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

Latest Release(s)

c.358 by MangaStream 9 years ago

c.355-357 (end) by MangaStream 13 years ago

c.354 by MangaStream 13 years ago

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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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44 topics, 1863 posts

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User Rating

Average: 7.4 / 10.0 (1917 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.38 / 10.0

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Last Updated

November 14th, 2024 9:16pm PST - 6 months ago

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Genre

Action Comedy Drama Ecchi Fantasy Harem Mature Romance School Life Sci-fi Shounen Sports
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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 #607

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Monthly Pos #1240

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3 Month Pos #1700

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6 Month Pos #2471

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Year Pos #2545

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List Stats

On 4355 reading lists

On 1127 wish lists

On 2605 completed lists

On 548 unfinished lists

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Air Gear

12 years ago

Ending

13 years ago

Air gear is finally ending.

13 years ago

ok WTF is wrong with this manga

13 years ago

Airgear ending *spoilers?*

13 years ago

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im lovin' it (its not mcdonalds)

by traziemykel
19 years ago

Rating: N/A

pretty good manga
its funny! its ecchi! and RINGO-chan!!
a must read..
^^

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Worth a try

by [deleted member]
19 years ago

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something new; with sports, fanservice, fights...so far its ok for me....somehow, i dun find the main character cool at all...but i've only read 7books...so....

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nice

by [deleted member]
19 years ago

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very nice artwork. interesting characters. well worth a look

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by [deleted member]
20 years ago

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nice story and exelent artwork

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The only comment you have to read

by Alekzxxx
11 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

It seems, that most of the people here just simply don't get it.
This manga is enjoyable, crazy, surprisingly smart for shounen and of course exciting ride, from beginning to the end, you just have to be prepared, that plot will get you in a totally different direction from where it seems to be going at first. People are scared of unexpected story twists, dialogues, where you have to pay a tiny bit of attention, and overwhelming awesomeness. The whole concept didn't make any sense from the beginning (roller blades with engines, really?), neither did "superpowers" that were introduced a little bit later, but Ito was doing a great job tying it all to his masterfully crafted universe using pseudo-scientific explanations. Don't get humble first parts of the story fool you, this manga is gurren-lagann-level-nuts. But it has its own poetry feel to the narrative, dialogues filled with beautiful metaphors, which are sometimes translated into incredible art, philosophies, which are ,for once, not empty, and characters that feel really alive. It's about awesomness, Dreams, love, FEELS, epic, finding one's way in life, rivalry, and many other great things. It has really funny jokes, as well as most exciting, most well-thought and most unpredictable battles in history of manga. That battle with Sleipnir you'll never forget. Oh yeah and also some ecchi, but i stopped noticing it after a while. You just have to follow carefully, and even use your brain from time to time to comprehend what's going on, otherwise you might get pretty confused.
And who the hell cares about what happened to Ikki's crow, whether he got expelled from school and how obama-girl got switched back? Someone here was wondering what happened to Ikki's parents, well it's actually was all explained in the manga, like i said, you just had to pay attention. Anime sucks balls, btw.

Bottom line is, Air Gear is one of the greatest and most beautiful mangas out there , both story-wise and art-wise, but it also a little bit demanding, you have to read it carefully. So fasten your seatbelt, and ready for the craziest ride (or is it better to say flight?) of your life, you won't regret it, trust me.

... Last updated 11 years ago

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unless you like skating or are under 18

by Jack_T
17 years ago

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i wouldnt recommend this.

everything in this series is bland.

really if you want to read oh great, go read tenjo tenge. thats a lot better even though its not released as frequently.

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Quantity over Quality!

by The Steed
17 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

It WAS good, but the story is getting worse and worse. I like it the way it was. The recent chapters/volumes released by the author (Oh Great!) are way below the first. The author is giving the story a weird twist (in the latest relases) and that is when it started to get complicated.
Overall: It's a great manga, the art is of high class, the characters are well thought out, the story is unique and it's pretty addicting.
But the further you get pulled into the story, the more your going to start to notice some crazy sh*t.

Conclusion: Great manga, certainly worth reading, but the quality(=the story CERTAINLY NOT the art, or the characters) will be the cost when u advance further into the story. It's giving off the feeling like quantity over quality, but that said it's DEFINTELY a manga worth of reading!! (If u don´t mind the lacking of a plot in the later chapters-volumes, that is).

... Last updated 17 years ago

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Your typical shonen series taken to the extreme.

by trunks84
18 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

Yeah it is so obvious that air gear & tenjou tenge are developed by the same people. They got a quite nice basic idea but then they complicate it and complicate it. easy competitions turned into worldwars. I'm glad already that air gear ain't got explicit nudity / sex scenes like TT. At least I still enjoy reading AG while TT is something I force myself to read to hope it gets better.

AG is your typical shonen how the typical shonenfan wants it, even though sometimes it gets a lil technical and it goes over your head. Great artwork, at least Oh Great knows how to draw babes. If this manga brought out one good thing at least, its Kururu.

... Last updated 13 years ago

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Oh! great

by thischinksays
18 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

I love Oh! Great's art and the way he draws girls. The story is lackluster but there are some enjoyable moments. Overall, an average read with great art and definite eye candy.

... Last updated 16 years ago

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Weeeell

by Da-manta-ray
18 years ago

Rating: 7.5 / 10.0

Looks like Air gear just got really weird... I think the author should end it soon to avoid the trend of just becoming really dragged out...

... Last updated 18 years ago

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