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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:27 pm
by Agent_Wax
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...
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.
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:20 am
by Dembol
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+
#Udanraws bot is dead and I can't get them:(
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:21 am
by Agent_Wax
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:12 am
by Dominant Star
Damn... very fast and it's already volume 9... why tenten takes years just to finish two volume???
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:20 pm
by moyism
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:56 pm
by Sota
Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 1:17 am
by Phantom14
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]
Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 2:40 am
by Starakin
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
Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 10:01 am
by Phantom14
That site is not working.
Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 11:33 am
by underdark
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
Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 2:00 am
by Starakin
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.
Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 2:53 am
by moyism
that's hot. any info on this figure?
Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 5:18 am
by ShinHitokiriX
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
Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 9:02 pm
by Agent_Wax
Isn't Simca blonde?
Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 1:54 am
by ShinHitokiriX
Nope Volume 2 cover has her with Pink hair
anyone seen the simca cosplay outfit?? now if only a tall big breasted girl were to purchase one....
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 11:13 pm
by Agent_Wax
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 12:58 am
by moyism
son of a... I just picked up vol 9 a few days ago... dang. oh well.
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 6:45 am
by MrProphet
Kodansha, huh? Is this serialized in Shounen Jump by any chance?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 3:12 am
by Agent_Wax
Is this serialized in Shounen Jump by any chance?
Yeah, it is. Why?
Really shit paper.
Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 2:52 pm
by MrProphet
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.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:01 pm
by moyism
AG v3 chap 20-23 have been translated by snoopycool & at-t
Air Gear art
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:02 pm
by SaberStrykeX
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.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:55 am
by Agent_Wax
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:39 am
by Hollowshingami
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:21 am
by Agent_Wax
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:18 pm
by deadleaf6
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...
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:22 am
by moyism
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!
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:36 pm
by moyism
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.
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:41 pm
by Hollowshingami
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:42 pm
by Agent_Wax
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:02 pm
by jboncha
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...
J B
Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:22 pm
by doreamong
so how far are you guys in the manga?
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 2:54 pm
by miyagiCE
Volume 08 Chapter 61.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:04 pm
by MrProphet
Some AG gashapon here:
http://www.poweranime.com/index2.cfm?pa ... imeId=1362
I see Ringo, Simca, Agito, Ikki and Croissant Kamen.
Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 9:14 am
by Dembol
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).
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:11 am
by Agent_Wax
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:47 pm
by MrProphet
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:50 am
by Agent_Wax
Too much to hope that they will have removable tops...
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:08 pm
by Tachibana
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......
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:29 pm
by MrProphet
Tachibana wrote: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......
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).
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:01 pm
by Tachibana
MrProphet wrote:Tachibana wrote: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......
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
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:08 pm
by MrProphet
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.
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:27 pm
by Tachibana
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.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:20 am
by agmaster
If Ikki takes over Genisis, what happens to his crew? And yay Simca's dead..or hurt. More Kazu!
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:40 pm
by Hollowshingami
I would think that they would join Ikki there.
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:37 am
by Tachibana
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.
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:48 pm
by frank651
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
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:22 pm
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
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:35 pm
by frank651
well thanks
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:42 am
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.
