Audience reviews
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Hisashe
Alright Here's how it is the first season absolute masterpiece but then you come to this season and its totally different there's hardly a real story that keeps you engaged and it feels as though instead of having a show of students that catch criminals this season is all about Gay love and Women empowerment not saying it bad of course but when going from the first season that actiony and has actual good romance you come to this and it's just a meh so honestly if your reading reviews first before watching I'd recommend skipping this season if you want to hold the good memories
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This anime well the second season of hidan no aria was alright, i rlly love the art style it was nice and it rlly kept to the original.
But what i really didnt like is that the story literally drifts from what hidan no aria also i havent read the manga so idk what happens there but like some of the characters the new ones who were o find it was abjt stupid, im ok with havung akari in the story n all gives the new season a new path but most of the anime was filler, and it was moslty about how much all the other characters loved akari this isnt hidan no aria this more like my love triangle with akari mamiya thats what the tittle should be.
Like where are the murders the bus hijaking, solving cases thats what hidan no aira primarely is about this more slice of life than anything as much as…
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I watched Hidan no Aria and its spinoff series Hidan no Aria AA. Thoughts on both series provided below.
Hidan no Aria:
I remember some of the action scenes were kind of cool. Art style was bland but the animation was okay. The OP and ED songs were both great.
Otherwise it was complete trash. I mean literally textbook garbage as far as the medium goes. All the things that people say they hate about anime? This series exemplifies most of them. It's an action harem series where the main character gets power ups by becoming sexually aroused. I can enjoy/tolerate a ton of otaku pandering, but this show was trash even by my very low standards. The plot was also completely ridiculous and involved one of the female characters being the descendant of Sherlock Holmes or something. The characters…
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I don't know why many people are complaining about the AA version. I see people crying a lot about this only because it's not a sequel of the first anime.
Why would you want a sequel of the first version of this? I see people saying this is kinda 'cringe' because they're lesbians (i don't see anything wrong with it, but idk, just otakus averages being that) and ironically the first version was even more 'cringe'.
An Aria who gets shy about childish things, having a virgin protagonist and a basic trama that is even less interesting and more predectible than AA.... that's what is the first version of the anime.
AA not just has better characters, it improved the personality of Aria, she is much better, mature and individual in this ainme, and it's the same for the ex protagonist even if he…
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Hidan no Aria AA (2015)
Akari a girl who comes across a bit useless in the Butei academy. She has a few secrets which explain the reason behind her. She wants to be the partner of Aria so much she is willing to do whatever is needed to achieve this. She has a nice group of friends who are pushing forwards with their roles and we see some old faces and new in various funny scenarios.
The show itself was a bit of a shock from watching the main series and the OVA because Aria has been a very difficult girl who has a very up tight personality. I mean she took ages to fully open up and be kind with Kinji. In this one however she has a completely different personality and is like a Tsundere older sister type. It didn't feel right to begin with in the first few episodes. It nearly made me drop…
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Ok, so I recently finished Hidan No Aria the first season, and I really like it, one of my personal favorites in terms of story, action, character development, and Seeing Kinjis and Arias relationship develop. When I finished the first season I was hyped to see a second one, but all my hopes were shattered in the blink of an eye. Hidan No Aria AA is really bad in my opinion. I feel it would've been better to just start a new story altogether with new characters and a whole new action-filled story, instead they ditched continuing the plot from season 1, and gave us this Yuri Garbage. The story itself is plain and dry, the action scenes are very poor and the characters are quite annoying. The worst part is seeing the Old characters like Kinji and Aria, who never exchange a single word throug…
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(I was not allowed to write a first impression so i watched more episodes to adjust my review. Well life is hard)
This is my second time reviewing, and probably nobody won't see this (so ironic), but i had so much thoughts that it's such a waste to put them away.
First there are several things about Hidan no Aria AA. 1: It's just a side story, maybe even before the happenings of 1st season. 2: the studio is changed from J.C.Staff to Dogakobo. 3: many many more changes.
-Story: 6
What would you feel if the second season you're hyping turned out to be a side story? Yeah. Yeah.... But that means we should view this as a separate story. AA centers around Akari, a first-year who idolizes Aria. She wants to become an elite butei despite being a noob. In short, zero to hero concept.
All the fami…
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Story: (6) Just like every other girl battle anime, except in a school setting where students are butei (detectives that carry a weapon). Amica are teacher-senpais to their kouhai's to give them special training and perform operations.
Art: (9)
I loved the art. It was simple but it looked beautiful. The colors were vibrant and there was much detail. Some might say its kind of old fashioned compared to the art style today, but their big eyes are the attractive point. However, I did get confused through some parts of the series since some characters had the same colored eyes and hairs.
Sound: (8)
Just like every other anime the sound was fine. The opening song wasn't bad, but it wasn't very memorable. Some characters do have annoying voices and others have very similar voices.
Character:…
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Yo! i want you guys to know this is my first review so please excuse me if my review isn't good enough^^
May contain spoiler read on your own risks
Ok!, First off, When i start watching this anime. i feel kinda disappointed because the story revolves on another MC, i was expecting an Aria and kinji season T•T..soo i was thinking dropping this anime after i watched episode 1. But i also thought.. Hey why not give it a chance?,..
Soo i continued watching this anime up to the end, the main character akari mamiya has full of suprises she isn't all that bad..^^ She's like aria but with a different skills & ability (I won't tell her skills just watch it ok? =3). The anime is also kinda funny but still revolves on action like season 1 so u won't have trouble dozing off, Oh, and if you'll notic…
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I didn't really consider Hidan no Aria to be a massive hit so I found myself quite off guard when I saw this on the calendar. To start, AA is not a sequel to the original Aria, but rather anther story that shares characters with the original. And let me cut to the chase on this one, unless yuri girl-girl interactions are your thing, this retelling falls short of even the original Aria, which itself isn't a particularly good show.
AA follows a group of girls one year younger than Aria's group in the first season. In particular, it follows a seemingly failure of a Butei named Akari who happens to have an inexplicable draw to Aria. The story revolves around her attempts to serve as Aria's apprentice as well as the various antics that her friends bring her into. Overall, I found this to be an…
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The first season of Hidan no Aria is quite under-appreciated among anime fans. Some bemoan the original series of being unoriginal and boring; mostly obtaining its sparse popularity from troll-subs resulting in people treating the original run as a joke. On the other hand, I thoroughly enjoyed the first season of Hidan no Aria for what it was. The one thing I really hated about the original run was how it ended, and an ending that felt empty and incomplete. As such, I was excited for a second season continuing what I enjoyed. This was not that. Not at all.
Despite the title of "Hidan no Aria", Aria is not the main protagonist. It is essentially a parallel story to the original focusing on a clumsy, underachiever named Mamiya Akari. The role Aria has is limited to a mentor role for Akari w…
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10 sentence review:
This is Hidan no Aria AA's spin-off manga adaptation with completely new female lead and new characters. If you enjoyed and are a great fan of the original Aria of the Scarlet Ammo anime you would definitely enjoy this because it's made for you. Even though it's a spin-off with new, unknown characters it managed to entice me. Old jokes are recycled including all those sundries that made the first season amusing to watch (Bulletproof uniforms, parachutes out of nowhere, Reki's monologue). Old characters make cameo appearance and act as comic reliefs (I had a blast with Kinji's recurring appearance and his exchanges with the new lead). Aria takes the spotlight as usual and there's a visible character development in the new girl by the end. Story is episodic slice of life/…
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There’s this anime I watched on Tuesdays, namely, Hidan no Aria AA. It’s literally a show about a bunch of lesbians... and they “fight.” Yet the fight scenes are seriously embarrassing! I seriously have never experienced an anime fight that made me cringe this hard until now. Actually, I probably have. This isn’t the worst thing ever, but seriously, with every passing episode, I think to myself: this is so cringey. And yet I sit there, watching the anime. Heck, I even want to watch more; I’m addicted to the cringe! Okay, not really, but I don’t mind watching another episode. Then people get pissed at me because I can’t sit through another episode of Shigatsu or FMA. Well, they’re pissed for good reason. The anime industry produces stuff like Hidan no Aria AA often. Why the hell am I wastin…
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This title made my autumn anime season colorful. When ongoing was about to end, I realized that I waited the episodes from this anime more than from any other title. So what is Hidan no Aria AA about? Let`s make a short review.
This is alternative version of the original story. Former main character Toyama Kinji was succesfully replaced by a cute girl Akari Mamiya. This is a good example for harem anime creators: cut the male characters from the plot, add kawaii little girls and yuri atmosphere — and it`ll be much better! It was such a brave decision and I definately approved it.
Plot
Akari wants to become Aria`s amica (some kind of partner and trainee at the same time). Aria is not easy to talk in, so she makes Akari to clear some goals to become her amica. Clearing it and dealing with…
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So Hidan no Aria AA is bad. Let's just get that right out of the way. It just keeps getting worse, too, introducing more bad characters and concepts every episode. It's actually impressive, in a way, how it outdoes its own record for terribleness later on. The last few episodes become much darker and the transition is really jarring and poorly handled, mostly accomplished by an exposition dump. And it pulls villains out of nowhere with very little setup, making the final conflict extremely difficult to care about.
Probably the worst thing about it is that none of the characters behave like actual peeople. They're all ridiculous and one note. Almost everyone is obsessed with someone else and that's it. There's a bit where someone traps another girl in her house and attacks her, and then th…
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Story: 5/10
The story wasn't exactly bad, but it was just leaps and bounds behind the original Hidan no Aria series with Aria as the actual heroine. The story was pretty standard for the Hidan no Aria series with our heroines fighting with the mysterious organization I-U with the cliche turn around points. The spin-off takes place in the same time period as when Aria first met Kinji, which was awfully confusing because I'm pretty sure at the time, Aria was living with Kinji and not in some fancy shmancy apartment building. I know the main focus of the series isn't on Aria, but the lack of Kinji in the series makes it difficult to exactly place the series time period wise.
Art & Sound: 7/10
I usually don't have very many complaints about the animation and soundtrack of anime, unless it's…
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**WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS**
*ALSO, PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY EXCEPT FOR THE PARTS THAT STATE I DO MEAN TO BE SERIOUS*
I don't know how to express it, but this anime was amazing!!! A great plot that unveiled at the end of the show, the typical tsundere/yandere/ecchi involved as with the first Hidan no Aria, except with one big twist. It's about a GIRL this time!!! Hooray! Now onto the critiques!
Story - 9
As aforementioned, this story has a great "plot" which was unveiled towards the end of the anime, as per typical 1-seasons. And then you have that amazing random "final boss" in the last episode, and a duet between our favorite two characters: the pair of A's. Holy crap did I watch something like this before or what??
Art - 9
In all seriousness, I actually liked the art here;…
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When they first announced a new Aria anime I assumed we might be getting a sequel to the original Hidan no Aria, Granted the original was by no means a great show but it was at least half decent. However instead of a sequel we got something called Hidan no Aria AA a spin off series that takes place around the same time.
Spin off's are normally an outcome of a surge in popularity for the main or parent show, From my viewpoint I don't really think the original Hidan no Aria was popular or even good enough to adapt a spin off but nevertheless we got one. Rarely do spin off's tend to surpass the original and Hidan no Aria AA is no exception to it.
Story-3
For starters Hidan no Aria AA can pretty much be watched even without seeing the original as it has no ties with it(As far as the anime i…
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