Aria the Animation to me is the definition of dont judge a book by its cover. Simply put: it may just be the worst and most boring thing I have ever come to witness. I generally rate based on enjoyment but I felt like I had to be a bit more objective for such a critically acclaimed work such as this one. So let me begin: STORY: This is an easy section to rate this on because if you didnt know there is NO story. Its just the daily lives of these girls and their animals doing stuff while some music plays in the background. There really isnt much else to say. 0/10 ART: Its decent. Id say this is the only part I somewhat liked about Aria. The outfits were different and unlike much else Ive seen when tackling this medium. One of my only complaints would be that the Undines outfits are a bit outofplace to me when comparing them to the background characters but I guess thats to be expected. 5/10 CHARACTERS: To me at least I dont see anything special with these characters AT ALL They all just act normal so I guess thats fine? The thing is: they all have the same personality. Nothing sets the apart which is odd. At least make them somewhat special? But I digress.. 12/10 MUSIC: Why? Why would you not only have make one of the most boring shows ever but then just add the most boring music to accompany it? At some points you could barely even hear it and even then I felt like the soundtrack got drowned out by the characters voices when they talked. I could see this soundtrack being good for maybe fishing? I personally would NOT go fishing and listen to the OST but thats just me. In the anime 1/10 On its own 5/10 ENJOYMENT: I know I said this would be more of an objective piece but I cant help but to have a place/rating for my own enjoyment of this work. Aria the Animation baffles me in the sense that it can fool so many people into thinking this is a work of art. But instead to me is one of the most boring things I have had the displeasure of sitting through. It took me a total of 13 days to watch this because I kept falling asleep to it. And you may have guessed it but it took 13 days to watch this because I fell asleep EVERY episode. Im in absolute disbelief that something of this caliber is so highly praised. negative 10/10 Since I still have a bit of time I decided to write up on my thoughts of each episode: EPISODE 1: This episode is basically just a standard introduction episode to the series theres also some girl who shows up who doesnt actually contribute anything and makes me hate the episode a bit more. I fell asleep around the 15 minute mark. EPISODE 2: The only redeeming part of this episode is when the blonde lady said ara araa. I fell asleep at 18 minutes. EPISODE 3: So all the characters get introduced and theyre all cookiecutter in terms of personality. I ended up watching this entire episode but fell asleep quickly after. EPISODE 4: So this episode kind of confused me because they introduce these cool motorcycle things that look faster than those super slow gondolas. Like why even ride the gondolas? I guess it fits with the slow sluggish boring nature of this show. I fell asleep about 17 minutes into this episode. EPISODE 5: Realized this was a beach episode and still fell asleep about 6 minutes in. They somehow made beach episodes boring. EPISODE 6: All you need to know about this episode is that the green haired girl doesnt like being left handed. I fell asleep shortly after that. EPISODE 7: So in this episode theyre taking some guests on a gondola and I really just could care less at this point about the gondolas. I fell asleep about 12 minutes into it. EPISODE 8: Aright now we are talking. This is probably the only episode out of the 13 I had any type of enjoyment in. We follow around the fat cat during his day and its pretty cool until around the point he gets into a superhero outfit. I thought that part just got a bit lame really. I didnt end up falling asleep in this episode but I did right after. EPISODE 9: In this episode I think they went to meet that unimportant girl from the first episode? I literally couldnt be bothered enough to care and just went to sleep myself. EPISODE 10: This is a hot spring episode. They showed them in the hot spring for maybe a minute? These are typically my favorite episodes in anime but this was just absurd. I stuck around for the 23 minutes and just cried myself to sleep. EPISODE 11: The tan girl sang me to sleep in this episode. I think it was about 13 minutes in. EPISODE 12: This episode was a bit nice. It had a nice warm atmosphere and it was snowing which was cool. I did end up falling asleep anyway around the 15 minute mark. I really just dont like these characters enough. EPISODE 13: The final episode. Finally. This episode was just a cliche final episode where they just have some type of celebration. And look who it is. The girl from the first episode I did not really care about. Honestly after this episode I was just depressed because I didnt know why I spent 2 weeks watching something I did not enjoy whatsoever. Just sat there with nothing to say once it finished and crawled into bed. I was done. I didnt care anymore. As the days pass I still sit at my computer screen with Aria the Animations anilist page. I look and stare at it in disappointment knowing that theres 514 people who have this favorited. Im sorry to everyone who has had to pretend to like this show for whatever reason. Thank you for reading