Hidan no Aria (Aria the Scarlet Ammo)

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[font=Verdana][color=green]On another forums I go on, I spotted this hilarious post, which sums up how ridiculous a premise Hidan no Aria is.

Person A "Hey? You know what would be a good idea to combat the drastic increase in violent crime recently?"

Person B "Increase the training that the police receive, increase the pay so more people join the force, drastically improve the standard and the amount of equipment provided to the police, crack down on the circulation of guns, increase the security of civilians houses, introduce decent CCTV cameras, and possibly increase the punishment of crime, perhaps we should even make examples of people, to help scare people out of crime"

Person A "What the ****? You taking the piss? I have a good idea...

Person B "What?"

Person A "You know how teenagers these days play on shooting games and stuff, and they think shooting is cool? Why don't we set up schools that teach children and teenagers how to fire guns, fight, and kill people. They definitely would be enthusiastic to learn, because guns are cool. After we teach them, and provide them with guns and ammo, we can set them on the city to reduce crime."

Person B "Don't you think it's incredibly irresponsible giving children and teenagers, who are pretty unpredictable and haven't properly learnt to evaluate things or control their emotions, guns and the training to do serious damage with them? And where are we going to get the money to provide the children with the guns and ammo, I'm pretty certain that kids are the sort of people that wouldn't conserve ammo, in fact I'm pretty sure they could waste several cartridges seeing if they could shoot the leaves falling down from a tree. In fact, what's even to stop them from going into crime themselves? We've just given them guns and training, you know what kids are like, if one of them gets bullied a lot, what's to say he won't lash out and end up killing student? That be the opposite effect. And could you expect some of the kids at highschool to have the resolve to shoot? How are they going to earn money if they're fighting crime, since they won't have had a normal education?"

Person A "We give them money for preventing crimes, and don't give money to those who can't or don't prevent crime, so we can save on costs!! I'm a genius!!"

Person B "Who's going to pay for their education, and for the classrooms, schools are very expensive you know. And most importantly, if this worked and crime did decrease, which would be astounding, then the number of children that would be able to make money would decrease, since there'd be fewer jobs, so we'd have Hundreds of kids who were professionally trained and desperate for money, since they couldn't get any other jobs since they had no formal education since they were training with guns instead. Wouldn't they then just turn to crime? Think how much money we could waste training and providing guns and ammunition to a student, only for them to get desperate if they couldn't arrest anyone and thus turn to crime and end up in jail, which is another big money hole. You'd ruin the economy and would lock up a large proportion of the younger generation in jail, which is very bad since we have a declining population and we need them working."

Person A "Oh, I guess your right, which is unfortunate since I just enforced my new education and crime prevention policy while you were making your passionate speech. Ah well."
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/sigh

I like the premise, and Aria has potential to, if naught else, provide some very silly Lolitsun.

But...

What the fuck, Kinji?

"My genetics grant me awesome hax powers, but I don't want them. I wanna be normal waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh"!?

Fuck you, man. Fuck you.
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Episode 2:
Spoiler:
"Serious" moment in the middle of speech used by the writer to try and say "hey, my character has depth!"; girl is in the shower when he gets back ; "It's like I'm your wife" ; boy happens to be by the door when the girl exits and gets hit for it, replete with a "pervert" and "die" ; clingy screaming ; violence for noncompliance ; awkward situation in a love park ; extremely boisterous friend.

All of the above were moments in which I started to become annoyed with the show. However, it's still entertaining, and I'm being harder than I should be.
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Alright…
Spoiler:
This show seems to be focusing on the “moé” and romance parts of the story and is leaving out the action, the same mistake made with what I watched of Shana S2, IMO. In fact, this really is like an odd mix of Shana and Index or something. Peach buns instead of melon bread, Rank E instead of Level 0…

EDIT: Actually the director of Aria also worked on Shana and Index… Huh.
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yepperoni wrote...
Alright…
Spoiler:
This show seems to be focusing on the “moé” and romance parts of the story and is leaving out the action, the same mistake made with what I watched of Shana S2, IMO. In fact, this really is like an odd mix of Shana and Index or something. Peach buns instead of melon bread, Rank E instead of Level 0…

EDIT: Actually the director of Aria also worked on Shana and Index… Huh.


Spoiler:

Don't worry the action parts are yet to come. The story will be lacking some real action for a while since it's a manga/light-novel adaptation, and this is the part where nothing really exciting happens for a while.

small spoiler below.
The next action scenes will probably be when we get to see some flashbacks of Kinji at the entrance exam. However, those were not very long.
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yepperoni wrote...
Alright…
Spoiler:
This show seems to be focusing on the “moé” and romance parts of the story and is leaving out the action, the same mistake made with what I watched of Shana S2, IMO. In fact, this really is like an odd mix of Shana and Index or something. Peach buns instead of melon bread, Rank E instead of Level 0…

EDIT: Actually the director of Aria also worked on Shana and Index… Huh.


Spoiler:
Yeah, it seems to be a little bit, (which I don't completely mind), but that may be because this basically was a segway episode in order to get Kinji to do a mission, so next week should be full of action, just like the first one was. Also, I notice myself that Aria is a little annoying, but doesn't completely bother me. Rinko and Hotogi were quite nice this episode, and Hotogi's Yandereness is a site to behold. I'd really like to see her and Aria on a mission together with Kinji, and have hotogi's yandereness out to the max.


Arizth wrote...
/sigh

I like the premise, and Aria has potential to, if naught else, provide some very silly Lolitsun.

But...

What the fuck, Kinji?

"My genetics grant me awesome hax powers, but I don't want them. I wanna be normal waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh"!?

Fuck you, man. Fuck you.


I know, right? I really like him when he's in his hysteria mode. I hope we find out the reason why he's so turned off by it/more hysteria mode.
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TwilightEngel wrote...


Arizth wrote...
/sigh

I like the premise, and Aria has potential to, if naught else, provide some very silly Lolitsun.

But...

What the fuck, Kinji?

"My genetics grant me awesome hax powers, but I don't want them. I wanna be normal waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh"!?

Fuck you, man. Fuck you.


I know, right? I really like him when he's in his hysteria mode. I hope we find out the reason why he's so turned off by it/more hysteria mode.


I pretty much think that the reason will be revealed at maybe
Spoiler:
episode 4 or 5 is my guess.

And I pretty much felt like that too, kinda irritated, when first I read the manga a year ago but I understood after knowing the reason
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I like it so far, despite having not read the manga. Aria is just so freaking cute and at the same time can grate on the nerves, lol. However I can tell already I'm going to like Shirayuki. Who doesn't like violent, yandere, lol.

I'm also wondering about the whole Hysteria mode thing...
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Very impressive (and quick).
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Looky-tan Got Megane?
ArashiX wrote...
However I can tell already I'm going to like Shirayuki. Who doesn't like violent, yandere, lol.


I am still liking Riko more, you'll see why later if this follows the manga.
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Looking4Moar wrote...
ArashiX wrote...
However I can tell already I'm going to like Shirayuki. Who doesn't like violent, yandere, lol.


I am still liking Riko more, you'll see why later if this follows the manga.


Except that the manga has been in hiatus for a long long long long long long long time.
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you guys do know it has a manga series right? it has like 12 more chapters but it's not that far ahead
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the second episode was very fun...I enjoyed the fact that Aria is causing so much trouble for kinji, I really want to see the next episode.
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For those who have read the manga RAWs or LN... when did Aria know about Kinji's Hysteria Mode and its way to activate it?
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rowanatkinson23 wrote...
For those who have read the manga RAWs or LN... when did Aria know about Kinji's Hysteria Mode and its way to activate it?


based on the light novel... she won't find out for a long time =/
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Renovartio wrote...
rowanatkinson23 wrote...
For those who have read the manga RAWs or LN... when did Aria know about Kinji's Hysteria Mode and its way to activate it?


based on the light novel... she won't find out for a long time =/


at least she will be aware of it... it would be nice to see her blushing while thinking, "Oh , Kinji's getting turned because of me?" or gets really pissed when it doesn't activate with her or activates to other girls
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rowanatkinson23 wrote...
Renovartio wrote...
rowanatkinson23 wrote...
For those who have read the manga RAWs or LN... when did Aria know about Kinji's Hysteria Mode and its way to activate it?


based on the light novel... she won't find out for a long time =/


at least she will be aware of it... it would be nice to see her blushing while thinking, "Oh , Kinji's getting turned because of me?" or gets really pissed when it doesn't activate with her or activates to other girls


when I say I awhile I mean awhile =/ I've read volumes 1-5 (download mind you) and well...

Spoiler:
it still hasn't happened yet
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Renovartio wrote...
rowanatkinson23 wrote...
Renovartio wrote...
rowanatkinson23 wrote...
For those who have read the manga RAWs or LN... when did Aria know about Kinji's Hysteria Mode and its way to activate it?


based on the light novel... she won't find out for a long time =/


at least she will be aware of it... it would be nice to see her blushing while thinking, "Oh , Kinji's getting turned because of me?" or gets really pissed when it doesn't activate with her or activates to other girls


when I say I awhile I mean awhile =/ I've read volumes 1-5 (download mind you) and well...

Spoiler:
it still hasn't happened yet


even the existence of hysteria mode/savant syndrome? so that means
Spoiler:
Aria hasn't done a background search of Kinji yet??. Wasn't the hysteria mode incident of Kinji well-known? I don't know if Shirayuki knows about it but it looks like Riko knows


with H-mode(shortened Hysteria mode) Kinji only needs a highly durable gun to block of bullets like Train Hartnet of Black Cat
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rowanatkinson23 wrote...
Renovartio wrote...
rowanatkinson23 wrote...
Renovartio wrote...
rowanatkinson23 wrote...
For those who have read the manga RAWs or LN... when did Aria know about Kinji's Hysteria Mode and its way to activate it?


based on the light novel... she won't find out for a long time =/


at least she will be aware of it... it would be nice to see her blushing while thinking, "Oh , Kinji's getting turned because of me?" or gets really pissed when it doesn't activate with her or activates to other girls


when I say I awhile I mean awhile =/ I've read volumes 1-5 (download mind you) and well...

Spoiler:
it still hasn't happened yet


even the existence of hysteria mode/savant syndrome? so that means
Spoiler:
Aria hasn't done a background search of Kinji yet??. Wasn't the hysteria mode incident of Kinji well-known? I don't know if Shirayuki knows about it but it looks like Riko knows


with H-mode(shortened Hysteria mode) Kinji only needs a highly durable gun to block of bullets like Train Hartnet of Black Cat


Spoiler:
She doesn't know what it is he has. She think's that the thing he enter's is some suppressed personality that he changes into while in life or death situations (like in the manga 123change) She doesn't know of hysteria mode yet
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Spoiler:
Renovartio wrote...
rowanatkinson23 wrote...
Renovartio wrote...
rowanatkinson23 wrote...
Renovartio wrote...
rowanatkinson23 wrote...
For those who have read the manga RAWs or LN... when did Aria know about Kinji's Hysteria Mode and its way to activate it?


based on the light novel... she won't find out for a long time =/


at least she will be aware of it... it would be nice to see her blushing while thinking, "Oh , Kinji's getting turned because of me?" or gets really pissed when it doesn't activate with her or activates to other girls


when I say I awhile I mean awhile =/ I've read volumes 1-5 (download mind you) and well...

Spoiler:
it still hasn't happened yet


even the existence of hysteria mode/savant syndrome? so that means
Spoiler:
Aria hasn't done a background search of Kinji yet??. Wasn't the hysteria mode incident of Kinji well-known? I don't know if Shirayuki knows about it but it looks like Riko knows


with H-mode(shortened Hysteria mode) Kinji only needs a highly durable gun to block of bullets like Train Hartnet of Black Cat


Spoiler:
She doesn't know what it is he has. She think's that the thing he enter's is some suppressed personality that he changes into while in life or death situations (like in the manga 123change) She doesn't know of hysteria mode yet


Wow thx for spoiling me a bit... it gave my curiosity a punch +rep