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Aria the Origination (TV)

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[ sequel of Aria the OVA ~Arietta~ ]

Alternative title:
Ария: Происхождение (Russian)
アリア ジ・オリジネーション (Japanese)
水星領航員3 (Chinese (Taiwan))
아리아 디 오리지네이션 (Korean)
Plot Summary: It is the year 2301. Man has terraformed Mars into a beautiful water planet, and has renamed it "Aqua". Built upon it is Neo-Venezia, an exact replica of old Venice, with beautiful waterways, palaces and plazas. Akari Mizunashi, a 15 year old girl arrives from Man-Home (formerly known as Earth) to become a gondolier trainee at a company called Aria Company. The company is lead by Alicia Florence, one of the three best gondoliers, also known as the three Water Fairies. Trough hard training, Akari aims to become a Prima herself. Many encounters and mysterious events are sure to follow on this planet of miracles.
User Ratings: 275 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 146 votes (sub:133, dub:5, Kor.sub:2, raw:2, Spa.sub:2, Rus.dub:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Excellent: 51 votes (sub:48, dub:2, Fre.sub:1)
 Very good: 24 votes (sub:21, raw:1, ?:1, dub:1)
 Good: 23 votes (sub:21, Spa.sub:2)
 Decent: 12 votes (sub:10, Spa.sub:1, dub:1)
 So-so: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Bad: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 472 users, rank: #1126
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.753 (Excellent-.24), std. dev.: 1.9061, rank: #65
Weighted mean: 8.698 (Excellent-.30), rank: #65 (seen all: 8.96 / seen some: 6.24 / won't finish: 3.16)
Bayesian estimate: 8.656 (Excellent-.34), rank: #28
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2008-01-07 to 2008-03-31
Opening Theme:
"Spirale (スピラーレ)" by Yui Makino
Ending Theme:
#1: "Kin no Nami Sen no Nami (金の波 千の波)" by Akino Arai (eps 01-12)
#2: "Undine (ウンディーネ)" by Yui Makino (ep 13)
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Junichi Sato

Series Composition: Junichi Sato

Script:
Ayuna Fujisaki (eps 1, 3)
Kenichi Takeshita (ep 4)
Tatsuhiko Urahata (eps 2, 5)

Screenplay:
Ayuna Fujisaki
Reiko Yoshida
Tatsuhiko Urahata

Storyboard:
Hideki Inoue (ep 4)
Junichi Sato (ep 1)
Takahiro Natori (eps 2-3)
Tatsufumi Tamagawa (ep 5)

Episode Director:
Hideki Inoue (ep 4)
Hirokazu Hanai (ep 3)
Kenichi Takeshita (ep 1)
Takahiro Natori (ep 2)
Tatsufumi Tamagawa (ep 5)

Music:
Choro Club
Takeshi Senoo

Original creator: Kozue Amano

Character Design: Makoto Koga

Art director: Kenichi Tajiri

Chief Animation Director: Masayuki Onchi

Animation director:
Akiko Nakano (ep 3)
Hideki Inoue (ep 4)
Ikuko Ito (ep 8)
Jouji Matsuoka (ep 3)
Masayuki Onchi (ep 1)
Masumi Hoshino (ep 5)
Ryou Kodama (ep 2)

Director of Photography: Hiroshi Yoshida

Assistant director: Kenichi Takeshita

Color design: Yoshimi Kawakami

Editing: Kentarou Tsubone

Key Animation: Ikuko Ito (ep 13)

Layout Supervision: Masatsugu Arakawa

Music producer:
Masao Fukuda
Yukako Inoue

Prop Design: Hiroyuki Kasugai

Recording: Kimitaka Kawasaki

Sound Effects: Toshiya Wada

Theme Song Arrangement:
Hisaaki Hogari (ED)
Mina Kubota (OP)

Theme Song Composition:
Akino Arai (ED)
Hisaaki Hogari (ED)
Mina Kubota (OP)

Theme Song Lyrics:
Akino Arai (ED)
Eri Kawai (OP)

Theme Song Performance:
Akino Arai (ED)
Yui Makino (OP)

 

Erino Hazuki as Akari Mizunashi

Chinami Nishimura as President Aria

Chiwa Saito as Aika S. Granzchesta

Junko Minagawa as Akira E. Ferrari

Kaori Mizuhashi as Ai

Ryou Hirohashi as Alice Carroll

Sayaka Ohara as Alicia Florence

Tomoko Kawakami as Athena Glory

Akeno Watanabe as
Al
President Maa

Akira Ookubo as Father (ep 7)

Aya Sawano as Salesclerk (ep 5)

Ayumi Fujimura as Daughter (ep 1)

Chikao Suzumura as Male customer (ep 4)

Hirofumi Nojima as Akatsuki Izumo

Hiromu Miyazaki as Young Father (ep 11)

Hiroshi Sugiyama as Waiter (ep 3)

Houko Kuwashima as Atora (ep 4)

Izumi Koike as Underclassman A (ep 9)

Junji Majima as Underclassman D (ep 9)

Kana Asumi as Anzu (ep 4)

Kaori Mizuhashi as President Hime

Katsuhiro Oota as Regatta team member (ep 12)

Kazuko Sugiyama as Amaranta (ep 2)

Kokoro Kikuchi as Boy B (ep 3)

Kouichi Makishima as Old Husband (ep 11)

Kouji Hiwatari as Market Uncle (ep 6)

Mariko Oohara as Old Woman (ep 11)

Masaki Makiguchi as Underclassman B (ep 9)

Masako Isobe as Mother (ep 1)

Masataka Sawada as Curator (ep 9)

Michiko Hosokoshi as Veteran single (ep 4)

Michio Miyashita as Gondola customer (ep 1)

Miki Ootani as Himeya Undine B (ep 7)

Motomu Kiyokawa as Uncle Postman (Namihei Anno) (ep 13)

Risa Hayamizu as Anna (ep 7)

Ryoko Shiraishi as Ayumi (ep 4)

Sayuri as Board Chairmain (ep 9)

Shinsuke Sakuragi as Shipping agent (ep 5)

Shouko Sawada as Manager (ep 9)

Sujiko as Himeya Undine C (ep 7)

Takahiro Mizushima as Anri (ep 3)

Takashi Oohara as Husband (ep 11)

Takashi Saito as Waiter (ep 8)

Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Albert (ep 7)

Tomo Adachi as Female Customer B (ep 10)

Tomohisa Asou as Baked potato seller (ep 2)

Tomomi Watanabe as
Boy A (ep 3)
Wife (ep 11)

Unshou Ishizuka as Owner (ep 3)

Yoshiko Matsuo as Grandma (Akino)

Yuji Ueda as Woody (ep 1)

Yumiko Kobayashi as Ahito (ep 7)

Haruka Kimura (ep 11)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Hal Film Maker

Backgrounds: Atelier Rourke 07

Broadcaster:
AT-X (2008-01-10)
TV Aichi (2008-01-07)
TV Osaka (2008-01-09)
TV Tokyo (2008-01-07)

Digital Works Collaboration: Production I.G

Music Production: Victor Entertainment

Off-Line Editing: REAL-T

Online Editing: Q Tech

Recording Studio: Tabac

English staff 
(none)
English companies 

Licensed by: The Right Stuf International

English cast 
(none)
French staff 
French companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Kaze

French cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Muse Communication Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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