Air Gear

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Air Gear
エア ギア


Oddly, Unlike I usually do with anime. I have only read the manga on so far. I am on about chapter 70-75, but I can tell you that this manga/anime is awesome and I suggest you read (or watch, though the anime has only one season).

Introduction
Itsuki "Ikki" Minami, is a student and a delinquent. Also known as the "Unbeatable Babyface", Ikki is the leader of the youth gang by the name of "East Side Gunz" (Hikatsuganzu). Upon his return home, after being humiliated by a Storm Rider team called the Skull Saders, Ikki discovers a secret hidden from him by his benefactors, the Noyamano sisters. The sisters belong to a group of Storm Riders who go by the team name of Sleeping Forest. In the anime, learning the sisters' secret angers him and he steals a pair of Air Trecks, abbreviated as "AT". (In the manga, the sisters give a pair of ATs to him and invite him to skate with them.) Ikki eventually settles his grudge with the Skull Saders, but in the process he receives more than the simple satisfaction of revenge. Determined to experience the sensation of "flight" for as long as he can, Ikki is quickly engaged in the mysterious, irresistible world of Air Treks.


Characters

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Itsuki Minami
Voiced by: Kenta Kamakari (Japanese), Chris Patton (English)
Itsuki Minami (南 樹 ), known as Ikki (イッキ) by his friends, is a free spirited AT rider that has a natural affiliation for being in the sky. He is introduced to ATs by Noyamano family, whom he lives with due to his parents' deaths. He eventually forms Kogarasumaru, and takes on the Trophaeum. Ikki is often characterized as a crow due to a small crow, Kū, using his hair as a nest.

Ikki is able to see the Wing Road, and his peers often consider him to be the best candidate to become the next Sky King. He possesses two passive traits known as Trick Pass and Hawk Eye, which allow him to easily survey an area and utilize any part of it. Both are considered attributes necessary for a candidate to be Sky King.

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Kazuma Mikura
Voiced by: Kenn (Japanese), Clint Bickham (English)
Kazuma Mikura (美鞍 数馬), known as Kazu to his friends, is a childhood friend of Ikki who becomes influenced to take up AT and join Kogarasumaru. He is originally bullied by Ikki as a child, and he often feels like others are more important than himself, especially compared to Ikki's natural talent. He takes up running at a later point, which eventually leads to him being an exceptionally fast AT rider. As he shows signs of following the Flame Road, Spitfire takes an interest in him and eventually proclaims Kazu to be the next Flame King.

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Akito/Agito/Lind Wanijima
*Note - Do not be confused by the profile, the character of Akito/Agito/Lind Wanijima is actually one person in the story, with multiple personalities.
Voiced by: Kokoro Kikuchi (Japanese), Blake Shepard (English)
Akito Wanijima (鰐島 亜紀人) and Agito Wanijima (鰐島 咢) are two personalities that make up the Fang King, of the Bloody Road. They are originally part of the Wind SWAT team, in which they are treated like a tool by their older brother, Kaito. Ikki eventually saves them, and they join Kogarasumaru. They switch who is in control by using an eye patch. Akito is innocent and non-violent. He becomes attracted to Ikki, much to Ikki's discontent, and often tries to kiss, bathe, and sleep next to Ikki. He states he was the original Fang King until he became disgusted with himself and became unable to use AT. Agito then appears and starts using ATs, while following his own violent and bloodthirsty nature. He tends to swear a lot and uses four hooks dangling from straps on his legs to battle and tear people apart. When equipped with the Fang Regalia, he releases a pressurized "Fang" through the instantaneous acceleration and braking of the A-T's wheel motors, vacuuming and compressing air into a piercing shock wave.

Another personality, Lind Wanijima (鰐島 凜鱗人), emerges during the battle with Orca. He claims to be the original personality and he is much stronger than the other two, utilizing the Fang Regalia on a different level. He is a "brain charger", characterized by a cross on his eyes, created in the same way as the gravity children.

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Issa Mihotoke
Voiced by: Hitoshi Bifu (Japanese), Mark X. Laskowski (English)
Issa Mihotoke (御仏 一茶), known as Buccha (仏茶) to his friends and teammates, has an extremely large body that he uses to his advantage in battle. Before he became part of Kogarasumaru, he is the leader of the team Night Kings (夜王) which is defeated by Ikki. He appears to be obese, but his body is only ten percent fat. His size is actually caused by a large amount of blood pooling in his gut from overeating. He also has the ability to manipulate that blood and send it to his muscles, causing him to temporarily have a slimmer, cut figure and even cause his limbs to become longer. He uses brass knuckles-esque gloves in combat, which combined with his superhuman strength is truly devastating.

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Onigiri
Voiced by: Masami Kikuchi (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)
Onigiri (オニギリ) is one of Ikki's childhood friends who joins Kogarasumaru. He rides on a single AT by sitting upside down on it, mainly to look up the skirts of his female schoolmates. This proves useful during Kogarasumaru's battle against Behemoth, when Onigiri fights against Ryō Mimasaka who uses her tattoos on her body to hypnotize her opponents, but since Onigiri is looking at her tattoos from an upside down angle, he remains unaffected and is able to defeat her. He has an unusual way of using his perspiration, usually during overall perverted moments, to create illusions, which he nicknames the "Smell Road." Though Ikki is perverted as well, he is nowhere near to being perverted as Onigiri. It should also be noted that although he is appears weak, when he pushes himself to his limits he can fight.

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Mikan Noyamano
Voiced by: Seika Hosokawa (Japanese), Shelley Calene-Black (English)
Mikan Noyamano (野山野 蜜柑 ,Noyamano Mikan?) is the second eldest of the Noyamano sisters and a gravity child. She is tomboyish girl with short messy hair, and the disciplinarian of the group. She often punishes Ikki by attacking him with wrestling moves and often treats him like a slave. She has a soft spot for retro games, something which Simca uses to initially gain her favor.

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Ringo Noyamano
Voiced by: Mariya Ise (Japanese), Luci Christian (English)
Ringo Noyamano (野山野 林檎) is successor of Sleeping Forest and the Thorn Queen, of the Sonia Road. She is a second generation gravity child and the only one completely unaffected by pressure in the Trophaeum due to the Sonia Road, leading to her being undefeated there. Her Sonia Road gives her graceful and deadly agility that eventually takes its toll on her body except inside of the 'forest' within Trophaeum. She is in love with Ikki, but she is unable to relay her feelings. This also makes it hard for her to fulfill her purpose as Sleeping Forest's leader while supporting Ikki. She helps Kogarasumaru in times of trouble under the guise of Croissant Mask, even coming to Kogarasumaru's aid when it was revealed that Ikki's negligence had prevented the team from registering.

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Shiraume Noyamano
Voiced by: Yukika Hanioka (Japanese), Hillary Haag (English)
Shiraume Noyamano (野山野 白梅), known as Ume to her family, is the youngest of the sisters. Her hobby is the creation of puppets in the guise of gorgons, and she's always seen carrying one with her. She is supposedly the weakest member of Sleeping Forest in terms of AT fighting skills, though as a gravity child, she is able to battle extremely well in the Tropheum.

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Rika Noyamano
Voiced by: Naoko Matsui (Japanese), Christine Auten (English)
Rika Noyamano (野山野 梨花) is the eldest of the Noyamano sisters. She acts like a typical older sister and takes care of the family. To support her sisters and Ikki, she works as Destler Bartlett, a female pro-wrestler. During the time when Ikki discovers AT, she is out on a national tour with her wrestling promotion. Unknown to Ikki at first, she is the former Thorn Queen of the original Sleeping Forest, which required her to utilizes her hip joints as the base of her moves. The disadvantage of her Sonia Road was that it took quite a toll on her body, making her tire easily. She is one of two members of the original Sleeping Forest that is not a Gravity Child, the other being Ine.

Extras

Opening

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Ending
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Miz

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Manga > Anime by far.
That's all I have to say :p

I was assuming that, the manga is really good but any comments on the Anime would also be nice too. Just don't ask me questions about the anime because they do change things from Manga -> Anime in the editing process.
 

Syndrome

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Anime had a crudtacular ending to it.
Don't even ask >_>

Oh, there's some... fanservice in this manga...
Just a head's up.

To be honest, I would love Air Trek to be real-life things. :p
 

jonadrian619

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Great timing for the guide! I mean..

Animax Asia is about to telecast Air Gear next week. This guide might come in handy:D Air Trek really caught my attention, It's a spectacular sight.. so I'll start viewing next week..
 
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