You have racing anime, you have your sport anime, and then you have titles like this: Air Gear. While the skates we see appear regular, it's not your average roller skate.
Itsuki "Ikki" Minami is the toughest middle schooler in the east side of town, as they say, but his life is about to take a turn for the strange. After fighting, and losing to some hoodlums wearing Air Treks, nickmaned A-Ts, he takes it upon himself to grab a pair of his own. Even though he took a pair from four sisters that took him in, he thrust himself in the world of the Storm Riders. In a grudge match between himself and Magaki and his Skull Saders, he risked the emblem of a team called Sleeping Forest, unaware of not only the rules, but also that the very emblem he was risking was that of the 4 Noyamano sisters. After defeating them and discovering his road (among others), he creates his own team. From then on, we see his races, his lives with his friends, and his interactions with other riders. How will Ikki, aka Lil' Crow, lead his team, Kogarasumaru?
The anime runs for 25 episodes and a special one added. Running on the Anime Network, it was licensed by Funimation. Due to the disappointing ending (as viewed by most who watched it), there is an OVA series, which only has one episode as of now, called Break on the Sky. As of now, this OVA isn't licensed for US, and therefore not dubbed into English language. Chris Patton (known for roles like Mr. 9 of One Piece and Turles from the movie Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might) provides the English voice for Ikki. Due to not only the ending to Air Gear, but because of the OVA series, people suspect a second Air Gear season.
Not bad for a series, just keep in mind the language as well as censoring in the anime, though it's kinda loose in the manga (or so I hear...) Still, the awful ending aside, it gains a 7.1 of 10, but maybe when i see more things from the OVA, I can mark it better.
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