Review of Arte

Arte is this season's unsung show, and perhaps my personal favorite amidst the big ticket ones. It's a show on chasing your dreams, women empowerment, thinking outside the box, and enjoying the journey to your destination. In a nutshell, the ED animation sequence fits my thoughts and feelings to the show best: Arte climbing the stairs in her journey to become a renowned painter, surrounded by people who challenge, support, and push her onward -- seen through the paintings that surround the staircase. This is also one of those few shows that use staple characters in a tried-and-tested "heroine-against-the-world" storyline that truly works. At times, it mightbe too generic, but the colorful (pun intended) characters make it even more interesting (I mean, having two tsundere grown-up men is just something special.

Plus, being set in Florence and Venice in the Renaissance adds more eye candy and story interest that it's just a wonderful nostalgia rush for me, having visited both cities a couple of years back.

Overall, watching every episode Arte is rewarding. It's easygoing but keeps enough tension to make it interesting. And who couldn't feel warm inside thanks to our über-genki Best Painter Girl?