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''Over Rev!'' is a 90's manga about Ryoko Shino, a young woman, who is drawn into the world of street racing and her friends. It was created by Katsumi Yamaguchi and Team39 and serialized in Weekly Young Sunday. It tells the story of Ryoko Shino, a Japanese high school senior who gets into street racing. She used to be the best at track and field in school but during a race she tore her Achilles tendon, ending her dreams of being a track star. The manga goes over how she finds her new passion in life--street racing. It is unusual in the genre in that the central characters are mostly female. As she gets more involved she makes friends and grows as a person.

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''Over Rev!'' is a 90's manga about Ryoko Shino, a young woman, who is drawn into the world of street racing and her friends. It was created by Katsumi Yamaguchi and Team39 [=Team39=] and serialized in Weekly Young Sunday. It tells the story of Ryoko Shino, a Japanese high school senior who gets into street racing. She used to be the best at track and field in school but during a race she tore her Achilles tendon, ending her dreams of being a track star. The manga goes over how she finds her new passion in life--street racing. It is unusual in the genre in that the central characters are mostly female. As she gets more involved she makes friends and grows as a person.
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A live-action adaptation of the manga was released in 2001. The movie can be viewed [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iMiCG7NwDs here]



* CoolCar: Ryoko's MR2 may have been pulled off a scrapheap, but it's cool to her.

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* CoolCar: Ryoko's MR2 [=MR2=] may have been pulled off a scrapheap, but it's cool to her.
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Over Rev! is a 90's managa about Ryoko Shino, a young woman, who is drawn into the world of street racing and her friends. It was created by Katsumi Yamaguchi and Team39 and serialized in Weekly Young Sunday. It tells the story of Ryoko Shino, a Japanese high school senior who gets into street racing. She used to be the best at track and field in school but during a race she tore her Achilles tendon, ending her dreams of being a track star. The manga goes over how she finds her new passion in life--street racing. It is unusual in the genre in that the central charaters are mostly female. As she gets more involved she makes friends and grows as a person.

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Over Rev! ''Over Rev!'' is a 90's managa manga about Ryoko Shino, a young woman, who is drawn into the world of street racing and her friends. It was created by Katsumi Yamaguchi and Team39 and serialized in Weekly Young Sunday. It tells the story of Ryoko Shino, a Japanese high school senior who gets into street racing. She used to be the best at track and field in school but during a race she tore her Achilles tendon, ending her dreams of being a track star. The manga goes over how she finds her new passion in life--street racing. It is unusual in the genre in that the central charaters characters are mostly female. As she gets more involved she makes friends and grows as a person.
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* BestHerToBedHer: The legend of the "speed of sound beautiful girl".


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* GasSiphoning: It's done to the cars at the scrapyard Ryoko works at. She uses the gas for her car.
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* ObliviousToLove: Ryoko.
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* WomenDrivers: Inverted. Female street racers have to be very good indeed to be taken seriously.

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* WomenDrivers: Inverted. Female street racers have to be very good indeed to be taken seriously.seriously and the bad drivers in the series are male.
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Over Rev! is a 90's managa about Ryoko Shino, a young woman, who is drawn into the world of street racing and her friends. It is unusual in the genre in that the central charaters are mostly female. As she gets more involved she makes friends and grows as a person.

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Over Rev! is a 90's managa about Ryoko Shino, a young woman, who is drawn into the world of street racing and her friends. It was created by Katsumi Yamaguchi and Team39 and serialized in Weekly Young Sunday. It tells the story of Ryoko Shino, a Japanese high school senior who gets into street racing. She used to be the best at track and field in school but during a race she tore her Achilles tendon, ending her dreams of being a track star. The manga goes over how she finds her new passion in life--street racing. It is unusual in the genre in that the central charaters are mostly female. As she gets more involved she makes friends and grows as a person.
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Not in the traditional way, but Ryoko drives a sports car while Toru has a cute practical city car.
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* WrenchWrench: Ryoko becomes capable of swapping out her car engine.

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* WrenchWrench: WrenchWench: Ryoko becomes capable of swapping out her car engine.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Bob and Saru.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Sari Tachibana almost collides with Sawako when fleeing a LoveHotel with Takeo (Sawako's kind of boyfriend) in the passenger seat.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: Sari Tachibana almost collides with Sawako when fleeing a LoveHotel with Takeo (Sawako's kind of boyfriend) crush) in the passenger seat.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Sari Tachibana almost collides with Sawako when fleeing a LoveHotel with Takeo (Sawako's kind of boyfriend) in the passenger seat.
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* CoolCar: Ryoko's MR2 may have been pulled off a scrapheap, but it's cool to her.



* WomenDrivers: Inverted. Female street racers have to be very good indeed to be taken seriously.

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* WomenDrivers: Inverted. Female street racers have to be very good indeed to be taken seriously.seriously.
* WrenchWrench: Ryoko becomes capable of swapping out her car engine.

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* ButtMonkey: Takuro Aso, the brown bullet.
* CarPorn: It can get fairly techincal about cars and driving techniques.



* WomenDrivers: inverted. Female street racers have to be very good indeed to be taken seriously.

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* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Toru has trouble coping when his crush is more interested in cars than him.
* WomenDrivers: inverted.Inverted. Female street racers have to be very good indeed to be taken seriously.
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Over Rev! is a 90's managa about Ryoko Shino, a young woman, who is drawn into the world of street racing and her friends. It is unusual in the genre in that the central charaters are mostly female. As she gets more involved she makes friends and grows as a person.

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* BadassDriver: The characters are either this or comic relief.
* EthicalSlut: Sawako is a good person, but her private life . . .
* GossipEvolution: The out of control rumors about the "speed of sound beautiful girl" cause a lot of the trouble for the female racers.
* RiceBurner: One story arc deals with the "Stock Car Wolf," an aspiring auto engineer who was obsessed with his father's "perfect" designs to the point that when his car was stolen and vandalized into a rice burner, he turned into a KnightTemplar who challenged owners of modded cars to race against his stock model, with the stipulation that if (''when'') they lost, [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity their cars would be taken and stripped of their mods.]] [[spoiler: It takes losing to a "super stock" car - one that has been "modded" with subtle improvements to the original parts (in reality, restoring the original vision of the car engineers, before the marketing department messed up the specs) - to make him see reason.]]
* WomenDrivers: inverted. Female street racers have to be very good indeed to be taken seriously.

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