well with it being swallow her nickname in the streets is no lie swallow
make this up so does anyone remember Air Gear it was old grades and kadanchas manga award-winning
Shonen back in 2006. this show feels very nostalgic to me like I'm back in 2000s era
and I'm watching some four kids on a Saturday morning you know back in the day where they would
be airing their anime blogs it really reminds me of the early days of bleach where they had the
openings you know including a soundtrack with a mixture between Electro Dance music drum and
bass rap rock and alternative rock and call me old but I really do miss this style of music for more
comedic style driven anime Erica was adapted into a 25 episode television anime series by
toy animation which aired on TV Tokyo from April to September in 2006. ADV films announced on the
October 20th 2006 weekend at onicon that they had the license to Air Gear and they plan to
release it in North America the first volume was released on February 6 in 2007. ADV released the
uncensored Japanese home video version rather than the broadcast version and when it was time
aired on IGN to give a sneak peek of the first episode with his being the English dub the show
was uncensored for the English dub so there was no way parents would actually let their kids watch
it so this is probably why they didn't aired on four kids at the time and they had to air it on
the unpopular way of doing it being streaming it on FUNimation losing a lot of potential eyeballs
that a lot of kids would have had on it if you were a kid at the time a new fat was sweeping the
nation with this being gang culture in the plot of the show gangs started to form all over to compete
in various events using ATS Air Gear is basically aggressive futuristic rollerblading where people
would race and do cool flips it sounds like a more dangerous versions of Heelys that I had
growing up iki is a middle school boy who's the toughest street fighting Punk this side east of
town being the only delinquent in the city that thinks writing ATS are lame I shouldn't have to
say but in the early 2000s delinquent culture was a real thing yeah I don't know when or
where this picture is taken but I don't care the delinquent girls were hot but at this time a lot
of the leading characters were tied into Japanese Street culture or having references to them even
Yugi Moto the king of games couldn't escape them and I haven't even mention season 0 with them only
making recently a semblance of a comeback in the 2020s with Tokyo Avengers iki is voiced by Chris
Patton who's done turlas from Dragon Ball and sosuke from full Metal Panic and he gives a rather
serious performance with the audience really feeling the weight of every lie he gives but he
comes around to being more of the comedic arrogant headstrong leader we all know and love still he's
on the older side of what I think a middle school kid would sound like I'm sure if I had that voice
I'd win over all the girls in my class or they'd have another reason to run away from me jokes
aside he's supposed to be 15. even though in the dub it says he's like 13. iki lives with his four
adopted gorgeous sisters who took him in when he was a kid what icky doesn't know is these girls
are a part of the most infamous at gang this side of the ease sleeping forest and it doesn't take
long for each to learn more about the world of ATS being airtrex and meeting a number of storm Riders
and allies along the way so the show starts out with someone just ripping on this guitar with that
being from a rock band back on who manages to mix in a rap performance playing a memorable opening
in chain while the cast of characters are just calmly skating almost at peace I'll just mention
it one time here but everyone who has listened to the soundtrack for Air Gear openly says it's
just a classic like like the soundtrack is like actually just goaded if you listen You'll you'll
understand what I'm saying so iki is a typical delinquent who just loves to get into fights and
pervy situations with his friends that being Kazu and onigiri with these two not at all fitting the
role of delinquents like iki does one day after he's being beaten up by masaki he realizes that
he can't beat anyone who has an air track so after his older sister Rika punishes him for breaking
one of their house rules and him also failing to sneak a peek at them in the bath he notices
a bunch of warning signs on one of the rooms in the house with him being the mischievous character
he is he obviously opens it up to be honest it's kind of weird he's been living in this house for I
don't know how long and he's just now found this room and finds out this whole thing of ATS and
his sisters being a part of sleeping Force this is kind how how do you being this oblivious to
not to all this [ __ ] that's the part that really gets me but anyways he opens it up and he finds a
set of 18 whether being parts and an emblem saying sleeping fours after reading the instructions for
the rollerblades and nearly dying in the process he wanders to a shop and he meets an older Russian
woman and an old man the woman sees his emblem and assumes that he must be an apprentice of
sleeping Force she abruptly apologizes because she rudely remarked about his skills earlier and then
she calls the old man to take him to the meeting place there he sees the girl he's been admiring
for a very long time semka who's joking about playing some reindeer games where people would
tag their emblem on her body in suggestive ways so of course the boy wants to try this out in the end
he's able to tag her but this starts a turf war with a gang that beat him up in the previous day
being challenged but um the cops show up and all the delinquents scatter but ikiyamagaki still have
some unfinished business having to battle for the emblems iki doesn't understand what's so important
about this sleeping Force emblem but he accepts it also it's weird because some of these emblems are
metal but later on you see them like being kind of like stickers so did he just get like a set
of sticker emblems and he wears one of them like a pin and if that's the case of them being stickers
couldn't they just be very easy to get around the town you just pick them up and that's it whatever
they battle for it and with the help of his sisters with them being members of sleeping Force
he's able to win and he's rewarded for his efforts by cleaning the toilets for a month and getting a
beat down from his older sister iki is talented enough to do anything that he puts his mind to
choosing to ride his ATS loving the feeling of flying the Show's first season is broken down
into arcs but the first being about Simca being admittedly the reason why Iggy was so motivated
to learn how to use ATS with Simka being played by Monica Ryle she's causing problems and forcing iki
to get better offering to give the boy a reward a teenage boy would love that being kisses boob hugs
and her overall body at multiple points in the first arc side note I was dying laughing knowing
her nickname in the show with it being swallow her nickname in the streets is no lie swallow
you can't make this up and you could say it means like the bird but nah the Creator knows exactly
what the heck he was doing when he was making this edgy anime he did that on purpose not to
mention Ringo is constantly saying how much he hates Simca for being so [ __ ] but Simca does
this all to push him to reach his potential to become the Sky King so that he can ride alongside
her but her idea of Love At the beginning was mainly to use him as a pet pushing him to follow
her decisions shifting her idea of the boy later on but still being as forward as she was at the
beginning of the series knowing if he joins her he'd have to fight against his family and
their ideology around ATS next is Ringo being the smart perfect student but also being the stubborn
quick temper stepsister for the most part she's kind to everyone except to iki and outwardly to
Simcoe sits Simka and her different ideologies and with her being assumed Ray she has a crush on
a key with her being played by Lucy it's hinted throughout the series that Ringo is the secret
current leader of slipping Force who helps Ika get better yes but is the type of person to slowly
ease him into training meaning as Simca outrageous throws him to conflict in season 1 she keeps the
purpose of sleeping 4 is hidden and refuses to let iki know anything about them even though she's
constantly meddling into the team's Affairs as if she's an official member even though he never
asked for her help nor did he ever really need it onigiri is played by Greg Ares being the perverted
always fighting girl's character that these shows typically have who somehow comes across as lovable
like in some scenes I'm literally on the floor crying or I'm downright just yelling at the screen
asking what the [ __ ] is going on right now especially with that girl in the thong dancing
while fighting I swear to God it was the wildest [ __ ] I've ever seen in a dog then there's Kazu
played by Clint brickham who you could say is more level-headed and he's constantly trying to prove
himself saying that he doesn't really need iki to help him win a fight but Kazu deep down runs away
from a lot of conflict but by the end he's able to overcome this and finally he actually does
do one thing better than iki which I guess was a bit of a motivational speech by iki when he was
talking about this but it was is still one of the most disrespectful backhanded compliments
I've ever heard in a dub oh next we got this fat summer [ __ ] which is that kid during the two
mad Bel delfine anime clip who was the real king or delinquent of the school until icky beat his
team and he joined them later on this character is literally just like choji he's literally just
trying to eat the entire time but he can still have abs if he wants to like I said the comedy
in his anime is crazy so let me just explain the same these three idiots had this one scene with
onigiri's ex and oh my gosh on everything I love this was the most goaded funny what the [ __ ]
episode of all time in dub history so I have to explain this so onigiri was gonna leave the team
because he was gonna get into this aerobics class which was filled from head to toe with
baddies in all in like their 20s and 30s so of course he chose to go with this stacked lineup
over his homies and Iggy and Kazu are real they saw the light up and they understood this was the
superior option of course they were mad oding gear is dating one of the girls from the class
and he wants to show her that he can take care of her if there ever came a dangerous situation and
kids do not try this at home so he hires Isha and his old Squad to pose as some r words chasing her
when she's in her skimpy outfit see where I'm going with this only Gary steps in and I kid
you not the dub had the hood translation on deck for Isha editor make sure you edit this clip imma
need you to hand over that hoe cause she come with us to play with my purple dinosaur if you
know what I mean and this was all an act so of course onigiri beats this nigga's ass Iggy and
Kazu see what's going on from where they're at and they realize it's obviously fake since they know
Isha but they want to show only gear that they're still friends so all three of them stop the [ __ ]
out of issue but it turns out onigiri's girl is a freak being down to go with Isha running into his
arms if any person saw this in real life they understand that some crazy things are about to
happen and this girl was down for it like she runs into this fat motherfucker's arms and the reason
why she left with Isha was because he was fatter than onigiri having a thing for the chubbiest man
she can find and then later on in the hallway when they're talking about isha's girlfriend
he just breaks down and cries cause she left him for even fatter [ __ ] being a sumo wrestler yes
she got passed around so many times she ends up with a sumo wrestler leaving Bo onigiri and Isha
in [ __ ] shambles proving once and for all she's the real queen of the streets after that detour
the next member we're talking about is agato agato is played by Blake Shepard and is a character with
a split personalities the aggressive one is needed for the races of course and the shy wind being the
one who has a crush on iki being the person iki can rely on the most in a fight lastly I gotta
talk about would be season 2 characters and I'm gonna have to mention her his sister slash mother
Rika since she's the one who literally raised him like when he was a baby and they didn't have no
parental figure around Rika hates the idea of him having an Air Track Team afraid he's just
gonna use it in the end of fight which based on his track record was pretty accurate so she
goes to talk to Sora her innocent high school sweetheart who's stuck in a wheelchair who got
put in said wheelchair because he saved her life so resides me because she actually just won't talk
to him about the situation and she keeps just saying no is that a fine piece of work or what
ah come on man don't you know it's bad for him to tell someone that his sister's ass is hot because
if I say no then I'm lying that if I say yes then I'm just a perv that's not the point all
right and then begin their battle iki wins and can now do whatever he wants and who would have
thought later on that this guy in the wheelchair would be the antagonist of the series and blow
rika's back out this is the craziest character development of all time the show has crazy good
qualities honestly there's so many characters I could talk about in this anime and I'm not even
joking like the author made sure they were the most interactive characters possible creating
individual designs for everyone with costume changes to show their personalities with him doing
the same for one-time characters or reoccurring supporting ones and you're probably just like oh
Barry that's so cap what are you talking about they're also one-dimensional and I say to that
shut the [ __ ] up they're not let me explain let's start with Emily Emily literally looks down
on iki and all his friends then from one instant she'd literally just joins the group and you would
see her in downtime episodes all the time they have Mr Roo he was going to be the big bad of
one of the at gangs but it turns out he's not so scary after all he's literally a [ __ ] idiot and
he was easily defeated then you have bin Kai you think oh she's just a pretty face she doesn't do
anything oh you're [ __ ] wrong she's [ __ ] crazy in Genesis she literally becomes a razor
head plus Kakashi teaching them and then deciding to join them slightly for helping them out for one
of these at gang fights and his kicking nigga's asses left and right then she has to take on this
freaking sleeping Force bin Kai is crazy you have not to me not to me it was literally the mechanic
using her brain power to beat a tech teams all the time and then she runs against iki and he's like
oh he's just gonna be another Meathead I'ma show him my boobs and then it still doesn't
work and then what happens to her she becomes a mechanic for the group later on basically just
falling freaky though right he's one of the top fighters for Gorgon show and you see her you're
like oh she's gonna be like some Prim princess no you're [ __ ] wrong she's probably one of the most
perverted characters in this entire show which resulted in one of the weirdest episodes I've
everything go watch it stay like I said wardrobe changes and the biggest twist
I've ever seen apparently she's so [ __ ] hot she paralyzes [ __ ] when they fight
craziest [ __ ] I've ever seen on Kami then we have literally Yayo yayu was just down bad
for Kazu for a bit she was part of the track team didn't really like the rest of iki all them that
much but didn't hate them and then she literally become strong enough to just glow up and be a part
of the team and actually fight with them I don't know how the heck that happened but that happens
like I said that's season two content that you'll probably never see Spitfire he's literally just
British and that him and Simka were kind of a thing but she just left him for iki it's just
kind of crazy how they did Spitfire like that it's kind of crazy oh yeah their homero teacher Mari
young cute inexperienced but has to also be one of the most perverted characters I've ever seen
who does not know how to wear clothes interesting her development doesn't really change much from
that so that's the only part you can probably get me on oh yeah coyoto the guy in charge of
all the police agencies that go stop ATS he's literally a delinquent himself it is crown of
funny he's completely opposite what you think he is at the beginning episode he's literally
just a delinquent who likes to cause problems oh yeah another thing I didn't also mention
characters actually die throughout the series are put into some real dangerous situations or things
just straight up happen to them which looking at the show you would not expect it to be like
this like I said earlier the college is insane who has some of the most hilarious dubs in the
early 2000s who added in a showdown plot to go with it and speaking of Comedy this has to be
the cleanest and raunchiest comedy I've seen which is a call back to the Creator oh great
who before he made this series made tinch ho tinje and characteristics to basically describe oh great
style include violent plots and female characters that provide large amounts of fan service which
was by one of his colleagues Kai Ming cha who's a publisher that wrote this his ability to weave
together compelling narratives without shying away from like sex or violence has set him apart from
other mangakas while earning him a large number of loyal fans who also wrote that his use of sex
and tencho tenjei is recognized by readers as an important aspect of the story hence their outrage
when it was then censored in the original English release of it ogre also often includes themes of
flashbacks and backstories for a lot of his stories in general and this one like I said
earlier is no exception funny enough he was a Sally worker before becoming a mangaka and he
only started writing manga because of the prize money from a contest he saw who at first made
adult mangas and then shifted the show and later on eventually being one of the artists behind Baki
Mina katari a couple of his shows became animated as well but there's no doubt about it to me that
Air Gear was his actual best work so what's the real meeting of the show well as it kind
of already tells you it's to find your own road which is on brand with a lot of other shonens
and their archetypes in general and but for the entirety of the show it's greatly pointed out that
the main character iki has people around him try and control slash sway him to their side Simka is
definitely the figurehead behind this but we can't ignore Ringo nor can we ignore his mother's last
sister Rika they all want the young boy to follow the path they think is right but even though they
all have something they could use to sway him they can't control icky makes it clear to everyone that
he'll go down his own path his own Road and he won't follow anyone with him oftentimes using
the theme that all characters feel like they're flying when they're using ATS feeling the freedom
that they've never felt before I want to think that all the main characters do what's in their
best interests like Kazuma uses his ATS to help iki but he doesn't just simply want to follow
his shadow onigiri has already shown us that he's willing to leave his friends if it means
he's romantically happier both Ringo and Simka are steadfast that their ideology is right and
I can say the same thing for all the antagonists they all form their own different teams and they
want to ride it their way some doing it to save someone's life or because it's fun all these
antagonism protagonists have something to prove and they want to do it their way and I really
do believe a lot of the show has so much deeper content into it plus like I said I haven't even
mentioned Genesis very much or the real members of Genesis or the members of sleeping Forest like
I said there's so much content they could really adapt into this they had add the movies which are
three episodes of different parts of what would be season two but they don't outright finish the
anime or talk about the rest of the manga what is being the air of fantasies where our team has to
go off into some another world and fight a Demon Lord this one doesn't deviate far from The Real
World but you know it's now all about the iskai Harem worlds of overpower leads with practically
no substance of a real person Bloody somehow still manages to get a girlfriend before you do all I'm
saying is a show like this can be very refreshing if you grew up in the early days of say like a
Yu-Gi-Oh a Pokemon or one piece funny enough a show about kids rollerblading and trying their
best to beat the odds feels better to me and I really do wish we got a second season of something
like this animated because the OVA like I said was based off of different points in the manga and it
could be rather confusing and I know we received the episode about Ringo versus iki fighting each
other and we have that big moment that led up to everything but we don't know what happens right
after if you're just the anime only Watcher and I know it included characters that people were just
watching the anime would have never known about or just seen those episodes were made for the loyal
fans that kept reading the manga so I get it but still I would like to see a full season 2 animated
but yeah that's gonna do it for this video if you liked the video make sure to give it a like and
tell me what you think about it do you want an Air Gear season two do you still remember this show