History Manga / AirGear

* BoobsOfSteel: The two members of the fairer sex in this series who kick the most ass are Rika and Ringo. With the possible exception of Simca, they also have the biggest tits.

* {{Bishonen}}: Spitfire, Agito, Black Burn (before the scarring), Falco (before he got fat), Black Flame, Orca... The list goes on.

* WillTheyOrWontThey?: The [=IkkixRingo=] pairing receives the most attention out of the three potential pairings for Ikki, but it's left ambiguous how exactly Ikki feels about her for most of the series. [[spoiler:As of Chapter 328, {{they do}}.]]

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by [[spoiler:Ringo's deliberate attack on Simca]]. Initially it appears to be a cold blooded attempt to MurderTheHypotenuse, but later it's revealed that [[spoiler:she was putting the Migratory Bird out of action so she wouldn't hurt or kill herself trying to participate in the war for the Sky Regalia since [[TheChick Simca really doesn't have any combat skills.]]]]

* TheChick -- Yayoi: the team's caretaker who makes sure the team members don't drop dead from exhaustion from overworking themselves.

* AnimationBump: The first [=OVA=] has much sharper animation than the TV Series. Not so for the second, though. See OffModel.

* AnyoneCanDie [[spoiler:...or not. Sometimes people come back.]]

* OffModel: The second [=OVA=] has rather poor animation, to say the least.

* [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke Genetic Engineering]]: The Gravity Children and Brain Chargers were heavily tampered with. Both were modified to be able to easily use A-Ts, and the Brain Chargers were made to ''want'' to fly.

** Except that a few of the philosophical dialogue does hold meaning if the reader pays attention. Alot of the contemplation about the nature of wings and cages all fit in with the series' theme of freedom.

** Averted it turns out he knew what happened because he was an undercover agent who was taking surveillance of Gazelle
* InnocentCohabitation: Ikki lives with two very hot teenage girls and one very hot young woman, yet (ChivalrousPervert tendencies aside) he doesn't try anything with any of them. [[spoiler:We can assume that it is now not-so-innocent given Ikki and Ringo's RelationshipUpgrade.]]

* NoPronunciationGuide:
** Trophaeum. When first read, it is often pronounced "troph-ay-uhm" or "troph-ee-uhm." However, the proper pronunciation is "Tro-pie-uhm," with the 'H' being silent as "Trophaeum" is actually an alternate spelling of the Roman word "Tropaeum."
** Nike. While his name is a clear and obvious reference to the Greek Goddess of Victory, and his translated name is spelled the same way as her name, it isn't pronounced "N-eye-kee." It's pronounced "Nee-kay," the way the romanji would typically be read. Apparently, this confusion was so common that the official translations felt the need to include a note telling the reader the correct pronunciation.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The leader of a team is invariably its most badass member. It crosses over into AsskickingEqualsAuthority a bit because a leader is expected to be able to protect his teammates.

* NiceHat: Part of the official uniform of Team Tool Toul To.
** The old mechanic in the White Wolf Clan has a pretty nice hat as well.

* OfficialCouple: Agito and Yayoi, Kazu and Emily, & Onigiri and Sharome. [[spoiler:Ikki and Ringo seem like one at first, but then Simca returns in the Epilogue and takes Ikki up on his offer of a date, leaving it a LoveTriangle.]]

* [[AlwaysIdenticalTwins Always Identical]] [[UpToEleven Octuplets]]: The eight members of Team Potemkin are identical ''octuplets''.

* BornWinner: The Gravity Children have unnatural talent with A-Ts and the ability to quickly and easily analyze their environment with perfect accuracy. Because riding A-Ts is like LeParkour [[UpToEleven on steroids]], with a rider needing obstacles and perches to accelerate off of, having a perfect 3-D map in one's head makes life a whole lot easier.

* LeParkour: The most basic A-T tricks involve this, but it quickly gets turned UpToEleven then left behind thanks to SerialEscalation.

** Averted by Tool Toul To, whose official uniform is a shirt and overalls, possibly the least revealing clothes in existence. This trope is later played straight and turned UpToEleven when they change into their "tuning suits," which are full body transparent suits used to record all of a body's information. ''Transparent.''

* UpToEleven: Never has a sports manga been so ridiculously over the top since air gear. In no other series could you read a story where a gang of JapaneseDelinquents shoot energy beams and gale force wind from their rollarblades. It's like if Micheal Bay tried his hand at sports manga.

* PantyShot: Several. Ringo has quite a bit, being an ActionGirl with a [[AvertedTrope Not-Quite-]]MagicSkirt.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Each battle introduces at least a few characters with at least decent characterization.

*** Speaking of which, Sora's Dalmatian dog once (internally) remarked that it has [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 100 siblings]].

* TrickBullet: Of the more mundane variety: the Windstorm G-men use rubber bullets. It's still pretty brutal, though; Oh!Great averts the tendency some animes have of turning guns loaded with rubber bullets into StunGuns and instead portrays them mostly realistically: they have a large amount of force behind them but no penetrating power. Storm Riders who get shot are shown writhing in pain, and one rider was knocked out when he took a point blank shot to the face that shattered his helmet.

* AnimalMotifs: Ikki and crows, Simca and Swallows, Agito and sharks. Several minor characters also adopt them.

* AnimalMotifs: Ikki and crows, Agito and sharks. Several minor characters also adopt them.

* HairColors: Ringo's hair has been every shade of reddish-pink under the sun, while Kururu's is either blonde or lilac, depending on who you talk to. Simca's is pink.

The creation of [[RollerbladeGood borderline-magical self-propelled inline skates]], called "Air Treks" or "A-Ts", has revolutionized skating culture, as teenagers push the limits of the skates to CharlesAtlasSuperpower levels of {{Roofhopping}} and LeParkour. Itsuki Minami -- "Ikki" to his friends – is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary High School]] {{Delinquent}} who runs his own gang -- The East Side Gunz -- and lives with the four Noyamano Sisters as [[PrettyFreeloaders a dependant, a roommate, and a house boy]]. Though he admires the Storm Riders, especially Simca, a beautiful, skilled, and somewhat manipulative rider, he is kept from becoming involved in the A-T world by the demands of leading his gang and a lack of spending money to buy A-Ts. However, one day a gang turf war goes horribly wrong when the Gunz' rivals recruit a notoriously vicious Storm Rider team called the Skull'Saders, who beat and humiliate Ikki. In his darkest hour, Ikki's roommates reveal the secret life they have been leading and introduce him to the Storm Rider World. He displays unusual talent with A-Ts and soon defeats the Skull'Saders and founds his own team: Kogarasumaru.

* FingerlessGloves: Members of Team Kogarasumaru wear these.

* CreepyCoolCrosses: Kilik wore them on his clothes in the past, and all the Gravity Children's Twinkle Eyes invoke this. More often than not, when a Gravity Child reveals their Twinkle Eyes, most, if not all their face is shadowed so it's just like seeing two glowing crosses.

The manga was adapted by Creator/ToeiAnimation into an anime directed by Hajime Kamegaki (Manga/FushigiYuugi, Anime/SonicX). 25 episodes were originally aired by Creator/TVTokyo in 2006, with one more exclusive to DVD. Creator/ADVFilms produced an English dubbed version starring Creator/ChrisPatton and Creator/LuciChristian as Ikki and Ringo. A set of three [=OVAs=], produced by Creator/{{Satelight}} Animation and directed by Shinji Ishihara, was not picked up by any American distributors.

The series ended in 2012 after ten years of serialization with a total of 357 chapters. In December of 2015, an unexpected one shot epilogue was made taking place six months after the main events of the story with [[spoiler:Simca taking Ikki up on his earlier offer of a date following the conclusion of the series TournamentArc, Ringo chasing after them and leaving the series as a LoveTriangle.]]

* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:Ikki and Ringo. It's a [[http://www.mangareader.net/air-gear/329/5 two page spread]] with small shots of all the important memories -- good and bad -- the two of them have had together at the bottom of the pages.]]

* BodyHorror: What Buccha does to Goshogawara Fuumei, AKA Behemoth's Hekatonkeires Bomb, in [[http://www.mangareader.net/137-7560-13/air-gear/chapter-55.html this]] and the next two pages.
** ...Aaaand [[http://www.mangareader.net/137-7561-5/air-gear/chapter-56.html Hekatonkeires himself]].

** What's even more awesome is when Kazu ''[[http://www.mangareader.net/137-36407-15/air-gear/chapter-257.html sets his Fang on fire]]''.

* CuteBruiser: Getting in Emily's way can be a [[http://www.mangareader.net/137-7730-11/air-gear/chapter-225.html VERY bad idea]]. Ringo's no slouch either.

* GroinAttack: There are several examples, most played for laughs, but [[http://www.mangareader.net/137-7748-5/air-gear/chapter-243.html this]] takes it {{up to eleven}}.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In Volume 21, a diminutive old lady strips down and tried to offer herself as [[ItMakesSenseInContext a sacrifice to the God of the Lake.]] This would be disgusting, but when Ikki insults her, [[http://www.mangareader.net/137-7701-10/air-gear/chapter-196.html she starts strangling him with her prehensile breasts.]]

** The old mechanic in the White Wolf Clan has a [[http://www.mangareader.net/137-7686-4/air-gear/chapter-181.html pretty nice hat]] as well.

* CatFight: Averted. With the exception of some of Onigiri's fights, fights that involve girls are taken seriously and often have brutal consequences, such as the almost-assassination of Simca.

** Ikki also has a habit of threatening people with [[Anime/DragonBall Kamehameha, even channeled Son Gohan at one point]].

The manga was adapted by Creator/ToeiAnimation into an anime directed by Hajime Kamegaki (Manga/FushigiYuugi, Anime/SonicX). 25 episodes were originally aired by Creator/TVTokyo in 2006, with one more exclusive to DVD. Creator/ADVFilms produced an English dubbed version starring Creator/ChrisPatton and Creator/LuciChristian as Ikki and Ringo. [[https://www.youtube.com/show/airgear You can, for now, watch all the episodes of the anime here if you live in the States.]] A set of three [=OVAs=], produced by Creator/{{Satelight}} Animation and directed by Shinji Ishihara, was not picked up by any American distributors.

* {{Cuckold}}: Alluded to, with [[spoiler:Hako]] referring to [[spoiler:Ringo]] as "NTR # 1" and accusing her of cockblocking either her or [[spoiler:Kururu]], as they both squabble to become [[spoiler:Ikki]]'s link turner. [[spoiler:Ikki chooses Ringo anyway.]]