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Some nice people have also done a bit of stuff via the blogs commenting system, so I'd thought I'd link it with the post.
A translation of an ARIA doujin (sfw) - the mood is a little depressing but it's pretty well done.
Dear Akari-sama
Original source: http://paricross.sakura.ne.jp/aria/aria1/a-000.html
Also the previously translated Perfect Guide book special navigations have also had a version 2 release:
Aria the Animation Perfect Guide Book Omake Manga v2
Aria the Natural Perfect Guide Book Omake Manga v2
Aria the Origination Perfect Guide Book Special Navigation v2
Thanks for the release
ReplyDeleteಠ_ಠ
ReplyDeleteThanks for still doing torrents. I wish more groups would use them.
ReplyDeleteI spotted a mistake. It's "principal", not "principle".
ReplyDeleteAnd what is it with Amano and creepy cats? Couldn't she at least try to make them a bit cuter? She's such a great artist otherwise.
Thanks~
ReplyDeleteThank you for the links!
ReplyDeleteThis season in anime is quite a disappointment and there is definitely no worthy heiress of Aria. Some propose Croisee, but I disagree. Usagi Doroppu is super depressing, yet it makes more sense than Croisee, as of now.
ReplyDeleteDoes the principal calls Advisor Tea Aria or is it a mistake? Thanks for releasing this! Love Amanchu and Aria
ReplyDeleteRandom ARIA trivia: Ms. Amano probably has not been to Scothland or not for a long time. Cait Sith, the cat king fairy does exist in mythology, but it isn't described as gigantic.
ReplyDeleteThe large size, as big as two oxen, is attributed to "Cu Sith" instead, whih is a giant hound dog haunting scottish highlands.
>Read doujin.
ReplyDelete>Read it again.
>Read it ONE MORE TIME to make sure I understood this.
Suddenly "Congratulations ending"
Since today's Croisee ep04 was titled Mizu Akari, I fully expected Yunichi Sato to put at least one ARIA related easter egg in it, but there was none. (Unless one considers the older of the two blond bimbos a copy of Alicia Florence.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for these releases.
ReplyDeleteJust a small thing though: Aria the Origination pg 154 centre panel at the bottom of the page.
Wouldn't it sound better (in English) if Ai said "Going full speed in the wrong direction." as opposed to "Going full speed in the wrong way." Weirdly enough, my brain corrected it while reading, and it took a couple of seconds to realise why it seem strange...
Either way, thanks for translating Amano's work.
JBV^_^
Dozens of Arietta OVA werk sketches have just been uploaded here by a Satelight worker:
ReplyDeletehttps://picasaweb.google.com/104379489189811288070/2007_AriaOVA_Layouts?authkey=Gv1sRgCLOzzOmOi8fEkwE#
In the above mentioned ARIETTA slideshow there is a slide numbered 22/89, with the in-frame marking C-47, see here:
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It has just a little kanji written about the building that supposedly reflects on the water right behind the ARIA company pier-house.
I wonder if that little text could shed some lighton the exact location of ARIA company's headquarters? Sorrowfully it is really small text and the image resolution is not high and I know zero japanese. Thanks in advance, Tamas Feher from Hungary.
All I can make out is "reflection" + ri + unreadable character + mi
ReplyDeleteThen there's "koraniu" in katakana, followed by two unreadable scribbles. Uh... does that help?
Hello All, I have manually clicked through Google Plus Picasa to download all the 89 Arietta sketches in 1600px high resolution. Here is the package for download (app. 22MB sized):
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediafire.com/?b2g2g8tq5qiachw
And this is what the creator of those background slides, frenchman Thomas Romain had to say about his work in this webforum:
http://www.catsuka.com/interf/forum/viewtopic.php?p=381267#p381267
Ca va faire 4 ans que Stanislas Brunet et moi-meme travaillons pour le Studio Satelight a Tokyo dans l'arrondissement du Suginami. Yann Legall (Icaras sur ce forum ) travaille avec nous depuis plus de deux ans.
Au cours de ces annees on a vu passer pas mal d'autres Francais, Eddie Mehong, Christophe Ferreira, Bertrand Piocelle, Antoine Birot, Anais Chevillard, Philippe Diop, Romain Barriaux, et d'autres, principalement pendant la production de la serie "Basquash!".
Satelight s'est forge une bonne reputation grace aux productions originales et populaires de Shoji Kawamori (Macross, Aquarion) et a quelques one shots de grande qualite comme Noein. Il produit aussi tres regulierement des adaptations animees de manga a succes (Fairy Tail, Shugo chara).
L'equipe francaise de Satelight bosse desormais maintenant sur presque toutes les productions du studio, soit plus d'une dizaine de projets par an, comprenant series, OAV, longs metrages, projets croises avec le jeu video, animations pour pachinko..
Jusqu'a present on postait sur des forums separes, mais desormais on compilera toutes les infos relatives aux productions satelight et a nos boulots ici meme.
.....
Avant Ikokumeiro no Croisee j'avais eu la chance de travailler une premiere fois sur un projet de Sato Junichi. Il s'agissait de l'OAV d'ARIA, "Arietta" produit l'ete 2007.
Je venais d'arriver a Satelight, mais le projet etait un projet Hal film maker. Le patron de Satelight a cependant accepte que je travaille dessus dans leurs locaux. J'etais en charge de redessiner les layouts des animateurs avant de les envoyer au studio de decor. La production a dure environ 2 mois pour un film de la duree classique d'un episode, autour de 20,25 min.
J'avais tout un tas de photo de Venise, prises par l'equipe japonaise au cours des reperages effectues avant la production de la serie. Je viens d'ajouter les images a ma galerie picasa et je poste un apercu ici.
J'ai adore ce travail, bien que le rythme ait ete tres intensif. Travailler avec de la ref photo a un cote plus fluide que lorsqu'on est dans la creation pure. Et ca fait voyager un peu.
@Tamás
ReplyDeleteAs I understand, that's 映り込みユラユラで (utsurikomi yurayura de) which means more or less "background reflection slowly swaying". Basically, it's to mark that part is the reflection on the sea, therefore slowly swaying.
Diary of Sayaka O'Hara (Alicia Florence) on the third Athena Glory memorial day (2011.8.4)
ReplyDelete河井英里さん追悼コンサートな日。
今夜は、河井英里さんが亡くなって三年目の夜。親しいミュージシャンやアーティストが集まっての、追悼コンサートだ。宣伝らしいことはほとんどしていなかったにもかかわらず、わりと広めのライブハウスは超満員だった。窪田ミナさんや妹尾武さん、おおたか静流さんなど、そうそうたるメンバーが集まった。
シリーズがおわって、最近はなかなか他の現場でも会わなくなったアリアの先輩後輩チームが、そのステージに総出演した。来られる人だけで、無理のないように。そんな佐藤監督の呼びかけに、みんな仕事が終わり次第めいめい駆け付け、最終的に全員そろったのだ。義務ではなく、自主的に。
編集されたアリアの映像を流して、英里さんとの想い出話と、それから、とも子さんのお話も少しさせていただいた。アテナさんのことは、まだまだ笑顔で語れないことがたくさんある。でも、ふたりの追悼を、このメンバーで、この音楽と共にできたこの夜のことを、私たちはたぶん一生忘れない。
そうそう、あまり知られていない話をひとつ！
アテナちゃんが初めて、アリシアさんや晃ちゃんの目の前でカンツォーネ『バルカローレ』を歌ったシーン。そのあまりの素晴らしさに街中が魅せられた、あの歌いだしの、吸う息の音。歌はもちろん英里さんだけれど、あの一瞬の息は、とも子さんがアフレコのときに吹き込んだものなんです。
ほんとに、ふたりでアテナちゃんでした。
I wonder if the ARIA the OVA Arietta story has ever been released in magna format? I think not. However, now that all Arietta background art is available in hi-res, maybe an unofficial, but perfect manga version could be created according to the fanfic or doujin method?
ReplyDeleteWeird: ARIA anime director Junichi Sato is now staring a new robot mecha (!) series titled "Mortal Metal", despite his long background with girl superheroes, like Sailor Moon S1, Tutu, Kaleido Star, ARIA and Marin's Sea Story.
ReplyDeleteI remember he mentioned in some press interview 2 years ago wanting to try something different, like bad girl heroines. Maybe the less than stellar result of Croisee anime made him switch?
Junichi Sato also directed Tamayura, which is quite a cute story, and which was the main cause for me to visit Takehara when I was in Japan. Will he still be directing the TV series then which will come out in October?
ReplyDelete@Motormind: Yes, he is. He is also directing a new sunrise show "Phi Brain", about solving puzzles, which makes me excited because I love to give my brain a good workout (which is also why I like TLing so much, I guess).
ReplyDeleteAlso, the recent episodes of Croisee had so much subtlety, I'm really digging it now.
Yeah. I wonder what the "less than stellar result" refers to. Does Croisee get bad ratings?
ReplyDelete> Motormind: I wonder what the "less than stellar result" refers to. Does Croisee get bad ratings?
ReplyDeleteThis summer season everything gets bad rating on japanese TV polls. The Obon period anime viewership figures, all like 1.something%, were especially miserable. Considered a weak season.
Mawaru will likely get a 2nd season because it's so weirdly hip and uber-kawaii UD will also likely survive for a 2nd season due to her good (6k+) BD disk pre-order figures. Croisee? Maybe if the sponsor holds fast, cause it costs a lot.
However, Croisee has big problems beyond that. First of all, more and more commenters mention it lacks a plot and is desperately in need of a plot, because it is currently meaningless and the 11/12 run is almost over.
Simply said Croisee's protagonist, Yune is an out-of-place artifact and viewers have no hope to understand why she is in Paris and what was the aim of those who sent/brought her to Paris. All plausible theories verge on the nasty.
The other major issue is that Yune isn't cute or interesting at all when pitted against two blonde divas, to the extent she has became just support character for the Blanche-Claudel family love feud for the last 3-4 episodes.
Apparently the director has no idea where the Croisee show is going, even though it would be Junichi Sato's official task to supervise the director! (Although I must mention I think he didn't know where he was going with his own Tamayura either.) Something is off.
@Tamas: Well, plots are written before shows get made, so I don't think the director has any say over that. And plot-less anime are not really unheard of. ARIA didn't have much of a plot either.
ReplyDeleteBut the last few years I noticed this trend of really good shows getting pretty bad ratings. For instance, I am still not over my surprise that Aoi Hana will not get a second season. It seems nowadays the Japanese public is mostly interested in either ultra-moe fluff or just plain weirdness. Well, I guess we should be happy that at least Usagi Drop gets the recognition it deserves.
I am still fearing for poor Tamayura, even though the OVA seemed to sell well enough to justify making a TV series. Let's hope for the best!
>Motormind: ARIA didn't have much of a plot either.
ReplyDeleteARIA does have a plot on the meta-level: the pupils want to become primas, that's why Akari got on the spaceship and there is the advancing spiral of connected undine generations. In contrast we do not understand the reasons of Yune's presence in Paris or Oscar's master plan even though the 11/12 ep Croisee run is almost over.
ARIA does not need much of a plot on the episode level, but only because it's site has been chosen carefully. (Neo-)Venezia is tiny, just 45 mins across on foot, so the story and its girls are geographically bounded and cannot wander off too much (although it does sometimes for good effect).
Compare Croisee, where Yune has been in Paris for months and speaks french, yet Claude forbids her from leaving the arcade. He didn't even took Yune on the train trip in ep10, isn't that cruel? Essentially she is a hostage. Imagine if Alicia-san told Akari on her arrival that she will practice gondola rowing in-doors.
Camille is also a hostage. The whole story is cruel, because it traps its cast, even though it takes place in a large city in a large country. What works in such a cramped cage is psychodrama, that's why the Claude-Camille story has backstaged much of everything else in the later episodes.
I think Croisee is a kind of a mental masturbation: it was made so that japanese people can admire themselves in the image of Yune-chan, the cihibi Nadeshiko Yamato, who is obedient and suffers silently. Foreign anime fans then jumped on the same bandwagon.
Regrettably Yune isn't interesting, so even the spin-off story continues in Alice, whom the japanese appear to have a crush on. Poor Yune isn't Nadeshiko Yamato, she's more like Nadesicko. Something is off with that series.
The problem with Ikoku: There are only 2 volumes of the manga, with several spin-offs. Compared to 12 (14) volumes of ARIA - and ARIA probably had more volumes published when an anime was announced.
ReplyDeleteAs for Tamayura - the OVA is probably one you consider "pure iyashike" - not much in the way of plot, just d'aww. Which was amazing for me as it was the exam period, and I could have something to just enjoy after a long day of study.
The anime however, seem to be taking over the course of a whole year, so hopefully we see more of a meta-plot.
Amanchu CH 23 available in chinese
ReplyDeletehaven't found CH 22
dm5.com/m92560/
or
comic.xxbh.net/201109/204526.html
I assume they've randomly numbered the extra chapter as ch22, since I can't find it either(unless someone can detective work better than me).
ReplyDeleteAnyway still need to wait on jp raws before we translate this.
Apparently someone from Japan is making an ARIA pilgrimage (now?) with photos.
ReplyDeleteThe last episode of Croisee was actually pretty good. The staff had the courage to short-circuit the story in a powerful, if a bit cruel manner. CamillexClaude shippers were shot down, but ClaudexYune shippers were also ridiculized.
ReplyDeleteIn this respect the finish of Croisee was better then the concluding episode of Usagi Drop, which was cowardly or better say all too convenient for an otherwise powerful and brave series.
Dear Translators,
ReplyDeleteWhat's your problem with the 1600px chinese raws found here?
Only the from page appears to be watermarked and it's nothing outrageous!
BTW, the railway station is full of cat president wallpapers and neo-Akari appears to have the same big fashion handbag Ai-chan carried when she relocated to Mars in the last special navigation chapter.
The watermarks are a problem, also I dislike the fact of having to use jp->ch->eng. We've used these in the past but usually (usually) jp raws turn up a few weeks later. Since we are already waiting 3 months per chapter a few more weeks shouldn't hurt for the extra quality.
ReplyDeleteIF jp raws don't turn up within a reasonable time frame I'll consider using these.
@ tamas
ReplyDeleteWhat railway station are you talking about?
> What railway station are you talking about?
ReplyDeleteAt the beginning of Amanchu ch23, Oooki is waiting for her former classmate-girlfriends, who took the train from Tokyo (?) for a visit. The railway has some ARIA memorabilia on display.
About the Croisee ending: people who think that the staff of a show can simply short-circuit it don't really know how the process works. Animes are not the same as mangas. Shows are completely written and laid out before they are produced.
ReplyDeleteIt's way too expensive to tinker with the story while you have a staff of dozens of animators getting the thing ready. That Croisee ending is as it was supposed to be from the start.
Yes, sometimes shows get pulled when they get REALLY low ratings, but that's about it.
Is there another link for Aria the Origination Perfect Guide Book Special Navigation v2? File was removed.
ReplyDelete>File Removed for Violation.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell? Someone reported this, really...?
Well will re-upload and update link in a few minutes.
Are there any plans to re-release Amanchu in volume from just like Aria? I found scans of volumes 1-3 here: http://rawscansmanga.blogspot.com/2011/01/amanchu-by-amano-kozue.html
ReplyDeleteAlright! File is back! Thanks Mez!
ReplyDeleteTamayura Hitototose <-- Hitose <-- Hitotose opinions, anyone? I think ep01 is already out.
ReplyDeleteARIA anime director Junichi Sato has fulfilled his long voiced desire to break out of the cute healing girls genre.
ReplyDeleteSorrowfully the result, a new manga co-authored with the Macross' designer and titled "Mortal Metal" is a run-of-the-mill giant mecha story.
A girl in a super sexy outfit is tapped for her life energy to power machinery piloted by her lover (apparently both of them are servants of a mad scientist). Furthermore, other girls in the city get murdered most brutally, for reasons that are not yet known.
Why Mr. Sato decided to do that is beyond my comprehension, since there are already too many giant robot junk being made.
Maybe I overanalyse the situation, but Tamayura HTT anime ep02 appears to criticize ARIA indirectly (in the scene where the girls lament in retrospective about the exhaustive and meaningless nature of their rowing lesson).
ReplyDeleteTamas: Hehe. That is actually pretty funny. Come to think if it, it indeed is a bit strange why learning how to row would take such a long time. It's worse when you realize that Aika and Alice grew up in Neo-Venezia and likely rowed since they were little (and why Alicia picked Akari over a local girl is anybody's guess).
ReplyDeleteLearning to navigate the canals and information about the sights is of course also necessary, but should take a few months, at most. Why the heck would it take so long to become an undine?
> Motormind wrote
ReplyDelete> Why the heck would it take so long to become an undine?
So that we can have 14 volumes of manga and 54 episodes of anime, of course!
> why Alicia picked Akari over a local girl
I think she was chosen by the cats (presumably Caith Sith told Pokoteng to do so). Akari is apparently a reincarnation of that teacher from s01ep12 and maybe her cat Pete was Caith Sith?
BTW, Ai-chan used to be a gunslinger girl. She wanted to misuse Alicia's then Akari's gondola for a sniping position, but things didn't work out according to her plan.
Ok. I'm about to give up waiting for raws, I'll give it another week or two max before resorting to the chinese version.
ReplyDeleteWhoever did these must be an ARIA fan, I guess.
ReplyDeletehttp://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c223/Tikitiki_m/gondola_l.jpg
(I think these are not cardboard cuts from the Mensile Undine Mags.)
Is this blog entry interesting at all?
ReplyDeletehttp://mushanak.exblog.jp/16522783/
There was an ARIA-style vintage telephone in Tamayura Hitototose ep04 at 08m:39s. Looks extremely unlikely to exist on Shiomachi Island in 21st century real life?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like someone has a different idea about what an undine is:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mangafox.com/manga/tetragrammaton_labyrinth/v05/c027/1.html
Whoa I just realized chapter 23 is out in Chinese - it's a really nice chapter but CLIFFHANGER????
ReplyDeleteAnd Jyunichi Sato breaking out of healing anime? What? He's already doing Phi Brain!
Hi thanks for all the releases so far!! I have two questions though:
ReplyDelete1) does this look like this romance is going to take a yuri/shoujo-ai turn anytime soon? (In your opinion, i wouldn't expect any one but the author to be able to answered with certainty)
2) Are you still scanning this? judging from the previous comments you are just having a hard time finding the raws correct?
Thanks again for all the hard work you brighten my day with each release!
A romance in Amanchu? Sure, Hikari flirted with Futaba quite a bit in the beginning, but that was probably mere youthful exuberance. Amano seems to have mostly forgotten about it now, instead focusing on the tale of the friendship between diving club members. It's a shame, since I think Futaba and Hikari would make a cute couple, but it is unlikely that Amano will turn this into a full-blown yuri story.
ReplyDeleteApparently a new Amanchu chapter has just arrived with the latest Comic Blade issue:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mag-garden.co.jp/comic-blade/blog/2011/12/1_5.html
□大人気シーズン連載！！
日常ときどきダイビング！
「あまんちゅ!」は、てこの友達と一緒に体験ダイビング！
So, any news on raws?
ReplyDeleteStill no raws... the translation is done using the Chinese version however. Hopefully I'll have it out by the weekend.
ReplyDeleteUsagi still rulez and she's supposed to do so, since she's a princess. But when and why?
ReplyDeletehttp://kepfeltoltes.hu/111217/sailor_moon_riddle_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
(BTW, a compact is great for magical transformation, but sucks for a digital camera...)
Someone could drop a message of request to this guy. He has access to Amanchu ch. 24 raws (i.e. posted a frame):
ReplyDeletehttp://myanimelist.net/profile/Aria_Amanchu
Hello, what's your opinion about the manga works of Minene Sakurano? She's a former aide of Kozue Amano and apparently she can draw real pretty girls, as one would expect from such a position. But what about her stories, are they good at all?
ReplyDelete@Tamás
ReplyDeleteWhere did he post the frame? Are you sure it wasn't the chinese version? Also this chapter will be out soon, seriously. Sorry for the delay.
Hello Mez,
ReplyDeleteThe Amanchu ch. 24 frame mentioned is seen here, but it does not contain text, so we don't know if JP or CN:
http://i.imgur.com/em5zq.png
BZW, Amanchu chapter 24 is now also discussed on the Wasted Time blog and it's the chinese version for them:
http://bigt1987.blogspot.com/2011/12/amanchu-24.html
ah that pretty much means its the chinese version unfortunately...
ReplyDeleteJust a friendly request, but can you guys please translate this for us?
Deletehttp://paricross.sakura.ne.jp/aria/ariatop.html?0330/paricross
http://www.mediafire.com/?m6kc04nyno2b2ep
Just a friendly request, but can you guys translate this for us?
ReplyDeletehttp://paricross.sakura.ne.jp/aria/ariatop.html?0330/paricross
http://www.mediafire.com/?m6kc04nyno2b2ep
> What railway station are you talking about?
ReplyDeleteAt the beginning of Amanchu ch23, Oooki is waiting for her former classmate-girlfriends, who took the train from Tokyo (?) for a visit. The railway has some ARIA memorabilia on display.
Weird: ARIA anime director Junichi Sato is now staring a new robot mecha (!) series titled "Mortal Metal", despite his long background with girl superheroes, like Sailor Moon S1, Tutu, Kaleido Star, ARIA and Marin's Sea Story.
ReplyDeleteI remember he mentioned in some press interview 2 years ago wanting to try something different, like bad girl heroines. Maybe the less than stellar result of Croisee anime made him switch?
Since today's Croisee ep04 was titled Mizu Akari, I fully expected Yunichi Sato to put at least one ARIA related easter egg in it, but there was none. (Unless one considers the older of the two blond bimbos a copy of Alicia Florence.)
ReplyDeleteThere was an ARIA-style vintage telephone in Tamayura Hitototose ep04 at 08m:39s. Looks extremely unlikely to exist on Shiomachi Island in 21st century real life?
ReplyDeleteI assume they've randomly numbered the extra chapter as ch22, since I can't find it either(unless someone can detective work better than me).
ReplyDeleteAnyway still need to wait on jp raws before we translate this.