Aria - A brief review of my experience watching the anime.

Aria is undoubtedly one of the best or if not the best Slice of Life I have ever seen and one of the few that made me feel moved in some parts, that hasn't happened since Ef: Tale Of Melodies.

Well, the story is about a girl with the dream of becoming an Undine living a peaceful life while knowing more about the world she lives in and meeting people.

About Neo Venezia: As futuristic as it may seem, Neo Venezia is still full of rustic beauty; gondolas in wide channels and waterways are the main means of transport.

This is the workplace of Akari Mizunashi, a free-spirited teenager from Manhome who is now an Undine rookie (the title given to tour guides). Join Akari as she becomes intimately familiar with other Undine, tourists, residents of Neo Venezia and even the city itself, learning many valuable life lessons along the way, such as the wonderful truth that there are such things as miracles done for the man.

Despite having a monotonous and slow start, Aria improves with the passing of the episodes and consequently when the other characters are introduced and without a doubt the cast of Aria is one of the strongest points of the work.

Of course, if you want to see the journey of these three towards professionalization as being "the plot" I could perhaps understand the criticism that anime is slow. But such a claim would not really be within the spirit or intentions of the work itself, but rather a personal projection of the viewer of what a story should be, as opposed to what it wants to be or, indeed, it is. Aria is a series that strives for the atmosphere, for taking advantage of each episode as an episode, as an individual unit, while a plot driven work strives for taking advantage of each episode within the larger context of the series as a whole. In this second case, it is the set that gives meaning to each episode, while in Aria each episode has meaning in itself. This is the fundamental difference between more narrative stories, so to speak, and more episodic stories, and because of this difference, it is necessary to adjust one's expectations to the intentions of each format. This does not mean that the Aria set is a badly stitched patchwork, not even by far. As I will argue throughout the text, each season has a theme that connects and gives meaning to the set of episodes that compose it, but the fact remains that Aria should not be watched by its story.

Animation: So, I think the animation has improved a lot from Aria the Animation to Origination, even if the animation is simple it can be very good in some specific moments / scenes.

Soundtrack: Well, the soundtrack is one of the best things I've ever heard and it becomes quite striking right at the beginning of the series and it combined a lot with the Venice theme, there are times when it's almost impossible not to just listen and admire.

Characters: So, Aria has a wonderful and very well written cast, it's just incredible to see how well the anime works all the characters so well and not to mention the various parts in which they made me feel emotional.