I can certainly recommend this. It's anime of the highest quality. However, it's a peculiar series, and it's 100% sure it appeals to a lot smaller audience than the titles you have listed in your sig. Aye, considering your current top list, I have to note Aria contains close to 0% action. Of any kind. It's hard to imagine what a series like that could be, but have a look, and you will see.
Definitely recommended. As Kraco said, it is a peculiar genre. It doesn't really fit into anything other than Slice of Life, but its fairly different from many of those as well. No action, no consistent plot, no significant character development beyond a couple of episodes at a time. It's more like you are getting a better image of each of the character's personalities, but they don't really change (since each eps is basically stand alone).
Its very relaxing. To me, its more unwinding to watch an eps of Aria than drink a beer after a tough day. (Proven on three separate occasions.)
You get really caught up in the laid back feel of the city, the series, and generally it just makes you feel good.
I cannot recommend this series enough, everything about it is good in its own way. (And to think I didn't initially want to watch the first season because I thought it was going to be boring)
Well, can't turn down those recommendations.Downloading now. =)
Which group is better?
But seriously, an anime with no plot, action, or ...anything.........really hard to imagine its any good, but i'll take you word for it.
CrystalNova has better subs overall, the raws and encoding are slightly better quality, but translation wise they are pretty much equal, minor differences in word choice, but the meanings are still equal.
ex. "Embarrasing Remarks" vs "Embarrasing Lines"
HnK is fine for watching, but I'm only archiving CrystalNova.
I have only watched the CrystalNova subs, so I can't really compare them. I have been very satisfied with the quality of subbing. The CrystalNova release schedule has been somewhat irregular, though, so when/if you catch up with the season 2, you may need to consider it anew, if you don't occasionally feel like waiting an extra week (or two...).
Well....Here are my thoughts.
At some parts..I taught was completly ridiculous and found myself laughing. The animations pretty decent. I found the lack of music weird at first. But, never the less, you guyswere right, its pretty calming, even though it lacks everything I like in an anime, I'll watch the entire series. Its ridiculous, but pretty sweet.
Thanks for recommendation Kraco, your right as usual, and same the Ryllharu, your info pretty much right on the ball with everything anime.
Let's continue with the Naturalism, shall we?
Episode 4 - CrystalNova
So..they're only 13 episodes to Aria right? If so, that sucks, this series is really different from anything I've seen and I like it.....=S
13 eps to the first season, yes. There are 13 more to the Natural.
I'm already hoping they make a third season.
Wait huh? Whats natural? So....theres 26 episodes?
Btw if i havn't said it yet, thakns to you and Kraco for recommending the series. Its seriously pretty sweet.
I figured you knew from Kraco and my discussions. There are two seasons of ARIA. The first season ARIA -the Animation- and the second, ARIA -the Natural- both are 13 eps each. Natural is currently airing. The higher quality version of the 4th eps is 4 posts up.
Awesome! That makes me feel al warm inside, and the possibility of a thrid season is kool.
I'll start downloading when I get home.
Yeah, sorry about the vague episode posting. This thread started with the first season (Aria the Animation), then just continued with the second (the Natural). The episodes of the second season thus share the same numbers with the first season (1-13), they just suddenly began again from one. It might have been wise to mark them as second season episodes, but I didn't think of it back then...
This episode continued with the old tradition of simple exploration of Neo-Venezia. And there certainly was an invasion of men! I earlier said to somebody there's like 2 men in the whole series and a host of girls. In this episode there were as many men as girls. How twisted!
Yet I hope we will still see Akatsuki again some time (the dude in my avatar image). He's one of the most interesting characters. Heh. You could say Akatsuki is the person who feels the most dangerous in the whole Aria world (although that's not saying much...). But I always see a kind of ripple in the silky smooth fabric of Aria whenever he's participating in a scene.
An ARIA episode with a life-threatening situation? What has the world come to? Well, perhaps it wasn't quite that dramatic, after all...
Episode 5 - CrystalNova
I'll be honest, I didn't really like this eps. I like Akari and I like Alicia, but the show really shines with Aika and Alice (or Akira and Athena, and the various combinations of all of them). It dragged on a bit, and for once it had a hard time holding my interest. The train scene was really nice, and Aria frying the powerline while eating grapes off the vine. The first half of the eps, I could do without.
But eps 6 is all about Alice with Athena prominently featured. Look forward to it when CrystalNova makes their release, unless you get impatient and watch HnK versions.
You are reflected in the mirror, Alice-chan.
Episode 6 - CrystalNova
This was an interesting episode for a few reasons, but mainly because of the character development. Or perhaps character characterization. While this series as a whole relies on characters heavily, I don't feel there actually is huge amounts of character development. Just like was said in this episode, the basic natures of the main characters play the major role. This episode, however, seemed to develop Alice quite a lot. Positive is also how much time Athena got. Even if she didn't sing, which was something I was expecting and hoping for...
But this was quite a shot of Alice-chan!
It was a bit creepy for me to see quiet, reserved Alice get particularly cheery and the end of the eps. Quite the turn for her.
With a change this big, I was actually expecting to see Alice become a Single. She's got the rowing talent, her attitude and shyness (making her come off cold) was what I thought was holding her back from what we could see in the first season.
I really liked the parts where Maa attempted to munch on Aria's chubby blubber and couldn't get onto bed. Athena's speech as well.
And especially the card game with Aika.
*realized now while scanning through the eps that I apparently missed the entire middle of of the eps when I watched it. (From about 5:20 to 11:54!!) Must have been getting a sandwich or something and forgot to pause it*
EDIT: Amazingly, the eps still made total sense forgetting that chunk of time, but now it makes the picture somewhat more complete.
Last edited by Ryllharu; Wed, 05-24-2006 at 08:30 PM.
I found this pic following a link from the CrystalNova forums, and think it's too funny not to post here:
Revenge of the Caith Sith:
Episode 7 - CrystalNova
A very calm episode, as usual. Actually not a whole lot happened either, except for heavy gondoling (if you can use that as a verb). And some cat business once again. Not the strongest episode of Aria, for sure, but not bad either.
However, I'm really looking forward to the next episode, because Akatsuki appeared in the preview.
Last edited by Kraco; Tue, 06-06-2006 at 10:29 AM.
I just found out that the Natural is a 26 eps series. I don't think I'll be able to get the smile off my face.
http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.p...anime&aid=2659
16 eps titles are already listed.
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