Aria Episode 8

The hero running toward the sunset. Run Lola Run!!!!~ I mean Aria.

This seems to be an Aria-centric episode. That also meant tons of cuteness!

1st part: Aria leaving home?

It started with a voice commentary that the weather had turned from summer to autumn, alloing a small hole of workload. That also meant that they had time to clean up the company and this was exactly what they did. Both Akari and Alicia were busy cleaning up the place and Aria was trying to help by sweeping and mopping the floor. Instead, it only found itself blocking the way.

It was puzzled and wanted to help out in whichever way he could and he tried to carry water in order to wash the floor. However, it spilled the water onto the floor and Alicia had to clean the mess. It then tried to move a plant pot somewhere but it dropped it, breaking the pot into pieces. Akari and Alicia had to clean up the mess once again. It was then very depressed that it was not able to help the two of them and found itself to be rather useless.

It then sat down on his desk, opening the drawers to see if there’s anything that could be done but found nothing except a sketchbook and a mascot doll. Aria then said that it was possible to at least make a home-cooked lunch for the two of them who were busy and tried to dump some ingredients in (banana, green pepper and cheese dont sound nice in a stew to me). However, it turned to be some green mess stew. It tasted a bit of it and immediately turned pale.

In depression that it could not do anything to help, Aria decided to leave the company and it gathered two of the rice balls as its food resource. However, it’s stomach was getting hungry and it swallowed one whole almost immediately. It also wanted to finish the other but reminded itself that it was emergency food. As it stepped out of the company, it realised that it did not know where to go.

Aria’s name was then popped out and it wanted to rush over. Aria then heard the voice of Akari, assumingly making a mistake, using some bottle detergent to wash the bathroom. Then, Aria’s name was called. They had seen the letter that it wrote that it was leaving home for now. However, Alicia simply said that Aria was being nice by getting out of the way when they were cleaning and Aria was being polite and helpful. In sadness, it walked off.

We then see Aria being extreemly lonely on a building. There, Aria met its first friend and it was a bird that tried to steal its emergency food after it had offered some bits of rice to the bird. Aria continued to walk around and found a girl with a puppet frog. She grabbed Aria around, wanting to bring Aria back to Man-home because it was so cute. With its sneaky skills, it was finally able to escape.

Aria was now at the river side, observing the many couples taking the Gondola in travel. Aria then thought about Hime, who was probably able to understand what it was thinking. However, when Aria reached the Himeya’s headquarters, it found that Aika was happily playing with Hime, making the black cat very happy.

Aria was disappointed and left back to Aria. It was about to cry too, because its limited food resource was falling low. On the other hand, Akari and Alicia had finally finished cleaning up and they discovered that Aria was missing. Akari went out of Aria company to find Aria and found tears falling on her forehead. It was Aria crying.

Alicia thought that it was scared because it had climbed too high and was unable to get down. With that, the little adventure ended and they had omelette rice for dinner.

2nd part: Aria the hero!

Aria had been addicted reading about this comic called Nyaa Nyaa Pu~. It was very amazed by the special skills of the main hero and was starting to make a little dance. Noticing something, It walked stealthily to the cupboard and took a package before running off. It was in fact cloth to dress just like the main character of the comic that it was reading. He had changed to the constume of the super hero and it was surveying the town.

Aria noticed that a girl had left her toy at a shop and the shop owner shouted at the girl about her toy but she did not hear it at all. Aria offered to pass the doll to the girl in his superhero help. On the route to finding the girl, Aria was obstructed by a praying mantis and it used a leaf to move the praying mantis away. However, the girl was getting further away and Aria rushed over.

It was then he met up with Athena, who recognised Aria. However, Aria hid so that its identity would not be discovered. Aria then continued to hunt and found Aika talking to one of the gnomes. Hime was rather charmed by the constume that Aria was wearing until Aika noted that it was actually Aria in disguise. His attempt to impress immediately failed. Aria then moved around to hunt for the girl in a forested path. There was rustling of leaves from the bushes and Aria feared that it was an ambush.

In fact, it was Maa-kun who came charging in to bite at Aria’s flubby stomach. Aria was losing hope about the whole issue but it continued to encourage itself to finish the task. Then, Aria noticed that balls and hoops were rolling on the alleyway and it was Akari moving to chase the things. It was in fact circus props and Aria went over to help Akari on moving the balls back. He then lost control and went on to the top of the ball, barely able to keep its balance. The buskers thought that Aria was good because it was able to catch its balance.

Aria then noticed the girl in the far end and chased her. However, when Aria was about to reach the girl, it slipped onto a banana skin and fell, dirtying the doll. The girl had entered back to her own home. It was disappointed as it had failed the hero mission and left the dirty doll on the doorstep. The girl was starting to cry because she realized that her toy was missing as she rushed out. She saw the dirty doll and was just glad that it was back.

Mission accomplished!