Hidan no Aria aka Aria the Scarlet Ammo preview

by feal8724. March 2011 09:23

Hello everyone,

C-C-C-OMBO BREAKER! After 22 consecutive review of different anime, this time we'll go for a preview instead of an anime going to be aired starting at April 8 based on both a light novel and manga and named "Hidan no Aria". 

Hidan no Aria

Let's start with a quick synopsis :

The story takes place in Tokyo Butei High School, a special school where armed detectives — "Butei" — are trained to use weapons. Kinji Tooyama is a second-year-student who has a special ability, but he keeps it a secret to maintain an ordinary, peaceful life. However, when he gets caught in a bombing on the way to school, he encounters H. Aria Kanzaki, the most powerful S-Rank Butei student in Assault Studies.

Let's start by saying that this is one of the most anticipated anime for me this season for its combination of comedy and action.

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The story should be, from what I heard quite action-based with some filler area with the classic romantic comedy around our male lead that, strangely, is being surrounded like all good male leads by tons of girls.

And you say "But feal87, that happens in almost all harem series!!!", my answer will simply be "is it that bad?! Cool"

Hidan no Aria

It will be nice to see how the most powerful S-Rank Butei will behave around one of the most worthless (our male lead) E-Rank Butei, but to be honest I'm more anticipating all the love comedy that will ensue as soon as the other girls get introduced.

We have great variery in characters in this series with our main girl (a loli), the classic ojousama in Riko Mine, the two friends of the male lead (that will likely give us some rivarly?!), and many others (like the sniper Reki!)

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Mhn...you want to get some other reason to watch this series? Well let's start by saying that the main female lead (Aria H. Kanzaki) is portrayed by Rie Kugimiya (yeah finally a good protagonist role for her) and add to the top that the production is done by J.C. Staff!

Still not satisfied? Well, the anime is directed by the director of Shakugan no Shana!!! Yell

Hidan no Aria

I've given a quick look at all the PVs that are being distributed right now and my impression that this will be a big hit in my books (I already plan to get the manga)

I'm expecting Rie Kugimiya to use her trademark Shana/Nagi/Louise voice as this Aria look and act like that kind of girl (Little and bitchy)!

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At the state of the things without watching any real episode my favourite character (let's see how many times I'll change it till when the series end) is Aria, maybe because of the fact that the others looks very plain compared to her.

Another nice thing of the series is the opening song that I'm already loving that is named "Scarlet Ballat" and sung by May'n (the same as most song from Macross) with its catchy theme and the May'n trademark rhythm.

Hidan no Aria

Concluding, I'm looking forward to this series and will be covering it with random ramblings when something interesting arise during the anime.

Keep an eye on this blog for more on it.

See you soon,

feal87

Comments (11) -

3/24/2011 2:14:47 PM #

Tsuki

Hidan no Aria = Shakugan no Shana with guns. And not to mention, Kugimiya Rie is voicing the heroine. This isn't your typical JC Staff "guy meets girl gifted with powers", which could turn out good or bad. The art looks okay, but I've heard the story is kind of so-so. Hopefully it'll be good... =.=;

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3/24/2011 2:49:40 PM #

feal87

I hope so, if it's like the first season of Shakugan no Shana, I'll be happy.

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3/25/2011 5:21:11 AM #

baka~

well, as long as it goes like Shana S1, everything will be fine but remembering how bad, to an extent, Shana S2 was, I don't want to keep my hopes up for a better sequel

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3/25/2011 7:49:43 AM #

feal87

Well yes, the second season of Shakugan no Shana was very focused on the love triangle and forgot that it was an action series in the first place...

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3/26/2011 11:43:30 PM #

MkMiku

I hope it was an honest mistake on the producers part. Lol.

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3/24/2011 5:42:04 PM #

Keiri

You know, I'd like a super capable male harem lead for once instead of some, as we term it, "worthless" dude :p. Oh well, I guess it won't be too bad if he has some hidden hax or something. I haven't touched the original works but based on some comments, maybe I shouldn't...for now.

And J.C.Staff always gets a lot of pressure when it comes to adapting light novels (in this case, manga too). XD

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3/24/2011 5:45:48 PM #

feal87

Unfortunately super capable male lead are very scarce (except maybe Hakuoro from Utawarerumono and Arawn from Tears to Tiara and a couple of others) so we have to bear with what we have.

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3/25/2011 12:17:34 AM #

MkMiku

Lolis with guns? Count me in! *_*  J.C. Staff has been making a lot of stuff I've liked recently, so let's hope they don't disappoint.

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3/25/2011 7:48:59 AM #

feal87

Yeah, even thought I heard that some of them aren't exactly "loli". (Well, who cares. We only care about our Kugimiya's roles!
)

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3/27/2011 7:05:14 AM #

warum

I'm also quite interested in how this will turn out! I've heard the light novels has been pretty successful, and indeed even if the setup might sound typical it isn't anything bad to go with a successful examples. Although some people might question the authenticity of the guns (such as a deep scope on a semi-auto sniper)...

Have to wait to see!

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3/27/2011 7:55:43 AM #

feal87

Lol, I didn't notice that scope till you maked me watch with detail. +1 for you.

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