Comments on: Aria the Animation: Episode 9 http://thepinksylphide.com/2009/01/13/aria-the-animation-episode-9 Somewhere in the Land of the Sugarplum Fairy Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:30:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Michael Brazier http://thepinksylphide.com/2009/01/13/aria-the-animation-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-2806 Michael Brazier Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:54:02 +0000 http://thepinksylphide.com/?p=456#comment-2806 Akari's last words, in each preview, are "Let's spend a wonderful moment together" -- and that does sum it up. Aria is a series of wonderful moments. The viewers are led to treat watching the show in the same way Akari treats everything in her life, with a carefree and grateful appreciation of what is immediately set before them. And Aika's repeated embarrassments in this episode seem designed to show that forcing the present joy into a larger goal doesn't earn one anything, and indeed misses the point. This may be one reason why Aria works so well: the genre of slice-of-life episodes is perfectly fitted to the overall theme, that it's best to appreciate the moment. One feels that a more dramatic plot would be a distraction, or an intrusion ... Akari’s last words, in each preview, are “Let’s spend a wonderful moment together” — and that does sum it up. Aria is a series of wonderful moments. The viewers are led to treat watching the show in the same way Akari treats everything in her life, with a carefree and grateful appreciation of what is immediately set before them. And Aika’s repeated embarrassments in this episode seem designed to show that forcing the present joy into a larger goal doesn’t earn one anything, and indeed misses the point.

This may be one reason why Aria works so well: the genre of slice-of-life episodes is perfectly fitted to the overall theme, that it’s best to appreciate the moment. One feels that a more dramatic plot would be a distraction, or an intrusion …

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