When I saw that this series was written by Kosuke Fujishima author of the Oh My Goddess and Youre Under Arrest being a fan of Youre Under Arrest and hearing good things about Oh My Goddess I became interested in checking it out. After seeing that it wasnt as popular as his other works I went into eXDriver with moderately set expectations that I would get at least some entertainment out of the six episodes. And after watching it I can easily see why this wasnt as popular or well remembered as his other works. Set at some point in the 22nd century people no longer drive cars themselves instead relying on an artificial intelligence to drive for them. But when the AI systems in these cars started malfunctioning causing the cars to lose control a team called eXDrivers or eXD for short are formed driven by actual drivers chase down the cars that have gone crazy. I dont know why the group of people who actually drive cars are the ones called eXDrivers but whatever. The series follows three such eXDrivers Lorna Lisa and new addition to the group Soichi. Soichi is the youngest of the group at 12 years old and the other two are in their teens. I imagine that making them younger was to appeal to a younger audience and I dont really mind having three kids as the main characters but it just raises questions to me like how does a 12 year get a license especially for such a dangerous job. But Im guessing this is going off of Pokemon rules and thats how the series universe works and the characters never actually get into any serious danger. EXDriver does bring up some neat concepts to explore such as an underground mentioned in the first episode where characters have a boost button in their car and have modified the cars programming and later in the series there are characters with gasoline cars that cant be tracked by the same system as the AI cars and are off the grid. It would have been neat if the series explored this stuff but unfortunately due to it being only 6 episodes it never really gets to do that. And thats not taking into account other stuff that it could have brought up. Is there no one would doesnt trust the automated systems of the cars and even cites statistics of AI failures or at least talks about all of the news stories of failing AI as a reason to not have an AI car? Or even just dislikes the idea in general based purely on personal preference. What about people who simply cant afford the AI cars or simply dont care about what car they drive and just want a way of getting to where theyre going? And Im pretty sure there are car enthusiasts out there who would want to drive tune and build their own cars or just want to buy and deal with classic cars. There could have even been an episode where the characters didnt have access to cars like being stranded somewhere where they didnt have access to the system or being forced to take a break since the job is clearly stressing them out and it ends up being a bonding experience. There was enough here for it to expand out to a 12episode series at least but unfortunately we got stuck with what we have. All of these could have been good ideas for episodes and could have easily broken up the monotony of the series. Which is unfortunate because the series clearly shows off Kosuke Fujishimas love of cars and by extension motorcycles and it seems like such a wast to not let him use his love of said vehicles and let him stretch his creativity a bit. If this couldnt have been continued as an anime it would have been nice to see Kosuke continue it as a manga at least. The only interesting thing about this series is just how predictive of selfdriving cars it was. But since it never goes that indepth with the concept either so theres no real reason to watch the series based on that alone. While eXDriver is nowhere near the worst thing that Ive watched I doubt that anyone is clamoring for a rerelease but Im pretty sure that Discotek might pick it up at some point. Unless this get some sort of new series that actually expands on the concepts of the series I cant really recommend it.