| Many of those are clear directional choices. I think it is fine that Alice's childish way to force herself close to woody, because everyone else seemed to have someone, was left out. It felt more like filler to me and I had a hard time believing that she would so openly approach someone, especially a man. And the marriage of the sea, while I remember that there was some dillydallying with the ring buying, was very good in the anime as I kind of disliked how manga portrayed the event as some overblown carnival, which kind of felt like just showcasing around. In the anime, what it lost out in the minimal character development, it made up by deepening the affection to the setting. Also, you should know that most of Aria's character development only exists if you look at it as a whole. With the exception of the clear past events, or life changing things in the end, the depth of their relationships are at best in the eye of the beholder. Which is great of course, because it is more subtle and beautiful that way, especially considering the overall mood of the work. They're all just implications, both in the anime and in the manga. It doesn't make any real difference if the same thing was implied once or twice or thrice. Overall, I'd still say nothing of value was lost. Satou Jun'ichi made some clever directional choices on how to re-imagine the manga in an anime form. The pace for one is much more preferable than in the painfully slow Aqua. I know manga fans generally have a hard time dealing with this, but an anime is not meant to be a direct copy of the source material. I had absolutely no problems with understanding anything in the anime myself, despite not even hearing about the manga before. I watched the whole deal blindly without even truly knowing what its genre was about. The ranking system itself was clearly explained in the anime (with the exception of why they specifically use gloves to show it). Three ranks, trainee, trainee for hire and a professional. There is nothing complex about that. At first you just learn basic skills, then you can also train in actual work and finally you can operate independently. In a way, many real life professions work the same way and I've seen similar ranks in many other forms of fiction. And what does reading the manga have to do with being a fan? I read it because I wanted to. I have already watched the anime twice, so I thought I'd try it in a different format. And I also used it to motivate myself to read more manga. It is actually the first that I read from start to finish (with the help of the wonderful soundtracks of the anime). |
| Rei is like Alice? Talk about hyperboles. The deal was always more about how she comes to terms with her senior and becoming more open to other people. You know, because that is important for an Undine. Yet here you are, talking about why she didn't show love interest to the goofiest, most underexposed side-character of the show. Oh, and about this gondola rowing taken as art. What does that have to do with anything? I was talking about how I preferred the more minimalistic, soothing air in the anime version. Art doesn't equal "big" and "grand". And why should I read the Wikipedia. You're just repeating what I already said. Satou did what he did, because he needed to make it work in an anime form. And it was succesful. Thanks to him, it ran all the way to the end. Tons of new people found the magic of the world of Aqua and slept better because of that. But hey, who cares when it should have been made just for you? So that you can see the horoscope and the wedding of the sea carnival, since they apparently held within the most important things that Aria had to tell you. I personally loved it for the sweet and subtle growth of the characters on the way to their dreams and utopistic view of the future. Aria to me was about characters living in a mortal paradise and not about guessing who goes tsun-dere over who. And again, if you don't see this with Akatsuki and Akari in the anime, I am lead to believe that you didn't even watch it. Here you are, talking about how one needs to notice the subtleties (I'm not really that dense, mind you), but yet you yourself just miss all the events and information in the anime. |
| The thing with Rei is that she doesn't talk or display much emotion at all. She is like a doll. Alice is much different. She can appear cocky, childish, anxious, shy, happy and sad and displays all that with her demeanor. She isn't particularly good at hiding her feelings and she also talks quite a bit to the people she feels comfortable with. Her voice is low, but she isn't a silent person. Rei doesn't even flinch when Shinji gropes her bosom. Once again, you don't make an anime by looking at the manga and make 100% copy of it. Why should the anime limit itself to the manga? What is even the point if it is the exact same deal? As for why the first season was faster, it was obviously because he was working with a finite budget and tight schedule. He needed to include something to reel in viewers in 13 episodes, and that can't be done by following the manga. If it did follow the manga, you'd hardly even get to introduce all the characters. Most of the Animation would feature only Alicia, Akari and Aika. And about the romance in general. Yeah, I could guess that the mangaka isn't a romance writer, but thats okay. I'm long past the phase where I believed that every anime should match up their characters canonically, even if it isn't a romance anime/manga in a first place. Aria wasn't a romance anime to begin with, but did something much more unique. FynbelleSinclair said: Except "Here you are, talking about how one needs to notice the subtleties" - dont get it. What exactly are you talking about? You were saying something like this: "It was also my favorite chapter and consists alot of symbolism that only romantic people can truly get." And earlier you were talking about how the anime totally killed off Akatsuki x Akari. Note: not left out the horoscope chapter, which didn't tell us anything we didn't know already (except their horoscopes?), but totally killed it off. Meaning that it doesn't even exist. So if you truly are that deep of a romantic, how could you miss their relationship in the anime? To me it couldn't be more obvious. The only thing more obvious was Al x Aika. |
| And now that you apparently hate him so much, why do you want to see more of him? It's not like the horoscope chapter changed anything. The only difference is that she visited Akari earlier. |
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