Air Gear

Air Gear (Japanese: エア・ギア, Hepburn: Ea Gia) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Oh! great, serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from November 2002 to May 2012, with its chapters collected in 37 tankōbon volumes. Air Gear revolves around the life of Itsuki Minami "Ikki or Crow", also known as "Baby Face", "Lil (and Little) Crow", and his friends. The story follows their use of Air Gear, an in-universe invention derived from inline skates. Initial sections of the plot carries out the introduction of characters that eventually join Ikki. As the story progresses, it focuses on their roles as Storm Riders and their quest to be on the top of the Trophaeum Tower, the pinnacle that all Storm Riders hope to reach.

Air Gear
First tankōbon volume cover cover, featuring Ikki Minami with his pet crow, Kuu
エア・ギア
(Ea Gia)
GenreAction, sports
Manga
Written byOh! great
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Magazine Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runNovember 6, 2002 – May 23, 2012
Volumes37
Anime television series
Directed byHajime Kamegaki
Produced by
  • Nobuaki Suzuki
  • Takao Yoshizawa
Written byChiaki J. Konaka
Music by
  • Wall5
  • skankfunk
  • Masao Mase
  • Rowii
  • YA3
  • Masaki Sakamoto
StudioToei Animation
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkTV Tokyo
English network
Original run April 4, 2006 – September 26, 2006
Episodes25
Original animation DVD
Break on the Sky
Directed byShinji Ishihira
Produced by
  • Kensuke Tateishi
  • Masakazu Yoshimoto
  • Shōya Fukuda
Written byAtsushi Maekawa
Music byShigerō Yoshida
StudioSatelight
Released November 17, 2010 – June 17, 2011
Runtime28 minutes
Episodes3

Air Gear was adapted into a 25-episode anime television series by Toei Animation, which aired on TV Tokyo from April to September 2006. A three-episode original video animation (OVA), titled Air Gear: Break on the Sky, produced by Satelight, was released from November 2010 to June 2011.

Air Gear had over 18 million copies in circulation by August 2020. It won the 31st Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2006.

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