History Headscratchers / ARIA

** IIRC, in the manga they say something about the men doing all the more important jobs.

*** Hmm.. I would certainly want to be her wife--if Akari wouldn't get to me first.

** In case you didn't realize ARIA is an extremely soft SF setting
*** I also take it that the commenter didn't notice the flying vehicles apparently using antigravity to get around, the holographic technology which made Akari's shuttle look transparent in the first episode, the casual approach to genetic engineering which produced the Mars cats with human-level intelligence, or the ease of interplanetary travel given that Neo-Venezia is a tourist destination for people from Earth, which all point to a high-tech society for whom gravitic manipulation is practical and energy-generation is not an issue. Oh, that and those ''huge floating islands of rock in the sky which also act as weather-control stations''....
*** Well, for the holographic thing in shuttle can be considered as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_camouflage active camouflage]], just more advanced version.

** Learning to row a gondola doesn't take a long time, but learning to row it gracefully like the Primas do isn't easy. It's a bit like dancing. Sure, you can learn to dance through taking a three-month course or something, but to dance like a professional dancer, 5-10 years of practice aren't that uncommon. From what I've seen in ARIA, rowing is almost an art, and so it probably takes a bit of time to reach good form. There is also the canzone thing, which apparently is a requirement as well. They also demand from primas top-notch communication skills and behaviour. If it's just normal tour guiding, a single can do it well enough, and it obviously doesn't take long to be a single. Being a prima is seen on Neo-Venice as nearly being perfect in form, and they are supposed to be the icons of Neo-Venezia. I'm not surprised if the whole process takes 3 or more years.

*** Alicia gave Akari a call out of curiosity and asked why would she want to join ARIA Company, to which Akari answered she always wanted to be an Undine, but when she she come across the website of ARIA Company online, she has a strong feeling about it, it is like the company is somehow calling out to her. It is at this moment that Alicia felt "This is the one!".

*** Alicia gave Akari a call out of curiosity and asked why would she want to join ARIR Company, to which Akari answered she always wanted to be an Undine, but when she she come across the website of ARIA Company online, she has a strong feeling about it, it is like the company is somehow calling out to her. It is at this moment that Alicia felt "This is the one!".

** Another logical reason... well Aria is SMALL company despite of its prestigious reputation. Their junior lived in small attic when other companies undine have their own room with kitchen (in himeya) and Orange Planet's dormitory looks like a mansion.

*** Hmm.. [[{{Dentaku}} I]] would certainly want to be her wife--if Akari wouldn't get to me first ;)

** Looks like it depends on instructors and how well did the trainees do on exam, so probably no fixed schedule. Also, other than that, there's also guide training, it seems, so it's also about personality training so that they will have good communication skills. If you want [[{{onyhow}} my]] opinion, the job of Undine is more like combination of tour guide and Miss Universe; you know, about their outward behavior, skill, all those combinations. If you consider that being Undine is quite a prestigious position in the city (and it shows a few times that they are probably Neo-Venezia's icon) it wouldn't be surprising that it's not easy (and going to take a while) to become Prima.

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* If the goal of rebuilding old Earth's cities on Mars is to conserve cultural heritage, why does NeoVenezia differ so much from IRL Venice? It looks like the had the buildings, they restored them and placed them as they wanted to (and probably adding many new ones in the middle). The sea around the city doesn't look like the lagoon either, probably even less (Caribbean-like islands at some hours of rowing distance?). Not that result isn't pretty and probably prettier than the real thing, but it kinda misses the point.

** Learning to row a gondolier doesn't take a long time, but learning to row it gracefully like the Primas do isn't easy. It's a bit like dancing. Sure, you can learn to dance through taking a three-month course or something, but to dance like a professional dancer, 5-10 years of practice aren't that uncommon. From what I've seen in ARIA, rowing is almost an art, and so it probably takes a bit of time to reach good form. There is also the canzone thing, which apparently is a requirement as well. They also demand from primas top-notch communication skills and behaviour. If it's just normal tour guiding, a single can do it well enough, and it obviously doesn't take long to be a single. Being a prima is seen on Neo-Venice as nearly being perfect in form, and they are supposed to be the icons of Neo-Venezia. I'm not surprised if the whole process takes 3 or more years.

** CuteShotaroBoy. Sure, he's 18, but how old does he look like?

** Possibly, an upwards wind might do the trick.

** Take a package-tour around any Japanese city, the odds are heavily weighted toward you having female guide. It's pretty much the standard in Japan, and "Undines" are tour guides

*** I also take it that the commentor didn't notice the flying vehicles apparently using antigravity to get around, the holographic technology which made Akari's shuttle look transparent in the first episode, the casual approach to genetic engineering which produced the Mars cats with human-level intelligence, or the ease of interplanetary travel given that Neo-Venezia is a tourist destination for people from Earth, which all point to a high-tech society for whom gravitic manipulation is practical and energy-generation is not an issue. Oh, that and those ''huge floating islands of rock in the sky which also act as weather-control stations''....
*** Well, for the holographic thing in shuttle can be considered as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_camouflage active camoflage]], just more advanced version.

* If the goal of rebuilding old Earth's cities on Mars is to conserve cultural heritage, why does NeoVenezia differ so much from IRL Venice? It looks like the had the buildings, they restored them and placed them as they wanted to (and probably adding many new ones in the middle). The sea around the city doesn't look like the lagoon either, probably even less (Caribbbean-like islands at some hours of rowing distance?). Not that result isn't pretty and probably prettier than the real thing, but it kinda misses the point.

* Why do we never learn who Alicia gets married to? You'd expect that Alicia would introduce her fiancé to Akari at the very least, so Akari would know who she got dumped for.