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It’s often an association for anime with the word “entertainment”. It does not attempt to propagate any values, but instead provides themes and stories that will be forgotten after a while because it has nothing to do with real life. One anime that often break this mold is Aria, a beautiful and slice of life series that often captures life’s simplest lessons. In the current episode, there is an event that leaves me with a lot of after thoughts due to how it relates to my personal experience. It’s very wonderful how anime can sometimes reflect life. Minor spoilers lie after the “read more” if you hate to be even spoiled a little.

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Ok, even though Aria the Natural is over, that does not mean that I cannot blog about it. In fact, I will like to comment on one of my favorite characters in Aria, Alice Carroll, the cute pair Undine from Orange Planet.

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Image from Danbooru

What can i say more about this anime, expanding up to 26 episodes of grace?

It is a relaxing, invigorating and powerful ride to the world of Neo-Venezia. A show that will probably not hit a great fanbase like Naruto or Bleach, it is something special, hidden quietly among the gentle sea of anime. It does not try to impress, nor does it try to make itself look great or wonderful.

Yet, its brightness lits up beautifully as the idyllic environment, scenery and music brings you into the world of Neo-Venezia, a place filled with love, care and beauty.

This is Aria the Natural, a show that is unassuming.

It is like fine wine. You never know how good it is, until you have a sip of it. With wine and anything in excess, it will not taste good. However, with a gentle sip to this great series, you learn how to appreciate it. Quality can never be replaced by quantity. That is how good things can be appreciated, only in small doses.

This is a show that teaches, yet never presses you to follow it. It simply guides you quietly toward various messages in life. Sometimes, the most simple things are the most beautiful. Things that seem to be small and insignificant are in fact significant things in this world. Without this show, these things will be simply quiet and never be seen in our lives.

This is Aria the Natural, a show of brilliance.

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Wahaha, I was doing my usual web surfing and encountered a quiz in the crystalnova forums. Crystalnova fansubs are the subs I used in order to watch Aria the Natural because I followed them ever since Aria the animation. Even though they are very slow in finishing up the bottom half of the series, it is not their job so as a fan, I only can wait patiently for them to start doing them a little.

So anyway, I stumbled upon the quiz and found it fascinating. If you watch Aria, do the quiz, it’s funny for the moment you do it.

Do the quiz here

And no, I didn’t manipulate my results just because I want to get Alice. Mu Ri, I am very partial in what I do.

Seriously ^_^

Seeing Alice so sad makes me sad too.

She should always be happy, smiling with that delicate mouth and saying “DEKKAI!”

Sigh, I have finally hit the stage where Crystalnova has subbed up to. I probably will have to wait for ages before the next subbed series of Aria comes out, but I guess it at least clears all my backlog for now. It is pretty good that I have clear just at the end of a Alice-centric episode. Alice is so cute in this episode, especially her childlish resolutions for the day. Even though she is very knowledgable and critical sometimes, she is but a kid. That really boosts her attractive meter by a lot.

Alice, you are the greatest!

I know I should be studying but I am bored stiff in schoolwork, hence I sneaked to finish this. Tee hee..

This episode started with the season being in the center of summer, where the heat was starting to shine brightly. However, it was also the best time for training as the three girls toiled on today, with Alice on the gondola today.

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I actually got the news from Adun’s blog. I know that this series only release on September 28, 2006, so I am not too late in reporting it, no?

* 「ARIA The NATURAL ～

All thanks to Otakuism, I have stumbled around Nipponsei and found myself a paradise of OSTs. I generally loved OSTs a lot, as anime music tended to have rather good quality.

For this, I decided to do a little review of this compilation of songs from Aria the Natural OST. Aria, as you know, is one of the anime that I seriously fanboy a lot. The songs are generally calming to the nerves, giving that strong feeling of tranquility and comfort that the anime brings. The songs in anime often reflected the mood which the series was aiming to portray and that airy feeling, the kind of music aimed to do what the anime does: to give you that dreamlike imaginery that makes you feel good.

The cover is of Athena singing her canzone (italian for song) while the three juniors (Akari, Aika and Alice) looked on as she sang. The cover clearly portrays how the anime is taken. It is definitely a relaxing, chilling effect that Aria is trying to put forth to the audience of this OST.

They are so many good songs, like how Undine portrayed that soothing, calming feeling that we all learned to relate about Aria. Dekkai Shiawase Desu was one of the most amusing songs that I had ever heard in my life. Listening to Aria doing his little cute voice and the “day kai” (really) that Alice always say is inside. It is so cute, with the “day kai, day kai”. I really loved the cute song, cos the song is in fact swimming in my head like right now.

A really nice album and I love it much. There is no one song that I dislike at all. Just great

Rating: A++++++ (I AM SO UNBIASED!)

With that, I leave you with the back cover of the album. Ja ne ~