Air Gear

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Air Gear
Original title エ ア ・ ギ ア
transcription Ea Gia
Air Gear Logo.png
genre Sports , shons , action
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Oh! Great
publishing company Kōdansha
magazine Shōnen Magazine
First publication 2002 - May 23, 2012
expenditure 37
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2006
Studio Toei Animation , Marvelous Entertainment
length 24 minutes
Episodes 26th
Director Hajime Kamegaki
music skankfunk ( Hideki Naganuma )
First broadcast April 5 - September 27, 2006 on TV Tōkyō
Original video animation
title Air Gear: Kuro no Hane to Nemuri no Mori - Break on the sky
Original title エ ア ・ ギ ア 黒 の 羽 と 眠 り の 森 -Break on the sky-
transcription Ea Gia: Kuro no Hane to Nemuri no Mori - Break on the sky
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 2010-2011
Studio Satelight
length 30 minutes
Episodes 3
Director Shinji Ishihira
music Shigero Yoshida
synchronization

Air Gear ( Japanese エ ア ・ ギ ア ) is a manga series by the Japanese artist Oh! Great , also known as anime - television series was implemented. The over 6,000 page manga can be assigned to the Shōnen genre, so it is aimed primarily at a young, male audience. It ended in 2012 with 357 chapters.

The work is about sport with futuristic inline skates and can be classified in the genre of sport and action. Comedy is also included, but the manga is mostly serious. Since a lot of bare skin is exposed, the manga can also be categorized into the ecchi genre .

content

Air-Trecks (A.Ts.)

A graphic of the processes around the kings and their regalia

Air-treks are, like inline skates , shoes with wheels, but they also have motors on the wheels. These make high speeds and long jumps possible. They also have a memory card that collects the driver's data. The air-treks can be put together individually from different parts. With these air-treks, young people compete against each other. Those who have formed groups and take part in these competitions are called Storm Riders .

Most Storm Riders sooner or later decide on a certain riding style, a road . Every road has a king, a particularly strong rider. There are eight kings at the beginning of the series, and more later on. The kings also have special parts in their air treks, the insignia , which give them special abilities. In order to use this optimally, however, you need a tuner that adapts the insignia to your body.

Storm Rider

The Storm Riders have a kind of ranking in which they are divided according to experience and ability. The teams can compete against teams of the same value from a higher class in different competitions in order to move up in classes “F” to “A”. Riding as a Storm Rider is subject to certain rules that every Storm Rider must adhere to. As a Storm Rider you compete in fights 5 against 5. With 3 wins in a row, the team moves up to the next higher class.

action

The student Minami “ Ikki ” Itsuki is the leader of a gang and lives with the four Noyamano sisters who took him in when he was little. When he is beaten one day by the Skull Saders gang with Air Trecks , he returns home. Out of frustration, Ikki steals a few air-treks and the emblem of the “Sleeping Forest” team to which his sisters belong. However, he only learns of the existence of the team and the meaning of the emblem later. After trying the AT's, an underground AT shopkeeper leads him to the nightly Stormrider meeting. There he challenges the Skull Saders through a misunderstanding . The duel ends in a draw because the leader of the Skull Saders does not recognize Ikkis victory. Later in the story, he and his friends Mikura Kazuma and Onigiri found their own team, the Kogarasumaru . After defeating the Kings of the Night team , their leader Mihotoke Issa aka Fats Buccha also joins them. Agito / Akito, the Fang King, is also part of his team. Now Ikki wants to become one of the eight kings.

style

The works of Oh! Great , the mangaka from Air Gear and Tenjo Tenge , mostly contain action, violence and fan service . The female characters are designed as bishōjo throughout .

publication

Air Gear appeared from issue 49/2002 to 25/2012 (May 23, 2012) weekly in individual chapters with sales of up to two million per issue of the publishing manga magazine Shōnen Magazine . The Kōdansha- Verlag summarized these individual chapters in 37 edited volumes.

In the USA the manga has been published by Viz Media since July 2006 , in France by Pika Édition and in Italian by Planet Manga . Eight volumes in German have been published by Heyne Verlag since April 2008 . The German translation is by Alexandra Klepper. However, Heyne has stopped all manga productions and Air Gear has not yet been taken over by another publisher.

Adaptations

Anime

In 2006 the Toei Animation and Marvelous Entertainment studios produced a 25-part anime television series based on the manga, directed by Hajime Kamegaki . The character design was designed by Masayuki Satō. The anime was shown from April 5 to September 27, 2006 shortly after midnight (and thus on the previous television day ) by TV Tokyo in Japan. With a delay of up to a week, TVQ Kyūshū , TV Osaka , TV Aichi , TV Hokkaidō and TV Setouchi followed , as well as AT-X nationwide later from August 31st .

ADV Films released the series in the US and Kaze in France. ABS-CBN aired the anime in the Philippines. In Germany, the series has been available in 3 individual DVD boxes since 2007 and, since 2009, in a complete version of Anime Virtual .

OVA

Studio Satelight later produced the 3-part original video animation Air Gear: Kuro no Hane to Nemuri no Mori - Break on the sky , directed by Shinji Ishihira.

The first episode was included in the limited version of the 30th manga volume from November 17, 2010 and deals with the 16th manga volume. The second episode from the 31st volume from March 7, 2011 and the third episode from the 32nd volume from June 17, 2011 deal with the 24th and 25th manga volume.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Minami "Ikki" Itsuki Kenta Kamakari Konrad Bösherz
Ringo Noyamano Mariya Ise Rubina Kuraoka
Ume Noyamano Yukiko Hanioka Susanne Geier
Mikan Noyamano Seika Hosokawa Tina Haseney
Rika Noyamano Naoko Matsui Anja Rybiczka
Kazumi "Kazu" Mikura Ken'ichiro Ohashi Jan Rohrbach
Onigiri Masami Kikuchi Jesco Wirthgen
Akito Wanijima Kokoro Kikuchi Constantin von Jascheroff
Simca Rie Tanaka Angela Ringer
Kōji Magaki Nobuyuki Hiyama Gerald Paradise
Issha Mihotoke Hitoshi Bifu Oliver Siebeck
Mari Tomita Noriko Shitaya Cathlen Gawlich
Reng Fa Rumi Shishido Catrin Dams
Spitfire Kenjirou Tsuda Alexander Doering
Akira Udou Kenji Nojima Jaron Lowenberg

music

The music for the series was produced by skankfunk . The opening title is chain from Back-on , the closing song was Sky-2-High by skankfunk . The music was also released on two CDs and a single.

musical

In January 2007, a musical based on the manga was performed in Space Zero in Tokyo and in the BREAVA theater in Osaka . The cast of the musical also included the voice actors Kenn and Kamakari Kenta, who played their roles from the anime. In April 2007 the sequel Air Gear vs. Bacchus Super Range Remix .

The OVA series used Forest Walker in the credits for the first episode , Miss X DAY for the second episode and Sweet Home Battle Field for the third episode , each from a flood of circle .

Awards

The manga was awarded the 2006 Kōdansha Manga Prize in the Shōnen category.

reception

According to the German trade magazine Funime , the plot of Air Gear offers little new and follows the usual pattern of combat-oriented anime. Comedy, fan service and sub-plots added variety to the story at the beginning, but later did not come into play or seemed excessive, so that only little varied fights remained. The music is fast and the animation and drawings are quite decent for a television series . The simple characters would be balanced by the background. The German dubbed version was a good success, apart from minor errors.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AnimePro on the manga
  2. ↑ Review in Funime No. 53, p. 19

Web links

Commons : Air Gear  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files