Air Gear: Kuro no Hane to Nemuri no Mori - Break on the Sky

it's gonna be fun to talk about the ova's for one of my favorite manga. The kuro hane ova's are like a small glimpse of what the air gear anime would have been like it or got the second season it deserves. It's an underrated manga series and could use some more fans. These 3 ova's sum up everything there is to love about the series.

The first episode adapts the chapters concerning the fight between Ikki and Ringo while the two proceeding ones adapts the inorganic net arc. A strong sense of tension and action is ever present and the fights are ... quite exhilarating. Viewers who have not read the manga may be confused by the plot I enjoyed it even more when I didn't know what happened next. I watched this anime before marathoning the manga so all those cool scenarios and drama just sparked my creative juices.

My only complaint was with the soundtrack. The few snippets one could hear during the ova was quickly droned out characters talking. It’s a shame cause it sounded like a good score very similar to Go Shiina's style and maybe even the Tekken series. Theres unfortunately no where to listen to the soundtrack since ova series generally don’t release cd’s

Character designer Horiuchi Osamu did a great job bringing the manga’s incredible artwork to life. Character designs are expressive and nicely detailed. This ova also shares the same director as fairy tail and say what you will about the series, shinji ishihara knows how to direct fight scenes. You’ll never see this much violence done with rollarblades anywhere else. Animation felt very crisp and was always a pleasure to look at.



In terms of enjoyment, I would have to say these episodes were perfect. Each features a well-animated battle that gets the heart pumping. It was great seeing some of the best moments from the manga come to life. Depending on how much you know of the series, the story can be enjoyed without reading all of the manga. The voice work was spot on and was even superior to the original dub for them tv anime. The best part is that the end of each ova features a kickass song the band " A flood of circle ." If you're a fan of air gear, you must watch this.

The ova in air gear was amazing. I think it was made just to see how people would react to the ova and see if they wanted to animate the second season of air gear or not. It will definitely answer some questions for those who haven't read the manga but it will add a lot of more things to air gear where unless you read the manga you won't have any idea what the hell happened.

Story: 8
I am speaking strictly from the continuation of air gear it answered some things but still have lots of questions for those who didn't read the manga

Animations: 9
The ... animations was so much better than the previous anime but it could still be even better (might be because I have high standard in animation)

Music: 9
The music was very good and it was on point with the show, however I liked the music from the original air gear better

Characters: 10
Do I need to say anything all of the characters are amazing

I would recommend you watch it

Let's start with the positives. The art, is gorgeous. If you've read any of the manga you'll be pleasantly surprised to see the art style is more similar to the manga than to the air gear series itself.

I thought the sound was also pretty good, great voice acting and good soundtrack.

Unto the negatives? Plot? What plot? Everything was so rushed and hectic I ended the anime in more confusion than when I'd started. Character development? If you're into shallow, this is the OVA to watch, they don't touch the characters. There's no time! It would have made more sense to just make a ... season 2 or a longer OVA at least.

I still enjoyed some moments though, some made me laugh even though I wasn't sure what was going on, and the art was great to look at. If you've not read the manga, this will confuse you, if you have, it hopefully won't disappoint you.