Originally Posted by
Gjallarhorn
Oh!Great is fantastic at running series into the ground, and AirGear was no exception. I can't speak for the anime, because by the time it aired I was already sick enough of the manga. Nevertheless, AirGear has 3 stages:
1. The Beginning - It starts off pretty well, and it seems like a typical sort of shounen sports anime. They compete, fight, train, and improve themselves in the running to be the best.
2. The first mention of Sleeping Forest - From here on out AirGear turns into an absolutely ridiculous supernatural shounen battle manga. The plot still makes sense, but it goes from being slightly believable to completely far fetched. The cast explodes, and Oh!Great starts drawing diagrams and making up absurd explanations for attacks using real physics terms.
3. The first mention of the Gram Scale Tournament - Nothing beyond this point makes any sense. Battles are super-saiyajin level, the dead come back to life through a computer program, President Obama becomes a primary character after swapping bodies with a schoolgirl, and every other week Oh!Great decides to make some current event part of the plot (Obama's campaign, the Occupy movement, scientific discoveries, etc.). Things are made up, previously establish facts and rules of the world are disregarded, Agito/Akito has 4 total personalities and is a clone of his mother and his brother is his father, and Ikki manipulates the wind to make the whole world fly.
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