Many ppl rated this anime very low. I decided to watch this anime how this can be rated so low. After completed watching the anime, for me, i can't say that it's very bad. Why was it? Let's go into it.. Story: 7/10 The story is about Oozora Reiji, a lazy schoolboy, who is being invited by his chidhood friend Maiko Yukino to join Dragon Drive because Reiji is good at nothing. Reiji became attracted by the virtual game called Dragon Drive where you scan dragon cards and then battling each other. Despite having a little dragon with no power, but actually it's special. Things got morecomplex in the story when Reiji and his other friends was trapped in other side of earth "Rikyuu", and then the real truth of Dragon Drive was told. There may be interesting plot twist about the show, despite not a heavy level plot twist. What's unique in this story is there's some moments where we can see the worse anticlimax where the villain wins and the protagonist lose as if there's no hope anymore. It got escalated after it, but the nearly end of episodes are kinda disappointing for me. I was expecting a good anticlimax, but it went bad and meh. Despite that, it's unique and not that bad.

Characters: 7/10
Most of them are okay, but I see some characters are good and unique.
Oozora Reiji is maybe your typical generic shounen main character. However some things are completely different comparing to other generic shounen main character. He's an agile one and have a good sense. He's not the one that "You want to battle? I won't lose that easily" when in a worse situation. Saying words like "I have no reason to fight you" are usually rare for shounen main character to say, but Reiji could think of that. He's definitely not just depending on his dragon, even he COULD help his dragon with his own power when his dragon is in curse or nearing death, not just saying "Are you okay? wake up please!" without any struggle to help. Reiji is the type of person who inclined to do action more than talking, that's what I really like about him. We also can see his flaws through episodes, his character development progress isn't that flawless, we can see some degradation of him.
Maiko Yukino is likely a minor in this series. Her character development isn't that well but she did some good job in the series. Her characterization is kinda shallow after all.
Hagiwara Daisuke is also likely a minor in this series, he's the annoying type in this show if I can say. I was first hating him, but through episodes, he did some good job and character development went quite good for him.
Rockaku is an interesting character if I can say. He had a burden of seeing his best friend sacrificed himself for Rockaku to keep living. His characterization are good, not much development for him in the end, but he did well job in the series, especially when facing his best friend's brother.
Megumi is likely just a plot device character, not much about her actually.
Sumishiba Ichiro looks like a jerk in the first, with his arrogant behavior. But going through episodes, he become a somewhat adorable character for me. His story told us why he's like that, it's all reasonable and even though he's a minor one, he's not the type of annoying one.
Other minor characters are rather useless or annoying if I can say. We have a bitchy woman, a cold serious looking guy only seeking for fighting, and so on. Some have good characterization, but not much.
The villain in this series are rather cliche, world dominating motivation with not making sense much. The other one is just seeing world as a gaming world. Killing anyone in sight, seeking for a more power, just that. It's a degradation of the character section of this series for me.
This series would be better not to including a lot amount of characters, 38 episodes aren't enough to go inside all the characters.

Music: 7/10
It's not that good and not that bad anyway. Some soundtrack are catchy, though. Opening and ending songs are okay-ish.

Art: 8/10
Being a 2002 anime, they did very well 3D CG, better than any digimon series before 2001. The design of human characters are so so, but the dragons are cool and awesome enough.

Enjoyment: 7/10
I was thinking that this series was promising. Indeed it's yes, but not that much. The ending was TOO anticlimactic, the last fighting is rather boring than before.

Overall: 7/10
It's a so so anime after all. It's not good but definitely not bad. Even though that, it's exactly way better than your everyday typical harem ecchi anime, even if it's harem ecchi action one with 12-13 episodes with multi-season of the same story. This series definitely need more love. It's not as bad as other ppl say. I hope this review helps, thanks for reading.