Anime Review: Air Gear
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A wee bit harsh in my opinion.. I for one like air gear, i'm not sure why exactly.. the art isnt that great, and the story not original, but air gear has entertainment value. It's one of those shows where you can just take your brain out and watch.
But still you're intitled to your own opinion, i'm not going to berate you for that.
Though these are the opinions of someone who watched the japanese version...
But still you're intitled to your own opinion, i'm not going to berate you for that.
Though these are the opinions of someone who watched the japanese version...
Yeah I know but it still sucks although I could totally see if it kept going it would go the way of naruto and have 250 episode with most being filler. So maybe a good thing that it ended but still would have been nice to at least get sort of a finisher.eelel said:
I've heard decent things about air gear before. So the harshness of this review really surprised me. Of course, TV, just like anything else, is subjective.
I don't seem to remember some of the complaints you had, but it has been awhile, so please bear with me. I watched Air Gear subbed, so... yeah. The rap wasn't too noticible too me because I was too busy listening to the tone of theur voices trying to decipher emotions, and reading subtitles.
Back on track, I also remember it being less choppy, but again, scanlations and subtitled episodes, which are often treated with more care (and less censoring) than what the official releases end up being. In no way was this ever intelligent (even my Otaku friend, who basically gave me an anime a week to watch, said that it was "Every kind of action retarded it could be, and all the more enjoyable for it." His words, not mine.) But you know what? Opinions. This review is yours, I got mine, we can all express our own while annoying the hell out of each other, and we're all good!
Next order of business. Please, please, please, do not ever review anything 4Kids. For the love of all that is holy, you must already know this, as an Anime reviewer, but for everyone else, I tell them. 4Kids is basically the anti-christ of anime. Anything they touch whithers and dies. One Piece? Had an Orchestral sound track, great action, and an understandable plot. Also, his name was Zoro, not... Zolo (ugh). Oh, and, you know, was about Pirates with super powers, and pretty much said "This is about Pirates. With Super Powers. People are going to die. A lot. In horrible bloody ways." And so they did. 4Kids neutered it to the point of replacing the guns with weird hammer contraptions. This just makes me sound like a sociopath, but it really, really damages the show. Also, consider this. 4Kids butchered One Piece so much that Funimation (I believe it was them) grew so offended, that they bought the rights to One Piece, and have since been re-editing (fixing back to the original action and scenes), dubbing (with better voice actors), and restoring One Piece to as close to it's former glory as they can. Also, it was probably for more business reasons, but it sounds cooler if they did it because 4Kids is horrible.
Also, and you may laugh at this, but they cut out perhaps the best season of Yu-Gi-Oh, which if you read the Manga, has Atem (Yami) going around, killing house on anyone who has ever mistreated (or ends up mistreating) Yugi or his friends. One guy, he explodes chemicals on. Another bunch of guys, he captures them in a maze of spray-paint, and than lights it on fire. Another, he lights the person himself on fire, causing him to burn to death. And yet another, he littleraly rips his soul out so that it can suffer in eternal torment by Shadow monsters as it is slowly devored for all eternity. Yeah. Awesome.
The 4Kids anime took it out, but the entire first season was also basically a bunch of really creative games that had nothing to do with card games (at one point, Atem plays Ice Hockey using spatula's, a hot griddle, and a chunk of ice that holds a vial of explosive chemicals). It had a D&D game, some Chinese game, a cool monster version of Rock-Em, Sock-em robots, and more. It's awesome. And than the Card games start, and you can pretty much stop reading/watching, because it rapidly goes into suck after that. Yeah, after I saw/read the pre-season thing, I never saw/read Yu-Gi-Oh again, which means that I pretty much don't even know how the Pegasus Island arc ends (literally, it gets that bad, that quick once they focus on one game).
Somehow, this went completely off tangent, and for that, I apologize. I also apologize if I was rude.
Back on track, I also remember it being less choppy, but again, scanlations and subtitled episodes, which are often treated with more care (and less censoring) than what the official releases end up being. In no way was this ever intelligent (even my Otaku friend, who basically gave me an anime a week to watch, said that it was "Every kind of action retarded it could be, and all the more enjoyable for it." His words, not mine.) But you know what? Opinions. This review is yours, I got mine, we can all express our own while annoying the hell out of each other, and we're all good!
Next order of business. Please, please, please, do not ever review anything 4Kids. For the love of all that is holy, you must already know this, as an Anime reviewer, but for everyone else, I tell them. 4Kids is basically the anti-christ of anime. Anything they touch whithers and dies. One Piece? Had an Orchestral sound track, great action, and an understandable plot. Also, his name was Zoro, not... Zolo (ugh). Oh, and, you know, was about Pirates with super powers, and pretty much said "This is about Pirates. With Super Powers. People are going to die. A lot. In horrible bloody ways." And so they did. 4Kids neutered it to the point of replacing the guns with weird hammer contraptions. This just makes me sound like a sociopath, but it really, really damages the show. Also, consider this. 4Kids butchered One Piece so much that Funimation (I believe it was them) grew so offended, that they bought the rights to One Piece, and have since been re-editing (fixing back to the original action and scenes), dubbing (with better voice actors), and restoring One Piece to as close to it's former glory as they can. Also, it was probably for more business reasons, but it sounds cooler if they did it because 4Kids is horrible.
Also, and you may laugh at this, but they cut out perhaps the best season of Yu-Gi-Oh, which if you read the Manga, has Atem (Yami) going around, killing house on anyone who has ever mistreated (or ends up mistreating) Yugi or his friends. One guy, he explodes chemicals on. Another bunch of guys, he captures them in a maze of spray-paint, and than lights it on fire. Another, he lights the person himself on fire, causing him to burn to death. And yet another, he littleraly rips his soul out so that it can suffer in eternal torment by Shadow monsters as it is slowly devored for all eternity. Yeah. Awesome.
The 4Kids anime took it out, but the entire first season was also basically a bunch of really creative games that had nothing to do with card games (at one point, Atem plays Ice Hockey using spatula's, a hot griddle, and a chunk of ice that holds a vial of explosive chemicals). It had a D&D game, some Chinese game, a cool monster version of Rock-Em, Sock-em robots, and more. It's awesome. And than the Card games start, and you can pretty much stop reading/watching, because it rapidly goes into suck after that. Yeah, after I saw/read the pre-season thing, I never saw/read Yu-Gi-Oh again, which means that I pretty much don't even know how the Pegasus Island arc ends (literally, it gets that bad, that quick once they focus on one game).
Somehow, this went completely off tangent, and for that, I apologize. I also apologize if I was rude.
Indeed. I have to say, I'm quite liking the reviews, and this guy is definitely good at it(as are you). while I whole heartedly disagree, I'm not about to attack the guy for insulting an anime I sorta liked. Now once again, let him pray he doesn't get Eureka 7, or I will find him.RollForInitiative said:I guess we'll just have to try and review quickly.bue519 said:
You know, karma almost dictates that both he and I will have to do a double-up review on Eureka 7 at this point.black lincon said:
I have been TRYING oh SO BLOODY HARD to like anime, but when I saw this, I am taking a break back to video games... I'll TRY and find anime I like.
What a hater, just because he disagrees with the review, he spins it.den1al said:
I completely agree with this statement. I think this dude took it too seriously.RavingPenguin said:
I think it would be kind of interesting if you did that, that way I would have two people to possibly try my new "atomic dissipater" on. What that does might you ask? well it's simple, it dissipates your atoms.RollForInitiative said:You know, karma almost dictates that both he and I will have to do a double-up review on Eureka 7 at this point.black lincon said:
The anime version of Air Gear sucks because the animation used in it couldn't keep up with the imagination of the original manga artist, and the detailed character designs in the manga is also lost in the anime, probably due to a low budget. There is much less style, as well, since many sound effects in the manga are shown prominently in the foreground like awesome graffiti tags on the page.
The manga is a lot more action-packed, too, and has much more brutal visuals during fights. Moreover, the anime stops about 1/5 through the material that the manga has burned through by now.
Sure, the premise is ridiculous and all that, but the manga parodies itself so often that I hardly see it as a problem. In short, read the manga, hang the anime with a splintery noose.
/rant
The manga is a lot more action-packed, too, and has much more brutal visuals during fights. Moreover, the anime stops about 1/5 through the material that the manga has burned through by now.
Sure, the premise is ridiculous and all that, but the manga parodies itself so often that I hardly see it as a problem. In short, read the manga, hang the anime with a splintery noose.
/rant
I haven't read any of the newer manga since I'm away from home. But it was pretty good fun when I read it. It's nothing serious, and you just have to lose yourself in the outrageousness and absurdity of the story. If you try to make sense of it, then everything crashes and burn.
I've watched the anime up to when he raced the big dude (that uses a tank-track AT), and it was pretty horrible. I'm not surprised though--a story like Air Gear pretty much lives or die by its visual, like the OP said. And it fail horribly in that respect.
I've watched the anime up to when he raced the big dude (that uses a tank-track AT), and it was pretty horrible. I'm not surprised though--a story like Air Gear pretty much lives or die by its visual, like the OP said. And it fail horribly in that respect.
Air Gear and Tenjo Tenge are horrible. Story wise they make no sense. Air Gear was about dumbasses on rollerblades and it turns into some weird gang war crap. Tenjo Tenge was about high school kids fighting and it turns into crap about 1000 year wars or something.
And in both cases I have no idea what's going on in the manga. I mean, don't mangas have editors. They literally make no sense. I challenge anybody to follow Tenjo Tenge. And the art, while good, is confusing and doesn't help. Every panel I'm going, 'What the hell is going on.' It makes me angry because it's a failure of the artist on both art and storytelling. Doesn't anybody tell him 'Yo, this makes no sense.'?
And both seem to have an unabashed hatred toward women. I've never seen female characters beaten, ripped, and eviscerated so bad in any manga. My god.
And in both cases I have no idea what's going on in the manga. I mean, don't mangas have editors. They literally make no sense. I challenge anybody to follow Tenjo Tenge. And the art, while good, is confusing and doesn't help. Every panel I'm going, 'What the hell is going on.' It makes me angry because it's a failure of the artist on both art and storytelling. Doesn't anybody tell him 'Yo, this makes no sense.'?
And both seem to have an unabashed hatred toward women. I've never seen female characters beaten, ripped, and eviscerated so bad in any manga. My god.
I thought That the air gear manga was great. The story was fun and i liked the characters. the only problem i had with the Manga was, "Wow this is cool and all but its kinda hard to see what there doing in these elaborate fight scenes." then when I heard about the anime i quickly started to watch it and i thought, "What the hell, what happened to the awesome fight scene, why is this happening?" It really got me mad that they took the one thing I couldn't get from the Manga, and changed it into something completely retarded.
it really did seem like a first attempt for an anime, but I couldn't stop think how they should make a game instead of an anime when I first watched it.
It was fast pased unlike a lot of other animes DBZ Yugio Bleach Naruto.
While I can understand the reviewer's feelings it was alright not horrible, but not something I would spend money to watch ( mainly because it is discontinued )
JGR was sweet but there is only two games out and there really needs to be another one.
why is he reviewing this anime now????? isn't it old?
It was fast pased unlike a lot of other animes DBZ Yugio Bleach Naruto.
While I can understand the reviewer's feelings it was alright not horrible, but not something I would spend money to watch ( mainly because it is discontinued )
JGR was sweet but there is only two games out and there really needs to be another one.
why is he reviewing this anime now????? isn't it old?
They make perfect sense.SageOfCalm said:
Just don't concentrate on what's being said and concentrate on the cartoon tits instead. Those are the point of the show(s). If you assume I'm being flippant, the guy drawing the thing is more known for his... other questionable works than things with reasonable stories.