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Okay, I've officially given up on Air Gear. Bought Vol. 8 3 weeks ago, and took me up to yesterday to finish it. Had to force myself to read it. It's not good when, half-way into the fight, you stop caring about who the winner will be... :roll: It would have helped greatly if the fights were actually interesting or good, but there are only so many variations of rollerskating poses to strike before it all starts to get mind-numbingly boring. The stories certainly don't help either, as being a shonen manga means things get dumbed down and a lot of time is spent on pointless chapters that contribute insignificantly to the larger story and do not even have good characterization (school ghosthunting, anyone?), just for the sake of putting in something to appeal to the kiddies. I might enjoy this if I were 12 or something, but as it is I'll just stick to TT.
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Heh...unforunately true. I collect Air Gear mostly for the fabulous Oh!Great artwork, because the plot is weird at parts. I treat it like any other time-killer shonen manga. But it's still better than Naruto or some other crap like that, because of great artwork and it's overall coolness (I used to rollerskate for a while back in the days - it was fun:) + I like the street-ghetto-ish atmosphere AG has).

Oh...and does anyone know where can I geet some AG raws?? ch66+
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For anyone still reading AG:

http://shop.kodansha.jp/bc2_bc/search_v ... 634868&x=C

Volume 9 out now.
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Damn... very fast and it's already volume 9... why tenten takes years just to finish two volume??? :cry:
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thanks T_T!
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I have been every were to try and get this manga. I found SC site, and the bars are blank right now, and everything else is dea, and I have no idea wow IRC works and I can't seem to get anything out from there. Someone shoot me, frustration is taking me over, please help, I am a fool.[/b]
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nothing on the site but news atm. So read this irc tutorial: h ttp://www.anime-theatre.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=31
then make your way to #snoopycool at irc.irchighway.net
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Starakin wrote:nothing on the site but news atm. So read this irc tutorial: h ttp://www.anime-theatre.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=31
then make your way to #snoopycool at irc.irchighway.net

That site is not working.
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Phantom14 wrote: That site is not working.
irc.irchighway.net is a IRC server, to connect using mirc or other irc software.

Maybe you can try www.irchighway.net to find out some howto on how to connect and use that particular network
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it works pretty well. Did you even notice there's a space between H & T in http?
copy the thing into your browser's address bar instead of clicking. If you're still having difficulty try googling some other tutorial instead of creating new threads.
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Thats Shimuka all i've been able to find is resin kits at this site http://www.hobbyfan.com/index.php?cPath=297 painted an non painted i guess it wuz a really limited run cuz i can't seem to find out anything else about it other than it wuz featured in WF2004 wotever the hell that means lol
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Isn't Simca blonde? :?
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Nope Volume 2 cover has her with Pink hair :P anyone seen the simca cosplay outfit?? now if only a tall big breasted girl were to purchase one.... :twisted:
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son of a... I just picked up vol 9 a few days ago... dang. oh well.
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Kodansha, huh? Is this serialized in Shounen Jump by any chance?
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Is this serialized in Shounen Jump by any chance?
Yeah, it is. Why?

Really shit paper.
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I was just wondering why I see the raws for AG all over the place, but TJTG is hard to find...

But the Shounen Jump bit explains it all... People scan it for Naruto, One Piece and Bleach like crazy.
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AG v3 chap 20-23 have been translated by snoopycool & at-t ;)
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Does anybody know of any galleries or sites that have air gear artwork or pics? mangatranslation has a gallery for tenjo tenge. I'm just hungry for more oh! great artwork.
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"Swallow your food whole, fool! Do you not know that mastication makes you go blind?"
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You know this book is really starting to grow on me. I'll probably never like it as much as TT or other books but it's still pretty good.
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"Swallow your food whole, fool! Do you not know that mastication makes you go blind?"
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Agent_Wax wrote:Okay, I've officially given up on Air Gear. Bought Vol. 8 3 weeks ago, and took me up to yesterday to finish it. Had to force myself to read it. It's not good when, half-way into the fight, you stop caring about who the winner will be... :roll: It would have helped greatly if the fights were actually interesting or good, but there are only so many variations of rollerskating poses to strike before it all starts to get mind-numbingly boring. The stories certainly don't help either, as being a shonen manga means things get dumbed down and a lot of time is spent on pointless chapters that contribute insignificantly to the larger story and do not even have good characterization (school ghosthunting, anyone?), just for the sake of putting in something to appeal to the kiddies. I might enjoy this if I were 12 or something, but as it is I'll just stick to TT.
In my personal opinion, I don't really read Air Gear for the "fights". I like it more for the races and the characters. Sure, there is a lot of ass kicking like in the subway race(not to mention that Agito/Akito alone garauntees blood), but I read it to see cool tricks, and how each charcter grows. I also enjoy the story.


Heh guess its not for everyone, though. :wink:
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speaking of figures and v12, hehe.

The Ringo pinky is cute but not as stable compared to the Aya one. Sucks since that means I can't have the air trecks on without Ringo constantly falling over!
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H-O-T!
Del Rey Acquires Air Gear (2006-01-20 12:33:47)
Del Rey announced today in a press release that they will be releasing Air Gear. The first volume will be out July 25 of this year.
Taken from ANN.

Del Rey has been a A+ company in my books so I have no doubt they'll do justice to AG, unlike what crap CMX pulled with TT. :D
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I APPROVE. With this and the anime series, which hopefully will do justice to the manga, I'm very pleased. Now only if Scum-Scans would pick up the pace. 8)
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"Swallow your food whole, fool! Do you not know that mastication makes you go blind?"
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I'm really liking the scans that I've been reading of this series.
I cant wait until I'm able to buy offically translated books of this series starting July 2006.
I wonder how far ahead the scans are gonna be by time July rolls around though... :?:




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so how far are you guys in the manga?
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Volume 08 Chapter 61.
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Some AG gashapon here:

http://www.poweranime.com/index2.cfm?pa ... imeId=1362

I see Ringo, Simca, Agito, Ikki and Croissant Kamen.
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They're on ebay every now and then. They started to appear around last month.
Volume 14 is coming out on 17 of June (at least that's what I read in one of newsletters I suscribe).
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Looking good, huh? Both will be out in September, curtesy of Megahouse.

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Too much to hope that they will have removable tops... :oops:
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WARNING
CONTAINS SPOILERS

btw, why is Ringo going up against Ikki?? Or vice versa.....I know it has something to do with that guy (don't know his name) telling Ikki that Ringo's the leader of Sleeping Forest and one of the 8 Kings, but is she testing him or something......
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Tachibana wrote:WARNING
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btw, why is Ringo going up against Ikki?? Or vice versa.....I know it has something to do with that guy (don't know his name) telling Ikki that Ringo's the leader of Sleeping Forest and one of the 8 Kings, but is she testing him or something......
Because Ikki is the next leader of Genesis after Simca and Genesis is challenging the Sleeping Forest for the place at the summit of the Trophaeum. Since Ikki doesn't really want to listen to Ringo, she challenges him to a duel.

PS: The guy with the guitar is called Canon. He is Ringo's tuner and a member of Tool Toul Tou (like Simca, Kururu and Makigai).
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MrProphet wrote:
Tachibana wrote:WARNING
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btw, why is Ringo going up against Ikki?? Or vice versa.....I know it has something to do with that guy (don't know his name) telling Ikki that Ringo's the leader of Sleeping Forest and one of the 8 Kings, but is she testing him or something......
Because Ikki is the next leader of Genesis after Simca and Genesis is challenging the Sleeping Forest for the place at the summit of the Trophaeum. Since Ikki doesn't really want to listen to Ringo, she challenges him to a duel.

PS: The guy with the guitar is called Canon. He is Ringo's tuner and a member of Tool Toul Tou (like Simca, Kururu and Makigai).
dumb question, but wtf is a "tuner"???? and thanks for answering
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Tachibana wrote:dumb question, but wtf is a "tuner"???? and thanks for answering
A 'tuner' in AG world is someone who tunes the skates. Sort of like the Air Trek engineer or technician.
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MrProphet wrote:
Tachibana wrote:dumb question, but wtf is a "tuner"???? and thanks for answering
A 'tuner' in AG world is someone who tunes the skates. Sort of like the Air Trek engineer or technician.
gotcha. thanks a bunch. damn, now i really can't wait to see what happens. reading the raws, i didn't realize that ikki's the runner up leader for simca's genesis, who's challenging sleeping forest for a spot. now i wonder how that'll go down. but i've always had a feeling that ikki will have to come up against SF.
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If Ikki takes over Genisis, what happens to his crew? And yay Simca's dead..or hurt. More Kazu!
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I would think that they would join Ikki there.
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agmaster wrote:If Ikki takes over Genisis, what happens to his crew? And yay Simca's dead..or hurt. More Kazu!
they should join along, or else they're dead. even with ikki, kogarasumaru's best member is akito/agito, and he's not even 100% now. and so if ikki's gone, they're a 4 man team.
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HI guys well im new, well i wanted to ask if any of you guys know were to get translation for air gear chapter139 ?THANKS
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Post by ShinHitokiriX »

no ones translated that far scum scans are up to chapter 72 and the speed group wotever the hell they're called are up to chapter 86
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well thanks
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Post by iijyanaika »

i basically started picking up this series because i'm a big fan of jet set radio/jet grind radio. anyone ever play the game?

this would still be a fun read if i hadn't played jet set, but it definately doesn't compare to tjtg.
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