Aria
Overview
Aria (stylized as ARIA) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kozue Amano. The series was originally titled Aqua (stylized as AQUA) when it was published in Enix’s Monthly Stencil magazine from 2001 to 2002, and retitled when it was transferred to Mag Garden’s Comic Blade, where it continued serialization from November 2002 to April 2008. Aqua was collected in two tankōbon volumes, and Aria was collected in twelve volumes.
Story
Aqua and Aria take place in the early 24th century, starting in 2301 AD, in the city of Neo-Venezia (ネオ・ヴェネツィア Neo Venetsia, literally “New Venice”) on the planet Aqua (アクア Akua, formerly Mars, sometimes stylized as 火星アクア in the manga with the base text for “Mars” serving as a gloss), which was renamed after being terraformed into a habitable planet covered in oceans around 150 years beforehand. Neo-Venezia, based on Venice in both architecture and atmosphere, is a harbor city of narrow canals instead of streets, traveled by unmotorized gondolas.
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