YMMV / Real Drive

• Anvilicious: The show emphasizes that humanity should cooperate with nature.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Yukino, partly for her quirky personality, but mostly because she's the chubbiest and therefore hottest to most of the people who prefer their girls that way.
• So Okay, It's Average: The world drawn by Masamune is a fully-realized, consistent, and in it's own right, plausible, but often times, the episodes are just thinly-veiled excuses to explore/expand on some facet of the given technology (and how it affects society). Like the dog episode, most of the anime lacks consistent dramatic tension and cannot generate conflict.
• Spiritual Successor: While Real Drive draws inspiration from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, dealing with similar themes of society and technology and even featuring similar technologies (e.g. electronic brains and diving into the web), an interview reveals that Real Drive is not set in the same universe. An interview with writer Junichi Fujisaku reads as follows:
  Production I.G: Talking about taking over Shirow's world, I heard Fujisaku-san initially created a new "post-Ghost in the Shell" World.
  Fujisaku: Yes, we started with the idea, but a request from Director Kazuhiro Furuhashi changed that totally.