Can someone with a 200 IQ explain to me what makes Aria so comfy...

I seem to like the Animation more than most people. I was disappointed that cats stopped being used as links to old Aqua and instead became purveyors of general supernatural fuckery headed by Cait Sith.

From what I recall, though, the episode where she literally crossed a bridge encumbered with cats 150 years into the past was an anime original, so the prominence of that element may have been more of a Junichi thing.

The one thing that detracts from the setting for me is the nature of their job.

>Basically just tour guides
>Need to apprentice and spend years training.
>Training involves both their singing, learning a large amount of history and facts about the planet and town, boating, and even strength/stamina training for rowing.
>Joining at like 14-16, spend like 2-3 years training, and then you can typically only work the job until your mid 20s until you're replaced by someone younger and prettier, so for about a decade at most unless you're a super rare exception.

Seems like kind of a crappy job with high turnover honestly. I doubt all those young girls are lucky enough to get jobs in the tourism bureau and such afterwards as well.

It is great imagining them in erotic situations.

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I can't imagine being a ferrywoman pays particularly well in the goddamn space age. I mean, hell, if I was limited to some wagie service job, I'd at least work on an interplanetary cruise line or something. That way I'd at least feel caught up with the times.

>Basically just tour guides
It's not bad if you love your town.
>Need to apprentice and spend years training.
As opposed to being thousands of dollars in debt from college?
>Training involves both their singing, learning a large amount of history and facts about the planet and town, boating, and even strength/stamina training for rowing.
A well rounded curriculum
>Joining at like 14-16, spend like 2-3 years training, and then you can typically only work the job until your mid 20s until you're replaced by someone younger and prettier, so for about a decade at most unless you're a super rare exception.
This is probably a japanese culture thing where women will effectively retire early by getting married.

>>Joining at like 14-16, spend like 2-3 years training, and then you can typically only work the job until your mid 20s until you're replaced by someone younger and prettier, so for about a decade at most unless you're a super rare exception.
Is this true?
Wasn't Alicia only an exception? Did we see any other undines retire? Especially from other companies, because Aria Company is special.

>As opposed to being thousands of dollars in debt from college?

Their apprenticeship seems more like it replaces highschool than college.

>Wasn't Alicia only an exception? Did we see any other undines retire?

I believe it's mentioned in the episode with grandma. Undines typically retire in their 20s and she was considered remarkable for continuing into her 30s.

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Athena retires to become a singer and I believe Akira retires from actively giving tours to work at the home office instead.

Ok.
Then, maybe, undine is good stepping stone to better jobs? Alicia became some higher-ranking official for the city, but again, she is special.
What job could ordinary, retiring undine do, that would be better than ferrying people around?

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Dunno, as said most probably try to get married and be a housewife. Being a boat tour guide for a decade doesn't seem like it has very many desirable job skills that employers would be looking for. If they don't get married they probably hang around the city and open up or join some other small tourism-dependent job.

So, basically being undine is on same level as being an OL.

>after most office work is taken over by AIs, women need to find jobs that allow them to meet men and find one to marry
>undine skills make the woman seem more desirable, as she is trained to be friendly, social and seem intelligent and educated
>undine that don't find a husband to marry by their 30s are considered a failure
>undine are basicaly sci-fi hostesses

Oh god. The depression goes deeper and deeper. At least Akari is safe.

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>I can't imagine being a ferrywoman pays particularly well in the goddamn space age.
On the contrary, their bookings were actually expensive as hell and Alicia and the other two were virtually always booked. They should have more than enough to retire comfortably by the end of their tenure, especially since its not like they're seen to live lavish lifestyles, and Alicia in particular is the sole operator and owner of Aria Company.

Not sure exactly what the cost of living on Mars is exactly though. It's not a easy place to maintain, many jobs are done manually just for the sake of it as well. And its mainly a tourist spot, somewhat far and seculded.
Which all gives me the impression its kinda like Hawaii I suppose, which has a notoriously high cost of living.

Of course our characters were all the best of the best. The lesser undines probably have it way harder. And then theres the ones that work the public ferry or whatever.

Don't know where you took the mid 20s thing from. With the background the series gave us, we know age is not a problem. Grandma was the top undine for over 30 years. Alicia and Athena quit the job because they wanted to do other things, but Akira still is an undine when all is said and done. Being able to be a good undine requires more than good looks and experiences makes the best ones out there (and better experience=more money), there is no reason to believe good undines can't keep their carreer until middle age.

It's a functioning utopia.

>functioning utopia
It's not, it's only a Utopia through Akari's eyes.

>owner of Aria Company
wrong, grandma is the owner
>I believe Akira retires from actively giving tours to work at the home office instead
thats Aika, shes in charge of a new branch of her family company, Akira is still working but now shes the top undine and she often pays a visit to Aika

life lessons you already knew wrapped up in a picturesque old world landscape reimagined in a fantasy setting with cute girls.

If actual touristy gondoliers are any indication it pays very handsomely. You fucked up if you're doing less than 150k/year in actual venice, most are at least in the 200s+. Now add "on mars" to that equation.

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Why in the fuck would someone pay a man to to be their guide when you could have a cute pink haired anime girl do it for you instead?

Do Akatsuki and Akari get together in the manga or Avvenire? I cant remember anymore

Because cute pink haired anime girls are selling their bodies.
Less work for more money.
Now add "on mars" to that equation.

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Doesn't matter.
They do in doujins.

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that's why I don't fuck with aria doujins

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Unironically more fulfilling than the series.

>200 iq

It's been ages since I read the manga but if I remember correctly it's somewhat implied in one chapter that they're meant for each other, but other than that, nothing serious.

Akari is asexual. Some shipping bait here and there, but nothing major.

201 IQ here, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is better.

I know right? There's plenty of other stuff to fap to.

They are both better.

user, anime isn't real.