I found it sincerely boring, unfunny, cringy, upsetting for many wrong narrative choices and not as philosophical or deep as its fandom depicts it.
There are actually very good parts in both the first series and After Story - i still love what the fisrt arc of the first series and the last story arc of AS teach and how direction and photography represent them with the right pacing and sensibility- but then the writers ruined them by adding some cringy deus-ex machina that imho destroyed everything well built until them.
So yeah, I just can't.
I wanna live in calm, so
ARIA The ANIMATION
Weekly Shonen Jump #1652 - No. 36-37, 2001 released by Shueisha on August 20, 2001. Two days before my birthday, on August 22, 2001.

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