What do you think about the Aria series?
comfiest series.
ARIA, K-ON and Non Non Biyori are the best SoL anime.
>>159917630
One of these is not like the others...
>>159917630
I'd add Kiniro Mosaic and GochiUsa as well. Sketchbook Full Colors is also great.
>>159917784
Tamayura and Amanchu as well.
>>159917304
Really good and comfy, the main cast works really well together.
>>159917784
Kiniro is the trashiest of them, still enjoyable. Same with Gochiusa. Hidamari is way better than both of those.
>>159917784
KinMosa and GochiUsa are bottom of the barrel, trash-tier SoL; shallow dogshit which focus way too strongly on being cute.
>>159917304
A show about nothing.
>>159917996
What would you consider to be on top, then?
>>159918033
No (You)s for you
>>159917996
This guy gets it.
>>159918033
Aria is the Kramer of Aria.
>>159917304
Want to read, but don't have time.
>>159917851
Tamayura was good, but the animation and characters were a bit lacking. Amanchu is top tier.
>>159917734
Sure, K-ON is not iyashikei, but it is the most well-executed SoL anime by a good margin. It's fucking flawless.
>>159918298
You just had time to post on /a/.
>>159918481
Digi, plz
>>159918481
It's not flawless. It's pretty great though. A lot of the jokes were borrowed from other 4koma manga and comedy shows. The lighting was oversaturated in several parts too. I also didn't think the drama with Azusa needed as much focus as it got.
It's still top-notch, but flawless is a pretty big stretch.
Pinaccle of iyashikei:
>ARIA
>YKK
God tier:
>K-ON
>NNB
>Yama no Susume
High tier:
>Gochiusa
>Urara Meirochou
>Hidamari Sketch
>New Game
>Yuyushiki
>TYO's Yuru Yuri
>Aiura
>Hyakko
>Sketchbook
Mid tier:
>Dogakobo's Yuru Yuri
>KinMoza
>Sansha Sanyou
>Sakura Trick
>Hanayamata
>Ichigo Mashimaro
>Lucky Star
>Tamayura
>Azumanga Daioh
Low tier:
>Hinako Note
>Anne Happy
>A-Channel
>Kanamemo
>Minami-ke
>>159918747
Upgrade Anne Happy one rank and downgrade Gochiusa one, it really has nothing above Kinmoza.
And Hanayamata had too much drama to be anything but low tier, the only thing it got is the yaya meme.
>>159918747
You have terrible taste. Half of this shit isn't even iyashikei. It's all just CGDCT. Tanaka-kun, Mushishi and Natsume are actually iyashikei, yet not listed.
Azumanga Daioh is fucking amazing.
Go back to ribbit.
>>159918747
Forgot Acchi Kocchi.
>>159918747
>GochiUsa, Urara and Hanayamata that high
>Ichigo and Lucky Star that low
You are the cancer that is killing /a/.
>>159919061
Urara is okay there, and Lucky Star didn't age well, only the OVA, maybe.
>>159918747
Do you even know what iyashikei means? Most of these shows aren't even close.
>>159919109
Urara is terrible.
The jokes were terrible and old, the girls were boooring.
The "plot" was so half assed and pointless it only detracted from an already weak series. On top of the "fuck you read the manga ending."
The art was okay I guess.
>>159919246
Kon and Chiya are actually interesting, and it's just an adaptation, they adapted everything the manga covered until that point, it's foolish to expect an anime original ending. The plot is good, it's just that isn't over yet, impossible with just one season.
>>159919109
Lucky Star is great if you actually like anime.
Casuals can't into the references and animation quality. It's the perfect pleb filter, because even KyoAni fanboys don't always like it.
>>159917996
GochiUsa is the best SOL out of any of them. Funny on top of the SOL.
>>159917304
my personal GOAT. It holds a special place in my heart and made me a better person. I still tear up sometimes when I hear Lumis Eterne.
>>159919349
The plot isn't good in any way.
>Feral kid grows up without parent
>Joins mysterious tiered organization to find parent
>Gains bullshit powers
>Starts gaying up to prodigious lonely kid
>Arbitrarily becomes stronger than everyone else
>Finds out parent is secretly at the top of mysterious tiered organization
It's literally a rehash of HunterxHunter in shitty moe form. It has no implications other than serving as a gimmick to make it seem different from other CGDCT shows.
Kon and Chiya are vapid and one-dimensional yuri bait.
>>159919387
You're a fucking moron.
OFFICIAL AND OBJECTIVE SLICE OF LIFE ANIMU POWER RANKINGS
1a. ARIA
1b. Non Non Biyori
3. K-ON
4. Azumanga Daioh
5. Hidamari Sketch
6. Sketchbook: Full Color's
7. Nichijou
8. Shirobako
9. Miss Kobayashi's Maid Dragon
10. Minami-ke
11. Yuyushiki
12. Himouto! Umaru-chan
13. GJ-Bu
14. Tamayura
15. Flying Witch
16. Ichigo Mashimaro
17. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou OVAs
18. Yama no Susume
19. Kamichu!
20. Working
...
9001. Dragon Ball Z
Don't bother me about this. I'm an official, certified /a/ Arbiter of Taste; it even says so in my name field.
>>159919666
Oh shit. Would you look at that.
Aria is like Bromazepam: The Anime
I usually watch anime in the evening and fall asleep during it if it isn't action-packed
Not that that's a bad thing
probably the best escapist SoL series but feels a bit too disneyland fake at times
>>159919666
half of those are good and half are complete garbage
>>159919810
>half are complete garbage
But he's an official, certified arbiter of taste, anon.
>>159919849
if you think kyoani made anything good after lucky star you're the certified arbiter of shit taste
>>159919666
>Umaru and Maid Dragon above Ichigo Mashimaro and YKK
Your taste is shit, Satan.
>>159917734
Aria is the only one of those three which is not pure moeshit.
>>159919501
Every single plot in existence could be simplified the same way, no matter how complex it actually is. Chiya didn't even gain any powers, she was already born with them, and she doesn't know her mom is the Rank 1 yet.
Kon and Chiya are a lot more than just "bait", they developed each other during the whole season, at the start Kon was a "by the book" serious girl that was pushing herself to be perfect, remember that bullshit about not being able to get married anymore that she had at the start when Chiya touched her? How she dropped it completely and how she learned to innovate her divination methods as the show progressed and she interacted more with Chiya to the point she didn't mind physical contact with her anymore and even became comfortable with it, shows how much she changed, by the end she isn't the same character she was in the first episode at all.
I can count with one hand the number of CGDCT shows that have characters that go through this.
And I haven't even started about how Chiya did something that "Kon would do" to beat the kitsune in episode 6, and how Kon was the one who divined Kurou for Chiya in the first place.
>>159919944
Dragon Maid isn't even healing. It's just SoL comedy.
>>159919967
>moeshit
>>159919879
Lucky Star was fucking terrible. Reference humor is the lowest form of humor; below fart jokes and nutshots.
>>159919061
lucky star is the cancer that is killing anime
>>159919358
>Casuals can't into the references
SZS did it better you filthy casual faggot
>>159918747
>azumanga daioh
>mid-tier
reddit is just 2 blocks away
>>159918953
Mushishi is not iyashikei. There is nothing healing about Mushishi.
>>159919944
Maid Dragon = AOTY
>>159920236
>calming as fuck
>beautiful OST
>the philosophy soothes the soul
>>159920236
>He didn't learn anything after watching mushishi
>>159920318
Did you watch it with your brain off? Mushishi is from first to last episode about human tragedies. Virtually every episode is full of suffering and there are sometimes even bad endings (including the characters dying, disappearing forever, losing their loved ones and so on). How is this "healing"? It's more melancholic than calming.
Don't mind me, just dumping~
>>159920429
>>159920489
>>159920526
>>159920399
Woah senpai, you didn't understand Mushishi at all. It's about acceptance and the beauty of life.
>>159920551
it's my fav anime and manga
>>159920586
>>159920620
>>159920645
>>159920670
>>159920694
>>159920716
>>159920558
Nonsense. This is such a very simplistic understanding of various themes from manga/anime.
How is an episode about a guy whose dreams killed his whole village including family about acceptance and the beauty of life?
>>159920716
Embarrassing Aria spams aren't allowed
>>159920738
>>159920777
>>159920745
(。>﹏<。)
>>159920741
It's the bigger picture. You experience the good and the bad and accept it all. It's basic shinto philosophy. Balance, harmony, you don't blame the bug for killing your crops and feel hatred towards it- that's just what it does, that's life.
>>159920804
I actually didn't know avvenire existed until two years later. It was a refreshing experience.
>>159920842
>>159920872
>>159918747
seriously I just want another series with a similar atmosphere to YKK .fuck
>>159920906
>>159920938
last one
>>159920815
>it's the bigger picture
Vague nonsense. You are making this anime sound more simple and primitive than it really is.
>Balance, harmony, you don't blame the bug for killing your crops and feel hatred towards it- that's just what it does, that's life.
True, but that doesn't mean it's a healing feel-good anime. It's meditative. It makes you think about life, acceptance of misfortune, the role of sadness in our lives.
Calling it comfy or iyashikei is, frankly, insulting.
>>159917304
One of, if not the best SoL of all time, and one of the few things that majority of /a/ agrees on.
>>159920429Slut
>>159920620Autistic slut
>>159920985
I think a better term would be mono no aware. Same with YKK.
>>159920985
I never called it iyashikei, but the atmosphere is thicker than Aria and it certainly retains Shinto values which are inherently "healing". We hurt, but we also feel joy. Mushishi is not a sad nor comfy show.
>>159921090
DELET
>>159921186
Mushishi is often very sad.
>>159921186
Or rather, that's not what it's all about.
>>159920620
Why does Alice remind me exactly of Azusa?
Alice is my daughteru
Any relaxed friends reading this apocalyptic comfy manga ?
>>159920172
fuckyou.
>>159921342
Name pls? Hoping to become a relaxed friend
>>159920985
If anything you seem to be the one devaluing the series by stating it's a "sad show". Shintoism is a beautiful and rich religious culture. The mono no aware found in Mushishi is extremely prevalent. Value the earth and others.
>>159921412
girls last tour. it's like Blame but moe. Reminds me of YKK.
>>159917304
a masterpiece
>>159921508
Sounds right up my alley. Thank you friend
>>159920593
why the audience should care about popularity?
NNB is shit.
>>159918747
>Azumanga Daioh that low
>Being below Lucky Star
>Not in god tier or pinnacle
>implying it's even iyashikei and not just a comedy with healing elements
>Yotsuba is not even on the list and it's a definite iyashikei and a top tier one at that
Come on, anon.
>>159920912
Everything else that Ashinano writes.
>>159917734
I unironically agree. Besides the backgrounds, soundtrack, the big brother guy who never speaks, and the second portion of season 2, episode 4, Non Non Biyori is obnoxious and flaccid.
>>159917304
>tfw you're so in deep that the comfy elements of action or adventure shows like Black Lagoon, Cowboy Bebop, Champloo, and Lupin tend to be the most appealing parts
>>159917630
Why does everyone rate NNB so highly? Its character chemistry isn't that interesting. Renge saves it from being boring.
>>159922870
Renge is the reason you watch
Renge is our comfy god
>>159922870
I literally have no idea, it's nowhere near being close to the level of YKK in terms of iyashikei.
>>159923117
Meanwhile, most of these shows have generally good/fantastic casts.
>>159922870
I don't get it, it's even below the shows that are generally okay but don't grip me emotionally like A-Channel, Kiniro Mosaic, and GochiUsa.
>>159923205
I hear A-channel is dogshit. Is it true?
>>159918747
>iyashikei
>K-ON
>>159920172
I finished the first season some time ago and just learned there's a fuck ton of sequels. Is it basically more of the same? I liked the first season, but it'll probably get old if I have to watch 20+ more episodes of it.
I'm surprised Natsume's Book Of Friends never gets discussed in these threads. It's comfy as hell
>>159923296
No. It made me smile pretty often, had charming art, an enjoyable cast, and one of my personal favorite supporting characters. It just doesn't go out of its way to "stand out" much from other shows. It doesn't have any wacky gimmicks, just some friends fucking around.
>>159923407
If you didn't love the first season you're not going to love the rest. It's a show about sentimentality and the values of mono no aware- finding beauty in the mundane and that which is impermanent. The show goes way beyond just "hey this is comfy". It's a genuine experience, the first season alone made me cry to a happy scene, and I haven't cried before in my 1000 long catalog of series seen.
>>159923480
Did you cry with Tsuki ga Kirei? That show made me cry like a baby.
>>159923407
Its second season is more geared towards dealing with its trippy setting and season three is more geared towards being a send-off for the cast with a lot of emotional moments. Each season feels a little different in subtle ways.
>>159923524
I found Tsuki ga Kirei to be an okay romance, pretty genuine young love story. But no only Aria has made me cry so far.
>>159917304
nice desu ne
I went to Venice and it was nice at certain spots. Really blew my mind for bit, then I hit the tourist destinations and it was shit.
Compared to my other favorite anime of all time, where there is pretty much only a single thing I dislike about them, with ARIA I can pinpoint a lot of stuff I don't like about it.
Like the stupid catchphrases and comedy faces, which often ruin a emotional scene, president aria's annoying voice, aika treating akari like shes beneath her, alice being a cunt to poor athena.
But the phenomenal, and as far as I am concerned the best soundtrack period, the emotional scenes and the setting completely make up for it.
>>159923592
Why didn't you like Aria's voice? He's adorable. Punya
>>159917304
It's my second favorite animebehind K-ON!.
>>159923592
You can't say that and then not mention your favorite.
>>159923592
Jeez, if you want a drama watch real drama then.
>>159923638
Would have been better if he would make normal cat noises like Hime.
>>159923655Rose of Versailles
>>159923669
Never said I wanted drama but you can't deny that scenes like Akari showing the video to the grave, seeing aqua getting water for the first time, alice graduation etc. are where the series best. Good that they are sprinkled in between not every episode.
>>159923417
Does each season feel the same? What is the format like?
>>159924248
It's pretty much about Natsume opening up and meeting new people and Yokai while helping them out or getting out of a situation himself. Some seasons are more yokai focused, some are about the exorcists and noble families, and my favorites are when they center around Natsume and his family. 6 seasons, some are better than others, but they all carry the same theme of opening up, growth, family, and friendship. It's not presented too cheesy either. I'll be honest sometimes the human friends can seem a bit stilted or cardboard at the beginning but they get better later on.
>>159924248
I should add that it's episodic, so if you didn't pay attention and just marathoned through you wouldn't be able to tell what season you're on. It's a continuous story with some consequence but it hops around in seasons to tackle different angles. It might even leave you hanging on some stuff. And has a lot of fluffy moments so don't worry.
I'd probably say it's like top 15 material
>>159924727
I see. It sounds interesting. Has it ended or is there still more to the source material?
>>159920593
Move animation and popularity a notch or two down and I'd agree.
>>159924821
More left to be adapted. I'm not sure if the manga is finished but the more serious moments could definitely be another few seasons to handle unless rushed. I found it surprisingly easy to marathon after season 2.
>>159924816
I'm a big fan of episodic stuff, with Lupin being my third favorite show.I'm >>159923639, by the way.
>>159924862
I'd say Natsume is much more Mushishi than Aria, but way lighter
We all agree that Alice is the cutest and all-around best Aria, right?
>>159921254
>younger than the rest of the main cast
>joins late
>far more talented than the rest
>best girl
>>159922870
It's not about character chemistry, it's about building an atmosphere that sucks you in and lets you exist in a better place for twenty minutes, just like Aria.
>Alice gets a double promotion
I cri everytime
>>159925675
She's the cutest and has probably my favorite voice in anime but Aika's my favorite overall, despite me finding Akari the most relatable. Fuck, I love this cast.
>>159917304
Honestly I didn't find it as comfy as advertised.
>>159926990
How did you feel about it overall? Did anything else about it appeal to you, like its comedy, drama, or world-building?
>>159926622
That blew me away. It was a weirdly hype moment for a show like this.
>>159917304
Best worldbuilding, best soundtrack, best characters. Fuck I love this anime.
What's your favorite episode /a/?
>>159927964
>That Undeliverable Letter
>Looking For That Treasure
>The Light From That Nightshine Chime
>Parting With That Gondola
>Arietta OVA
>All of Origination
>>159923638
No, he was fucking horrible.
>>159926622
You and me both. That and the end of origination slayed me.
>>159927964
My favorite episode is the treasure-hunting one. It was fucking magical.
Watch out for Athena
The public enemy of Neo-Venezia #1
She is the woman responsible for...
Messing up Alice's autism games
Becoming prima before Akira
Toying with Alice's emotions
Being a lazy cunt
Lying about her having amnesia
Messing with President Aria
Playing with garbage to mess with President Aria
Being in Orange Planet
Being black
Not showing up to swim with her friends and kouhai on the island
Giving unallowed double promotion to Alice
Forcing Alice to sing
Being rude to Aika when her hair caught fire
Quitting undine to become an opera slut
Taking 2 seasons to reconcile her feelings with Alice
Being one of the 3 Great Faeries just because she could sing
Asking Alicia for marshmallows in her cocoa
Forcibly taking President Maa from where Alice hid him
Making Alice cry
Taking Alice's loneliness for granted
Blackmailing Hal Films into skipping the Marriage of the Sea chapter
The making of Avveniere
Making both of her seiyuus die
Causing the slow scanlation of Amanchuu
Making DeadFish only batches available
Encouraging /u/ shitposting in Aria threads
Her ultimate goal is to kill Aria.
However, you can stop her. Spread this list!
>it's a cait sith episode
>>159917304
I will never get over Alicia marrying someone who was never even introduced and leaving Akari alone.
aria
more like
snoria
that president cat thing ruined any chance Aria had at being comfy or enjoyable
it was just so, unbearably, awful
>>159929427
Yeah, he really hurt the show. It was actually pretty sad.
>>159927964
Okey I realise how this sounds but the last episode of the new OVA The Avvenire, I love how it binds everything together and the last scene when they are having a dinner and you hear Athena sing one last time destroyed me.
>>159931522
The blank stares when they talk about how Athena can't be with them hurt.
>>159918953
>>159920172
>>159922519
Take of your nostalgia goggles, while AD is a pioneering show it's not really that good by today's standards.
>>159917304
Anime is pretty dull but I loved the manga. Honestly, I feel the themes of Aria are better read than watched.
>>159917304
Animation 8.5/10
Natural 9/10
Origination 10/10
Avvenire 9/10
>>159933629
What about Arietta?
Also the only bad thing about Avvenire was that there wasn't more of it.
>>159927964
Bit of a cop-out answer but all of Origination is perfect.
>>159932922
The manga is still great though.
>>159918747
>Minami-ke
>Low tier
Bitch, it's mid tier.
Well if we're going by soothing and heartwarming, I'd but Natsume Yuujinchou in god tier even though it's not really SOL
>>159933814
I once tried reading it, it was so boring. And the art so fucking bland.
I also couldn't get into Yotsuba, I guess I just don't like the author.
>high tier
Non Non Biyori
Aria
So Ra No Wo To
Mikakunin de Shinkoukei
Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka?
>good tier
Lucky Star
Yuyushiki
Bakuon
Anne Happy
Flying Witch
Urara Meirochou
>mid tier
K-On!
Yuru Yuri
Sakura Trick
Sansha Sanyou
New Game
Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon
Gabriel DropOut
>low tier
Kiniro Mosaic
Joshiraku
Hanayamata
Koufuku Graffiti
Amanchu!
Hinako Note
>shit tier
Kuma Miko
Tamako Market
Jinsei
Long Riders
Stella no Mahou
Completely subjective opinion.
>God tier:
K-On!
Tamako Market
Shirokuma Cafe
>Very high tier:
Lucky Star
Tamayura
Azumanga Daioh
Wakaba Girl
Non Non Biyori
Hidamari x365
Aria manga
Aiura (could have been God tier if it was longer)
>High tier:
Flying Witch
Anne Happy
A-Channel
Kiniro Mosaic
Other Hidamari seasons
Mikakunin
GabDrop
>Good tier:
New Game!
Yuru Yuri
Yuyushiki
Gochuumon
Urara Meirochou
Love Lab
Re-Kan! (high tier material but shitty quality brings it down)
Bakuon!!
>Meh tier:
Aria's adaptation
Hanayamata
Amanchu
Ichigo Mashimaro
Sansha Sanyou
Minami-ke
Yama no Susume
>Shit tier:
Hinako Note
>>159934949
>>God tier:
>Tamako Market
Your taste is shit tier.
why was the new diving anime so shit compared to Aria anyways?
>>159935226
Market is underrated desu
One of the most heartwarming shows I have ever watched. It doesn't have the comedic nature of K-On! but makes up for it with its heartwarming moments.
>>159920593
>having 'popularity' (whatever shit that means) instead of characters
Why?
>>159932922
It's still the funniest in the genre. Maybe don't have such shit taste.
The animation isn't great, it's as good as Aria's though.
>>159935280
It was better than Aria. The visuals were amazing.
>>159935517
I love happy Japanese punk so I have to agree.
Without going the lazy/unfunny route and saying autism, could someone explain Athena to me and what her deal was? She was the only confusing element in the show.
>>159939465
She could sense her impending death and it drove her crazy.
>>159923296
No, it wasn't.
What is the best Season of Aria?
>>159939704
3 is the best but only on the strength of the ones before it.
>>159939704
I'd say the second. It felt perfect whereas season one felt less lively and season three felt less magical, not in terms of the actual magical elements, but in things like Akari being focused on exploring and loving situations on a moment to moment basis due to how forward-thinking it all was.
>>159933059
After posting this, I was thinking about the differences between the manga and the anime, and why I prefer one over the other.
Honestly, I think the real substance of Aria is in the small ideas that are conveyed through each chapter, like how the very first one tells you to slow down and take a look around you, or treat horoscopes as goals rather than predictions. You could say that these messages are in the anime too, but I'd argue that these messages are muddled by the more atmospheric approach in the anime. Manga Aria is like a philosophical handbook to enjoying small things in life. It offers different perspectives for you to think about, while the anime feels like a "sit and don't think about anything for awhile" kind of anime due to the distinct OST, much slower pacing, and honestly very mediocre voice acting that distract from the core message of the chapter.
>>159928937
>>159939704
Animation. It would be Natural if it weren't for the supernatural episodes though.
>tfw people didn't like the cats
I liked the cats.
ARA ARA
>>159917304
Oh cool an Aria thr-
>>159917630
>>159941177
I'm fine with Hime and Maa. President Aria just bothers me occasionally and his episode from the Animation is the only episode that I didn't like much. I found tbe cats from Sketchbook to be more annoying overall, to be honest.
>>159941250
ARA ARA KINSHI
>>159928937
What the hahi did you just hohe about me, you little pair? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in Himeya's undine training regimens, and I’ve been involved in numerous tour guides in Neo-Venezia, and I have over 300 confirmed regular costumers. I am trained in oar control and I’m the top sculler in the entire gondolier's association. You are nothing to me but just another tourist. I will guide you around with warmth the likes of which has never been seen before on Aqua, mark my kinshi words. You think you can get away with saying that dekkai serifu to me over the Internet? Think again, double. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of primas across the Adriatic sea and your hand is being taken right now so you better be prepared to step into the gondola, amateur. The gondola that opens up the pathetic little thing you call your heart. You’re dekkai guided, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can row you around through over seven hundred routes, and that’s just with my memory. Not only am I extensively trained in ungloved rowing, but I have access to the entire tour routes of the Neo-Venezian gondolier's association and I will use it to its full extent to cleanse your hahi soul off the face of the continent, you little pair. If only you could have known what comfy experience your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your gondola. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you caitsithdamn baka. I will shit the wonders of Neo-Venezia all over you and you will drown in it. You’re dekkai healed, kiddo.
>>159941366
I liked President Aria.
>>159941366
His epsiode was what made me love him.
Really was one of the better ones in Animation.
>there are people who still hate President Aria after that one episode about his backstory with Grandma
>>159929150
The "romance" aspect was handled pretty weirdly in general but it was worth it for this chapter. Flustered Aika is so fucking adorable.
>>159942286
Aika's fucking cute in general. Anyone willing to dump a little of their Aika folder?
>>159942286
>The "romance" aspect was handled pretty weirdly in general
The only """weird""" romance was Alice's because it felt forced. Those for the other 2 were completely natural and well-written.
>>159942754
Alice didn't have any romance.
>>159942862
Reread the manga.
>>159943007
I didn't read the manga but now I don't want to.
>>159943035
Thanks for talking out of your ass, /u/fag.
>>159943035
How do people like you feel about having been created by straight sex? Is it like when idiots claim to have white guilt?
Interesting, beautiful world.
Soothing music.
Dull, flat characters.
Unfunny, humor sometimes annoying.
Akari's office calendar-tier observations are a huge waste of time
I feel like these are the cornerstones of the genre though.
>>159943227
It's fine to dislike the characters but calling them flat is incorrect.
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>>159943198
Do they have any romantic implications in the manga?
Euphoria > Spirale > Arietta OP > Undine
S2ED1 > S3ED > S1ED > S2ED2
>>159943736
>Arietta OP
>>159942556
I don't have much sadly.
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>>159943777
I'm shit at remembering Japanese song titles, which is why I didn't put the ED names.
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>>159944174
Fuck I actually have more than I thought.
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>>159944348
End of Aika hijack
Hop on, loser. We're going shopping.
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>>159944423
Thanks. She's my favorite Aria character and has such a beautiful design but my Aika folder is tiny and the archives are too unreliable to get many screencaps or drawings of her.
>>159928937
>Forcing Alice to sing
And what an amazing song we got
Is there anything else to the manga other than Aqua and Aria? 67 chapters seems rather short.
>>159944645
Don't mention it, I really wish she got more fanart too.
>>159944677
This proves Alice-chan is the best character
Have some official art my friend
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>>159944898
Man I'd love to own these books
>>159944595
I'd rather hop in the Alice mobile.
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>>159944939
Are these from Undine Monthly? There was a torrent on nyaa but it was dead as fuck.
>>159945124
No Kozue Amano Illustration Works 1-3
>>159945124
>stella0015.jpg
I haven't finished Aria. I started watching The Animation a couple of years ago. Every so often I feel like watching another episode so I do. I'm almost done The Natural. I'm in no hurry to finish because this show is really special and not something that I want to rush.
>>159945030
>autism mobile
>240+ posts aria thread
>>159945241
Last one
I'm very grateful for all of the Aikaposting. Would anyone be willing to upload any art books to MEGA?
>>159920236
It's a different kind, it definitely gives the same contemplative, vaguely cerebral calming feeling that the best episodes of Aria do. It's that kind of healing. Some people will say things like Kinmoza aren't iyashikei because they are comedies, but I think iyashikei is just a term for the sensation being evoked (calm, relaxation, restfulness) which you can get in a lot of shows. So Kinmoza is a healing anime the same way Fairy Tail is a comedy anime. Genres are broad enough to overlap and inclusive enough to span different types, especially the healing genre. But that's just my two cents.
>>159918033
ara ara
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>>159945285
I got them of BakaBT so the torrent will probanly still be active
>>159937407
Imagine if the same team animated Aria.
>>159935280
They're actually the same show with the same characters.
>>159917734
ARIA is the only one set in the future where much of earth has been turned into uninhabitable wasteland, the setting being in space on another planet, and where mutant cats are made presidents of companies.
The other two are both somewhat realistic SOL settings about gangs of young girls enjoying life.
>>159945253
I like to assist in getting shows such as this, Sketchbook, and Haibane Renmei to have longer threads whenever I find them and it feels appropriate. They tend to be really comfy and have decent conversation.
>there'll probably never be a long thread for Koufuku Graffiti
>tfw walnut bread machine broke
>>159945609
>gangs of young girls
There needs to be some more of this in anime, like those 70s sukeban films.
>>159917304
Why do they all dress up as Sailor nuns?
>>159945733
Because the artist seems to like hips and butts.
>>159945285
check e-hentai under non-h cat.
Has anyone played the games?
I think the theme for the second is one of the best in the series.
>tfw marriage of the sea will never be animated
that was one of my fav chapters
>>159946179
I liked the fighting game
>>159945609
>much of earth has been turned into uninhabitable wasteland
Source? I thought it was just Venice and a few other coastal cities drowning.
>>159946179
What are the games like?
>>159945200
This. I don't want to finish it because then I won't have anything as comfy to escape from real world.
>>159946321
>he doesn't rewatch his favorite shows once a month
>>159946316
A VN where you play as some guy and hang out with the Arias for a while. An
>>159917304
I spent about a month or so watching Animation and Natural for the first time, not long before Arietta came out, just an episode or two before bed each night. It will always be my favourite after that.
I went to Venice last year and spent days wandering around the city listening to the OST. It gets a bad rep, but going in the winter and getting lucky with weather, it was great.
No July like a Texan July.
Aria almost exclusively works because the cat and Akari are such wonderful characters.
Everything else is just pulled together around them.
the origination is absolute god tier anime.
>tfw the Amanchu! anime is shit on fairly often despite being beautiful and fun
>>159948158
Shit on only by anime-only faggots.
>>159948158
The setting just isn't as strong, and it doesn't stand out like I assume Aria did a decade ago.
>>159945617
Thank you anon
>>159949447
You're welcome, I guess. No one I know cares about these kinds of shows and /a/, despite its many faults, is the only anime community on the internet that I have any respect for so these threads hold a special place in my heart.
>>159944677
There was this one chapter Amano released years later, but the final Avvenire OVA covers it. If you've seen/read it, yeah, that's it.
Move on to Amanchu if you want more, but it's just not the same.
>>159932922
What nostalgia? Its fucking funnier than most anime series and its written by Azuma of all people
>>159948256
Like Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo for example, Aria and Amanchu are definitely similar but still different enough that comparing them seems pointless snd unfair.
>>159932922
I only watched it last year and it was great. It was beloved back then and it's still fantastic now. Its specific way of mixing comedy and heartwarming scenes and arcs still holds up today and has its place, even next to today's greats. The only thing that has aged about it is its resolution.
>>159948158
No Akari.
No Alice.
No Aika.
The main characters just aren't nearly as strong.
Akari can carry an entire episode by being nice and happy on her own.
Futaba and Hikari just don't compare, they're not as exciting and the format is also very different.
Aria is about seeing things, essentially meeting characters, seeing Space Venice and all that.
Amanchu is far more mundane, which is why it doesn't work as well. But also why you shouldn't really compare the two. It's not really fair.
>>159951079
Not being the best doesn't make something bad. Amanchu still works just fine on its own terms. I feel like it's often underappreciated because people think it lives in Aria's shadow but it only does so to them because it being made by Amano makes them think that they're comparable. That mundanity that you brought up still has its appeal and I wish people took it for what it is.
>>159946298
I can't remember where, but Akari specifically says that people on man-home can no longer swim in the waters there.
>>159923296
the people that call it dogshit are the people that call NNB dogshit
probably shouldn't listen to them
>>159952063
They were some anons in a yuyushiki general
>>159948256
>ywn see Aika forbidding Dotty's embarrassing thoughts
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>>159946298
I also recall her saying something about how playing in the soil is dangerous for kids as well as the sky no longer being blue.
>>159941565
>tfw that picture made me realise that Aika is chinese
fuck. this should've been obvious
>>159952484
>is Chinese
>has a German surname
What did Amano mean by this?
>>159922241
Where do you think you are.png
>>159947317
I don't know about the cat but yeah, Akari is the foundation of the whole series. If her character were not as perfect as she is, Aria wouldn't work half as well as it does.
Every single Amano girl with short hair is insanely attractive. Younger Akira busted my balls and when Aika cut her hair, it was mind-shattering.
>>159953363
Same I'd totally suck young Akira's cock
>>159946179
I really like the OP from the second game
>>159953407I wish there were more lewds of Akira, especially like that.
>>159953407
I'd suck all of the character's cocks in the gender-swapped episode.I'd also plow femWoody and femAkatsuki.
>>159917304
Amanchu is better.
>>159954452
I was more thinking of futa cocks but congrats on coming out of the closet anon.
>>159919666
This is accurate.
>>159954549
If it was, Kamichu! would be much higher and Umaru, Maidragon, and NNB would be much lower.
>>159950040
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>>159937304
In a cast of six it has one character sho is actually funny, two characters who are actually cute, two characters who are utterly annoying, and one character who's literally nothing.
The teacher is utterly annoying as well, that's not such a good overall ratio of good vs bad characters.
>>159954533
Futa's still gay, though.
>>159956700
Let's not go into this argument here.
>>159922535
>Kotonoba Drive done already
Holy fuck I was so disappointed, why the fuck did you remind me. KD was setting up to be YKK 2.0, a god tier iyashikei that span over several years maybe over a decade.
>Ashinano is probably too old for another years-long masterpiece at this point
>>159945994
fuck, the galleries don't have available torrents and it would be a pain in the ass having to download each image per time
>>159946533
I went to Venice during winter too and thought it was amazing, the tourist areas were still crammed with people though so I can't imagine it during summer. But if you explore around the other places of the island it's very quiet and barely any people around at all.
>>159959487
>alpha
https://my.mixtape.moe/vtctcc.zip
>>159957613
moe, gonna die
>>159960011
thank you so much anon, could you upload the rest, although I already have ARIA Premium Poster Book 3
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>>159960392
>stella
https://my.mixtape.moe/jbtytm.001
https://my.mixtape.moe/frprbr.002
These should have the same filename, with extensions .zip.001 and .zip.002 respectively
>>159960423
>cielo
https://my.mixtape.moe/cqwelh.zip
>>159960423
>https://my.mixtape.moe/frprbr.002
This one downloads it with .002 as its file type.
>>159927964
Rather than favorite episodes it would be easier to decide which ones to remove
>8 "That Melancholy President / That Cool Hero
>1 "That Encounter At The Carnival"
>7 "To The Kingdom Of Cats"
>20 "That Shadowless Invitation"
>21 "That Night Of the Galaxy Express"
>22 "That Mysterious World / That Guardian Of Aqua"
>>159918747
>azumanga daioh
>mid tier
>it's a cait sith episode
>it's an aria shachou episode
guaranteed 0/10
I'm rather fond of the Cait Sith episodes. I've always interpreted them as being metaphors for some element of Aqua that Akari loves or doesn't understand, such as the first episode of the Natural dealing with her love of festivals and her curiosity about who's in festival outfits, the ghost one being about her fascination about ghost stories, and the cat cafe one being about her encountering places and then being unable to find it again, like the "best burger in New York" episode from How I Met Your Mother.
>>159961980
I like the mystic atmosphere those episodes give to the show. How could you not love Akari's and Aria shachou's dance while following Cait Sith?
>>159962257
So do I. I love that scene.
>>159918747
>k-on
>iyashikei
Why do people even think it's good? Faggots should rewatch it and realise just how iritating the characters are.
Season 2 was by far my favorite. The first was good but was almost too slow. Didnt care too much for the third enough to ever finish honestly.
>>159961713
Gotta agree withgrumpy jiisanin that the cat episodes are pretty bad that's why the second season is my least favorite.
>>159962431
I rewatch it multiple times a year. I love the characters and I love it for the extents it goes to make them endearing. There's a lot to their characterization and relationships.
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>>159924861
The anime has covered about 18 volumes of content, there's 21 volumes out in Japan IIRC but the manga has only been bimonthly for the last few years so it only adds a volume a year now.
>>159935517
Market sucked but love story made watching it worthwhile
>>159957613
Aika-chan is cute, but her design was ruined by that horrid colour scheme.
>>159962850
>Aika-chan
*ai
Excuse my autism.
>>159962850
Ai was a mistake.
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>>159962876
I disagree. I think she looks fine.
>>159962935
I've seen people say this a lot. Why do you feel that way?
>putting k-on in the list
Summer
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>>159962286
>metaphor
Anon, that girl has a brain tumor.
>>159963071
Nah. This meme of claiming that characters that don't behave "normally" has brain problems needs to die. It's lazy and I hate it.
>an Aria thread without Aria manga dump
What is this?
>>159959745
Even the tourist areas weren't that bad when I was there. Had St. Marks square almost to myself when I went down first thing in the morning. But yeah, wandering off the main routes and going out to the other islands too was particularly nice and relaxing.
>>159917304
Rainbow > rest.
Max comfy.
>>159943302
How is it incorrect? Aika I can give you, Alice occasionally, but everyone else is very one dimensional. Regardless of technicalities, the characters are too much the same too much of the time.
>>159923296
Nothing spectacular, but definitely not dogshit.
>>159917304
Super comfy, but it feels too idealistic to the point of making suspension of disbelief difficult in parts. I feel like it could have benefited from a more balanced setting.
Compare it to Non Non Biyori, for example: it nails its portrayal of growing up in a small rural community, focusing on the comfy side but also giving the inconveniences and problems just enough spotlight to make it feel somewhat grounded in reality.
>another ARIA thread nearly ruined because of the autists who need to showcase their tastes and put shows into fucking tier-lists
What a shame.
>>159961335
Delet this
Are cait sith and president Aria the ultimate pleb filter?
>>159966859
yeah, you're a pleb if you enjoy their episodes
>>159967074
Cat sith is best cat
>>159967176
No, Maa is.
It's funny how the quality of the cats is the exact opposite of the quality of the girls.
Maa > Hime > Aria
Akari > Aika > Alice
>>159967176
Cait Sith is only good in the Galaxy Express episode. I was mad that he showed up in Avvenire.
>>159968808
maa-shachou is the only reason aria-shachou should even be allowed in the showMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>159965480
Nothing really happens in Mars Venice. That isn't really a bad thing?
There is plenty of struggle, but you don't really perceive it as such when you look at it, because Akari is an incredibly infectious character. This "idealism" is just the way Akari herself sees the world, looking for the wonder and magic in all the little things, instead of being a cynical asshole.
You even have Aika serving as the clear counterpoint to Akari, she actively trying to stifle Akari's enthusiasm when she gets lost in the moment. This serves the purpose to remind the viewer that despite everything, Neo Venezia isn't all roses and sunshine, despite appearing as such.