Sorry. I abase myself.

I liked the first series. I loved it. But I only got10 episodes into the second one and then I quit. Here's what I wrote:

I really loved Aria, the Animation. It was like meeting the beautiful girl of my dreams and falling in love with her.

Aria the Natural was like the first time I visited the family of the girl of my dreams, and found out that the father was an alky, the mother was a cranky old lady who smoked, and the kid sister was a slut who wore too much makeup and did drugs.

Neo-Venezia in the first series was a magical place, a place of wonder, a city as designed by the Disney corporation. It felt like it was part of the Magic Kingdom. Neo-Venezia in the second series wasn't as nice. There were cobwebs in the corner. There were dark shadows where something spooky seemed to be moving when I wasn't looking directly at them. There were ruined places, abandoned buildings with broken windows.

And I became increasingly uncomfortable spending time with Alicia. She was my least favorite character in the original series, too, but she was tolerable. In the second series she started to grate really badly.

I got to episode 10 and finally admitted to myself that I wasn't having fun anymore.