan story writer Hiroshi Takashige to go to a comic convention in Portugal in 1996 as a guest of honor due to his work on Spriggan. He worked on other manga comics before he went on to create Project ARMS with fellow manga...

's manga series made after Project ARMS, published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine. The story is about Satoru Ikaruga, a high school kid multi-driver nicknamed "genius driver" who can drive almost any vehicle, working for a multinational specialist company called the Almighty Support Enterprise (ASE). He is called whenever ASE is hired to solve a case which involved vehicle driving, most of the time working with other ASE agents to resolve situations assigned to them by various clients.

Plot

Satoru Ikaruga is just an ordinary high school student who enjoys eating food. Unknown to most of his classmates and teachers, he is an operative of the Almighty Support Enterprise as a vehicle driving specialist. He is deployed worldwide while being supported by various ASE agents in accomplishing cases assigned to them by their clients.

Satoru Ikaruga

A high school boy who do part time job with ASE Japan
Japan
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 Branch as a vehicle driver specialist. His father was a friend of Hajime Mozu and also an ASE driver who died in doing his job.

Hatsune Shimizu

A high school girl, the mechanic specialist of ASE Japan Branch. Her dream is to make her late father's motorcycle racing team wins the Suzuka 8 Hours
Suzuka 8 Hours
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 endurance race. She almost made it with Satoru riding her bike, but an accident happened that made Satoru didn't finish the race.

Hajime Mozu

Chief of ASE Japan branch. He is an ex-ASE vehicle driver specialist, Satoru was trained by him. He is sometimes cruel to Satoru by cutting his payment if Satoru made any mistake in doing his job.

Clever Owl

He is ASE USA branch's specialist in spying and infiltrating. He is also a playboy and thinks that he is the next James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

. He always gets sick if traveling in a vehicle, especially if the driver is Satoru. Only Mozu can make him not sick in a vehicle.

Rika Karasuma

ASE Japan Branch's specialist of geology. A beautiful woman who is lecturer in a university in Japan.

Publication

D-Live!! has been published with 15 volumes under Shogakukan after being serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine. For France and French-speaking countries/territories, it was published by Editions Kabuto with 5 volumes published prior to its termination. In Hong Kong, Jonesky
Jonesky
Jonesky Limited is a Hong Kong publisher of domestic Chinese manhua and translated, imported comics from Japan. Several of their titles have been translated and released in English...

is responsible for publishing all of its volumes in Chinese. Planet Manga published D-Live!! in Italian. It is published in South Korea by Samyang Comics. Tong Li published the manga in Taiwan.

Reception

D-Live!! had been selected among one of the most recommended manga to read at the 9th Japanese Media Arts Festival in 2005.
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