{"id":183,"date":"2006-12-09T00:17:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T08:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2006\/12\/09\/blog-010-aerial-odyssey\/"},"modified":"2010-08-22T19:23:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T03:23:01","slug":"blog-010-aerial-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/12\/09\/blog-010-aerial-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 010 > Aerial Odyssey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 id=\"image198\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/xjaymanx_air_gear_01sm.jpg\" alt=\"Ikki from Air Gear\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Air Gear | Image from Google Search<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DOUBLE WOW! Addictive air battles! Skywardly inspiring!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>yup, as written in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/anime\/anime-viewing-list\/\">Anime Viewing List<\/a>, that&#8217;s my speed-review for &#8220;<strong>air gear<\/strong>&#8220;&#8230; just finished another teenage story of an unknown underdog who transforms, one battle after another, into a battered but determined champion&#8230; however, in this case, the story follows 15-year-old Ikki, not with martial arts or swords or giant mecha, but with high-tech Air Trecks (ATs), or highly-advanced air-borne versions of in-line skates&#8230; skillfully, the various metaphors of flying towards the sky and growing wings, with the powerful accompaniment of both street-style and orchestral music, creates an uniquely inspiring world&#8230; despite the wildly drawn scenes of humor (which would typically lower a series to 4 stars), there are several breathtaking flashbacks and moments of personal realizations which are deeply moving, sometimes almost to tears&#8230; and the ending&#8230; was simply&#8230; spectacular&#8230; 5 of 5 stars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Gear | Image from Google Search &#8220;DOUBLE WOW! Addictive air battles! Skywardly inspiring!&#8221; yup, as written in my Anime Viewing List, that&#8217;s my speed-review for &#8220;air gear&#8220;&#8230; just finished another teenage story of an unknown underdog who transforms, one battle after another, into a battered but determined champion&#8230; however, in this case, the story &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/12\/09\/blog-010-aerial-odyssey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-gear","category-anime-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5133,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/5133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}