Aria (manga)

Aria
Cover of Aria volume 1 as published by Mag Garden, featuring Akari Mizunashi
GenreFantasy,[1] iyashikei,[2][3] science fiction[4]
Manga
Aqua
Written byKozue Amano
Published by
English publisher
MagazineMonthly Stencil
DemographicShōnen/Shōjo
Original run27 January 200128 September 2001
Volumes2 (List of volumes)
Manga
Written byKozue Amano
Published byMag Garden
English publisher
MagazineMonthly Comic Blade
DemographicShōnen
Original run28 February 200229 February 2008
Volumes12 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Aria the Animation
Directed byJunichi Sato
Kazuyoshi Fuseki (Assistant)
Produced byTetsuo Uchida
Shigeru Tateishi
Yasutaka Hiuga
Written byJunichi Sato
Music byChoro Club
Takeshi Senoo
StudioHal Film Maker
Licensed by
Original networkTXN (TV Tokyo)
Original run 5 October 2005 28 December 2005
Episodes13 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
Aria the Natural
Directed byJunichi Sato
Kenichi Takeshita (Assistant)
Produced byHisao Iizuka
Tetsuo Uchida
Shinsaku Hatta
Shinya Tagashira
Written byJunichi Sato
Music byChoro Club
Takeshi Senoo
StudioHal Film Maker
Licensed by
  • NA: Crunchyroll
Original networkTXN (TV Tokyo)
Original run 2 April 2006 26 September 2006
Episodes26 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Aria the OVA: Arietta
Directed byJunichi Sato
Produced byHisao Iizuka
Tetsuo Uchida
Shinsaku Hatta
Yasuhiro Mikami
Toshiaki Asaka
Written byJunichi Sato
Music byChoro Club
Takeshi Senoo
StudioHal Film Maker
Licensed by
  • NA: Crunchyroll
Released21 September 2007
Runtime30 minutes
Anime television series
Aria the Origination
Directed byJunichi Sato
Kenichi Takeshita (Assistant)
Produced byHisao Iizuka
Tetsuo Uchida
Shinya Tagashira
Yoshikazu Beniya
Toshiaki Asaka
Written byJunichi Sato
Music byChoro Club
Takeshi Senoo
StudioHal Film Maker
Licensed by
  • NA: Crunchyroll
Original networkTXN (TV Tokyo)
Original run 8 January 2008 31 March 2008
Episodes13 + 1 (DVD bonus) (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Aria the Avvenire
Directed byJunichi Sato
Takahiro Natori (Assistant)
Produced byHisao Iizuka
Written byJunichi Sato
Music byChoro Club
Takeshi Senoo
StudioTYO Animations
Licensed by
Released 26 September 2015 24 June 2016
Episodes3 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Aria the Crepuscolo
Directed byJunichi Sato (Chief)
Takahiro Natori
Written byJunichi Sato
Music byChoro Club
Takeshi Senoo
StudioJ.C.Staff
Licensed by
  • SA/SEA: Muse Communication
Released5 March 2021 (2021-03-05)
Runtime60 minutes
Anime film
Aria the Benedizione
Directed byJunichi Sato (Chief)
Takahiro Natori
Written byJunichi Sato
Music byChoro Club
Takeshi Senoo
StudioJ.C.Staff
Licensed by
  • SA/SEA: Muse Communication
Released3 December 2021 (2021-12-03)
Runtime60 minutes
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Aria (stylized as ARIA) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kozue Amano. The series was originally titled Aqua (stylized as AQUA) when it was published in Enix's Monthly Stencil magazine in 2001, and retitled when it was transferred to Mag Garden's Comic Blade, where it continued serialization from 2002 to 2008. Aqua was collected in two tankōbon volumes, and Aria was collected in twelve volumes.

Hal Film Maker has adapted the manga into several anime television series. A first season was broadcast in 2005, a second season in 2006, an OVA released September 2007, and a third season in 2008 that ended around the same time as the manga serialization. An OVA, titled Aria the Avvenire, was released in the anime series' 10th anniversary Blu-ray box sets between December 2015 and June 2016. A film to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the anime series titled Aria the Crepuscolo premiered on 5 March 2021. A second anime film titled Aria the Benedizione premiered on 3 December 2021.

ADV Manga released English translations of the first three volumes of Aria in 2004 before dropping the license. Tokyopop then acquired the English-language rights to Aqua as well as Aria. Tokyopop released the two volumes of Aqua in October 2007 and February 2008 and six volumes of Aria between January 2008 and December 2010. The anime is licensed in North America by The Right Stuf International, which released all three seasons in box sets under its Nozomi Entertainment imprint between 30 September 2008 and 2 March 2010.

The series is set in the 24th century on a terraformed Mars, now named Aqua, and follows a young woman named Akari Mizunashi as she trains as an apprentice gondolier (known as Undines). The series has been praised for its calm pacing, optimistic worldview, beautiful art, and for the anime, the quality of the soundtrack.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ann-s1-akari was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Hairston, Marc (2008). "A Healing, Gentle Apocalypse: Yokohama kaidashi kikō". Mechademia. 3 (1): 256–258. doi:10.1353/mec.0.0036. ISSN 2152-6648. S2CID 120440099.
  3. ^ "Iyashikei: Let Anime's 'Healing' Genre Soothe Your Pandemic Stress". CBR. 25 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Aria The Animation Season 1 Blu-ray". Right Stuf Inc. Retrieved 19 July 2021.