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mcityIkki is your typical shonen anime protagonist. He's a spiky-haired teenage boy with distinctive clothing and an attitude who gets caught up in events bigger than him and is hornier than a bull on Viagra during springtime.
Okay, maybe not so typical.
Air Gear(YouTube/Google sign-in req'd) revolves around a special type of compact electric engine, capable of generating great power. Assuming it's already gone through the usual "pornography" and "'military" applications, the denizens of whatever future world have decided to put them in Air Trek brand skates, which look suspiciously like the two-wheeled numbers from Jet Grind Radio. Actually, you remember how Avatar was like Pocahontas/Dances with Wolves/Ferngully* turned up to eleven? That's what Air Gear is to JGR, complete with similar music, ludicrous clothing, and absurd amount of the police force's budget being spent on stopping teenage hoodlums. For some reason, the guy in charge of these matters is a spiky-haired bishonen with no proper shirt who keeps a creepy dude in a designer straitjacket in his back seat.
I am not making this up.
There's a guy whose hair, even by anime standards, seems to have been made up of Lucky Charms.
Specifically, Orange Moons, which I know are not Looky Charms and never have been, thank you very much. He even has a British accent.
A lot of the secondary characters have surprisingly detailed faces and outfits, even though some wear masks. It's like the director went "yes, these are unique characters", now we're going to put them in hoods and masks and doggie helmets to save the animation budget".
Ikki meets a large-lipped older Eastern European lady who's gone when he returns, making it a Big-Lipped Russian Woman moment.
And the catalyst for all these events? Ikki tries to get a look at the girls he's living with while they're in the shower after he maybe-accidentally grabbed one's boobs. Frustrated in his efforts to see the tomboyish one molesting her sister-still not making this up-he wanders around the house before he comes across a room filled with secrets and Air Treks. So he steals some and ends up at a meet where a girl is sexually assaulted over stickers. she doesn't seem to mind. Of course, she may be insane. I've only watched two episodes, so it's not clear yet.
It's that kind of show.
*Isn't it amazing how James Cameron was somehow able to rip off three totally original movies simultaneously?
Okay, maybe not so typical.
Air Gear(YouTube/Google sign-in req'd) revolves around a special type of compact electric engine, capable of generating great power. Assuming it's already gone through the usual "pornography" and "'military" applications, the denizens of whatever future world have decided to put them in Air Trek brand skates, which look suspiciously like the two-wheeled numbers from Jet Grind Radio. Actually, you remember how Avatar was like Pocahontas/Dances with Wolves/Ferngully* turned up to eleven? That's what Air Gear is to JGR, complete with similar music, ludicrous clothing, and absurd amount of the police force's budget being spent on stopping teenage hoodlums. For some reason, the guy in charge of these matters is a spiky-haired bishonen with no proper shirt who keeps a creepy dude in a designer straitjacket in his back seat.
I am not making this up.
There's a guy whose hair, even by anime standards, seems to have been made up of Lucky Charms.
Specifically, Orange Moons, which I know are not Looky Charms and never have been, thank you very much. He even has a British accent.
A lot of the secondary characters have surprisingly detailed faces and outfits, even though some wear masks. It's like the director went "yes, these are unique characters", now we're going to put them in hoods and masks and doggie helmets to save the animation budget".
Ikki meets a large-lipped older Eastern European lady who's gone when he returns, making it a Big-Lipped Russian Woman moment.
And the catalyst for all these events? Ikki tries to get a look at the girls he's living with while they're in the shower after he maybe-accidentally grabbed one's boobs. Frustrated in his efforts to see the tomboyish one molesting her sister-still not making this up-he wanders around the house before he comes across a room filled with secrets and Air Treks. So he steals some and ends up at a meet where a girl is sexually assaulted over stickers. she doesn't seem to mind. Of course, she may be insane. I've only watched two episodes, so it's not clear yet.
It's that kind of show.
*Isn't it amazing how James Cameron was somehow able to rip off three totally original movies simultaneously?
