and now the art, well, what do I have to say? Its Oh Great! I mean, hes only like the best manga artist I have ever seen when it comes to the art, and is definitely my favourite artist of all time. His art is flawless, and the style changed twice throughout this series. First it was alright, pretty shounen style, suitable for young people. Then it got realistic since he was working on tenjou tenge, during that time he used like a LOT of lines to draw the characters, and it got pretty realistic =3= and then after tenjou tenge was finished, his art style changed again, this time to a not-so-realistic but epic as hell art that is so extremely suitable for the pop cultre and was so freaken good
now the story, well, at the beginning it was just like any other shounen manga, there's nothing too special about the plot except for the fact that they ride on awesome roller blades that can climb walls and jump off buildings. Then something happened, and the plot got messy, at at one point i was about to drop this series because the plot was so pointlessly stupid. but then around volume 24, the plot started to rise back up and then, well, I personally loved the plot after vol 24, it was one of the best stories I have ever seen. However most people find the plot to be confusing and some people just find it to be plain stupid. I dont blame them, since you kinda have to think a bit to get the plot and ignore some of the "not so good" elements in the plot. I enjoyed it, but most people hated it =3=
now the characters....well....other than the fact that most character development arcs r like fillers, and the only characters memorable are the main characters. The other ones r, well, forgetful. I mean, okay so oh great tried to bring back all the characters at the end of the series and that, well, totally failed. But then towards the end there were some really good character development arcs especially the fight with Nike, and the final battle. But then it seemed like oh great didn't really plan out the characters and kinda just "put them in the story randomly and expected us to deal with their existence"
I definitely enjoyed this series, especially the ending arcs, and, well, I can't really recommend it after reading all the bad comments about it on the internet. Since not everyone will enjoy it like I did, and I know for a fact most of my friends think its boring =3=
i give this manga, a 9 out of 10
