Aria – Rowing to that Far-off Future
I never really took Aria seriously the first time I heard it to be some spectacular anime around the corners of the aniblogosphere but since I often heard that several anime blogs have been inspired by Aria, I decided that I should see it for myself.
Actually, I decided to read the manga prior to watching the last 3rd season of the anime because the translation of the manga isn’t done yet, but I might reconsider re-watching all three seasons once more. The anime really has an astounding track to listen to and it makes me imagine as if I’m on an Italian café. Meanwhile, the manga is a little bit more concise when it comes to details. The plot is the same for both although the anime has few nice fillers.
Also, Akari’s e-mail penpal wasn’t really specified who but the anime did referred it though as Ai-chan. It was somewhat fishy though since Ai-chan was introduced right off the bat in the anime and wasn’t in the manga but both had a similar ending.
I was easily captivated by this anime, and it’s probably because of its somehow trivial yet heart-warming anecdotes. This series never failed to show me a new side for new things and encounters. And probably, because of its utopian setting as well, which I would like to experience myself. Yeah, I’m definitely guilty of thinking maybe the world is better off to be similar to Aqua. Oh well, too bad, it might take not just a millennium before Mars is terraformed.
I’ve never been so attached to an anime, as if I never like it to end, and I think I’ve experienced it for the first time on Aria. ara ara~ XD.
Alicia-san is probably seen as an onee-sama figure of everyone. I do like her a lot not because of her funny antics but because of her mature character in the show. Alicia-san always seemed to everyone as if she is always composed but we’ve seen an unknown side of her when she admittedly told that her selfishness was partly the reason why Akari’s prima qualification exam was the latest to took place.
a clear representation of my expression during the retirement ceremony of Alicia-san...
We all know at the back of our minds that everything has to end, including all those happy moments we’ve spent with our dearest ones. This was probably the theme of the story that touched me the most, besides the “appreciation of even simple things”. I’m probably one of those people that would rather stop being attached to a person or a thing so I won’t be hurt once the time we spend finally cease to an end. Yep, I know that it’s so coward of me not to face it head on but, I’m the type of person that isn’t really convinced that every goodbye entails a start of a new beginning.
And so, I was really sad during the episode 13 of the Origination because I get this feeling that once this retirement ceremony is done, those moments from the previous chapters and episodes won’t happen again. They’ll all be a memory of the past. My sadness was further reinforced when Akari began seeing all those events that happened in the Aria Company during Alicia-san’s stay there. It is just so sad, the fact that all of their paths finally diverged from each other after all those fun get together. But then again, I’m happy as well since even though Akari is somewhat melancholic, she was still able to cope up with the situation she is in. A thing many of us should learn from her.
Aria really teaches that important concept of appreciating all the things happening around us, might it be simple or not, because the time will come, it will be a memory of the past, and it will be too late already to regret at what happened during the past. Even though things has to end at that specific time, we must at least believe that it will open up possibilities for us. Possibilities we might have not explored yet, that will define our future.
Even though we don’t know what the future holds for us, we should still continue on looking forward. Let’s just go with what Alicia-san said on how she views it — “Getting stuck on the happy things of the past and losing sight of the happy things now is such a waste. It’s not ‘it was so fun that time’ but ‘that time was fun, too’.” — which quite holds for everything.
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