Wednesday, March 15, 2006,10:07 AM
Opening the path to the SKY : AirGear
"Everyone is born with wings"




Air Gear is a shounen manga by the mangaka, Ito Ogure who goes by the name Oh!Great. It is serialized on Weekly Shounen Magazine in 2002. Currently, 11 tankoubans are released in Japan by Shounen Magazine Comics.

It is about a typical 13 year old, Minami Itsuki aka Ikki, the leader of East Side Gunz, Higachu Junior High's school gang. After being utterly humiliated by a street gang of Storm Riders using Air Treck (abbreviated as AT), the Noyamano siblings gave him a pair of Air Treck and helped him to deal with them. When the incident is over, he finds that he really likes the feeling of 'flying' and he is sucked into the world of Air Treck.

sNooZe-Kun Credits mangawiki for the info

MJ's Notes:

From the king of fanservice himself, Oh!Great.. the guy that made Tenjou Tenge and Himiko Den..
(And also Silky Whip <-- hentai manga)

Air Gear, is not a typical manga that deals with straight out fighting with out of this world fireballs... Yes, there are some fighting in this one.. but at least, it's fair and square (even though its an underground sport)

The story revolves around "Storm Riders", people that uses "Air Treck"... Air Treck is like a futuristic Rollerblade, but it's so futuristic, It contains, a memory stick that records a lot of stuff (e.g. Tricks done, miles ran, skill level, max speed, max air etc..), it also has a motor to get that OMG! speed and AIR..

Matches are different, it varies by level.. such a, sprint, hurdles, wall, or disc... (don't know what I'm talking about? Nah.. since I'm a good guy.. I won't spoil ya...).

Since IT IS A WORK BY OH!GREAT.. what to expect... well... OF COURSE!! FANSERVICE!! and ACTION!

Rated online as 7.5 (pretty decent I say...) I'll just Add .5 as FANSERVICE POINTS...

snooze-kun gives credit to mangadownload.net for my scanlations






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Saturday, March 11, 2006,6:31 PM
See How Prodigies can be really SCARY : DEATH NOTE

"40 seconds, your death is decided within 40 seconds..."


Death Note is about Yagami Raitou, (Light in English) a Japanese Prodigy, the Nation's top High Schooler.. in short.. A Genius.. Light realises his ability to kill whomever he wishes, and he uses it to begin a "cleansing" of the world from evil. It does not take the police long to realise that somebody is responsible for the mysterious deaths of criminals, and he is then soon hunted by the Japanese police force and a mysterious detective known as "L". So as Light works towards his "perfect" world, devoid of crime and injustice, L works to catch the mysterious murderer, dubbed "Kira" by the press and end the increasingly senseless deaths of criminals and anyone who gets too close to the truth. L and Light soon begin a cat and mouse chase to see who will be the first to have their identities exposed.

MJ's NOTE

Death Note's theme is very serious..
very complex for an "average" otaku to comprehend with.. (Actually, my mind became chaotic after reading some chapters but, you'll get the hang of it if you will take the story seriously")
This manga's leaves everyone amazed at how "L" and Light uses ingenious plans to outwit each other.

Now, I'll tell something how geniuses can be really scary...







See how, Yagami Raitou, a prodigy.. built with brains and looks... and a smile that makes girlies faint...
Turns into a psychopath...

Here's another one...
First.. He'll laugh and give a nasty grin after his killing spree...


"Ku Ku Ku Ku..."







Then, cry and wail like his pet cat was ran over by a truck..











Presenting... "L"

A disposition of what you would call a "natural genius"

Disheveled hair...
"Lemon"-like eyebags (if you know what I mean...)
shaggy clothes..
and the trademark longsleeves and jeans..
this manga is rated online as Excellent (9.17)

But, I'll just give it a 8.5 because of its parts that are toooooo complex and boring... parts where, they talk about corporational power and blah blahs like money which is unrelated to teenagers killing off each other.. o_O


sNooZe-Kun gives credit to wikipedia and animenewsnetwork for the ratings and infos


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