Air Gear Chapter 357 Discussion

Finally got off my arse to finish this manga and have updated my review accordingly. Overall I enjoyed it but would have enjoyed it more if the story didn't become a complete mess.



Overall: Struggled to decide between giving it a 7 & 8/10 but I ended up rounding it all up to 8/10.

I thought it was satisfying and besides, Oh!Great couldn't have ended it better in such a short amount of time. The final attack had already happened because as it turned out, the true deciding factor was Sora's Bloody Wings vs. Ikki's Astral Magus, and we all know who came out on top of that one. Pretty surprising that the final Trick would be more of a defensive one, especially considering how this is a shonen manga.



As for Sora surviving? Think about it people, the guy practically just got the worst punishment he could ever deserve. Sora was resigned to die for leaving everything behind (literally) and what? You just tell him to pick himself up and start over? That is not something that is easy to do and probably the harshest thing you can grant to someone who is so far gone that even he recognizes it.



Regarding Ikki, I like what OG did. He left it ambiguous, which in my opinion actually works for both kinds of fans. We never know if he was truly an experiment and if he was, does it even matter? After all in the end even Dr. Minami was rooting for Sora to win all along as he considered him his greatest experiment. So really that doesn't really leave much for Ikki. I like that it doesn't matter what Ikki really is, it's what he does that defines him (totally my Batman Begins reference right here).



I don't know why some people are confused about the last chapter though. It plays out like an anime ending episode where you see different "videos" being put together to close off different characters. I thought it was perfect, and it gave that uplifting feeling that life goes on.



Thank you for those 10 years Oh!Great. Air Gear may not be perfect, but it sure as hell is one of the most unique and enjoyable shonen manga series I have ever had the pleasure to read. Air Gear may not be perfect, but this last arc was pretty damn good in my eyes. To finish off at such a high note, I can say that I'm actually pretty damn satisfied.

Air Gear was like a roller coaster of a manga; really good at some points and really bad/confusing at other times. I didn't hate the ending but i didn't love it either.

I liked how it was kind of random yet wrapped up the series quite well.  For a manga like Air Gear, which I was getting annoyed with, the final chapter is one of the best I've read.

Its been a long road for this manga series, which have had its share of definite highs and lows,

All and all, I enjoyed the series very much ! Thank you "Oh! Great" for such an entertaining series. I look forward to the new releases from this refined publisher.

Though the ending seemed a bit hastened, It was a good way to wrap up this 9-year long manga series.

Air Gear, I bid you farewell, Until I watch the anime :)

saving sora should have been the last chapter and every thing else be the prolog

any way one of greatest manga has ended hopeful for a anime and may Oh Great! do well on future projects

I have strange feelings about the ending and I know that not everyone is going to be satisfied. In allot of ways it seems rushed and allot of things were forgotten.



Although allot of people say that it started 200 chapters ago I would argue that any hope of forming an complete satisfying piece ended after the battleship ark (even then I know allot of people weren't satisfied before that).



Despite that Oh my God brings it back for a complete ending and although I wish allot of characters could have gotten more of say before the end (espically Kururu and Agito) it at least shows some acknowledgment before the end.



Last thing I have to say is that I disagree about an anime. Sure it would be cool to see some of these fights. But all and all so much is forgotten and characters come off as so astray by the end, that unless they were to change the ending I don't think an Air Gear anime could come off as enjoyable for me. Either that or they take away all the small things such as Kururu and Agito ark but then your stripping the best features that Air Gear provided its characters.



Overall great characters which was torn apart by a bad ending.

Artwork is the saving grace of this manga, the plot became so stupid. I don't know if Oh! Great loves America since, he put so much of what was going  on in America into his plot LOL, or he just likes making fun of America, could be both.



It was a fun and crazy read, but I would like to thank Oh! Great for Onigiri the god of all pigs, he the most awesome, and his fights was always fun to read.