This series was cool while the tricks made sense, but lately, it seems like the author is on crack or something.

Started out strong, but managed to kill itself halfway. After a certain part of the story, large amounts of bullshit leads to much failure. What used to be a rollerblading manga with a few extra perks has now turned into a jumble of garbage fight scenes and naked ladies. Is it just me that thinks Oh Great has a tendency to start good stories which turn to moot? Basically, read it to the point where it becomes shit, then make up your own goddamn ending. Anything's better than the crap pouring out per page.

This has all the usual O-Great elements. Starts out GREAT, awesome art work, hot girls, and interesting characters. Then, it just all goes downhill. Story quickly gets confusing and it's always something about this great destiny of the main character, which can affect the whole world. But really, that's what you FEEL like he's talking about, but actually, it's pretty hard to understand what the hell the story is. It's truly a shame how he ruins his own work. They begin great, obviously from his awesome imagination and inspiration. But, he needs some help with story writing to finish great too.

Air Gear started out like a typical shounen however unlike many others it went about it in a fresh new way by using a different idea. Using high powered rollerblades called Air Treks. This may sound lame but in reality it was very exciting once explained. As the story progressed many things about the world of Air treks was explained. What kept me reading was the amount of thought and research that the author put into actually writing the mechanics of Air treks and the tricks that the riders were capable of doing with them. We then as a reader learn that their is a competition which determines the best of the best Air trek riders or Storm riders as they called them in the story. Later however we learn that to truly compete in the competition it is necessary to own a special Air trek. I'm gonna stop their because that is where the story begins to travel down hill.



All in all the authors inclusion of many of today's pop culture ended badly because he strayed too far away from the original plot of the manga. Which was the simple joy of flying through the air with Air treks unimpeded and unobstructed by anyone or anything.

I give this manga a 6 out of10 because 2/3 percent of this manga was actually very good. It was only when the manga neared the three hundred mark, that the plot decided to pick up its suitcase grab it's belongs. And move out of Air Gear and has since the ending on chapter 357 has not returned. Still I'm glad I read this manga since it gave me and my friends many sleepless nights trying to reverse engineer Oh Greats brilliant invention.

... Last updated on September 14th, 2012, 3:55am

A great concept that has been poorly executed. The series started off great. It was fun and light-hearted. The art was awesome also. But sadly, all of that got flushed down the toilet the further the manga went on. Now it became a confusing mess filled with a bunch of random philosophy (which made no sense), dark atmosphere, and half the time you can't even tell what is going on because the art is so clustered. If you read Oh! Great's prior work such as Tenjou Tenge, you can expect more or less the same random and confusing story here. I really feel like Oh! Great has talent as an artist, but as an writer... he's not so "great" as his name states.

Hah 3 months since the last comment, you'd think a shonen that was so popular would be flooded but nope.

Anyway that isn't the point, the point is, Air gear has drastically fallen (as many have said) to the point of being pure crap. As many have stated, the beginning of the series was awesome, I mean sure there was some fantasy elements into the series (I was actually okay with Akito's beam kick thing and the fact that certain fighters could stop time or something similar, pretty much all the things that happened during behemoth I was okay with).

It wasn't until Sora started pulling out Jedi like powers and that everyone and their mothers had super powers that rivaled naruto or bleach that this series just descended to crap.

I mean why the fuck at the beginning of the series give us those different games (Dash, disc, cube ect.) for each team rising up only to at the end just make the manga into something unoriginal (OKAY GUYS WE ARE ON HIGH TECH ROLLERBLADES SO LETS JUST SHOOT LIGHTNING AT EACH OTHER AND PUNCH AND STUFF KAY?).

I mean seriously, at first this series was interesting, Original even, then we get treated to a battle manga with every other issue someone running past a group of girls and tearing their clothes off? Fuck that.

Air gear has now just become a pathetic piece of shit series that honestly isn't worth picking up. You will only get attached to it and then become disgusted later (If you haven't seen the series, Don't touch it)

So I totally loved it.
Until about 30/40 chapters ago, when it got REALLY bad. I mean, sure, the art is great and everything, but what the hell has happened to the story?!
I have no idea what's happening now, every chapter goes off on one about destiny. And Oh! Great puts in too much unneccessary nudity.
Its like, every chapter.

I read it now because I feel obligated to, and in the vain hope that it may have improved a little.

Whatever, give it a go, just stop like before the last however many chapters.
I wish I had.
That probably wasn't too helpful.

Oh! Well.

... Last updated on January 2nd, 2009, 5:05pm

Air Gear is the story about a boy who wants to be the very best Roller blade master thing. I think that was the story. It becomes super fucking werid later. But the main character says some shit at the end about roller blades or air treks or whatever so i guess The main plot is consistent. It's not but lets pretend it is. The story constantly changes and evolves. I originally thought this was a racing series but thats not it. The series is by all means a battle shounen series.

The main difference that there is no magic (There is a lot of bullshit but i'll get to that). Instead of magic like black clover, Ki like Dragon ball, Chakara like Naruto, It's air treks. More importantly some air treks have this thing called plot convenience i mean Regalia. These are basically what gives each character super powers to become a god or whatever the fuck the plot feels necessary at the time.

I had heard that the series gets batshit crazy but after reading through the entire manga, I don't think it was as batshit crazy as I was expecting it to be. Maybe like 85% of it. That is until i reached the ending. That's where this shit goes to 115%. For real the entire final fight segment is stupid as fuck. It is so goddamn insane with no motive or understanding of whatever the fuck thats going on.

Honestly though the craziness is not really the main problem with this series. Comedy, Pornography, Flow of the story. These 3 things stood out in a very bad way.

First of all the comedy was not funny. Not really, not ever. The reason for that is how poorly timed the series was. It does have good momentum when the moments get tough and the characters act serious but they always throw in these really shitty jokes. Im not talking about 1 liners while not looking at the explosion behind while pointing a finger up in the sky. It's this over the top seriousness that makes the series so fun and enjoyable. It's these shitty jokes thrown in between the series that ruins the flow of these cool moments. Also the jokes were just not funny at times. They were like 15 poop jokes, that is 15 too many. None of them were really funny and quite a few of them wasted way too much fucking time on it.

It's not just improper comedic timings. There are also such a large amount of random ass nudity that i cannot enjoy. It's the same problem with the comedy. I don't want to see tits in between of an epic fight scene. If you are female character in this series by law you have to be naked. YOU WILL BE NAKED. It is the law in this manga. Wearing clothes isn't optional, It's a crime. There is literally a plot point introduced to have women naked all the time. That is how bullshit this series is. I did enjoy some of the nudity when it wasn't been thrown in, in the middle of the action. But these were far too less.

The flow of the story was also quite odd. There is an entire tournament arc but some weirdo shit happens and apparently they win but we don't get to see anything, we don't get to see how it happened. It just did, moving on. Its really stupid how the author how wastes so much time dragging on certain fights while simultaneously skipping everything else. The boat fight lasted way too fucking long. These were just some of the issues in regards with the story.

The characters could be better. Again with the nudity issue, The series has a sexual harassments problem. At least nobody was a casual rapist. Baby steps Japan. But yeah the male lead was basically casually assaulting women randomly. But its not a big deal because women don't have rights in this possibly dystopian world. The bigger issue was the short fat guy he was easily the least likeable character. His entire was sexually harassing women and he was not a cool character. The less I saw of him the better.

Oh Great is as you'd expect Great at drawing. His artistic talent is top notch, and honestly this series did have the right main approach when it came to action. Men vs men anyway. If you are girl fighting your clothes will get ripped off. This is a universally accepted fact Not many series can fuse together Action and ecchi well and Air Gear is not one of them. It kinda sucks really.

Despite this Air Gear did reignite my love for battle shounen. There is nothing more satisfying than having a 0% chance at victory and proving everyone wrong due to the power of friendship and Oh Great clearly shares that same love. It just kinda sucks that he constantly ruins this with all that other garbage.

The part though where i gave on the story is the buddha stuff that starts showing up. I gave up before then but this really was the final straw.

I do find it kinda funny how the main arguments i see for Air Gear is the fact that you should just be happy that a manga didn't axed. Like that should be enough. That is the main argument from Air Gear lovers.

In the end Air Gear held up longer than I thought. Yeah there is a literally no consistency whatsoever. A lot of shit happens. There are twists in this series because that happens in series and no other reason what so ever. But i think i still didn't really mind this series. It was very inconsistent with its entertainment. I wouldn't really reccomend it. But i wouldn't Not recommend it either.

TLDR: Its awesome and it sucks dick. Very inconsistent series. 5/10

... Last updated on June 29th, 2021, 10:48am

This is a weird one. I really tried to like this. I really did. Artwork is great, the girls look awesome, concept is kinda damn silly but doable, but storyline is squishy and the characters are pretty pathetic. The main character is just another bad-pretty-boy rehash. I dislike him. Nothing really original here. Just a lot of punk ass kids drawn to look cool for vague reasons. At chapter 84, I just exited my view and deleted the archive. Only gets a 6 for the artwork and boobs.

I loved the beggining so much!!! I could feel the freedom, the joy, the motivation, the love straight through my heart. I was really shaken, the phylosopy was so strong, that made me want to experience that ultimate fun and freedom, which the characters are having ....BUT midway I lost the sence of the "freedom and fun aspect" from this story and felt bored and confused, I didn't like the idea, that a middle school kid can have such a huge impact on the world (introducing "Obama" in the plot -_- ..) ...I just liked it simple, 'cuz I think, that's where the freedom lies....But nevertheless I do recommend this manga, because I really thought that everything was so real and made me feel the happiness, even if it was just for a while.