Air Gear Trick 295 Discussion/Trick 296 Predictions

[Carnevil]

Chinese scan of 295.
http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=936084368

[Waking_Dreamer]

I wonder how long it takes to draw each and every panel..?

[TheMoa]

So the "good looking middle aged man that won't die until the very end" is really Uncle Minami?

[LoS]

We finally get to see the man who has run this entire Air Gear universe thus far.

[Crys]

So the "good looking middle aged man that won't die until the very end" is really Uncle Minami?

Is that not the guy how wars by the battle Koga vs. Loki Freya etc. ?

[Atobe the king]

Pretty interesting chapter, the..um...mech? um? well its AG I guess I'm used to it.....guessing Gazelle VS Nike next week.

[conn-man]

Thinga are heating up. Looks like Nike is beating gazelle already though, wonder if she can come back from it.

Also wonder who's controlling the mech. And the paper airplane man is here, does anyone know who he is yet?

[Carnevil]

Dude needs to be arrested for littering, dude in the mech too.
Also dudes letters spell EAR on one hand.

His character is starting to get on my nerves, he's going to turn out to be a gay version of Lex Luthor. In other words a highly intelligent dude who wants to take over the world using his advanced technology.

[suarhnir]

oyos

so with this, we now have a confirmed 'uncle minami'... however this also makes me strongly believe that there is someone who is in opposition to uncle minami that also has letters on his fingers (most likely his brother)

the letters are different between the 'two' and their behavior and appearances do differ

'uncle minami' 10 years ago
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y103/suarhnir/others%20works/uncleminami.jpg

and now in the present time
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y103/suarhnir/others%20works/ag26111.jpg

the dude ages well, and by that i mean he hasn't changed in appearance at all... except he now has more facial hair. notice his fashion sense has not really changed when he's out and about...

the letters on his hands spell out (from right thumb to pinky, left thumb to pinky) "Dear (little bat thing) Devil"

this is the same person who brought about the brain chargers and was talking to aeon's dad
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y103/suarhnir/others%20works/Scan_134.jpg
look closely at the middle panel of minami's hands clapping, you can see more letters
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y103/suarhnir/others%20works/Scan_135.jpg
then of course we have a display of uncle minami's 'playful attitude' and you can get a glimpse of his right hand holding the bug capsule

we now have another guy, also name 'minami' but for the purpose of distinguishing this one, i will call him 'doctor/professor minami'.

doctor minami is the one who (in sora's flashback, which may or may not have been made up by sora) gave sora bagramhttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y103/suarhnir/others%20works/AIR_GEAR_14_104.jpg
note that the letters on doctor minami are different.

it was also doctor minami who was seen in orca's flashback
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y103/suarhnir/others%20works/airgear21_160.jpg
take note of the rather long hair and the letters on his hand.

doctor minami's fingers spell out (from right thumb to pinky, left thumb to pinky): d-d-e-v-l, ?-d-e-v-l

uncle minami has pretty much looked the same since, and he's kept the same letters on his fingers. doctor minami has different letters and he seems to be more 'cold/calculating' where as uncle minami is more like ikki and kinda carefree and personal.

i think we have two brothers who created air trek technology (along with others like ine's father) and the grav kids... but somewhere along the way, they had differing opinions about how to progress with their research, uncle minami creating for progression's sake, and doctor minami creating for power and a god-complex.

[Carnevil]

Alright if there is two Minami's one being a gay Lex Luthor. What if Ikki was created by him as his ultimate chess piece against his brother. But he was stolen by good guy Minami and given to Rika. Or if both of them used their DNA to create Ikki and good Minami saw what his brother was wanting to do and took him and gave him to Rika. Just a couple of thoughts to go with the whole two Minami theory.

[king_crimson-]

yet another set of twins? uh.

so as expected, Minami was behind everything from the beginning uh...well, i guess we'll finally at least get a glimpse of the whole backstory of ATs, Minami and the towers as well in this FB...we'll probably get another, longer one to explain it all later on...

[suarhnir]

oyos

you know, that's quite a big leap of faith out there for uncle minami to give a mecha suit to kaito and expect him to go in and rescue gazelle...

[conn-man]

alright so the flashback now reveals that this new minami(uncle/paperairplaneman) could not have been the more sinister long haired minami(dr minami) from all those little flashbacks other characters had. this finally really clears things up for me.

i guess they would have to be brothers, thats cool though. guess they've been competing since the very beginning

[menino]

http://mangatopia.net/reader/en/Air_Gear/295/1
the chapter is out tkz to SSA again.

[Diadz]

Hmm i liked this chapter.

wonder if kaito still has/uses that Mech ???

[suarhnir]

Hmm i liked this chapter.

wonder if kaito still has/uses that Mech ???

oyos

... that's a very good question... either it got destroyed in his fail attempts at saving gazelle, or he does still have it and hid that giant thing for the last 10 years...

[menino]

great chapter, any news about raws for the chapter 296?

[Carnevil]

great chapter, any news about raws for the chapter 296?

Chinese scans are usually out on Wednesday, Rena Chan's raws usually show up Friday. But if she doesn't start getting donations to cover the costs of the magazines then she'll have to stop scanning.

[menino]

tkz for the info carnevil, normally i down the raw for raw-distro[rena-chan], gamaran and kenichi too.
i hope she dont stop the raw.