Air Gear Omnibus Vol. 3

Air Gear Omnibus #3

by Oh! Great

Ikki Minami is a junior high school student with a dream - to become the best Air Trek rider in town. It won't be easy, as he faces a lot of competition from boys and girls alike. What is Air Trek? Just the latest craze that involves taking a two-wheel inline skate and adding a motor, suspension and a shock absorber to enable the wearer to execute the wildest, wackiest, most aggressive moves you can imagine. Ikki has a lot to learn as he fights his way to the top in this wild, sexy manga from the creator of Tenjho Tenge!

Genres: Manga, Graphic Novels

594 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 20, 2014

About the author

Oh! great, whose real name is Ito Ōgure (大暮維人 Ōgure Ito) is a Japanese manga artist most recognized for the manga series Tenjho Tenge and Air Gear. In 2006, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Air Gear. Apart from working with manga, he designed some of the alternate character outfits in the PlayStation 2 version of Namco's 3D fighting game Tekken 5, and a guest character in Soul Calibur IV named Ashlotte.

His pseudonym "Oh! great" is a play on words. His pen name, written in Japanese order, is "Ōgure Ito", which is pronounced similarly to and can be romanized the same as the Japanese rendering of the English words "Oh great," ōgurēto. Furthermore, "Oh" can mean "king" in Japanese, making it possible to read the name as "the great king".

Reviews

[Jenny Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one really focused on the battles. I'm rather excited to see what a class C- Air battle is exactly. I do feel like some of this is a bit overblown, like the keepers seem way to into this, but I am interested to see how everything ends up. Also, love the references to other manga and anime!

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[Gabi · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5/5

[Samuel Faulkner Bourdeau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

This story is great and so far it fallows the anime. Can't wait to get past this but this is a really great refresher.

[Lord · Rating 1 out of 5]

This manga has always been utterly ridiculous but also fun but it stopped being fun in this omnibus and started to be boring. One long boring fight spanning three volumes is just too much. I won't read more. Tenjo Tenge was much better.