| Air Gear | |
 First tankōbon volume cover cover, featuring Ikki Minami with his pet crow, Kuu | |
| エア・ギア (Ea Gia) | |
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| Genre | Action,[1] sports[2] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Oh! great |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Shōnen Magazine Comics |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | November 6, 2002 – May 23, 2012 |
| Volumes | 37 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hajime Kamegaki |
| Produced by |
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| Written by | Chiaki J. Konaka |
| Music by |
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| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Licensed by | Crunchyroll |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
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| Original run | April 4, 2006 – September 26, 2006 |
| Episodes | 25 |
| Original animation DVD | |
| Break on the Sky | |
| Directed by | Shinji Ishihira |
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| Written by | Atsushi Maekawa |
| Music by | Shigerō Yoshida |
| Studio | Satelight |
| Released | November 17, 2010 – June 17, 2011 |
| Runtime | 28 minutes |
| Episodes | 3 |
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 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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