Fresh, pure, magical! That's how it feels to take Aria's journey. (And Aqua too :P)
Hey everyone, so I just finished to read Aria today I felt the necessity to write some kind of review since it's a piece that deserves it. Absolutely.
If you normally read reviews when not sure if to start some manga, it's simple: just go ahead! This is something so worth to read, an experience so worth to have. I myself am really glad, proud and thankful I found it and I could go trough it. So yeah, GO for it! :)
First of all, let's talk about the art. Amano uses a very soft and flexible style which enables her to easily express emotions and in a manga of this kind this is very important because the story flows trough frames full and full of emotions. But this stays behind the way of drawing the backgrounds and choosing the points of view which is the key to describing the exact feeling at the exact circumstances and all this work is led magnificently. And we may not forget that the whole"scenery", the whole world the characters live in is simply beautiful and mostly breathtaking. No, seriously - you'll just fall in love with it and the way everybody on it interacts with it because it's just amazing.
This leads me to talk about the story and the characters. As you'll see, it can't be told it's perfect since there are some clichés too but the way it's narrated is, in general, pretty original. As I mentioned before, it all lays around interactions - and if it's not between the main characters it would be between each one of them and the environment which would let you get a really high identification and you'd just stay there and let the power of imagination guide all these brilliant sensations to you. (At some cases may be memories too). No loss to it. Characters may not be something so much oustanding but you got to love them from the first moments. REALLY LOVE. They're all "special" on their own way and it's something you'd easily find out. And once you add to them all the good flow and all the magic and all the mystery elements and all the peaceful moments and combine it to all the enjoyment of life they all are having... you just obtain this huge LOVE.
I said it at the beginning but FRESH is the best way to describe the way you enjoy this manga. Fresh and powerful, fresh and peaceful, "a breath of fresh air", the fresh breeze coming out of the sea, the fresh sea always present in the story. Fresh and unique, fresh and adorable.
Fresh and lovely.
Fresh and lay down, open the book and just enjoy this masterpiece :)