Tag: aria
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This place of dreams and ghosts
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Read More →: This place of dreams and ghostsIt was around this time last year that I started watching Aria. I loved the first series, but stalled at some point during the second (Aria the Animation.) This week, though, I came back to it. It felt new to me all over again, that sense of peace so typical of how I’ve felt about…
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Am I looking at the sky, or the sea?
Read More →: Am I looking at the sky, or the sea?Though it borrows from the mythos of the (very real) city of Venice, there’s something pleasantly unreal about Aria. Rather, not unreal so much as there is a disregard for the idea and constraints of reality. Perhaps Aria seeks not to undermine reality as we know it, but in its ‘New Venice’, create its own…