For those not in the know: Air Gear is Ito Ogure's (Oh Great!) weekly shonen manga that ran from 2002-2012. It feature out hero Itsuki Minami and his extreme rollerblading adventures. This was the kind of manga that everyone at least heard of on the internet back in 2006 but I'd say only a few actually stuck with reading. It's extreme, over the top, ridiculous, a mess, nostalgic and has excellent artwork.
In this volume: The gang enters the final boss rush. Crow vs Shota, Shark vs Masochist and Tank vs Whale Volume 1: Volume 2: Volume 3: Volume 4: Volume 5: Volume 6: Volume 7: Volume 8: Volume 9: Volume 10: Volume 11: Volume 12: Volume 13: Volume 14: Volume 15: Volume 16: Volume 17: Volume 18: Volume 19: Volume 20: Volume 21: Volume 22: Volume 23: Volume 24: Volume 25: Volume 26: Volume 27: Volume 28:
i think its the dude who ripped faces. i mean, i think he was with his SF 'comrades' in the tropaeum last volume. but he could have been sent to do this or something.
Benjamin Miller
Who needs the military when you can just send the cops to a nuclear facility?
This manga has had many lows. But one thing I'll always be sure of all these years later is that Kogarasumaru is one of the coolest fucking team of protags in any manga.
Nue is at least nice enough to tell them this isn't going to be like Super Mario where he has to find 7 more boats and beat those gravity children to find his big sis. It's Zelda instead.
Ikki tried diplomacy but forgot that Nue won't budge unless you kick his ass first. I bet Nike gave him a good talking to prior. And by that, I mean taking advantage of a drunkard son's daddy issues.
im sure the flow of SMW and your average Zelda is the same, at least taking the items and sidequests aside: go to stronghold>Defeat the boss>Do it seven more times>defeat the final boss>Save the XXX.
>Christ Nue give me 10 minutes to check if my mommy figure is alright before wanting a therapeutic beatdown - Lord of the Skies and Space, Itsuki Minami
Simca is a valkyrie and has given Kogasumaru a major power-up. Now they can save time jobbing and kick some as- aw who am I kidding they'll still job first before making the babyface reversal heel turn.
Ikki knows the only way to progress is to give Nue his bottle and a spanking.
Agito must be the number 1 detective in the world to be consistently able to know when people are bullshitting their true opinions. Though to be fair Sano makes it too damn easy to read.
The fact that Buccha knows this makes him more of a keeper than you Sano.
Ikki knows its fake but can't help himself making brats kneel to his greatness.
Now that Nue has shed his armor and got tattoos, he's now even stronger than before. Truly the Hitsugaya of Air Gear
Agito really is the god damn MVP of Air Gear despite plenty of anons saying its problems started with him.
I think they mistranslated strongest as 'no.1'. I can totally see this guy being the strongest in terms of raw physical power but that's all he has compared to the stat boosts offered by roads and regalia.
Blake Bailey
If only Nike had more moments like this he would probably be more respected than the edge lord who seethes at any wind user like a baby.
>Rika was in on it the whole time Mikan should punch you in the face for making her lose her shit.
>Wants all the gravity children together thus spent many volumes getting them >Put them to the test with the stipulation of killing them if they don't prove their worth I really hate this dumbass trope like you wouldn't believe.
Sora Takeuchi, number 1 asshole and dark counterpart to Itsuki Minami
Bentley Long
Out of everything that happened this volume you had to pick one of the few great moments to make your point
Hunter Kelly
>Sano >Akira >now Bando Damn, was everyone in behemoth a fag?
Tyler Wood
maybe the ancient behemoth beast was indeed gay?
Aiden Campbell
UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH ToT
Jordan Stewart
>THE ULTIMATE ROLLERBLADING TECHNIQUE >shooting an unconscious man in the fucking head with a desert eagle
Brayden Bailey
Why do you faggot keep spoiling this shit?
Hunter Cooper
>hype up strong character >gets collapsed by debris >HAHAHA SO FUNNEH
Jayden James
Ikki quit jobbing to wires and get serious already.
Nue quit projecting on to Ikki. We get it you feel the same about your dumbass drunk of a dad.
Ikki for fuck sakes you're the secret ninth King, act with some class, and don't give into Nue's story. Beside We all know Sora taught you those tricks to diverge you from your own cause he's afraid of your true power
Ryan Myers
>HAHAHA SO FUNNEH Yes
Adam Ramirez
user there are 1000 characters at this point. We don't need another
Grayson Taylor
Its time for Bucchas one and only onscreen victory in the entire series
Brody Howard
Nigger kogarasumaru literally jobbed to a bunch of corpos
Michael Martin
Dude imagine dying because a swat guy slammed a door on your face during a raid
Carter Hall
Just popped in to see where in the story we are at.
Looks like we are post landing on the ship scene. I loved this series prior to that :(
Mason Kelly
nta, but lets be fair here, did we needed for him to be set up like that, just for a gag?
maybe if they took the full body spread page and refused to name the guy, it would have worked better. also less ink wasted.
Matthew Carter
I don’t see Kazu ever living this one down
Ryan Campbell
Yeah that's pretty funny
Jayden Taylor
>still owns the retarded bike I love just how much of a dork everyone in this series is
Jack Hall
>did we needed for him to be set up like that, just for a gag? Yes, that's what makes the gag work,
Leo Ortiz
All these kids need some serious spankings.
There's a lot to take in from this even by air gear dumb standards. But the lesson to the heart is imitation isn't bad, it's what everyone uses for a foundation before branching themselves off to do their own style. From Martial artists to plain artists, everyone takes what they can from others to learn and improve while building upon that foundation. It's only when you choose to ride the coattails of that foundation and offer absolutely nothing that you're a bonified hack.
Lincoln Long
NEVER SKIPPED LEG DAY
Michael Moore
>Jobbed so hard he reached Nirvana
Parker Butler
It kinda bothers me that Agito's last opponent is a joke like Arthur, same for Buccha. But maybe Im remembering wrong.
Justin Clark
Uh-oh, Yayoi got loose panties.
Logan Thomas
I reread the whole thing recently and Arthur is actually pretty strong, Buccha's fight is way shorter but none of their opponents felt like jokes
Carter Watson
Arthur was a legit threat its just that the battle fucking sucked between the shitty Lind backstory and all the focus on the trap it just wasn't very engaging.
>none of their opponents felt like jokes Nike almost gets beaten by Onigiri
Dylan Bell
Imitation is the first form of flattery but calm down and respect yourself more Ikki. You're far better than Sora.
Sano Kazu is getting raped by fat old bastards, now's not the time for jokes. Even if that'll probably make you happy.
Agito knows splitting up is how you die 9/10 times in every action to horror movies. Best to bail each other out than play by these 1v1 boss rush games.
Buccha that's real sweet but, the two of you are just asking to be jumped.
They really are bird of a feather.
Owen Ortiz
>Nike almost gets beaten by Onigiri That was a robot possing as Nike
Aiden Edwards
>An ordinary man.
Elijah Hill
Whowas crying for mommy here? I bet it was that fag Agito calling for Yayoi.
Austin Foster
Agito really is too damn smart for this manga, and now he's gonna get jumped.
Why does Agito always get stuck with the freaks and sickos? Is it because of his childbearing hips and good looks? I blame Gazelle for this
Ryder Roberts
enter wakatsuki's son
Grayson Campbell
>count the rings on your thighs to know how many men you've had Is that a thing with women?
Zachary Brown
How in the fuck is this a rollerblading trick
Bold of you to assume that Nike has friends
Yep this really is Zelda 101
Death and Jobbing flags all around.
Jack Diaz
ENTER
Samuel Flores
Land vs Sea, how poetic.
Buccha what the fuck?! You can't just murder an orca like that. What will the national wildlife guard say about this
Dylan Mitchell
This what Lolong should've done
Andrew Myers
>Air Gear is a bad manga This page is the perfect reply to all the non-cultured bastards out there.
Kayden Sanchez
>The cast and comedy carried the manga so fucking hard. >Most of them are really poorly written (Agito, the villains, SF) or are irrelevant (Ikki, the bulk of the cast introduced in the beginning)
>Such a better cast than TT I'm almost inclined to agree because Nagi is a terrible MC, Aya fucking sucks and most of the characters even the good ones don't leave as nearly a strong of an impression compared to AG
Andrew Brown
Buccha quit defeating yourself, that's what the enemy is supposed to do
YEAH just like that. Also Oh great's love for lore and knowledge has invaded Buccha's brain.
At long last Buddha Buccha has finally come to the service.
Henry Wood
This is probably the 4th or 5th time someone tried to explain how time works
Oliver Cox
How can Oh Great!'s art be so detailed yet so clean?
Lincoln Reed
Why didn’t this nigga do this earlier? Could’ve saved him from jobbing so damn much
Asher Roberts
Nue is cool for a shota.
Liam Richardson
He didn't had the teachings of Buddha drilled into his jobbing ass yet
Jason Ward
Buccha is tired of these bullshit geniuses plaguing the game.
Simca is proving her worth by saving the Gogan girl who should be dead. God bless technology.
Just like that Simca's precious outfit is ruined and now she gotta birthday suit it till the end.
Simca, you and I both know you can kick his ass. You're a gravity child. And a first-generation at that.
The shit that she has to put up with just because a crazy apple crippled her for six months.
Joshua Price
This is why Ikki is king of protagonists. Who else can bullshit this way on the spot?
Michael Butler
FUCK YOUR GAME AND ITS SETUP. It's time for Sano to start game geniueing this shit up and save his waifu and bestie.
ENTER Agkito Super Full Power No Ego Zone Buccha Krillin'd Kazu Super Ikki and Pure Progress Sano
Christopher Cooper
Dat Simca ass. Dat Gorgon ass.
Gabriel White
>sexualizing a literal toddler in a shounen Oh Great truly is the maddest of men
Ryan Russell
How the fuck was that bad?
Jayden Myers
She may be stupid and flat, but man those are some fine thighs.
I don't think you know his fetishes all that well.
Henry Barnes
see
Oliver Kelly
Now I'm mad Spitfire never got to fight Nue
Dylan Hill
The only thing I remember from here on is an edgy guy with robot arms when does he show up?
Hunter Lewis
Man Pink Panther just doesn't exist anymore.
I hate this fight so much which is saying something given how dragged out these battles will be.
Rika really need to choose her partners better Ikki should get a restraining order for all these gravity children wanting free therapy Nue has daddy issues and self project himself on Ikki Nike is that incel friend that nobody likes but you put up with cause you don't wanna get shot. Both Soras have bird infestation living rent-free in their heads Kazu got too cocky living rent-free in Ikki's head and now jobbed to bubblegum Hard work and dedication can elevate you as seen with Buddha Buccha Simca has put up with way too much shit for one girl to handle. Agito has a making for a famous detective Sano is still tsundere to Kazu but damn if he's not one of the most based fuckers for speedrunning and glitching through these boss rushes Mikan has deep-seated Gorilla issues Kilik deeply wants to fuck Sora..and save Rika I guess Falco is way more important than pink panther And most of all
WINNERS DON'T DO DRUGS
Sebastian Morris
:x
Anthony Butler
Saint Seiya!Elevar o cosmo no seu coração!
Brody Johnson
I mean god DID kill its wife so it had to get its rocks off somehow.
I'm sadder that Agito's fight is the worst cause it drags out so damn much for a nothing burger pay off. And the Gazelle retcons. UGGGHH
Not even Maya can carry that series.
He didn't have the right mindset for mindfulness impermanence
Adrian Barnes
>Not even Maya can carry that series. Because she's dead through most of it
Grayson Ross
These things remind me of that animated robot movie by blue sky
Kilik mighthave made some mistakes, but O!G was to hard on him.
Ian Rivera
Stop reading jojo, Agito
Benjamin Jackson
someone had to pay for all the bullshit that has been happening so far...
Oliver Cook
Oh Great sure loves his references, doesn't he?
Christian Garcia
Simcafags will never recover.
Nicholas Price
I don't think so. Bot Sora's a are singing the same song, but it's not real/ Something inspired by Coolio or 2Pac, I guess. Or maybe some very obscure underground Japanese artist that I always miss.
Brayden Campbell
Super old man power fist will save the day
Christian Watson
Based Loliko-san and her talking panties.
Carter Martinez
Nikebros...
Jacob Ross
Dangerously based Loliko-san.
Ian Richardson
I wonder if this is Oh!Great's inner monologue. I always thought his style was pretty original, but did he ripoff some of his early senseis?
Ayden Reed
Is that another >Rollerblades Moment, I see?
Carson Thomas
Kazufags are pathetic.
Sebastian Young
Jabba. Yayoi. Ume.
Henry Torres
Fear the pig.
Matthew Nguyen
Someone needs to make a (you) image out of that bottom panel
Evan Torres
His style was definitely heavily influenced by Oku.
Ryan Moore
What are you on about today?
Henry Sanchez
>rollerblading
Oliver Sanchez
Bucchads, the time has come and so have we.
Ian Moore
Oh!Great drew the gesture even before it went meme.
John Howard
Kazubros... they cant do this to us!
Alexander Lee
Wait, really? Do nipples grow back?
Nathaniel Evans
>have villain group based on the knights of the round table >make Arthur their weakest member Way to subvert expectations
Xavier Green
Nobody boy is jobbing even in volume previews now.
Justin Bailey
JOBBING OUTDATED ORCA OVERRATED LONG HAVE WE WAITED NIRVANA ACTIVATED BUCCHADS LETS FUCKING GO
Joseph Kelly
>Nike almost gets beaten by Onigiri
Your point?
Cameron Adams
>>The cast and comedy carried the manga so fucking hard. >>Most of them are really poorly written (Agito, the villains, SF) or are irrelevant (Ikki, the bulk of the cast introduced in the beginning) Name a better written group cast. Do it, faggot.
Jace Perry
I'm on 4chin, of course I don't. Explain now.
Leo Adams
>Ah yes you know what will make me better at rollerblading?
>FOCUSING ON LIFTING WITH MY ARMS
Hunter Reed
Oku of Gantz? Doubt. They never worked together or even talked about each other as far I know.
Julian Russell
>salome did OG change his mind again here ?
Xavier Ortiz
maybe he counts all those lightning road kids
Joshua Foster
WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE GEORGIE
Samuel Cruz
bucha-sama, i kneel
Angel Lopez
Air Gear needed to be a BL Manga.
Jaxon Smith
Well, Akito did his best, but all these sluts around Ikki-sama...
Eli Hall
Call me again when Kazu vs Nike is starting bros. The peak of this manga. The best Arc
Josiah Sullivan
Akira's one of the few side characters with a confirmed girlfriend/fiance.
Leo Ramirez
Counting days till the four page spread.
Jose Rivera
nice shading
Camden Ortiz
FUCKING HELL, WHY IS O!G WASTING HIS TIME & TALENT WORKING ON SUCH RUN OF THE MILL SERIES LIKE MONOGATARI
FUCK
Benjamin Thomas
that's a big Roller Skate
Adam Martin
WAT?
Austin Robinson
I still hate the idea of this team. Bunch of maiden exploit their body to pleases random fags for free.
Really? Anything more complicated than a spoon in Gantz is 3d models. Or do you mean his design sense? There are some similarities in general, but I think it's more of the general techno sci-fi style of early 00s when they both made it.
Josiah Bailey
I like how everyone in this series can talk mad shit
Christian Bennett
I agree with you, user. I dunno what the other user was thinking of
Ryan Brown
>sucker punching the enemy is bad because... it just is, OK? People like you are why every single shounen shit devolves into endless 1v1s
>hype up He was literally around for all of 2 pages
Elijah Ramirez
Neither of these were what happened, faggot. Sano just used some common sense to avoid a pointless fight
Jason Price
I do not get why him, the arab guy and his daughter, and good amount of the others on the ship were even in the story. I really wonder what was going through Oh Great!'s mind when he was writing this final arc, felt like he was just adding in a ton of characters and hoping he'll have a place to use them for later.
Whoever said oh great needed a writer needs to be lined up and shot. Never has there been a greater monkey's paw.
Charles Foster
I want the brown lioness back
Ian Ward
>random fags Only kings get link tuners. Everyone else just gets their air trek fixed up like what we saw in the white wolf fight.
Jaxon Ward
>There are some similarities in general, but I think it's more of the general techno sci-fi style of early 00s when they both made it. Could be that. You just see a lot of round disc-like parts in their machinery. One that stood out for me as being overtly Gantz was the plugsuit that sleeping forest girl wears.
Alexander Ortiz
It's very obvious he was rushing through stuff from the tournament onwards. I guess that was around the time he was given a deadline? You can clearly tell he wanted to do more with the lion kings and the hipster pervs.
Nolan Harris
On one hand, I feel bad for any mangaka to be rushed out of what they wanted to do because of arbitrary reasons. On the other hand, he did waste nearly 3 volumes on romance bullshit and meandering plots that went absolutely nowhere.
Ryan Brown
I prefer romance to everyone being asexual robots
Aiden Ross
Kazufujos are delusional thinking their twink could ever be half the MC CHADkki is
I prefer the mangaka establishing the pairings day 1 so we don't spend 3 volumes introducing new potential love interests and starting dreading shipping wars only for the Mangaka to force his first girl to win through the most inorganic and unsatisfying means or try to subvert expectations just for shock value rather than good storytelling. Kururu while a sweet cinnamon bun has no real reason to exist and both her and kanon are only around for "drama" and the tired ole "will they, won't they" bs.
Why is Kazu blamed for Fujo bandwagon? AG literally har bigger Fujo bait such as Spitfire & Nike. This is just DUMB.
Alexander Rodriguez
Gol D Roger
Alexander Campbell
good use of contrast
Noah Martin
Because he is the most popular and frequent fujo bait and clearly has Ikki seething over him like Bakugo which entices them apparently.
Jace Reyes
With the explanation of this trick doesn't that mean that Sora without his batteries would have to start running again to build up power
Jason Ramirez
How many volume is this again?
Joseph Anderson
is Kuu the crow still living in Ikki's head? will he reappear?
Jonathan Bennett
These fights were hell to read in real time I hated especially Agito and Ikki. Everyone else was cool.
Elijah Rodriguez
7 left
Charles Brooks
Spitfire and Nike aren't protagonists. They're also cool so it cancels out the fujo appeal.
Charles Mitchell
It's ironic how the Deku of Air gear became more popular with fujos than the Bakugo of air gear. Might have something to do with Ikki shitting on the streets though.
Gavin Taylor
If the entire thing is torn off, it won't but just the teat can
Chase Johnson
air gear has such an amazing art but the most nonsensical plot i've ever read.
I dunno while there does seem room for more chapters there's over 70 chapters left from this point on which is nearly 2 years IRL. That's a huge amount of time for a hard deadline it's probably declining sales that made him decide to go to story beats he knew people would like.
Bentley Anderson
They are mostly just RPG bards.
Ian Torres
Why is volume 16 the only one to hit 700+ replies?
Caleb Reed
Its the one where Ringo commits her biggest sin in the eyes of half the fanbase so shipping autism got bad in it
Isaac Carter
I'm surprised Nue never got popular with fujos >tragic past >tattoos >edgy lightning wire powers >raises a group of orphans Kid was built for fujo cunt
Michael Miller
I'm only monitoring these threads waiting for uncensored Simca nipples. Just putting that out there.
(Emily would be better but she was not lewded as much)
Christian Watson
a man of culture
Tyler Cook
have you seen all those AgitoxKazu DJs? the man is lewdable
Jayden Sanchez
>blonde user, sorry for being blunt, but you're colourblind.
