RideBack - Episode 3

The Episode starts off with Suzuri trying to ride a Ride Back. However, she crashes. They explain how Fuego is not right for the race as the Ride Back does not fit the “regulations”. Then the race starts. During the warm up laps, Rin thinks that she it doesn’t feel right and they have to make some quick adjustments. Race begins but Rin fails to start well at all. After the first half, Hishida pulls out the ACS cord and she starts to perform a lot better than before. In the middle they start to discuss the introduction of the “White Ride Backs” for police. Kataoka gets shoved off the road by one of the purple brothers but manages to get back up and race on after the other. Rin’s engine blows near the end when she gets into 3rd place and Tamayo wins the race and they have a drink to celebrate. Suzuri gets drunk and clingy.

I thought that not much happened in this episode, being the reason why it was a lot shorter then the others. I enjoyed it all the same. The race as nice and the right length, not too long and the disappointment when the engine blew was well timed. Good overall!

People involved:

Kataoka, Tamayo

Ogata, Rin

Okakura, Tenshirou

Uemura, Shouko

Hishida, Haruki

Karenbak, Romanof

Kataoka, Ryuunosuke

Kawai, Douta

Uchida, Suzuri

TK

RideBack - Episode 02

At the beginning of the episode, Suzuri, Shouko and Rin are in the lunch queue talking about the jump at the end of the last episode, with Suzuri over dramatising the event. Once they sit down the co-leaders of the Ride Back club, including Hishida, come over and try and ask Rin to join. Shouko has a go at them for letting Rin ride out of control. The leader, Kataoka Tamayo, all-Japan race winner, searches her up, unable to understand why she could ride so well on her first time. After lunch Rin goes over to the club and sees Tamayo, who tells Rin that she must race her, if she wins then Rin becomes her slave, but if Rin wins she can use Fuego whenever she wants. The race is to take place on Saturday. Over the next week Rin prepares researching all about the Ride Backs on the internet and even asking her brother about them.

When Saturday comes, Tamayo does not believe that Rin will arrive, and Suzuri, dressed up ready to cheer, pompoms and all. Rin finally arrives and the race begins with Suzuri starting it. To everyone’s amazement, Rin keeps up with Tamayo, even using the ‘Spread Legs Form’. Douta Kawai, another co-leader, believes that Rin might win.

At one corner, Rin accelerates too quickly and crashes into the water. Rin quickly gets out and waits for Tamayo to come around again. Around the next corner, while increasing speed spins and jumps around the corner with elegance, this surprises Tamayo and she has to break sharply to avoid a cat. She crashes and hits the wall and goes unconscious.

Sorry for another long summary but there is nothing I can miss out, as the entire episode is incredible and interesting. My opinion of this episode was another brilliant effort from the Ride Back makers and they enjoyed every minute. The race pushed me to the edge of my seat and the jump was excellently slowed down again. In my opinion this series is going to be a great one and I cannot wait to watch them all. This series is a must see!

Main characters in this episode:
Ogata, Rin
Kataoka, Tamayo
Uemura, Shouko
Okakura, Tenshirou
Hishida, Haruki
Kawai, Douta
Uchida, Suzuri

Where to download: http://www.animetake.com/ride-back-episode-2/

RideBack - Episode 1

Starts off with Rin Ogata, the main character, doing ballet in front of a large audience. During this we hear her thoughts and she begins the story for us. She tells us of what happened before this moment. She repeats ‘The world will change’ in a hopeful way. Just before the lights go out, she twists her ankle in the middle of the dance and crashes to the floor. When the lights go out, she repeats ‘The world will change’ again.

The next scene is with Shouko Uemura, her best friend, talking and celebrating a new school year in the same room. They celebrate in a shower of pink petals. During lunch, she meets a fan of hers called Uchida Suzuri, a 1st year. Shouko gets angry from being ignored. Rin leaves and once outside is met by rain.

She hurries inside a large ‘shed’ to get out of the rain. Here she meets Fuego, the RideBack. Haruki Hishida, thinking she wants to join, the RideBack club, lets her get onto Fuego, which she does with much style. Once on, Haruki starts the RideBack and shows her how to ride. She learns this with ease because of her ballet. The rain stops and Rin ventures outside. She moves forward, only to find that the breaks stop working and she is heading for a wall. She reacts and manages, with Haruki’s utter disbelief, to turn and race off with a nice ‘Power Slide’.

As she races though the campus, she realises she isn’t scared on Fuego and jumps over a small fence. She now has good control over the RideBack, but finds out that she cannot stop it. She rides past a guy on another RideBack who asks her to stop, she explains that she doesn’t know how and he tries to fix this. But it was too late as in front was the end of the road and then a large drop. Unable to brake, Rin goes over the edge, and is ‘flying’. Haruki is amazed at her skill.

This episode was a great first episode. The ending was amazing with great suspense and amazement. This ending stuck in my mind and made me want to watch more. The drawing is brilliant, great colour, vibrancy, clear and smooth. All the main characters are likeable and full of life. The story line seems to be very good, and the begging snap shots are probably going to be introduced later on. With a mixture of characters there is a wide range of feelings and thoughts. The RideBack is a very cool machine with very high technology and the relationship between Rin and Shouko is strong and seems flawless. How they are going to fill out the next 11 episodes will probably involve action and a fair amount of racing. Bring on episode 2.