ēlDLIVE

ēlDLIVE

Cover of ēlDLIVE volume 1 by Shueisha
エルドライブ
(Erudoraibu)
Manga
Written by Akira Amano
Published by Shueisha
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Jump Live, Shonen Jump+
Original run August 2013 – present
Volumes 6
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Takeshi Furuta
  • Tomoya Tanaka
Written by Toshimitsu Takeuchi
Music by Yasuharu Takanashi
Studio Pierrot
Original run January 2017 – scheduled

ēlDLIVE (Japanese: エルドライブ Hepburn: Erudoraibu) is a Japanese manga series by Akira Amano. It started serialization via Shueisha's online app Jump Live in August 2013, switching to the digital publication Shonen Jump+ after it launched in September 2014. It has been collected in six tankōbon volumes. The first three chapters were published in English by Viz Media in 2014. An anime television series adaptation by Pierrot is scheduled to air in January 2017.

Plot

Chūta Kokonose is a middle school boy who had been able to hear a voice that no one else could hear ever since he could remember. One day, a strange blue alien named Chips appeared and recruited him to the space police, élDLIVE because he fit the requirements. During his entrance test, he discovered the voice he hears actually comes from a small white alien living in his body who he later named Dolugh. Combining his power with Dolugh, he was able to complete his exam using a power called SPH (Space Pheromone), used only by aliens. Chūta, now an officer, along with his coworker and classmate, Misuzu Sonokata, and the rest of the Solar System Area station have to work together protect the universe from dangerous criminals.

Characters

Main characters

Chūta Kokonose (九ノ瀬 宙太 Kokonose Chūta)
Voiced by: Ayumu Murase[1]

The main male protagonist of the story. Chūta is a fourteen year old second-year student at Shirobori Middle School. He was recruited into élDLIVE by Chips and is now a Rank 1 officer in Division 2 of the Criminal Investigation Department at the Solar System District station. His partners are Misuzu Sonokata, who's also his classmate, and Chips. He is also the symbiotic host of a Monitalien he named Dolugh, who turns out to be voice that only he can hear ever since he was little. Chūta is initially a very withdrawn, introverted boy with low-self confidence and no friends due to blaming himself for a past childhood incident where four of his friends died by falling off a cliff, and being isolated from his peers because of his tendency to talk to the voice aloud, which made people think he's weird. He begins to grow out of this and slowly gains more confidence due to fighting criminals as an officer of élDLIVE with Misuzu and Dolugh, and saving people. His parents died and he was young and he lived with his aunt ever since. He is very good at all things related to home economics because he has a lot of practice at home, since his aunt Mimi is not very good at doing chores.

Dolugh (ドルー Doruu)
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya
Dolugh is a Monitalien living in Chūta's body. He also acts as Chūta's SPH organ. Only Chūta hears him, and his physical form does not appear until Chūta saved Tateyan. He is attached to Chūta until the day he dies, and if something happens to one of them, the other will feel it. The red gem on his forehead is one of the lost glyphs of Planet Glyph, where he was created for the purpose of monitoring other planets. Dolugh is a very curious and inquisitive creature, who also shows surprising insightfulness. He went through an upgrade during the remote control case, and gained wings. His powers work by having Chūta visualize the attack and Dolugh executing it.
Misuzu Sonokata (其方 美鈴 Sonokata Misuzu)
Voiced by: Saori Hayami[1]

Chūta's teammate in Division 2 as well as his classmate who was sent to observe him. She's a Rank 3 officer and takes her job very seriously. At school, she's an ace student and popular with boys. Her reason for joining élDLIVE was because she refused to follow the path her father laid out for her. She lost six months' worth of memories because of her role as a patient in a project called the Taklimakan Project, where patients have SPH organs implanted into them. The operation also caused residual illnesses and she has to take pills to stave them off, though she does not know their true purpose, thinking that they're environmental adaptation pills. She acts coldly towards Chūta when he first joined élDLIVE because she thought he wouldn't take the job seriously, but begins to warm up to him as they work more together and when he proved her innocence during the remote manipulation case. However, after Dolugh's upgrade she began avoiding him due to his smell suddenly changing, but manages to overcome that with the help of Dr. Love. She's also friends with Veronica and Ninotchka because they joined élDLIVE around the same time, though she and Veronica also fight a lot due to their rivalry. Her SPH takes the form of glowing purple rings.

élDLIVE

Solar System District Station

Chips (チップス Chippusu)
Voiced by: Daiki Kobayashi

A small blue alien who's the leader of Division 2 as well as the one who leads Chūta to élDLIVE. He holds the rank of Assistant Inspector, and act as support during cases. The antenna on his head allows him to shoot different types of SPH, one of which allows people to transfer from place to place. He's very rule-abiding and acts as the voice of reason, but can be childish as well. He says "-chu" at the end of all his sentences. He gets drunk on green tea.

Laine Brick (レイン・ブリック Rein Burikku)
Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki

The Chief of the Solar System District Station. He wears an eyepatch to cover his artificial eye. He has a friendly, carefree personality, but also shows hints of a more mysterious, scheming side. However, he cares about his subordinates very much. He is one of the few who knows Misuzu's past. It is hinted that he got his position quickly despite his young age because of other reasons. He is shown enjoying sweets a lot, especially dango. For unknown reasons, he dislikes Madigan.

Media

Manga

ēlDLIVE is a manga series written and drawn by Akira Amano. It began serialization on Shueisha's online app Jump Live on August 2013 for two seasons before moving to Shueisha's new digital publication service Jump+ on September 2014. The series is different in others in that it divides its chapters into "seasons", similar to how TV shows divide their episodes into seasons. Each season has a different number of chapters. As of August 5, 2016, the seasons have been collected into six tankōbon volumes. Viz Media published the English translation of the first three chapters in their Weekly Shounen Jump publication in September 2014.

On May 30, 2014, a visual book titled Rebo to Dlive was released, featuring new and old illustrations from Amano's works, including ones from ēlDLIVE.

Volumes list

No.Release date ISBN
1 December 4, 2013ISBN 9784088708874
2 May 2, 2014ISBN 9784088801162
3 February 4, 2015ISBN 9784088802886
4 August 4, 2015ISBN 9784088805375
5 March 5, 2016ISBN 9784088805955
6 August 5, 2016ISBN 9784088807683

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced for January 2017.[2][3] The series is being produced by Pierrot, and directed by Takeshi Furuta and Tomoya Tanaka, with scripts written by Toshimitsu Takeuchi, character designs by Han Seungah and Keiichirou Matsui, and music composed by Yasuharu Takanashi.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "ēlDLIVE Anime Casts Ayumu Murase, Saori Hayami as Leads". Anime News Network. August 3, 2016. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Akira Amano's ēlDLIVE Manga Gets TV Anime in 2017 by Pierrot". Anime News Network. March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
  3. ↑ "ēlDLIVE Anime Reveals 1st Visual, January Premiere". Anime News Network. July 28, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ "ēlDLIVE Anime Unveils More of Cast & Staff, Full Promo Video, Main Visual". Anime News Network. October 2, 2016. Retrieved October 2, 2016.

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