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“Three girls train to become elite gondoliers in Neo-Venezia, guided by legendary mentors on planet Aqua.”
Aria the Origination
ARIA The ORIGINATION
8.47
178 rank · 141,327 viewers · 4,291 favorites
Sci-Fi
Slice of Life
Iyashikei
Shounen
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Synopsis
Three girls train to become elite gondoliers in Neo-Venezia, guided by legendary mentors on planet Aqua.
In the 24th century on the planet Aqua, three girls—Akari Mizunashi, Alice Carroll, and Aika S. Granzchesta—continue to work hard toward achieving their goal of becoming Prima Undines: professional tour guide gondoliers. Luckily, the girls have the guidance of the three best Prima Undines in Neo-Venezia—Alicia Florence, Athena Glory, and Akira E. Ferrari—who are known as the "Water Fairies" in honor of their skill. With their help, the young apprentices train hard and work to overcome any situations that they find themselves in. As these three young girls experience both the joys and hardships of life, they do their best to improve as tour gondoliers in Neo-Venezia, a terraformed replica of Venice.
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Community consensus
Derived from 64 sampled reviews
9.5
/10
What 64 viewers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 10
mode 10
σ 0.95
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Strong agreement
σ 0.95 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.47
Running avg · Mar 2008 → Nov 2025
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “One of the most amazing masterpiece I have ever seen in Anime history. That says a lot because I have watched a LOT of them, though my list says otherwise. This anime is one of the most peaceful...”
- 9 “Ready for an epic adventure? Don’t be. Aria was a beautiful series. The animation, despite being older is beautiful. This anime also has a beautiful sound track, probably one of the best I’ve...”
- 7 “In this season the anime took a rather large turn trading much of its atmosphere, which I really loved, for story but, from my perspective, in a very hurried fashion. It pretty much cast off its...”
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Short · 9%
Medium · 27%
Long · 64%
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- Format 13 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 5h 12m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2008 – Apr 2008 Winter 2008
- Source Tv media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-2932 catalog
Produced by
- TV Tokyo Producer
- Media Factory Producer
- Shochiku Producer
- Mag Garden Producer
- Production I.G Producer
Licensed by
- Nozomi Entertainment Licensor