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SKATING ON THIN ICE

Without a doubt, Ikki is the most fearsome skater around. Too bad he’s lost the super high-tech skates that helped him succeed. Worse yet, Ikki’s a far better skater than he is a student. He’s failing in class and must clean up his act fast in order to compete in the next Parts War–a dangerous and thrilling face-off between rival skate gangs. As the team leader, Ikki knows his friends are counting on him. Everybody thinks that he’s the toughest kid in school, but is Ikki about to prove them wrong?

Includes in-depth translation notes, character concept sketches, and a preview of the next volume!

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 16, 2003

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Oh! Great

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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".

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Profile Image for Gwladys.
118 reviews
September 14, 2025
quel classique ça aurait été cette série si elle avait pas été écrite par un détraqué sexuel
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381 reviews11 followers
July 14, 2012
En lisant ces quatre tomes, j'ai eu des sentiments ambivalents.
Pas trop séduit par les deux premiers tomes, j'ai trouvé les deux suivants un peu mieux : personnages mieux fouillés, plus ambigus, précisions techniques un poil moins fantaisistes, héros moins caricatural.

Le manga repose sur une invention imaginaire (et non-réalisable techniquement...) : les Air Trek, des rollers à deux roues sur-dimensionnées, dotées de micro-moteurs et de super-suspensions. Avec ça, on peut aller très vite et faire des sauts énormes (deux étages) avec une réception en douceur...

L'histoire suit le schéma shônen ultra-classique / codifié : le héros excelle dans un domaine (la bagarre niveau lycéen) mais est totalement débutant dans un autre (la maîtrise des air trek).
Il est surclassé par ses pairs dans le second domaine, mais il est très doué, faisant des progrès rapides suscitant l'admiration de son entourage.
Oui, cela fait penser à GTO, Ikaru no Go, et d'autres manga...

Donc, on a droit à toutes les étapes : l'humiliation du héros échouant face à des adversaires plus aguerris, son acharnement à progresser à force de travail, son sens de l'amitié, ses démêlés sentimentaux...

L'auteur y ajoute un brin de culture de la glisse, avec style graffitis, et un peu de fan service (filles dénudées, mais le héros se dénude aussi à l'occasion !) et de plaisanteries scato...

Le graphisme commence un peu banal, mais se distingue un peu plus au fil des volumes, avec entre autres des visages moins lisses que ce qu'on peut voir souvent.

Ce n'est pas un chef-d'œuvre mais je vais peut-être lire la suite...
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493 reviews35 followers
January 7, 2018
So this volume kind of starts off by reminding us that while Ikki and his friends are now air trek riders, they're also jh students and they need to take their tests so they don't fail. There's also a lot of filler type content, what with Onigiri getting a girlfriend and wow, the ecchi just went up by 100 notches!

But the volume does end by introducing us to my FAV character, Akito/Agito who has double personality and who is the keeper of the Fang Road. There are some BL undertones in this book since Akito seems to really like Ikki, which I'm not sure how to feel about. Like, I like the BL but also, Ikki obviously likes girls/boobs so this whole bit of Akito pinning away makes me wonder what the point is. Like he could have just admired him?? Anywho, we get to learn a bit more about the stormrider/air trek world and the authority involved in it

Definitely a funny read
Profile Image for Nanang Stiawan.
302 reviews
November 23, 2021
Lagi2 Ringo tertikung krn kelemotannya. Kali ini ditikung si two face Akito.

Emg Agito ni keren bgt secara looks dan skill.
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