Aria the Animation Season 1
by Right Stuf
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Actor: AriaDirector: Right Stuf
Brand: Widowmaker Filmsllc
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 325 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: RIGHT STUF
Movie Reviews of Aria the Animation Season 1
Movie Review: Bizarro Amazon Review
Summary: 5 Stars
I agree wholeheartedly with Nat. The Amazon reviewer seems very confused and inept. This is clearly one of the most beautifully plotted and executed anime series ever to come out of Japan. The American dubbing also does it full service. Apparently the reviewer is looking for another gundam or tenchi derivative, which this is most certainly not. Instead it is a gorgeous attempt to portray an idyllic lifestyle. One can argue, as the Amazon reviewer (Solomon) does at least implicitly, that Aria the Anime is not somehow not "real". Hello! What anime is?? Where has this reviewer been the past several years. (Hence, Nat's comment -- 'is it the one other anime he's seen?' now appears very appropriate.) Given that the Amazon reviewer is looking for "reality" in Japanese Anime, one has to, like Nat, wonder how much anime this fellow has actually really watched.
I actually am an older, and fairly sophisticated, viewer; and, contrary to the reviewers (unsupported) claims, I was anything but bored. Instead, I found myself increasingly entranced with the complex 'slice-of-life' (as Nat aptly puts it) Aria draws one into. In regard to classification, the reviewer again gets it wrong. The proof of the pudding so to speak is in how outlets classify anime. I went to several shoujo listings, like that at Anime-planet, and none of them appear list Aria as a shoujo release. Therefore, one inescapably concludes that the reviewer is both inept and mistaken in this also. I think the bottom line is that this Amazon reviewer came into the review process with preconceived notions of what this anime release was, or should be. But, because was not at all what he had envisioned, it led to some fairly miscued attempts to somehow pigeon-hole it with unrelated anime sub-classes. I am not sure how Amazon selects its reviewers, but this is definitely a case of a square peg in a round hole.
Summary of Aria the Animation Season 1
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