Air Gear

Description

From Kodansha:
Ikki Minami is a junior high school student with a dream - to become the best Air Trek rider in town. It won't be easy, as he faces a lot of competition from boys and girls alike. What is Air Trek? Just the latest craze that involves taking a two-wheel inline skate and adding a motor, suspension, and a shock absorber to enable the wearer to execute the wildest, wackiest, most aggressive moves you can imagine. Ikki has a lot to learn as he fights his way to the top.

A new edition named Air Gear Unlimited was released in 2014. The format is bigger and it contains some colored pages.

Original Web Publication

Official English: Azuki, INKR

Note: Won the 2006 Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen category.

Type

Manga

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

Air Gear Unlimited

AirGear

Lucht Gear

Эйр Гир

الهواء والعتاد

এয়ার গিয়ার

แอร์เกียร์ ขาคู่ทะลุฟ้า (VBK)

エア・ギア

エア・ギア UNLIMITED

飛輪少年

飞轮少年

에어 기어

Groups Scanlating

N/A

Latest Release(s)

N/A

Status in Country of Origin

37 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (TV) / Vol 14, Chap 119 (OVA 1) / Vol 23, Chap 209 (OVA 2-3)

Ends at Vol 12, Chap 104 (TV) / Vol 16, Chap 142 (OVA 1) / Vol 24, Chap 226 (OVA 2-3) All OVAs are heavily abridged.

User Reviews

Air Gear by Master_M2K

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User Rating

Average: 7.4 / 10.0 (1921 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.38 / 10.0

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Last Updated

November 14th, 2024 9:16pm PST - 11 months ago

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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Kodansha

Serialized In (magazine)

Shuukan Shounen Magazine (Kodansha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Azuki (Digital)

Del Rey (Defunct / 17 Vols)

INKR Comics (Digital)

Kodansha USA (37 Vols - Complete)

Tanoshimi (Defunct / 7 Vols)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #723

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Monthly Pos #1234

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3 Month Pos #1812

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6 Month Pos #1829

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Year Pos #2317

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List Stats

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On 1141 wish lists

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Air Gear

12 years ago

Ending

13 years ago

Air gear is finally ending.

14 years ago

ok WTF is wrong with this manga

14 years ago

Airgear ending *spoilers?*

14 years ago

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Addicting

by totalanime
18 years ago

Rating: 9.7 / 10.0

Amazing Art and who ever said the storyline is good, read the last 5 chapters.

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Great

by Dax Baxter
18 years ago

Rating: N/A

the artwork is amazing and the storyline is addicting, it does get a little preachy but thats all the more fun, Read this now!

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by EvilTomte
19 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

The art is very good. But the story is very lacking, and the so called mythology built up in this manga about people flying around in rollerblades and fighting each other is just too bullshit to believe in.

But, it's still an exciting manga to read. But only if you're able to disregard the bullshit enveloping the entire story. Some of the characters are just too much, such as the kid with three personalities and über-skill who keeps swearing all the time (well, one of his personalities do).

It's very predictable as well. Main character is "destined" to be the "god of the sky" or some such, simply because he was "born with some sort of inate über-rollerblading skills". These mangas just has to have one of them as a main-character, sigh.

Anyway, before I rant too much and spoil too much of the story for you; it's a decent shounen manga on the same line as Naruto or Bleach, just with better art and somewhat better storytelling.

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Great

by Bloodsong
19 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

Nice art. Gets repetitive sometimes, but still great.

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huh?

by asdf123
19 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

as you can read in your browser address box, this is manga updates not anime. the anime doesnt even begin to accomplish what the manga does. the idea behind the manga is clearly unique, and although it does follow a simple plot, there are plenty twists and turns within the story to keep you interested. all this combined with the art, the likeable characters, and the phony physics makes this an enjoyable read. 🙂

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Comment.

by canucks
19 years ago

Rating: 5.4 / 10.0

This further proves in the Anime industry, anything can be made into a series, and achieve success. This series probably has one of the most annoyingly simple plots and no "twists and suspense" can save it's freefall into the categories of utter disappointment.
Great art though.

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v1 to v17

by jrlc66
19 years ago

Rating: N/A

v1 to v15 eg and 16 to 17 are raw
i read both eg and the art work in the raw manga

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A unique storyline that keeps progressing...

by magma
19 years ago

Rating: 7.5 / 10.0

Compared to some of the lower ratings out there, I believe that Air Gear deserves at least something above a 5 -__-; The art is great, yes, but the storyline evolves at an astounding rate if you actually read past the first few volumes. Actually, once you get past the first volume, the storyline already develops quite a bit. Give it at least a chance and you'll definitely find something worth reading.

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Just Plain Different

by B0ukun
19 years ago

Rating: N/A

My first Oh!Great Manga and I don't think its bad. In fact I think it's damned good. Panty shots aside the characters really begin to be fleshed out once you get past the initial cheekiness of the first half of the first volume. The abilities are cool, the characters are cool and the theme is great. Giving it a once over will deceive you but getting to the story of kings, roads and towers it invites you to learn more.

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its by oh!great. you'd know what to expect...

by Diokhan
19 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

as many have mentioned, artwork is topnotch and all that stuff

as for the story, i dunno, whats wrong really. it did started out quite shallow, but it got some improvement as you read on. you also just have to like all the bogus scientific explanation oh!great comes up with. compared to tenten, the only thing missing are nipples shot and historical japanese philosophy (though, there are a bit of there).

consider this tenten lite, except maybe the story has more impact.

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