Air Gear/Characters

This is the character page for the characters of Air Gear:

Itsuki "Ikki" Minami


"Don't you... want to go? I'll make it for you... inside this mold filled cage. I will show you... the SKY!"

Itsuki Minami is the male protagonist of the series. Prior to the beginning of the series, he was established as the leader of his school's gang, the East Side Gunz. There, he earned the nickname "Babyface", which has followed him into the A·T world. He has shown an extreme amount of talent with the Air Treck, to the point of being a genius at it. Founder of the team Kogarasumaru, as well as its leader. He is the current Storm King of the Hurricane Road.


 * Always Save the Girl
 * Animal Motifs: Crows. One even made a nest of his hair, thus his nickname.
 * Battle Couple: Ikki and Ringo.
 * Blow You Away
 * Break the Cutie: When he finds out that  was betraying him the whole time.
 * Chick Magnet: Kazu says this in episode 12, that Ikki is this.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
 * Mr. Fanservice
 * Even the Guys Want Him: The guys include Akito, Aeon and maybe Kazu.
 * Expy: Touma Kamijou from A Certain Magical Index
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: Look below to the Ho Yay.
 * Ho Yay: Most prominent with Agito/Akito. Also, Kazu.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be loud, violent and rude, but he really does deeply care about his friends and family.
 * Manly Tears
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Usually in conjunction with his Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass moments. He almost always reveals near the end of an arc that he already knew what was being planned, and planned accordingly.
 * Idiot Hero/The Hero
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Agito's, and Blue to Kazu's and Ringo's.
 * The Rival:
 * Save the Villain:

Agito/Akito Wanijima


Agito/Akito Wanijima are the three personas inhabiting the body of Kaito Wanijima's younger brother.

The youngest and dominant persona, Agito was created by Akito to cope with the mental stress created by his pacifist nature and responsibilities as Fang King. As such, his strength is derived from his desire to protect Akito. He is aloof and foul-mouthed character, despite this, he is nonetheless a valuable asset to Kogarasumaru.

Akito is dominant personality prior to Agito's creation and his polar opposite in almost every aspect. He's timid, gentle and feminine both in behavior and appearance. Nonetheless he is even more frightening than Agito when angered.

All of the personas are King-Level Bloody Road riders.


 * Abduction Is Love: What Yayoi pulled on him, and he didn't seem to mind.
 * Animal Motifs: HE'S A SHAAARRK!!
 * Everything's Even Worse with Sharks
 * Anti-Hero: Agito started out as type VI to III. As of now in the manga, he's type II.
 * Attractive Bent Gender: Chapter 97 shows us how cute Akito looks in a wedding dress.
 * Ax Crazy: Agito and
 * Badass
 * Badass Adorable: Akito.
 * Badass Normal: Agito
 * Back-to-Back Badasses: Agito & Ikki.
 * Berserk Button: Agito has a lot of these.
 * pushes Agito's pretty hard when he said that Yayoi didn't matter. Boy, was Agito pissed!
 * Bishounen
 * Blood Knight
 * Catch Phrase/Cluster F-Bomb
 * Chick Magnet: Well, among nurses and doctors, anyway.
 * Cross-Dressing Voices
 * Dark and Troubled Past
 * Evil Laugh: Agito.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Jerkass: Agito (At least in the beginning he was), and.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Agito.
 * Sir Swearsalot: Agito.
 * Slasher Smile: Agito.
 * Split Personality
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: Ikki and Agito.
 * Hot-Blooded
 * Ho Yay: Agito and Ikki have it, while Akito openly admits his homosexual attraction with Ikki. Ikki seems to be okay with that, though.
 * Hellish Pupils: Agito sports these.
 * Heroic Sociopath: Agito.
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Luke, I Am Your Father: Akito, and Agito find out that
 * Missing Mom:
 * Razor Wind
 * Rescue Romance: With Yayoi Nakayama.
 * Security Cling: Could be considered this when Yayoi first tunes Agito.
 * Ship Tease: Agito and Yayoi Nakayama.
 * The Ace: This extremely skillful Rider, "A·T Expert" and "Genius Fighter" is also so popular with the female population (especially loved by female doctors and nurses), that it freaks him out.
 * The Smart Guy
 * Tsundere: Agito has his moments with his friends, but more with.
 * Would Hit a Girl
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Yandere: Akito is this for Ikki. Just take it from Kururu who got scared from Akito.
 * It's debated wheather or not Agito is this for Yayoi Nakayama.
 * Would Hit a Girl
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Yandere: Akito is this for Ikki. Just take it from Kururu who got scared from Akito.
 * It's debated wheather or not Agito is this for Yayoi Nakayama.

Kazuma "Kazu" Mikura


The second in command of team Kogarasumaru and the best friend of the series' protagonist, Itsuki Minami. By nature, he is insecure and timid. This introverted nature often leads others to underestimate him, especially when compared to the brasher personalities of Ikki and Agito. In reality, he is hard-working and dedicated.

Kazu is a Speed-type rider, emphasizing nimbleness and quickness in his style. He's also a copy-master as he is shown being able to copy an opponent ability.

Outside of A·T, Kazu is a competent fist-fighter and an incredible batter, although his batting form is horrendous.


 * Always Someone Better: Poor guy feels this way when comparing himself to Ikki and Agito.
 * Beta Couple: With Emily, though he is mostly oblivious to her infatuation with him.
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: Does this when Agito is introduced to their class.
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?:
 * Fragile Speedster
 * Ho Yay: His entire relationship with Ikki.
 * Kill It with Fire:
 * Only Sane Man: From time to time.
 * Rescue Romance: Him and Emily have a lot in the manga.
 * Chapter 323 has him saving  from.
 * Security Cling: Between him and Emily.
 * Took a Level in Badass: He manages to beat  of all people.
 * The Lancer
 * The So-Called Coward
 * More Than Meets the Eye
 * More Than Meets the Eye

Issha "Buccha" Mihotoke
Mihotoke Issa, a.k.a. Buccha is a heavily-built, tanned fighter specializing in close combat. His character design is based off the wrestler Abdullah, which is referenced by the three lines on his forehead. Before joining Kogarasumaru, he was the leader of the team Night Kings (Yaou). Buccha originally appeared in the series as a villain. After losing against Ikki in a Hurdles match, he turns into a stalwart ally of Ikki and becomes a founding member of Kogarasumaru.


 * Acrofatic
 * Big Eater
 * The Big Guy
 * Defeat Means Friendship
 * Dumb Muscle: Averted, he's analytical and knowledgeable about A-T
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Mighty Glacier: His default fighting style. At least until he upgrades his Pumped Up technique.
 * Only Sane Man: Especially when Ikki and Agito start showing their Blood Knight traits more.
 * Temporary Bulk Change: Said "Pumped Up Technique", the fat in his stomach is actually blood pooling from overeating. When he wishes he can transfer said blood to his muscles and gain a much more impressive build. Later in the series he finds he can do this with his legs to give him more speed.

Onigiri
Onigiri is of Ikki's childhood friends, Onigiri is 15 years old and also part of Kogarasumaru. His head is in the shape of an onigiri (hence the name). Onigiri is a pervert. He frequently uses his powers to peer through walls into womens bathing area and through their clothes and characterized as a pig.


 * Animal Motifs:pigs
 * The Chick
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Totally incompetent at fighting on ATs, unless it's a hot chick he's fighting.
 * Gonk
 * Greg Ayres
 * Lethal Joke Character
 * Masami Kikuchi
 * Power Perversion Potential: In the most literal sense--Onigiri has incredibly powerful senses and supernatural abilities that only work on hot women. He tends to horrify any female who has to face him in an AT battle. And recently, he learned to hallucinate his opponents into hot women.

Emily Adachi
Emily is part of the track team together with Yayoi Nakayama. She has short dark brown hair, sometimes depicted as black itself, along with dark brown eyes. Has a big crush on Kazu.

She eventually joins the team Kogarasumaru and acts as back-up. Even though her Air Treck skills aren't that great, she seems to be able to summon up super strength and endurance, like taking hits from powerful Storm Riders and brushing the hits off easily to her super powerful kicks and wrestling moves, through her pure strength of will and "The Power of Love".


 * Action Girl
 * Berserk Button: Hurting Kazu may actually be a bad idea.
 * Boobs of Steel
 * Clingy Jealous Girl
 * Curtains Match the Window: In the manga.
 * The Gunslinger: In the manga.
 * Let's Get Dangerous: She and Kazu are chased by an extremely dangerous stalker against whom the otherwise badass Kazu seems powerless. At one point, Kazu completely loses his courage. They are both helpless! And then... suddenly Emily decides to stop cowering and starts fighting the demonic adversary any which way she can!
 * Rescue Romance: Her and Kazu have it.
 * Sixth Ranger
 * Stalker with a Crush: Towards Kazu.
 * Security Cling: Between her and Kazu.
 * Took a Level in Badass: And how!
 * Yandere: Do not hurt and/or get between her and Kazu.
 * Yaoi Fangirl: In Chapter 192, Ikki is seen feeding Agito(without Agito cursing) and begins to sequel.

Yayoi Nakayama
Nakayama has the ability to communicate with Ikki's crow and to tell the exact time, down to a second - a trait that is shared amongst the more affluent tuners of Tool Toul To. She later reveals that she has a crush on ; for whom she supports when he is weakened. It was said by Ine Makigami that she saw potential in Yayoi as an, she even mistook Yayoi as the team's tuner. In fact, during Kogarasumaru's battle against the original Sleeping Forest in Inorganic Net, when Agito gets injured, she is the one who tunes him back to health and finally completes the  that had been merged into his A-T.


 * Abduction Is Love
 * All Girls Want Bad Boys:This way towards Agito.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl
 * First Kiss:Was ment to be for Agito, but instead she kissed  to give him air.
 * Rescue Romance: With Agito/.
 * Security Cling: Did this with both Agito and.
 * Shrinking Violet: In some ways she is, but it shows more around Agito.
 * Stalker with a Crush
 * Yandere: Just without the Ax Crazy persona, but she did go far to kidnap and tie him up.

Kilik


"This is no laughing matter! All of you team members, zero points!"

Kilik is the Gem King of the first and current Sleeping Forest and its actual leader behind Ringo. Currently one of the main antagonists, though he is sided against the other two as well. He is an intelligent and somewhat arrogant person. Also very tactical and calculating, but despite all this, he may be rather "naive" as shown when he wished to believe that a normal person could fly higher than the Gravity Children as well as

He is considered the most powerful of the original eight Kings of Sleeping Forest and the most gifted among all the Gravity Children. His Gaia Road operates on the principles of piezoelectricity and is powerful enough to almost completely destroy a building.


 * Above Good and Evil
 * Awesomeness By Analysis: Is very fond of testing people using a one hundred point rating system.
 * A God Am I
 * Badass
 * Badass Bookworm
 * Cool Bike: Totally.
 * Cool Shades
 * Dishing Out Dirt
 * Good Is Not Nice: He most definitely one of the good guys, but that doesn't stop him from being a dick.
 * Hero Antagonist
 * Ho Yay: Known to have very close bond with Sora when they were friends. Rika even states that "compared to everybody else those two are different". Not to mention the reversed tattoo on their backs, which display a word "飛地" literally meaning "enclave", "narrow range" or "inner circle".
 * Foe Yay: After magnificently reveals himself to be, Kilik has a slight obsession with the idea of defeating him.
 * Half-Identical Twins: With Simca.
 * Iron Woobie
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Shadow Dictator: Even if he's extremely powerful Rider, this brilliant strategist prefers to take a back seat on fighting and pulling the strings of events than to put himself at the forefront.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy

Noyamano Ringo
Ringo is the female protagonist and Ikki's childhood frien and a member of the Noyamano family that adopted Ikki into their household. However, behind her seemingly plain and unimpressive guise of a junior high school student, she is actually the successor and leader of the legendary team, Sleeping Forest. She is an A-class Rider and the current Thorn Queen of the Thornier Road. She helps Kogarasumaru in times of trouble, under the guise of Croissant Mask.

She's in love with Ikki, a theme that has been used, profusely, for dramatic and comedic effect throughout the series.


 * Action Girl
 * Dark Action Girl:In the OVA she is, and has some shades of this.
 * Betty
 * Badass Adorable: She completely owned Percival while on an airplane.
 * Badass Bookworm
 * Boobs of Steel
 * Cannot Spit It Out
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Hair Decorations
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Letting Her Hair Down: When
 * Hair Colors
 * Haruka Tomatsu
 * In the Name of the Moon: Croissant Mask.
 * Luci Christian
 * Mariya Ise
 * Panty Shot
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: Croissant Mask.
 * Purple Eyes
 * Scary Shiny Glasses
 * Scary Shiny Glasses

Noyamano Mikan
Noyamano Mikan is the second eldest of the Noyamano sisters and a Gravity Child. She acts like an evil tomboyish girl with short messy pink hair, and the disciplinarian of the group.

She is regarded as Sleeping Forest's "Wind God," which implies she is a Queen-class Wind-type Rider and follows the Gale Road. She is often referred to as a "Female Gorilla" by the other characters due to her brute strength and violent tendencies. She was even strong enough to break out of Aeon Clock's "Time" technique using sheer force.


 * Bare Your Midriff: Her A·T outfit.
 * Blow You Away
 * Dark Action Girl: In the manga she is.
 * You Gotta Have Pink Hair
 * Rose-Haired Girl
 * Rose-Haired Girl

Noyamano Shiraume
Known as Ume to her family, she is the the youngest of the Noyamano family and a member of Sleeping Forest. Her hobby is the creation of puppets in the guise of gorgons,which creeps out Ringo and Ikki to no end, and she's always seen carrying one with her.

Ume is a Queen-level Storm Rider, despite her age and diminutive appearance. Although her Road has not yet been revealed, she appears to specialize in tuning and tinkering.


 * Dark Action Girl: In the manga she is.
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Hilary Haag
 * Mushroom Samba: With Ikki.

Spitfire


Spitfire was the Flame King of the original Sleeping Forest and also one of the Gravity Children. He passes down his title of the Flame King to Kazu.


 * Badass Longcoat
 * Cultured Badass: Despite his looks and the fact he was the Flame King, he's a hairdresser and plays piano.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Meaningful Name
 * Playing with Fire
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning

Yasuyoshi "Aeon Clock" Sano


Known as "Aeon Clock", is a Storm Rider who was once a member of the team called Behemoth. After Behemoth's disbanded, he was recruited into Genesis by Simca. He is normally serious, he is often used as a comic relief with his homosexuality being a recurring gag. He is very analytical, often thinking ahead.

Sano is an A-Class Storm Rider who follows the Flame Road and specializes almost exclusively in the "Time" techniques.


 * Badass in a Nice Suit: Except for the time when he was first introduced during the match between Kogarasumaru and Behemoth.
 * Camp Gay
 * Cool Car: He's seen driving a Lamborghini Murciélago and an Aston Martin Vanquish, among other cars.
 * Foe Yay: Seems to share a rivalry with Spitfire.
 * Does Not Like Women: With exception for Ryo Mimasaka and Simca.
 * Ho Yay: Confessed his love for Ikki.
 * Megane: See character image.
 * Stoic Spectacles
 * Time Master
 * Stoic Spectacles
 * Time Master

Simca


Simca is a rider of the Ring Road. She wears unique looking but nothing out of the ordinary A·Ts. They are black stilettos with a single wheel. She is masterful in the art of riding, being able to perform difficult tricks, run fast, and climb buildings, but she lacks actual fighting abilities. She takes a great interest in Ikki, whom she believes is destined to one day become the legendary Rider, and who has practically idolized her since watching her ride A·T through his neighborhood. She also appears to have a somewhat romantic interest in him.


 * Absolute Cleavage
 * Femme Fatale
 * Green Eyes
 * Important Haircut
 * Half-Identical Twins: With Kilik.
 * Sobriquet: "Simca the Swallow" or "Migratory Bird"
 * Veronica
 * You Gotta Have Pink Hair
 * Rose-Haired Girl
 * Rose-Haired Girl

Takeuchi Sora
Sora is the former Wind King of the Wing Road, and original leader of the legendary Storm Rider team called Sleeping Forest. .

He is often shown as a carefree and charismatic person albeit arrogant. He can be easy-going and friendly, but this attitude changes later on to a more serious tone. He can be egotistical when it comes to his abilities as a Storm Rider and has shown to be very manipulative of his comrades in order to reach his goal.


 * Always Someone Better
 * Badass:
 * Faux Affably Evil: Fun guy to be around, but definitely a bastard at heart.
 * Foe Yay/Ho Yay: With childhood friend Kilik.
 * Subverted when.
 * Half-Identical Twins: With Nike, which you couldn't possibly tell by looking at them.
 * Handicapped Badass
 * Manipulative Bastard:
 * Meaningful Name: He actually shares his name with his twin, the only difference is that the kanji for Sora's first name would translate to "Sky", while Nike's would be "Space".
 * Mitsuru Miyamoto
 * Take Over The Sky
 * [TakingYouWithMe: Once his Reglia is broken he feels he has nothing to lose and tries to blow up the tower with everyone in it.]
 * Manipulative Bastard:
 * Meaningful Name: He actually shares his name with his twin, the only difference is that the kanji for Sora's first name would translate to "Sky", while Nike's would be "Space".
 * Mitsuru Miyamoto
 * Take Over The Sky
 * [TakingYouWithMe: Once his Reglia is broken he feels he has nothing to lose and tries to blow up the tower with everyone in it.]
 * Take Over The Sky
 * [TakingYouWithMe: Once his Reglia is broken he feels he has nothing to lose and tries to blow up the tower with everyone in it.]
 * Take Over The Sky
 * [TakingYouWithMe: Once his Reglia is broken he feels he has nothing to lose and tries to blow up the tower with everyone in it.]

Takeuchi Nike
Nike is an antagonist of the series and is Takeuchi Sora's twin brother. Appears to be mentally unstable, and has a deep hatred for the one who took everything away from his brother, the Gem King, Kilik. Despite being Sora's twin, the two aren't very similar, appearance-wise, as Nike has a taller and bulkier, muscular body and a different hairstyle.

He is the current Gem King of the Jade Road. It fuses the Wing Road with the Gaia Road, reflecting his philosophy of total control over both Land and Sky. Combined with his great physical strength, his Road makes him a very formidable opponent.


 * Ax Crazy
 * Unstoppable Rage: Went into one of these when found out
 * Karma Houdini: Seems to be heading in this direction.
 * Moral Event Horizon

Nue
Nue is the Thunder King of the Rising Road and head of the team Black Crow, which is made up of twenty Gravity Children. He is intelligent and caring, but overall fairly serious.


 * Badass
 * Just a Kid
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Expy: Since when is Killua an A-T rider?
 * Luke, I Am Your Father:
 * Shock and Awe
 * You Gotta Have Lavender Hair

Orca
Gravity Child affiliated with Genesis. Playful yet deadly, he is a bishonen with light-colored hair and tanned skin. He is a King-level rider specializing in the aquatic environment.


 * Bishonen
 * Dark-Skinned Blond
 * Making a Splash
 * Meaningful Name: His true name is Vercingetorix, while his partner's is Caesar and his sister is knowns as Colonel.
 * Would Hit a Girl

Tool Toul To
Tool Toul To is a team originally created to assist the Kings with their Regalias. They are a completely neutral group and will assist any King regardless of which side they are on. Each King is assigned a tuner who becomes familiar with the King and acts as their personal tuner.

Sumeragi Kururu
Kururu Sumeragi is the leader of the current team Tool Toul To and Pledge Queen. She has very messy hair, and uses pins in attempt to keep it kempt. She always carries tools around in her clothing. She is Ikki's Tuner and wants to get to know him better personally and in order to tune him better.

"Kururu: How many seconds until impact?! Ikki: Uh... Three seconds... I'd guess?
 * Awesomeness By Analysis
 * Hair Decorations
 * Midair Repair:  Kururu manages to intercept Ikki while he's falling with his A.T.'s broken.

Kururu: Three seconds?! (thinking during two-page spread of her spilling tools from her backpack) In that case... I've got more than enough time!

(And Kururu very quickly rebuilds Ikki's skates .)"


 * Third Option Love Interest
 * The Rival:
 * Wrench Wench
 * You Gotta Have Pink Hair
 * Rose-Haired Girl

Canon
Canon is Ringo's Tuner and Kururu Sumeragi's cousin. He has an obsession for Ringo and seems to harbor romantic intentions. He presses on in his disregard for Tool Toul To's neutrality by actively battling against Kogarasumaru, though he at least seems to respect their leader.

He rides on the Ring Road and is the only Ring Road rider revealed to have offensive capabilities.


 * Beware the Nice Ones
 * Break His Heart to Save Him: Pulls this by stealing a kiss from Ringo in front of Ikki -- and then revealing that yes, she's the one who put Simca in the hospital. Apparently to force the two to confront their issues with each other.
 * Musical Theme Naming
 * Psychopathic Manchild
 * Stalker with a Crush

Hako Isawa
A tuner trying to prove her worth to the team. She's extremely jealous of Kururu's skill, so much so that when Kururu finishes her work on the Sky Regaila prototype, she switches out Kururu's part with her own (which is why they broke down after two uses). She eventually becomes so desperate to become Ikki's tuner that she tries to seduce him into it but is rejected. She later in the series become Sora's tuner after he kidnaps her but eventually rejoins the group after coming to terms with herself.


 * Always Someone Better: Her inferiority complex to Kururu
 * Face Heel Turn
 * Full-Frontal Assault: When trying to seduce Ikki, subverted as it turns out to be a body suit.
 * Stockholm Syndrome: She was kidnapped into serving Sora but became his official tuner over time.

Ine Makigami
Ine is the first Pledge Queen of Tool Toul To and of the original Sleeping Forest. She is also knowledgeable in medicine and runs her own hospital. Though none of the Gravity Children require tuners, Spitfire still has a close relationship with her before. She passes down her title of Pledge Queen to Kururu Sumeragi.


 * Broken Bird

Noyamano Rika
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.

Rika, being the former Thorn Queen of the original Sleeping Forest, was known to be a very skilled and merciless rider. In her battle with Ikki she claims that if she were on Air Trecks Ikki would be laying in a pool of his own blood.


 * Action Girl
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Ax Crazy:
 * Badass
 * Badass Normal:
 * Boobs of Steel
 * Retired Badass
 * Mama Bear
 * Love Makes You Dumb
 * Professional Wrestler
 * Mama Bear
 * Love Makes You Dumb
 * Professional Wrestler
 * Love Makes You Dumb
 * Professional Wrestler

Kaito Wanijima
Known as the "Shinjuku Crocodile", he is Agito/Akito Wanijima's older brother, and the leader of the Windstorm G-Men, a special S.W.A.T. team that was created specifically for hunting down and arresting Storm Rider teams.


 * Ax Crazy/Crazy Awesome
 * Aloof Big Brother
 * Bishonen: Just look at the picture above!
 * Cool Car: He's seen driving a Saleen S7, among other cool cars.
 * Every Man Is Cuter With Hair Decs
 * Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Although based on his flashback about his relationship with, there's a bit of gold buried in there somewhere.
 * Long-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Trigger Happy: Uses plenty of rubber bullets. He's especially fond of shooting Agito/Akito.
 * Whip It Good: In the anime
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy