Air Gear Chapter 357 Discussion

i was really confused in the past chapters -______-

though it was a really bad ass battle :D

nice job author :bd

A decent ending to a fast declining manga. The first 100+ chapters to Air Gear were brilliant then it started to become a clusterfuck of shit around the time they all went on that boat. It's a shame really because Air Gear used to be the only 'sports' manga I really liked. Overall I'll give it 7/10.

I didn't finish it, but can anyone spoiler, regarding Ikki's romance?

vindemon64 said:
it just seems they lost interest in what they were doing at one point...or just couldn't put their ideas together into something coherent.



I think it's the latter. A piece of advice for everyone: Reread it. I did so and to tell the truth while the inconsistent bad story telling was still there, it was less noticeable(as always when you marathon something). But in this case in particular , where the pacing and consistency was screwed up a lot, it helps even more, it lets you enjoy/understand/appreciate it more.

I've been disappointed even since the battle with kilik and how he chose ringo than kururu.This is bullshit.

It didn't met my expectations of how events would turn out even though it's amazing before those events.



But whatever.I give this manga: 7/10

Because at least it's enjoyable and amazing until that last arc.

grandy_UiD said:
What happened in this chapter? I guess this is pretty much the manga writing equivalent to "incoherent and random rambling". This chapter was all over the place...but then again so was the manga for the last ~200 chapters so I guess it's a fitting end. (in a bad way of course).





This should've kept focusing on the sports aspect that made it fun to read in the beginning. Instead it became...whatever the fuck it was (seriously I have no clue).

Sora turning heel was an epic twist but shortly after that the manga started going downhill HARD.



The final chapter itself was not satisfying, aside from Ikki vs. Sora NOTHING got wrapped up. And even that was done shoddy. There were tons of characters in this manga that did not get anything even remotely resembling a wrap up. What a joke. But I don't really mind, I stopped paying attention and actually caring for this manga ages ago. I'm just glad it's finally over. Was about time.



Oh!Great can draw amazingly cute and hot girls but that's really it as far as his talent goes. He isn't a good writer. Which is a shame since he came up with a really interesting and refreshing premise here, gotta give him credit for that. Unfortunately it ended up as wasted potential since he himself just lacks the writing skills to develop a good story. For the last three or so years I always felt like the guy himself has no idea where he wanted the plot to go.



5/10 it was a real mess.



You pretty much described my feelings here perfectly.  The anime got me interested in this series.  I then started to read the manga and really loved the first 1/3 of the story.  But then it all went to a some kind of clusterfuck nonsense which only partly made sense at time.  I really, really wanted to like this at the end, but I just can't rate this any higher than a 5/10 as well.  I can see that Oh Great! tried to do something different.  They had good ideas all over the place here, but to me, it just seems they lost interest in what they were doing at one point...or just couldn't put their ideas together into something coherent.

Just wanted to add that I'm really hoping that Oh Great! does come back with another manga.



I just wish he could put more interest and time in developing a good storyline the way he does for his art.



Oh Great! is an amazing talent, he can draw great battles, good ecchi scenes, and complex backgrounds, to say the very least I fully enjoyed Air Gear from an artistic stand point.

I have no idea what happened throughout the last arc.

I hope there's an anime to help simplify things for me >_>



Decent end I guess even if I didn't understand most of what was going on.