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Line 2: [[File:Air_Gear_5374.jpg\|frame\|Fly like a crow.]] ~~Shonen~~'''''Air Gear''''' is a shonen manga by [[My Nayme Is\|Oh! Great]], adapted into an anime series, loosely based on inline skating.▼ The creation of [[Rollerblade Good\|borderline-magical self-propelled inline skates]], called "Air Treks" or "A.T.s", have revolutionized skating culture, as teenagers push the limits of the skates to [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] levels of [[Roof Hopping]] and [[Le Parkour]]. [[Ordinary High School Student\|Ordinary High School]] [[Delinquents\|Delinquent]] Itsuki Minami -- "Ikki" to his ~~friends -- admires~~friends—admires the Storm Riders from afar, especially the beautiful Simca. However, the demands of leading his gang (The East Side Guns) and the stress of being the dependent, roommate, and house boy of [[Pretty Freeloaders\|the beautiful Noyamano sisters]] keep him busy. One day, a gang turf war goes horribly wrong when the East Side Gunz' rivals recruit the Skull 'Saders, a notorious group of Storm Riders, to beat and humiliate ~~Itsuki -- and~~Itsuki—and in his darkest hour, he discovers that his roommates have been leading a secret life that will lead him to the heights of Air ~~Trek -- the~~Trek—the "Wing Road".▼ ▲Shonen manga by [[My Nayme Is\|Oh! Great]], adapted into an anime series, loosely based on inline skating. ▲The creation of [[Rollerblade Good\|borderline-magical self-propelled inline skates]], called "Air Treks" or "A.T.s", have revolutionized skating culture, as teenagers push the limits of the skates to [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] levels of [[Roof Hopping]] and [[Le Parkour]]. [[Ordinary High School Student\|Ordinary High School]] [[Delinquents\|Delinquent]] Itsuki Minami -- "Ikki" to his friends -- admires the Storm Riders from afar, especially the beautiful Simca. However, the demands of leading his gang (The East Side Guns) and the stress of being the dependent, roommate, and house boy of [[Pretty Freeloaders\|the beautiful Noyamano sisters]] keep him busy. One day, a gang turf war goes horribly wrong when the East Side Gunz' rivals recruit the Skull 'Saders, a notorious group of Storm Riders, to beat and humiliate Itsuki -- and in his darkest hour, he discovers that his roommates have been leading a secret life that will lead him to the heights of Air Trek -- the "Wing Road". [[Serial Escalation\|Followed shortly by something even grander...]] "The Hurricane Road"... Line 19 ⟶ 18: * [[Acrofatic]] (Buccha) * [[A God Am I]] {{spoiler\|Sora after obtaining the Sky Regalia}} * [[Alternate Character Reading]] (Inverted: two ~~characters -- twins~~characters—twins, ~~actually -- are~~actually—are both called {{spoiler\|Sora Takeuchi}}, but one's name is written using the kanji for "sky", the other using the kanji for "space".) * [[America Saves the Day]] {{spoiler\|More recently, newly-elected President Omaha (Obama's [[Expy]]), joins in the action toting guns galore. In Emily's body. Because, you know, his real body has to be kept safe.}} * [[Animal Motifs]] (Ikki and crows, Agito and sharks. Several minor characters also adopt them. Line 45 ⟶ 44: * [[Blow You Away]] (A common skill frequently used by people on the Wing Road.) * [[Bleached Underpants]] (All of Oh! Great's works before [[Tenjho Tenge]] were [[Hentai]] and even that had copious amounts of explicit sex.) * [[Body Horror]] (What Buccha does to Goshogawara Fuumei, AKA Behemoth's Hekatonkeires, in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100628085224/http://www.1000manga.com/Air_Gear/55/13/ this] and the next two pages. ** ...Aaaand [https://web.archive.org/web/20100627085817/http://www.1000manga.com/Air_Gear/56/05/ Hekatonkeires himself]. * [[Breakable Weapons]]: The Wind Regalia prototype Ikki is given by Kururu to aid him in his fight against Ringo breaks after being used twice.{{spoiler\|Turns out fellow Tool Toul To member Hako switched Regalias behind Kururu's back before she went to give it to Ikki.}} * [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] (Kazu, during Akito's introduction to the class) Line 78 ⟶ 77: * [[Culture Police]] (The Wind.) * [[Cut Short]]: The anime which only ran for 26 episodes. Though [[OVAs]] are being released to showcase the rest of the story. * [[Cute Bruiser]] (Getting in Emily's way can be a [https://web.archive.org/web/20100622020700/http://www.1000manga.com/Air_Gear/225/12/ VERY bad idea]. Ringo's no slouch either.) * [[Defeat Means Friendship]] (How Ikki came to befriend Buccha. Similarly, despite his harsh treatment of her, Natsumi of the Sabel Tigers developed a crush on Ikki after her loss at his hands. Inuyama of the Rez-Boa Dogs and the entirety of team Behemoth eventually warmed up to him, too, especially after Simca named him king.) * [[Depraved Homosexual]]: Arthur and Shalott. Arthur is a masochist who pelvic thrusts against his male opponent Agito and nibbles on his ear while fighting him. He also has flamboyant mannerisms, speaks in a polite manner, and frequently releases heart marks whenever he's reveling in the feeling of pain. Shalott is a loli who wears a frilly looking dress and has an [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]] with Agito, revealing that he's actually a girly-looking guy who is in a BDSM type relationship with Arthur. The end of chapter 279 has him pin Agito to the ground and straddle him, saying after he tortures him then Agito can "lick it" if he wants. Line 96 ⟶ 95: * [[Fan Service]] (Oh! Great is the undisputed king, or runs very close to it, mostly due to [[Author Appeal]]) * [[Face Heel Turn]] ( {{spoiler\|Sora in the manga. Turns out he was plotting on making a bid for the Sky King by stringing Ikki along}}) * [[Femme Fatale]] (Simca is interested in ~~Ikki -- or~~Ikki—or at least in his potential.) * [[Fingerless Gloves]]: Members of Team Kogarasumaru wear these. * [[Five-Man Band]] Line 128 ⟶ 127: * [[Heel Face Turn]] (Buccha, Agito/Akito) * [[Heel Face Revolving Door]] {{spoiler\|Aeon Clock in the manga.}} * [[~~Hillary~~Hilary Haag]] (Ume) * [[Hostage Situation]] (In the latest chapters, {{spoiler\|Sora kidnaps his (quite likely by now) former girlfriend Rika (who's pregnant with HIS kid) and put her into a death trap in a bid to force Sleeping Forest from fighting his team on Sleeping Forest's home turf. Then he gets her [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] and sends her out to attack Sleeping Forest. It actually took quite the gambit from Kilik to get Rika restrained without harming her and her baby.}}) * [[Ho Yay]] (Akito's relationship with Ikki is this all over. Akito kisses Ikki full on the mouth, for crying out loud.) Line 139 ⟶ 138: * [[Incendiary Exponent]]: The Flame Regalia, provided the user can use it properly. * [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]] (Gazelle, as seen in a flashback, doesn't seem to see anything wrong with hanging upside down in a oversized shirt and no bra. Kaito has to hold her shirt up for her.) * [[Instant Win Condition]] (The "Balloon" class of AT battle: it doesn't matter if no-one is left standing on your team, so long as the "chaser" gets the balloon, as seen in the Kogarasumaru vs {{spoiler\|Past Sleeping Forest}} ~~battle -- Kogarasumaru~~battle—Kogarasumaru, as expected, gets utterly slaughtered, but they still win because they get the balloon.) * [[In the Name of the Moon]] (Ringo as "Crescent Mask") * [[Japanese Delinquents]] (Most of Ikki's team; from another point of view, most of the cast in general.) Line 180 ⟶ 179: * [[Power Glows]] * [[Power Levels]] * [[Pretty Freeloaders]] (The Noyamano sisters, aka Sleeping ~~Forest -- although~~Forest—although Ikki's the freeloader there. And Akito, later.) * [[Professional Wrestling]] (Rika, the eldest Noyamano sister, works as a [[Mask Power\|masked wrestler]]. She and the other sisters practice moves on Ikki as a form of [[Megaton Punch]].) * [[Razor Wind]]: Agito and anyone else on the Fang Road relies on this as their primary mode of attack. * [[Red Baron]]: (Ikki's the "[[Face\|Babyface]]" of East Side High, while Buccha was the "[[Heel]]"; Simca's "Tsubame (The Swallow)"; also several "<Blank> Kings". Natsumi Iriya was "The Brown Bloody Sword") * [[Rie Tanaka]]: (Simca) * [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: The wreckage from chapter forty-one seems to be a reference to Formula One Brazilian pilot Ayrton's Senna fatal accident at Imola, at the Grand Prix of San Marino of 1994. Senna is never named but the car design and merchandising for Marlboro is of his McLaren 1993, and the topic being discussed by Rika and Ringo being Ikki possibly dying while doing air treks makes very obvious to pinpoint who is the pilot Rika is talking about; however, Senna had changed teams to Renault-Williams for the 1994 Formula One Season, so it seems the artist committed an error or changed the car's design to not make the celebrity referenced so obvious. * [[Rollerblade Good]] * [[Rule of Cool]]: {{spoiler\|Emily gets her body hijacked by American President [[Barack Obama]]'s Expy. Why? Oh!Great wanted to use America's outrageous weapons cache to help his plot. That, and it suddenly made Emily more important than a vaguely-cool, has-potential hot girl who wears ATs and likes Kazu a whole lot. [[Mind Screw\|Yeah]].}} Line 194: * [[The Seven Mysteries]] (When Kogarasumaru gets the keys to the [[Super Multi-Purpose Room\|Super Multi-Purpose Classroom]], they find out that all of the mysteries for their school are somehow related... except for the haunted public restroom...) * [[Shout-Out]] ([[Shout Out/Anime and Manga\|Anime and Manga]]) "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100627022211/http://www.1000manga.com/Air_Gear/212/09/ That's]" clearly "[[Mahou Sensei Negima\|Negima]]" Forget [[Shout-Out]]. He ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100625080611/http://www.1000manga.com/Air_Gear/222/001/ completely rips out the first chapter of] [[Negima]].'' Then again, [[Oh Great]] and [[Ken Akamatsu]] are said to be known friends in real life. ** Om of the Sleeping Forest has an attack called "[[Bubblegum Crisis]]". * [[Signature Device]]: Air Trecks * [[Sixth Ranger]] (Agito/Akito; <s>Ringo</s> <s>School Swimsuit Mask</s> The Masked Croissant) * [[Spiritual Successor]] (''[['''Air Gear]]''''' homages and is otherwise inspired by ''[[Jet Set Radio]]'' in several ways. Exhibit A: The background instrumental "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUvBiG1U7yM NOT Hummin' BUT Vibin']", which is clearly a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9assyPp68Jo Hummin' the Bassline]" from ''Jet Set Radio''.) ** Dontores, one of the members of the Sleeping Forest is a black man holding a boombox ( {{spoiler\|which turns out to be his Rumble Regalia}}) on his shoulder, just like Combo from [[Jet Set Radio]]. * [[Split Personality]] (Agito/Akito, and in the manga {{spoiler\|a third one, Lind, who is a copy of their mother Gazelle.}} [[Split Personality Makeover]]: Which eye his eyepatch is on; they also have different shaped pupils and very different voices. In the manga, {{spoiler\|Lind has a completely different hairstyle and ''cross-shaped'' pupils}}. [[Split Personality Merge]]: Subverted in terms of Agito and Akito because while they can merge personalities, Agito is the dominate personality. ** [[~~Talking~~Inner ~~to Themself~~Dialogue]]: Happens occasionally between Agito, Akito {{spoiler\|and Lind}} * {{spoiler\|[[Invisible to Gaydar]] (Aeon Clock) }} * [[Take Our Word for It]]: The raid on the Stormrider meeting in the first anime episode is represented by panning still illustrations captioned "Running Riders" and "Pursuing Officers" ~~-- and~~—and thereafter by the "Riders" caption running from the "Officers" caption. * [[Technology Porn]] * [[Theme Naming]] (The Noyamano girls all are named after different types of fruit. Also Team Sleipnir is named after figures in Norse mythology.) Line 211 ⟶ 212: * [[Threshold Guardians]] * [[Time Master]] Aeon Clock. To be fair, any rider of the Flame Road can use the Time trick, but Aeon does it best. * [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Onigiri...so, so much. ** Also Kazu. Starting out, he wasn't nothing compared to Ikki or Agito. If Kogarasumaru's battle against Sabel Tigers, Their rematch against Animal House, Kazu's battle with Ikki, and {{spoiler\|and his battle against Nike }} are any indication... * [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Arthur Line 234 ⟶ 235: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Shonen Demographic~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Anime Network]]▼ [[Category:Toei Animation]]▼ [[Category:Anime]] [[Category:~~Turn~~Anime of the ~~Millennium/Anime And Manga~~2000s]] [[Category:Manga]] ▲[[Category:Anime Network]] ▲[[Category:Toei Animation]] [[Category:~~Air~~Shonen ~~Gear~~Demographic]]▼ [[Category:TV Tokyo]] [[Category:Science Fiction Anime and Manga]] ▲[[Category:Air Gear]] [[Category:Adult Swim]] [[Category:~~FUNimation~~Funimation]] [[Category:Manga of the 2000s]] [[Category:Manga of the 2010s]]