Air Gear
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Cover of Air Gear Japanese vol. 1
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エア・ギア (Ea Gia) |
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| Genre | Action, Comedy, Sports, Science fantasy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Oh! great |
| Published by | Kodansha |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
| Original run | November 6, 2002 – May 28, 2012 |
| Volumes | 37 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hajime Kamegaki |
| Produced by | Nobuaki Suzuki Takao Yoshizawa |
| Music by |
skankfunk Wall 5 Project |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 4, 2006 – September 26, 2006 |
| Episodes | 25 + 1 special |
| Original animation DVD | |
| Air Gear: Break on the Sky | |
| Directed by | Shinji Ishihara |
| Written by | Atsushi Maekawa |
| Studio | Satelight |
| Released | November 17, 2010 – June 17, 2011 |
| Runtime | 28 minutes |
| Episodes | 3 |
Air Gear (Japanese: エア・ギア Hepburn: Ea Gia?) is a shōnen manga written and illustrated by Ito "Oh Great" Ōgure. Air Gear revolves around the life of Itsuki Minami "Ikki or Crow", also known as "Baby Face", "Lil (and Little) Crow", and his friends. The story follows their use of Air Treks, an in-universe invention derived from inline skates. Initial sections of the plot carries out the introduction of characters that eventually join Ikki. As the story progresses, it focuses on their roles as Storm Riders and their quest to be on the top of the Trophaeum Tower. The pinnacle that all Storm Riders hope to reach. Air Gear won the 2006 Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category. The series concluded on May 28, 2012 with Chapter 357, but was continued with a new chapter. At the end of Chapter 358, the author of the manga told readers to look forward to more Air Gear.
A new fad by the name of 'Air Treks' (a futuristic evolution of aggressive skating) has swept the nation's youth and all over gangs are being formed that compete in various events using their A-T's. Ikki is a middle-school boy who is the toughest street-fighting punk on the east side of town part of his gang 'The East-Side Gunz', on top of that he lives with 4 adopted gorgeous sisters that took him in when he was a kid. But what Ikki doesn't know is that the girls are part of one of the most infamous A-T gangs, 'Sleeping Forest'. It doesn't take long before Ikki finds out about the world of Air Treks and is propelled into a fate he had not foreseen, learning about his past and making a number of storm riding allies on the way.
Itsuki "Ikki" Minami Voiced by: Kenta Kamakari (anime), Nobuhiko Okamoto (OVA), (Japanese); Chris Patton (English)
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