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Offline Noboru_san

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want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« on: August 19, 2009, 01:36:47 AM »
well i saw that there are 3 seasons, i would like to know the other in which i have to see them

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2009, 01:41:39 AM »
Animation -> Natural -> Origination

I hope you enjoy it, Aria is one of my top 5 animes of all time :)

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2009, 01:45:28 AM »
A question. What's so good about the Aria series, aside from having a lot of cute girls? Does it have romance?

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2009, 02:03:28 AM »
A question. What's so good about the Aria series, aside from having a lot of cute girls? Does it have romance?
It's a depression killer :D at least for me it is
Kind of make me see life "the lighter way"

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2009, 02:03:46 AM »
A question. What's so good about the Aria series, aside from having a lot of cute girls? Does it have romance?

For me it wasn't even really the cute girls.  There is just something about the series that makes you feel good.  Though that is just me :)

It's a depression killer :D at least for me it is
Kind of make me see life "the lighter way"
The show got me out of my School Days slump ^.^

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2009, 02:08:43 AM »
No romance?

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2009, 02:10:11 AM »
No romance?

There is one small love interest, but it is definitely not a romance anime

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2009, 02:17:15 AM »
No romance?
Yep, pretty much none.

Also, the OVA takes place between The Natural and The Origination.

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2009, 02:34:09 AM »
Hmmm...sounds interesting.
Will look into it...
but first, gotta clear up some harddrive space!  :D

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2009, 02:41:09 AM »
Hmmm...sounds interesting.
If you like slice of life, this is pretty much the ultimate one. About as mellow as it gets. This thing just oozes happiness.

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2009, 02:48:35 AM »
A question. What's so good about the Aria series, aside from having a lot of cute girls? Does it have romance?

For me it wasn't even really the cute girls.  There is just something about the series that makes you feel good.  Though that is just me :)
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Other things like the constant beautiful scenery made me feel good also.
And I still can't get Aria Pokoteng's walking sound out of my head :))

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2009, 03:31:06 AM »
Might have to give this another go, I started watching Origination and it was nice but boring as well.

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2009, 09:21:14 AM »
Animation -> Natural -> Arietta (OVA) -> Origination

This series pretty much defines the slice-of-life genre. You either hate it ("WTF is this boring crap? Nothing ever happens!") or love it ("Awesome mood, calming atmosphere, entertaining characters"), there's not much of a middle ground when it comes to slice-of-life.

IMO, Aria is like anime therapy. If you have a friend in a depressive slump, prescribe them one episode of Aria a day, check in on them once a week and see if they improve. If they are slice-of-life fans, they'll be back to normal by the end of the first week.
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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #13 on: August 19, 2009, 09:31:37 AM »
IMO, Aria is like anime therapy. If you have a friend in a depressive slump, prescribe them one episode of Aria a day, check in on them once a week and see if they improve. If they are slice-of-life fans, they'll be back to normal by the end of the first week.
This. Also, after your slump, if you continue watching, think of it as a depression buffer. The more you watch, the more depressing shit you'll be able to absorb before you need to dose up on slice of life again.

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #14 on: August 19, 2009, 10:36:51 AM »
well i saw that there are 3 seasons, i would like to know the other in which i have to see them
The answer to this question for any multi-series franchise is almost always "Watch them in the order they were created," which you can look up on AniDB and the like. Except for ones with a ton of alternate timelines and continuities like Gundam, Macross, the Leijiverse, Bubblegum Crisis, etc. But the Relations Graph for ARIA is very straightforward.

Like others have said, ARIA is about escaping to a beautiful world free of unpleasantness or major conflicts. It's all about relaxing, forgetting the troubles of the real world, and crying happy-sad tears. Most of the episodes are standalone stories that fall into one of two broad categories: Character interaction & development; and Supernatural Mystery (concerning hidden places, spirits, cats, strange phenomena, glimpses into the past, and other wonders of Neo-Venezia). There is an over-arching plot concerning Akari, Aika, and Alicia's progress as Undines, but you have to watch from the beginning of Animation through all of Natural to the end of Origination to see it. I remember Origination was extremely well-reviewed on AniDB at first -- for awhile, there were 3 perfect 10.0 reviews, and I couldn't really contest those scores. I think this led to people with no previous Aria experience checking out Origination because of the wow-Amazing reviews, and being left thinking "what the hell is this stuff?"

As personal testimony, Aria the Natural played a big part in helping me deal with fast-food work bullshit back in 2006-07. Well, that and shameless wish-fulfillment like Dears  ;D Also Pani Poni Dash. And Captain Morgan's Private Stock between split shifts.



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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #15 on: August 19, 2009, 11:00:07 AM »
then comparing this to K-On! as boredom killer it's pretty much like that ? fun and stuff ?

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #16 on: August 19, 2009, 07:15:46 PM »
then comparing this to K-On! as boredom killer it's pretty much like that ? fun and stuff ?
Yeah. I'd say there is even less conflict in this than there is in K-On. Unlike there, this NEVER makes your worry or anything like that. About as fun as it gets.

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #17 on: August 19, 2009, 08:57:40 PM »
This is making me regret watching one episode and, since I didn't like it much, deleted the whole series. =__=
Gonna go re-dl..


then comparing this to K-On! as boredom killer it's pretty much like that ? fun and stuff ?
Yeah. I'd say there is even less conflict in this than there is in K-On. Unlike there, this NEVER makes your worry or anything like that. About as fun as it gets.

As long as "fun" doesn't turn into "too much fun" aka "boredom". :P
I story without a little tension or conflict might get boring =o

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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #18 on: August 19, 2009, 09:13:31 PM »
This is making me regret watching one episode and, since I didn't like it much, deleted the whole series. =__=
Gonna go re-dl..
If you didnt like the first episode you probably wont like the rest of the episodes...
As said before, its an anime that is very relaxing and either you like it or you find it boring...
i actually enjoyed it due to the art and personalities of the people
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Re: want to watch aria but i dont know the order
« Reply #19 on: August 19, 2009, 09:18:00 PM »
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Ara, ara.