History Manga / Aria

* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Akira.

* SweetDreamsFuel: So, so much :)

* {{Bishoujo}}: Design aesthetic used for every undine, but especially the main cast.

* BigDamnHeroes: In Episode 20 of ''Natural'', [[spoiler:Cait Sith saves Akari from the WomanInBlack.]]

*** This [[spoiler:backfires on her in Chapter 8 of the manga ("Aria" not "Aqua") when she accidentally lets slip a corny remark, [[resulting in Akari taking the opportunity to use her catchphrase against her.]]]]

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Akari chasing down some runaway balls and rings from a circus group she suddenly decided to practice with in the 2nd story of season 1's episode 8

*** This [[spoiler:backfires on her in Chapter 8 of the manga ("Aria" not "Aqua") when she accidentally lets slip a corny remark, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny resulting in Akari taking the opportunity to use her catchphrase against her.]]]]

* RapunzelHair: Akira after she becomes a Prima. Akari in the epilogue.

^ FootFocus: Loads here and there; shoes really don't have much usefulness at all in Neo Venezia's waterlogged streets, so going barefoot isn't out of the question.
** Akari loves to roam around the city in her bare feet whenever possible- she enjoys the serene feeling of the water and the cold paving beneath as the unbound soles of her feet pad along the cobblestone rocks. Galoshes are just a nuisance to her.
* In episode 8 of ''The Natural,'' one of her galoshes is so sloshed full of water, it slips off mid-step. Instead of putting it back on, she yanks off the other one to be barefoot. Akatsuki notices she's happier without shoes, so he removes his galoshes, too, and they remain in bare feet for the rest of the episode. To some, FetishFuel city, full stop.
* In episode 24 of ''The Natural,'' all three Undines kick their shoes off inside the room they're studying together in and relax barefoot. Later, when Aika shows up, even with an armload of files in tow, she retains Japanese courtesy by shuffling out of her high heeled pumps and enters the room in her bare feet as well.

* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Italian; Justified by Neo-Venezia being a conscious recreation of Venice, but it's even odds whether a piece of writing in the background is in Italian or Japanese. In the anime this is mingled with some [[EsperantoTheUniversalLanguage Esperanto]] as well.

* EsperantoTheUniversalLanguage: Alice's canzone is in this language. (Athena's vaguely Italianate songs are actually gibberish, according to Eri Kawai, songwriter and performer.)

* {{Bishoujo}}: ''Every'' undine, but especially the main cast.

* SternTeacher: Akira is regarded as this, but she's also a very good one as well.

* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: President Aria does this to Akari moe than once.

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** Specific and frequent not is made of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars facts]] that daytime on Mars is almost equal to Earth daytime and a Martian year is twice as long as an Earth year. Most science fiction with a populated Mars never makes note of that.

''ARIA'' is a manga and anime series set in the 24th century, depicting the adventures of several young women who live on Aqua, the planet formerly known as Mars before it was {{terraform}}ed into a water-covered paradise. They serve as gondolier tour-guides--or ''undines''--in the city of Neo Venezia, which is an exact copy of earth's Venice, [[CityOfCanals canals and all]].

Akari writes extensive letters describing her experiences to someone on Earth (which she refers to as ''Manhome'' as a ShoutOut to the works of cult SpeculativeFiction writer CordwainerSmith). Eventually, however, it is revealed in the manga to be the readers of her blog , while in the anime it is Ai, a young girl who was a customer in the first episode.

* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Though tourists are apparently happy to return home, in some cases unimpressed with the beauty of Aqua, it's made clear in dialogue that this applies. Until she comes to Aqua, Ai has never seen a blue sky, and Akari comments that back home she couldn't go in the ocean or dig in the soil like she does on Aqua, and Venice flooded a couple centuries ago.

** Daytime on Mars is almost equal to Earth daytime, and a Martian year is twice as long as an Earth year, all according to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars this article]] on the OtherWiki. Few science fiction has ever paid attention to make up a near-accurate Martian calendar like Aria. It doesn't mention leap years but we assume the mangaka didn't bother ''calculating'' leap years (serious mathematical problem here) for just a short mention of Martian calendar.

''ARIA'' is a manga and anime series set in the 24th century, depicting the adventures of several young women who live on Aqua, the planet formerly known as Mars before it was {{terraform}}ed into a water-covered paradise. They serve as gondolier tour-guides--or ''undines''--in the city of New Venice, which is an exact copy of earth's Venice, [[CityOfCanals canals and all]].

The manga series is written by Amano Kozue and started out with the title ''Aqua'', but was renamed ''Aria'' when the series switched publishers. Both were later adapted into an anime series with three parts, chronologically titled: ''The Animation'', ''The Natural'' and ''The Origination'', plus a stand-alone {{OVA}} called ''Arietta''. The pacing is generally [[{{Iyashikei}} relaxed and easy-going]], with [[SceneryPorn lots of attention for the beautiful scenery of Aqua and New Venice]].

* CityOfCanals: ''ARIA'' is set in the city of Neo Venezia (Italian for ''New Venice''), a copy of the original on a terraformed Mars and the source of a lot [[SceneryPorn beautiful imagery]].

* CityOfCanals: ''ARIA'' is set in the city of Neo Venezia, a copy of the original on a terraformed Mars and the source of a lot [[SceneryPorn beautiful imagery]].

* PinkBishoujoGhetto: It is explicitly stated that being an undine is one of the few ways that a female can become a professional gondolier.

*** This [[spoiler:backfires on her in Chapter 8 of the manga ("Aria" not "Aqua") when she accidentally lets slip a corny remark, resulting in Akari taking the opportunity to use her catchphrase against her.]]

* DidNotDoTheResearch:
** The moons of Mars are not round and also not very visible from the surface. Pulling them in closer would also likely just tear them apart, although this can be chalked up to distance between surface and the moon, since, at least in the manga, there's a close-up shot of Phobos, and it's not round.
** Neo-Venezia doesn't completely conform to the layout of the original Venice.

''{{ARIA}}'' is a manga and anime series set in the 24th century, depicting the adventures of several young women who live on Aqua, the planet formerly known as Mars before it was {{terraform}}ed into a water-covered paradise. They serve as gondolier tour-guides--or ''undines''--in the city of New Venice, which is an exact copy of earth's Venice, [[CityOfCanals canals and all]].

** The [[{{SceneryPorn}} lush visual beauty]] of the {{Aria}} Anime adaptation is attributed to the animators actually having gone to Venice to do research on the architecture, how Gondoliers pilot their boats and ''how water moves in reaction to a gondola's oar.'' Yes, they put ''that'' much love into producing the series.