Post by Seraph on Aug 14, 2008 14:41:27 GMT -6
OMFG, Air Gear is leagues ahead of current anime. It's so insanely well written and suspenseful that I wonder how many other Mangas are out there without an anime to give them wings.
So unless you plan to spend 10+ hrs reading the Manga, here's a summary of what the show has done so far.
A-Ts / Sleeping Forest / Gravity Children
The story starts with Gravity Children. Sora, Simca, Spitfire, Kilik, and all the old kings are Gravity Children. They are artificially made children who spent their lives in the Trophaeum a tower that goes towards the earth's core. It's so tall it would reach space. These kids live there using A-Ts, the best of the best is Kilik the Gem King.
Sleeping Forest
Lacking the results they required and losing tons of money, the governments who fund the Gravity Children project started to discard children who didn't perform on a level they wanted. Out of ALL the Kings, only Kilik was worth keeping. These means, Sora, Rika, Simca, etc were GARBAGE compared to the results the scientist wanted. Kilik saved all of the kids and they left the tower and started living on the surface.
The guy who was the head of everything had this Regalia called the Sky Regalia he held on to it and plummeted down the Tower and died there holding the Regalia. The pressure is so immense no one can go down there so it's sits. The most powerful Regalia, Sky Regalia.
So after leaving the tower, SORA forms Sleeping Forest which consists of all the Gravity Children Kings and leaks out the info to the world through the internet that a super powerful device is inside the tower (Sky Regalia) and so Yakuza and military and stuff storm the tower using A-Ts and stuff. This leads to this war. Kilik being Sora's best friend decides that no one should get the Sky Regalia because it's too powerful AND he knew that Sora was an evil sommabich. So Kilik goes against Sleeping Forest and WIPES it out. Owns Rika, owns Sora, owns everyone and re-forms Sleeping Forest making Ringo the Leader.
Ringo explained:
Ringo using the Sonia Road like her sister Rika. The process of using Sonia Road puts the body under super stress like Goku/Vegeta's gravity training. So in the Trophaeum Tower Ringo isn't phased by the immense pressure unlike everyone else...making her the most powerful in that situation. Since the final battle is always within the Tower, she ends up owning everyone. Not to mention Sonia Road is IDENTICAL to Goku's Kaioken..super speed, super strength but it blows out your body after awhile.
So in the process of learning everything. You find out SORA has a twin brother, the Jade King and he is Genesis' leader. Sora is an EVIL bastard and pretends he's in a wheel chair. He finally takes off the disguise and gets the Wind Regalia, kills Spitfire and and Aeon Clock's woman the Golem queen person.
Ikki finds out he was used, finds out he's pathetic compared to the REAL badass people out there, finds out Sleeping Forest is his enemy and so is Genesis. But becaue Ikki is Ikki everyone puts their faith and friendship in him and he after finally waking up from a dark slump becomes the STORM KING. The one guy who has the ability to go beyond all common sense and ends up getting together with the the Queen of Toul Tool To, the people who repair and create regalias. That chick falls in love with Ikki and becomes his Linker (Engineer person) and Ikki definitely is falling for her (Ringo is completely out of the picture by now).
So now the fights are international and include the military. Everything is closer to Full Metal Panic's setting, with super tanks and stuff. Sora flies F-15s style jets and works with the military and stuff.
Right now Agito is getting his ass kicked and literally in the end goes into Super Saiyan mode. You find out Agito and Akito are really just personalities of the real person "Lind". Lind is the true personality for Agito/Akito. He shows up, dude's eyes change into Shanrigan style eyes and you find out what the real Gravity Children and A-Ts were about.
Real Gravity Project/A-Ts. A-Ts are a device that uses 100% of it's contained energy. Like Gas, coal, etc have byproducts. Apparently we only use like 30% of the actual energy the other 70% is waste...smoke...heat disspation etc.
A-Ts are a device with zero by-product and can be placed into every object in the world...jets..factories...cars...motors...
The Gravity Children are people who can USE this A-T to 100% of it's ability, basically allowing it to operate at 100%. No one...has been able to do it EXCEPT Lind.
So Lind shows up...dude's hair goes into Super Saiyan mode and he kills this Orca kid...cuts him to pieces and saves the girl who falls inlove with him (The other track girl in the show. One of the Track girls falls in love with Kazu, the other one falls inlove with Agito).
So as of right now in the story, Genesis splits from Kogurasamaru and follows Sora (All the Kings are 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation Gravity kids) but they all have great respect for Ikki the Storm King. Sleeping Forest has declared War with Genesis. Sleeping Forest being Kilik, Ringo, Ume, etc, etc. and the 3rd group Kogurasamaru.
Everyone has their sights on Ikki and despite how weak they are compared to everyone else, they have the world's attention. Everyone believes Ikki the Storm King will be the true ruler and get the Sky Regalia.
They NEED to make this bitch into an anime. The fights, the battles, the story, betrayal, romance etc is A+ shit. Being a Shonen it's like DBZ, Yu Yu Hakusho and stuff all packaged together.
I just did a summary but there's a ton of crap that happens inbetween the main events, people getting killed, Spitfire dieing, dude's blowing up entire buildings, etc. The Linkers, the relationship between them and the Kings.
I've been reading this stuff for nearly 10hrs if I add up my work time. But it's so well deserved, give it a shot.
www.onemanga.com/Air_Gear/
Unbelieveably complex story.
So unless you plan to spend 10+ hrs reading the Manga, here's a summary of what the show has done so far.
A-Ts / Sleeping Forest / Gravity Children
The story starts with Gravity Children. Sora, Simca, Spitfire, Kilik, and all the old kings are Gravity Children. They are artificially made children who spent their lives in the Trophaeum a tower that goes towards the earth's core. It's so tall it would reach space. These kids live there using A-Ts, the best of the best is Kilik the Gem King.
Sleeping Forest
Lacking the results they required and losing tons of money, the governments who fund the Gravity Children project started to discard children who didn't perform on a level they wanted. Out of ALL the Kings, only Kilik was worth keeping. These means, Sora, Rika, Simca, etc were GARBAGE compared to the results the scientist wanted. Kilik saved all of the kids and they left the tower and started living on the surface.
The guy who was the head of everything had this Regalia called the Sky Regalia he held on to it and plummeted down the Tower and died there holding the Regalia. The pressure is so immense no one can go down there so it's sits. The most powerful Regalia, Sky Regalia.
So after leaving the tower, SORA forms Sleeping Forest which consists of all the Gravity Children Kings and leaks out the info to the world through the internet that a super powerful device is inside the tower (Sky Regalia) and so Yakuza and military and stuff storm the tower using A-Ts and stuff. This leads to this war. Kilik being Sora's best friend decides that no one should get the Sky Regalia because it's too powerful AND he knew that Sora was an evil sommabich. So Kilik goes against Sleeping Forest and WIPES it out. Owns Rika, owns Sora, owns everyone and re-forms Sleeping Forest making Ringo the Leader.
Ringo explained:
Ringo using the Sonia Road like her sister Rika. The process of using Sonia Road puts the body under super stress like Goku/Vegeta's gravity training. So in the Trophaeum Tower Ringo isn't phased by the immense pressure unlike everyone else...making her the most powerful in that situation. Since the final battle is always within the Tower, she ends up owning everyone. Not to mention Sonia Road is IDENTICAL to Goku's Kaioken..super speed, super strength but it blows out your body after awhile.
So in the process of learning everything. You find out SORA has a twin brother, the Jade King and he is Genesis' leader. Sora is an EVIL bastard and pretends he's in a wheel chair. He finally takes off the disguise and gets the Wind Regalia, kills Spitfire and and Aeon Clock's woman the Golem queen person.
Ikki finds out he was used, finds out he's pathetic compared to the REAL badass people out there, finds out Sleeping Forest is his enemy and so is Genesis. But becaue Ikki is Ikki everyone puts their faith and friendship in him and he after finally waking up from a dark slump becomes the STORM KING. The one guy who has the ability to go beyond all common sense and ends up getting together with the the Queen of Toul Tool To, the people who repair and create regalias. That chick falls in love with Ikki and becomes his Linker (Engineer person) and Ikki definitely is falling for her (Ringo is completely out of the picture by now).
So now the fights are international and include the military. Everything is closer to Full Metal Panic's setting, with super tanks and stuff. Sora flies F-15s style jets and works with the military and stuff.
Right now Agito is getting his ass kicked and literally in the end goes into Super Saiyan mode. You find out Agito and Akito are really just personalities of the real person "Lind". Lind is the true personality for Agito/Akito. He shows up, dude's eyes change into Shanrigan style eyes and you find out what the real Gravity Children and A-Ts were about.
Real Gravity Project/A-Ts. A-Ts are a device that uses 100% of it's contained energy. Like Gas, coal, etc have byproducts. Apparently we only use like 30% of the actual energy the other 70% is waste...smoke...heat disspation etc.
A-Ts are a device with zero by-product and can be placed into every object in the world...jets..factories...cars...motors...
The Gravity Children are people who can USE this A-T to 100% of it's ability, basically allowing it to operate at 100%. No one...has been able to do it EXCEPT Lind.
So Lind shows up...dude's hair goes into Super Saiyan mode and he kills this Orca kid...cuts him to pieces and saves the girl who falls inlove with him (The other track girl in the show. One of the Track girls falls in love with Kazu, the other one falls inlove with Agito).
So as of right now in the story, Genesis splits from Kogurasamaru and follows Sora (All the Kings are 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation Gravity kids) but they all have great respect for Ikki the Storm King. Sleeping Forest has declared War with Genesis. Sleeping Forest being Kilik, Ringo, Ume, etc, etc. and the 3rd group Kogurasamaru.
Everyone has their sights on Ikki and despite how weak they are compared to everyone else, they have the world's attention. Everyone believes Ikki the Storm King will be the true ruler and get the Sky Regalia.
They NEED to make this bitch into an anime. The fights, the battles, the story, betrayal, romance etc is A+ shit. Being a Shonen it's like DBZ, Yu Yu Hakusho and stuff all packaged together.
I just did a summary but there's a ton of crap that happens inbetween the main events, people getting killed, Spitfire dieing, dude's blowing up entire buildings, etc. The Linkers, the relationship between them and the Kings.
I've been reading this stuff for nearly 10hrs if I add up my work time. But it's so well deserved, give it a shot.
www.onemanga.com/Air_Gear/
Unbelieveably complex story.