Manga: Air Gear

[Ryllharu]

Originally posted by: PSJ
To me it is a little to much. I'm not really amused by that kind of jokes, okey once in a while they are fun if they are unexpected but this author keeps throwing them in our faces almost every chapter. If he would give the manga a little more depth and seriousness it would be alot better.

Tenjou Tenge sort of lost it's steam lately with the recent scans coming out, for that very reason. It got serious, it got weird, and it wasn't as funny anymore. Any sort of character the series had disappeared, and it became another charge-up superpower series. I lost intrest in it, and was glad Air Gear took up the gap.

Air Gear still has that feel, and as stupid as all the characters act, I can't see anyway they could ruin that pattern. It was never the point of being super serious about the battles, it was all for enjoyment and having fun with A-T. That's the reason Ringo got so angry at Ikki when he started beating the shit out of the other team.

[PSJ]

Well i don't read Tenjou Tenge and i am not a fan of bad jokes thrown in my face all the time. I don't mind the jokes here and there, i for example enjoy the fat guy skating on his head and Akito being gay and so on but when they throw in 3 Ringo sexjokes in 3 chapters in a row in the middle of a fight i get a bit pissed.

A good manga needs both char development, story, action and some comedy. It feels like Airgear skips most of all those things and throw in a bunch of crappy sexjokes in some chapters and i am not a fan of that kind of shitty immature humor. "oh my god lol look at her ass, she dressed up in a swimsuit HAHA" yea that's funny eh? Well i don't think so.

[kAi]

Upto chapter 41 released by scum scans, goto their IRC channel #scum-scans @ irc.irchighway.net

[Lefty]

As Kai said, go to there IRC Channel. BT and DL only get you jack shit.

[Ryllharu]

So I found out after idling in the chat three hours (like they wanted) while the bt ran.

So that makes me twice the dumbass.

A few important things revealed about the chararcters, none of which was actually all that unexpected.

[kAi]

hehe.

Rika is so hot, and she loves Ikki so much, this new guy on the wheelchair wonder what awesome shit he can do, or what he was like before.
Ikki will continue with A.T. that can't stop for certain reasons of being the main character in a story about A.T's, heh.

[Lefty]

He'll show his sister how good he really is, and she'll just give in....After a full on battle.

[PSJ]

Wow this manga just gets worse and worse, how old is the mangaka? 13? "Oh look at this so cool with chick in underwear wahahaha!!!" I really wanted to see some development for the main characters instead of bringing in new chars constantly, on top of that half of them are "extremly hot" girls.

Again he does a really bad job of mixing jokes with seriousness, he should read Ippo and Jojo's Bizarre Adventures and try to learn as much as possible.

[kAi]

You need to calm down PSJ, it's supposed to be a more light hearted manga, it aint all about seriousness, even when he gets serious, he doesn't.

[PSJ]

I am calm, i couldn't be more calm.

I know he isn't very serious and i don't like that he doesn't get serious. Why don't he do something along the lines of Love Hina if he likes to draw girls in underwear all the time?

[Ryllharu]

Mainly because people like to read this kind of crap sometimes.

When I want to read something with a well written plot where I have no idea what's going to happen next, I read Death Note. When I want some soap opera like series filled with overly complex relationships, I'll grab another chapter of NANA. Lots of gore? Gantz or Berserk.

And sometimes I want a shallowly written series filled with moronic perverted characters and fanservice in nearly every panel. Like Air Gear. It's not that well written, except for the perverted jokes shoved into every random crevise in the plot, but sometimes I'm just in the mood to read it.

It's great that you hate this series, we all know the former editor for Sc-scans did. I'm just not sure why you're so hostile about it. It's just another series in a long line of shallow ecchi mangas where the plot's main purpose is often just to allow for as many panty shots as possible.

I don't see why it needs to get serious. There's lots of serious mangas out there, sometimes you just need to balance it out with something stupid and perverted.

[Munsu]

AIR GEAR TV coming soon (2005-12-17 13:17:36)
According to this article, a TV adaptation of OH! Great's shonen manga Air Gear is headed for the small screen next year. Source: Animaxis [ discuss ]


http://www.animaxis.com/en/zin...er/view.asp?id=N001529

[Phoenix20578]

I hope it's soon, and I hope they don't fuck up the story ether.

[Lefty]

Originally posted by: Phoenix20578
I hope it's soon, and I hope they don't fuck up the story ether.

They treated Ten Ten rather well. I think AG will gett he same treatment. Should be good. But know we get to look forward to the manga being picked up by DC and being butchered to death.

[Phoenix20578]

Well, they havent put out anymore of Tengo Tenge since Ultimate Fight. They had better not do that again. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/img]

[kAi]

Chapter 42 is released by scumscans.

Nice to see Rika young.

[Phoenix20578]

Wow, Rika was a King, didn't see that coming.

This chapter was really good. It showed more of the serious side of Air Gear.

[Phoenix20578]

Chapter 43 is out.

Good chapter. Ikki vs Rika coming up. That should be great.

[Lefty]

44 out. An ok chapter but a good build up for the next one.

[kAi]

heh, nice little chapter there, I liked the ass shot.
That guy is a smartass.

I feel this is going to be an awesome match up.