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Aria the Avvenire Anime's Full Trailer Introduces New Characters
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The official website of the Aria the Avvenire (Aria the Arrived) anime project began streaming a full trailer on Wednesday, as well as a 30-second version of the same trailer. The trailer also features Shiena Nishizawa's theme song "Piacere." Nishizawa previously performed the ending theme song for KanColle.
Text: Now, let us travel to our future together once more.
Text: 10th anniversary project for the TV anime broadcast Akari: Are you alright, President Aria? Your plan to make friends with the birds isn't going too well, is it?
Ai: Don't give up and just try your best, President.
Text: Original work: Kozue Amano
Text: Director: Junichi Satō
Text: A casual everyday.
Azusa: It's a great opportunity to experience a power so overwhelming that it's unstoppable!
Anya: Once in a while, it's good to try being played with.
Text: A lovely encounter.
Alice: One of the Seven Wonders of Neo-Venezia.
Akari: The Stone of Misfortune?
Alice: There!
Akari: Ah, we fell for it!
Text: A number of beginnings...
Alicia: You're asking why I joined the company? I felt like, it was calling me.
Text: ...connect it to the future (now).
Text: "Piacere" / Shiena Nishizawa
Woman: There are times when you think your wishes will no longer come true. But they change, and they appear again.
Athena: We're connected, ever since then.
Alicia: Where there are meetings, goodbyes will come eventually.
Text: We will guide you to three lovely encounters.
Alicia: But the memories that you hold dear can call forth miracles.
Akari: Now, let us row the boat. Aria the Avvenire. September 26. To that lovely curtain call...
Alicia: You're asking why I joined the company?
Text: Now, let us travel to our future together once more.
Alicia: I felt like, it was calling me.
Ai: Don't give up and just try your best.
Athena: We're connected, ever since then.
Text: We will guide you to three lovely encounters.
Alicia: The memories that you hold dear can call forth miracles.
Akari: Now, let us row the boat. Aria the Avvenire. September 26. To that lovely curtain call...
Additionally, the website noted that Niconico will stream Aria the Origination for one week starting on July 10. The first three episodes will be free. Niconico will then livestream all 13 episodes of Aria the Animation starting on July 25 at 5:00 p.m. JST (4:00 a.m. EDT).
The previously-revealed new characters designed by Kozue Amano for the anime include:
Azusa B. McLaren
A Single undine working in Himeya company. Like her senior Aika, she is brave, direct, and self-confident. She doesn't look before she leaps when it comes to something that interests her. She notes any important information in her electronic organizer. She practices with Anya from Orange Planet.
Anya Dostoyevskaya
A Single undine working in Orange Planet, and Alice's junior. She has a calm and gentle personality, but sometimes demonstrates spontaneity, such as blurting out "From Siberia!" to anyone she has just met. She sometimes speaks in a literary tone. Like Azusa from Himeya, the famous Aria company weighs heavily on her mind.
Amano will also draw a completely new manga chapter that will serve as the basis for the story of Aria the Avvenire's third episode.
The anime will consist of three episodes: the first episode is titled "Sono Aitakatta Anata ni..." (To You, Who I Wanted to Meet...), the second episode is titled "Sono Atataka na Sayonara wa..." (That Warm Goodbye...), and the third episode is titled "Sono Harukanaru Mirai e..." (To That Far Away Future...). The first two episodes are two stories from the original manga that were not previously adapted into anime.
The first episode's story starts with Ai practicing on the gondola with Akari. As they travel through a canal, they meet Aika and Alice. All three have not had much time to meet since becoming Prima undines. Considering even the little time they spend together a "miracle," Akari remembers a certain incident and relates it to Ai.
The second episode's story begins with Ai relating a story to Akari of her experiencing a "miracle" while she was practicing. She saw Cait Sith as she was traveling down an unfamiliar path. When she disembarks from her gondola to follow it, she meets two Single undines from Himeya company and Orange Planet in the middle of practice.
The anime will premiere in a special screening event on September 26.
The Blu-ray Disc box sets for Aria the Animation, Aria the Natural, and Aria the Origination will then each contain a single episode of Aria the Avvenire. The Blu-ray box of Aria the Animation will ship on December 24 with the first Aria the Avvenire episode. Aria the Natural will ship on March 23, 2016, with the with the second Aria the Avvenire episode. Aria the Origination will ship on June 24, 2016, with the with the third Aria the Avvenire episode.
The returning main cast includes:
Erino Hazuki as Akari Mizunashi
Chiwa Saito as Aika S. Granzchesta
Ryō Hirohashi as Alice Carroll
Sayaka Ōhara as Alicia Florence
Chinami Nishimura as President Aria
Junko Minagawa as Akira E. Ferrari
Kaori Mizuhashi as Ai
Late voice actress Tomoko Kawakami as Athena Glory
Junichi Satō (Kaleido Star, Prétear, Sailor Moon) is again directing the anime at the studio TYO Animations. Sato is also in charge of series composition. The anime will also feature the return of Reiko Yoshida (Tokyo Mew Mew, Bakuman.), who will handle scripts. Masayuki Onji is designing the characters.
Shochiku is producing the anime as part of the larger "Ao no Curtain Call" (Blue Curtain Call) project, which celebrates 10 years since the broadcast of the first Aria anime.
Animation studio Hal Film Maker produced the first anime series Aria the Animation, and the series inspired two more television series in 2006 and 2008, as well as an original video anime in 2007. All three television series and the OVA starred Erino Hazuki as the protagonist Akari, Junko Minagawa as Alice, Kaori Mizuhashi as Ai, and Chiwa Saito as Aika, among others.
Right Stuf has licensed the three television series as well as the OVA in North America. ADV Manga released the first three of 12 total volumes of the original Aria manga series in North America, then Tokyopop released the first six volumes. Tokyopop also released the two-volume Aqua prequel manga in North America.
Images © 2015 Kozue Amano / Mag Garden・ARIA Company
