Air Gear Chapter 357 Discussion

just-away said:
Unfortunately, the words best fit to describe the final chapter (personally) was clustered and confusing.



I really REALLY think that the manga was intended to have a few more chapters to answer some questions. Too many small details revealed in the end for me...



I agree with you. It was rushed and it felt like omake chapter for me, not real ending.. I want more!

wow we get trolled on what ikki is up through the end. rika asked what ikki is and her mom wouldn't say

Air Gear will forever be in my top favorite manga's of all times. Besides Oh! Great being probably one of the best if not the best manga artist's I think that Air Gear probably has one of the most philosophically rich dialogues. That being said Oh! Great doesn't really have the best way of portraying the actual plot and other nuances as he might have made a world too big to concisely present.



I think that you really need to study the pages. In the same way book groups will dissect like a specific sentence into an hour long discussion I feel the same can be done with Air Gear because he really does make some absolutely amazing intellectual points it can just sometimes get lost in the convoluted timeline of events. Ex. The structure of Genesis is really vague like there were sometimes Civil Wars but then people would still side with their organization even though they didnt like it. Like Spit+Aeon vs Nike+Sora and then Simca staying with Sora despite not being on his side.



THE GOOD NEWS: I'm really anticipating Oh! Great's next work I love his art and philosophy. http://www.keymochi.com/manga/ogure-ito-collaborated-with-otaro-maijo-to-launch-new-manga/. The good news is his next series which comes out  this month will be in a collaboration with the novelist Ōtarō Maijō which will hopefully mend some of the problems with his current writing style.

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.

i'm glad it's over. too many metaphors and such.

xsilicon9 said:
So does Ikki choose someone at the end?



Ringo

This manga was SO good till around halfway point. Then it just become sillier and turned into one huge random mess.

Not to mention this final chapter which was just ugh.

not the best ending  lots of unanswered question still left but overall it was great ride.