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First hazukashii serifu of the episode comes right at the beginning during the intro. Nice job, Akari ;) It's a cold last night of the year (a year on Aqua is two times the year on Earth, so that's why the calendar says 24), so it's time for a New Year's Party with everybody, of course. Akari meets up with Alicia and Woody and Akatsuki at the big square in Neo Venezia where the big countdown will be... she wishes Ai-chan could be there with her, though... well, guess what?

アイちゃんｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━ ！！
Ai-chan kita---!

アイちゃんかわいいよアイちゃん！
Ai-chan kawaii yo Ai-chan!

Akari hears a voice that she swears is Ai-chan's... Ai-chan pops up from the other side of the table :) Seems Alicia kept it a secret from Akari so she'd be surprised, and surprised she is. Ai-chan seems to already know who everybody is thanks to Akari's e-mails.... repeating what she said (good or bad) pretty much verbatim, it seems, much to Akatsuki's chagrin (^^;;;) Akatsuki's nii-san comes and gives Ai-chan a present, some pretty glass beans -- beans are the traditional thing to eat during New Year's, and the glass beans are a popular item, it seems. Akira, Aika, and Al-kun show up next. Ai-chan "gets" the people she doesn't know, once again repeating what Akari said in her e-mails. Akira is the "oni teacher".. then Aika stops her right before she asks Al-kun a very hazukashii question (^^;;) But Akari's happy that Ai-chan's meeting everybody, almost like meeting characters in a novel... another hazukashii serifu (^^;;) Grandma then shows up to see everybody... but then President Aria runs off like he's prone to do, and Ai-chan and Akari follow him through the town...

Easily the best ep of ARIA as Alicia, Akira, and Athena talk about how they met as Akari, Aika, and Alice listen. Akira was kinda cute when she was younger ;) And Athena, yeeesh, she hasn't changed a bit, has she? Plenty of good laughs from her antics there. She must have a pretty tough head to have survived slamming into bridges that much (^^;;) Anyways, Akari, Aika, and Alice are pretty much the same as their senpais, but soon enough they won't be able to be together all the time... but even so, they can take Alicia's advice and enjoy every day now, and later :)

はずかしいセリフ禁止ぃぃぃ！！ hazukashii serifu kinshiiiii!!

Aika did good to be able to hold it in for so long considering how many hazukashii serifu were said :) Scene with Akari waving (frantically) to Aika and Alice was wonderful, and the insert song made it even moreso. Nicely done :) And what's this? Ai-chan wants to see Akari again? If that happens the last episode I'll be just a bit happy ;)

  
  
(◎ω◎)ぷいにゅう～
puinyuu~

It's all President Aria (◎ω◎) all the time in this 2-part President Aria special! ;)

In the first part... It's pretty quiet at Aria Company so it's time for some cleaning as Akari explains to Ai-chan in the usual e-mail. President Aria wants to help out, but all he does is get in the way. He tries to make some stew.... and it ends up very much inedible (^^;;) So he runs away, typing up a note to Akari and Alicia saying not to search for him. Of course, they assume he was going away since he knew he was getting in the way.... there's not really anywhere for him to go so he wonders around then stops to eat lunch.. he think's he's made friends with a bird, but then the bird eats his onigiri... and then he almost gets taken all the way back to Earth by a (cute) girl.. and was that doll she was carrying Ke○ro? ;) President Aria thinks of visiting President Hime, but she's with Aika so he heads on back and eats what's left of his onigiri on the roof of Aria Company.. and then he can't get down (^^;;) Alicia gets him and they all sit down to eat.. and somehow, Alicia has made a new and improved version of President Aria's special stew that's actually edible. Amazing (^^;;)

Ai-chan replies that she feels almost like the happiness that surrounds Aria Company is reaching her.

恥ずかしいセリフ禁止！
hazukashii serifu kinshi!

I'll say it since Aika wasn't there ;)

We start off with Ai-chan reading her usual e-mail to Akari. This time she tried to make baked potatoes, but they didn't turn out that well so she doesn't want to show them to her parents... Akari, being postive as usual, says that since Ai-chan's feelings were put into them it'll be out :) Aika's out, Akari's out rowing with Alice and President Aria. As they're doing that, another Undine passes by, singing very beautifully... Alice seems to be in a bad mood, though. A dekkai bad mood ;) She thinks her left hand is a bit too useless, so she's started her "Left Hand Punishment Campaign". She pulls at her left hand and President Aria licks it (^^;;;;) But, anyways, Alice is keeping a cat. Only problem is that cats aren't allowed at Orange Planet (the company where she works). They go to Orange Planet and Alice's room, and there in her wardrobe is a itty bitty panda-cat-like thing. That would be Maa-kun, the cat she's keeping. She sets it down next to President Aria. Since Aika's out Alice didn't have a choice but to go to Akari for advice...

Apparently Maa-kun really, really, really likes President Aria's mochimochiponpon. No, it's not what you think it is :P The girl who we heard singing comes in and... dang. She has to be the dojikko to beat all dojikkos (^^;;) Yup, that's Athena. Akari changes into the Orange Planet uniform and goes with Athena and Alice to eat dinner. Seems Athena doesn't know about Maa-kun yet... Athena once again shows us her dojikkoness and Alice practices squeezing ketchup out of the bottle using her left hand (^^;;) As we saw, Athena's a dojikko and generally an airhead, Alice explains. Alice thinks her to be a lot like her left hand, not really useful. Is it okay to say that right in front of Athena? (^^;;)

After being out with Alice and Aika as the sun sets (with a hazukashii serifu kinshi! in there, of course) Akari heads off to do some shopping with President Aria after being asked by Alicia. While out, President Aria seems to sense something and runs off and Akari follows. They arrive in a small garden with a tree in it and also a lot of cats. A rather mysterious looking little girl (テラカワイス！) is next to the tree -- she gives Akari a letter and asks her to deliver it, and Akari says she will and does the pinky promise. But the address in the letter isn't anywhere to be found... she asks the mailman for some help the next day. Seems there's a data card in the envelope, a pretty old type of data card that isn't used anymore. While out rowing President Aria once again seems to sense something when the sound of a bell comes, and Akari sees that girl once again. The girl wants to know if her letter's been delivered yet... no, but Akari will do her best to do it. The girl then says that letters cross both time and space to deliver people's feelings, then goes. Her name seems to be Ami...

Quickly, since I'm kinda behind here. See Garten for the full summary and such. We're introduced to a new character this time, with a name starting with "A", of course. Alice, 14 years old, works for another guide company called Orange Planet. She's said to be a natural at being an Undine, but she's not exactly the sociable type. And for an Undine being able to keep a smile on is pretty important... of course, Alice meets Akari and things change a bit. As Akari takes Akatsuki-san (the guy we briefly saw in the first episode) around, Alice follows along, and by watching Akari, she slowly understands why she's smiling all the time. By the end, Alice finally shows us a good smile -- very kawaii :)

Akari writes an e-mail(?) to Ai-chan then goes downstairs and is surprised to find water inside. It's almost summer so the water level has risen in Neo-Venice (or Neo-Venezia, whatever ;) -- a phenomenon called aqua alta. Everybody pretty much stays inside and takes it easy while it's happening. After a bit of a nap Akari wakes up to find a reply from Ai-chan. Ai-chan was really happy to hear all that's going on from Akari. Even though it might be cloudy outside it's bright and sunny in Ai-chan's heart..

恥ずかしいセリフ禁止！
hazukashii serifu kinshi!

...is what Aika would say if she heard that, but anyways ;) Alicia's out for the day so Akari decides to do something different since things are a bit different than normal and goes walking around town even though the streets are covered in water, pulling President Aria behind her in a small boat. She was going to head to a store to buy more food for President Aria, but she's kinda lost and it starts raining so they have to take shelter. Happens they're right next to where Aika works, Himeya. President Aria rather likes the cat (that actually looks like a cat) there, President Hime. Aika spots them and invites them inside... while President Aria drools all over President Hime's food (that's not how you win favor with the ladies, my man) Aika gives a pop quiz to Akari. Why are the cats with aquamarine eyes made the presidents of the companies that the Undines work for? Because aquarmarine would be the color of the goddess who is said to keep those on boats safe. But the fun stops when Akira comes in demanding that Aika stop goofing off and practice or something. And after Akira says some not quite nice stuff about Alicia, Aika says she's going to Aria Company and never coming back...

Akari Mizunashi (wearing a nekomimi cap) wakes up to yet another beautiful day on Aqua (Mars), along with an odd cat-like creature that I'll call Ariashachou -- so called because it's the shachou "president", of the Aria Company that Akari works for. I'm not kidding ;) After seeing off Aishia, a call comes in from one Akatsuki-san. He wanted to hear Aishia's voice but got Momiko instead -- he calls Akari Momiko because of her pigtails. He's busy so he's got no time for chatting so he hangs up... Akari's second summer on Aqua in the city of Neo-Venice is almost here. She came there to become an Undine, one who guides people around the canals of the city on a gondola... Another phone call comes in, this time from a little girl. She says she wants to ride in Alicia's gondola, but there's no time. She says that anybody else would be fine, but Akari can't take people out by herself as only an apprentice. Akari heads out to practice with Ariashachou and finds that girl that just called in her gondola, asking for a ride. Well,not asking, more like demanding -- or else she'll scream that she's been kidnapped. Akari doesn't have much a choice, then...

Akari takes the girl out on her gondola as she practices to keep the gondola steady. The girl notes that she's not doing a good job of it... Akari asks the girl if she likes gondolas. Not really... the girl's come from Earth so things on Aqua are rather inconvinient. Akari tells the girl her name and the girl tells Akari her name, Ai. While going around the canals Akari and Ai-chan run into Akari's best friend, Aika (Chiwa!). Aika tells Ai-chan to get off, no free rides and such, then Ai-chan asks who's the best. Aika says she is, so Ai-chan tells her to row, since she's her friend. Akari suggests they go see Alicia so they all get on one gondola and head out -- Aika apparently likes Alicia quite a bit. Ai-chan notes once again, this time with Aika rowing, that the gondola's rocking... Akari starts doing her thing as a guide, telling Ai-chan about the history of Aqua. It's been about 150 years since people started living on Aqua after it was terraformed, and Neo-Venice was built based on the city of Venice on Earth... Aika says Akari can't give the tour for free, but Akari wants Ai-chan to like Neo-Venice when she goes back. Akari loves the city, the inconvinience, the slow pace of things... it's like a miracle. That the two of them met might be a miracle as well. Aika jumps in -- no embarassing lines! ;)