Yet another long-running manga is finally drawing to an end – Air Gear has announced it will be concluding its 10 year serialisation in Weekly Shonen Magazine in 5 chapters.
The wave of recent endings is now prompting some definite fear that they are concluding faster than they are being replenished, and should Naruto and One Piece ever end, the manga industry could find itself in real trouble – although doubtless some would argue the average quality of manga being published would increase significantly with their extirpation.
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Time for me to go buy the remaining volumes then. I think I stopped at Volume 19 or so.
Can't wait to continue reading it once it's done.
If you had to upgrade from angry otaku to bullshit otaku, do it when you have nothing to lose, right?
finally!
Now they can finish the anime with Toei Animation again and NOT Satelight who did the OVA
What makes you think Toei Animation is going to give a !@#$ about continuing Air Gear. Highly unlikely that Oh! Great Anime will ever continue. Give up those lofty thoughts right now...
Looks like Japan's Manga Artist are getting ready for 2012
- Fallout 3 style
100 bucks that this didn't have a proper ending as well!!
has anime/manga ever had a solid ending? with manga it's always a single chapter rush job and anime adaptions rarely even get an ending.
this manga was cool
was cool till he went over 9000 , oh great really need to stop making his over dramatic story, god power and just keep it simple not over do like always
They probably just want to end all the long-running manga before the world ends.
Who the fuck would think they can't get more new manga into magazines? There are thousands each year, and so many get passed over because theres no godamn space.
Now, I'm REALLY sad that Gintama's anime ended...
Kinda sad this manga was really good, i hope they decide to make an anime of it, really disapointed when Air gear anime finished with 20's episodes and only covered 50's chapters...but they really have reasons to worry about...
Yeah, but the anime ended at just the right time in the story. After that point it got all military serious and alienated all the fans that loved it for being fun.
And then there was the President "Omaha" body switch thing...
this mangas plot is stupid and yet i keep reading it because of the actions.
Finally this is over !!!
time to read the rest of it, i stopped when
kururu said she respected ikki.....
I stopped shortly after the middle-aged salaryman battle, just reread everything.
geez, everything is coming to an end these days. course air gear should have ended ages ago, as ohgreat quickly runs out of ideas with all of his works.
Just bring everything back to zero... >_>
I agree, more Code Geass...
i don't think that's what he meant -_-
thank god, this shit end. sure i hope op and narutard should end as soon as possible... and as ong as beelzebub continue all's right with the world
beelzebubs over bub
@00:15 You're little speech is so full of irony.
Oh, and Air Gear is better than Beelzebub.
Occasionally I used to check into Air Gear and boggle at what a complete trainwreck it was.
Oh! Great! is a fantasic artist with a great sense of style, but for god's sake GET A WRITER.
SC should know the difference between "Ends" and "Ending"
Air Gear's art is fantastic, but the story sucked as soon as it went from a roller-blading manga to a super powered elemental preachy battle manga.
Tricks went from 1800-Wallride and Method-Spin-That-Air-MoonRider to Pile Tornado, St.Elmo's Crossfire and the most ridiculous of all, "Time".
Oh!Great excels at running series in the ground by over-expanding everything about them and never truly resolving anything.
Agreed. He has this tendency of making really good concepts and starts of a series, then they just go downwards as he tries to drag them out, often in the form of well... Sudden superpowers or totally out of the arse things, not to mention leaving certain plot holes unfilled. *points to Tenjou Tenge* I literally rose up out of my chair and raised my arms to the sky with an exclamation including not the nicest of words.
His art is great, he's good at creating concepts, but he should stick with shorter stories instead of dragging them out, in my humble opinion, that is.
i agree he should stck to short series.
Ah.. the JoJo card, it's always fun to see all these mangakas paying homage to Araki but whenever they try to go out of the usual "fighting battle manga" and try to incorporate JoJo elements they just fail to realize that there's a reason why they are the ultimate manifestation in each arc.
Also they evolve thru each series it's not the same mechanic over and over raging from stoping the time for 3 seconds, to deleting time, to gravity while switching to loops in reality creation, to paralel dimension travelling.
Involving any of these ultimate manifestations into the 2nd quarter of the series asides feeling rushed it feels badly done.
And Oh great preaches way too much, QC Edit process its a huge pain in the arse, Viz destroying the manga over NA didnt help either.
That virtual reality match vs the original Sleeping Forrest was really the "last straw" with no hope for the series...
Every cliche you could think of was thrown at you and the shit turned more into "magic" and borderline superpowers from sticking stuff in their roller blades..
Even the ecchi pretty much disappeared over the years.. Much less the extent of it in the early volumes..
The super powers from sticking stuff into the roller blades has been around the entire time.
Oh, the regalia went from:
"Produces some wind to help tricks"
to
"Can make you fly, produce tornadoes, grow wings, can produce gusts of wind that can blow up stuff" type stuff
Not to forget all the other Regalia that also gave powers akin to something like One Piece devil fruit or the many other shounen examples with almost no real explanation/thought..
Or Ikki's bull shit regalia that is even more "Are you even trying anymore...?"
well ohgreat did make dr minami say that the airtrek units are just training wheels for drawing out the power of one's soul.
I agree, its even pathetic that OhGreat tries so hard to substantiate all the shit that was going on with all the physics behind it just to give a sense of realism.
yet I was still reading it weekly for years. the characters we're probably the one that got me going(besides the amazing art). the story doesn't even have to matter anymore. That's how well he portrayed the characters and maybe the only part of the manga kept "Real" (Except for the Omaha part) read it and you'll understand.
and for those who are also in the art/animation field or something similar/related to it. OhGreat! did an amazing job with AirGear, his work is ever evolving, lots of detail, great ideas, sick perspective, hot anatomy. You're sure to pickup/learn a lot of useful things and get some cool ideas.
(don't copy though)
I'm half surprised there's no John Omaha Steaks meme, so much win could be had
The irony is, IMO this is the shittiest manga from Oh Great! but it is the longest to be serialized.
no, tenjou tenge was worse. once that one fell hard and just died off.
Same with Tenjou Tenge, starts off as some fighting manga, but ends up as some highty mighty philosophical manga with an unescapable destiny as theme, was not so surprised Air Gear went the way it did :P
Wow about time, it was going into the direction of some weird philosophical psychological stuffs.
one piece can continue, it has great potential to continue since there are many mysteries and stuff to talk, as for naruto~ unless it pop up something like "this is just a small ninja country, outside there are even stronger people" ----> (Toriko gourmet world and One piece new world), which is less likely to happen because naruto became too strong now, and the author are trying too hard to make up links and invent stuff that are not suppose to have (it will eventually sound pathetic)right now (I like better the naruto before he grew up)
it is important to come up with a script before drawing it (predict what to draw later), in that area, I can see Oda did very well. In the case of Masashi, it is so apparant that he doesn't think far enough, maybe due to stress ~~ anyway I hope he could finish Naruto in a positive way because right now I'm starting to lose interest in naruto
that's reminds me how oh great! finished tenjou tenge ._. ,in a few chapters
This was still going?
I thought it ended years ago......
Oh fuck another good manga whose end is near...
lol "good"
did he ever draw more nipples in this manga?
I don't think he ever got to draw any nipples in it, since it's serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine. Hopefully, his next work will be serialized in Ultra Jump or another seinen magazine that lets him draw some nipples and bush.
If Onepiece and Naruto end it'll be the greatest day in manga history. It's actually those two (and to some extent Bleach) that have been killing the manga industry for years.
Bitch please. look at sales numbers
Bitch please naruto and bleach suck!
He didn't say they are good, just that they sell, two very different things.
yeah right one piece has the best story ever
no its doesnt. its generic shonen.
spoiler but the one piece treasure will be 'friendship and the journey'.
because its shonen and thats the only ending a shonen reveal can do.
You're right. One piece is so generic.
You obviously have not read One Piece. :P
Naruto needs to end. The gayest manga in the world.