Published by Adun March 16th, 2008
in ARIA The Origination and Anime Blogs.
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In a slice of life anime, you don’t see much romance development throughout the series, and ARIA is no different. However what it does do is skim through the theme and show us that such romance developments are possible and what better way to show that than through Aika and Al. This chapter is definitely one of the more memorable ones in the manga and personally I find it to the be the most romantic scenes between two characters. That is of course if you don’t count Akari and Cait Sith, the chemistry between Al and Aika is much more appealing.
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Published by Adun March 8th, 2008
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The most beautiful ARIA episode for me to date is definitely from ARIA The Natural when Akari said goodbye to her gondola. It still stands at the number 1 spot and I never had a number 2…… until now. Really, I could not help myself but smile throughout this entire episode knowing what was to come ahead, but having not read this chapter, I wasn’t too sure on what to expect. Yet the anime has once again exceeded my expectations of how well it would be executed. Time is certainly moving fast in the world of ARIA and with a lot of developments that we didn’t see in previous episode or in previous seasons.
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Published by Adun March 2nd, 2008
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When I first read this chapter of the ARIA manga, it was another wonderful story of both Alice and Athena’s bonds and with this episode, it just made it absolutely brilliant. Alice has always been the type to hide her feelings from others and tries to act mature (would that be classified as a tsundere?), but Athena’s plan of having amnesia was just a brilliant way to make Alice reveal her true feelings. Although a real roundabout way of doing so, but a somewhat painful way of doing so, it does flesh out the importance of bonds between people, and I see that as one thing Alice learnt from all of this.
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Published by Adun February 19th, 2008
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One recurring theme that is present within ARIA is the concept of the past,present, and future. With this episode, we once again take a trip back into the past and discover the many other wonders of ARIA Company but not from Alicia’s perspective, but that of her sempai, Anna, and Grandma. I don’t ever recall seeing a chapter where we meet Alicia’s sempai let alone hear her name anywhere in the manga. However for some burning reason Anna resembles Peorth from Ah My Goddess to me, except Anna isn’t floating in mid-air, lol.
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Published by Adun February 13th, 2008
in ARIA The Origination and Anime Blogs.
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There’s always a chemistry that we see between Akari and the rest of the characters in the series that is something that can’t be described in words, but you can feel it as you watch the series. However when we have an episode that focuses on another character, that same chemistry changes once again. This episode is no exception with the focus being on Alice as well as Alicia. It’s funny how throughout the entire series and manga, this is the first time that Alice has been alone with Alicia, so it was wonderful seeing a different type of aura around the characters.
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Published by Adun February 10th, 2008
in ARIA The Origination and Anime Blogs.
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In the past, when an ARIA episode is focused on a character other than Akari, it delivers something wonderful and something new about the character. This episode focuses not only on Aika, but as well as Akira and it has brought about a new light that we have never seen in Akira before. ARIA has always been about the moments that occur now, but a glimpse into the past is also a way to bring forth the essence that is ARIA.
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Published by Adun February 6th, 2008
in ARIA The Origination and Anime Blogs.
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I have said before that ARIA The Origination has taken the ARIA series to a new level, but after this episode, it has gone beyond everything that I love so much about ARIA. This episode was a special one as it covers on of my favourite chapters of the ARIA manga as we see Akari try out a traghetto, but more importantly, she meets other fellow undines. With the three undines, Atora, Ayumi, and Anzu, each with their own unique personalities has brought about a rather freshing feel to the overall series and they brought much interest into this episode.
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