‘Aria: The Masterpiece, Volume 6’ with story and art by Kozue Amano is a manga set on the planet Aqua and the gondoliers who travel its canals.

Akari Mizunashi is learning the ways of becoming an undine, or gondolier, with Aria Company. Along the way they build a new pallina for their dock, celebrate Epiphany in a magical way and attend a moon viewing party. The seasons change and gentle friendships abound.

I have loved every volume of this series I’ve read. The setting and characters are so gentle and sweet. The stories are so positive and uplifting. Book me on the next flight to Aqua!

ARIA is just the most gorgeous and atmospheric series about living on Mars you will ever encounter. Amano's art is crisp and clear and this new version does it so much justice! The story is definitely slice of life, so some readers are going to be put off by that, but if you've read the first 5 volumes, you're in for the final 2! I've noticed that some of the earlier volumes of the series seem to already be out of print, so I hope Tokyopop is able to reprint them quickly!

I received this manga from the publisher/Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

Eep! I am so happy that the newest volume in the Aria: The Masterpiece is out, or well, on Netgalley. I am a bit sad though.. because the next volume will be the last one. And I don't want this series to end just yet. I don't want to leave Neo-Venezia. Especially not after going to the real Venice last year for my honeymoon.

This one is navigation (still love that instead of chapters it is navigation) 51 to 60 along with 2 special navigations.

We learn more and more about Venice and about how undines know what ways to go or what poles are best to tie their gondolas to. I love getting more information about the job, about how things work, we are at volume 6 and you would think we learned all that we could learn, but apparently not. Yay!
And it becomes a bigger point in the first navigation as Akari gets the job to fix an old rotten palina herself.

Next to learning more about the job, we see the passing of time even more clearly than in the previous books. I know the ending already (saw the anime many times), and I love the build-up towards it. Akari and her friends are growing and soon they will be full undines.

And of course there is plenty of other things, like that Alice has some fun games to play after school, we see childhood friends and the past of several characters which had me delighted (though the art for the characters really wasn't my fav), Aika and Al get stuck in a well and I was just praying for a kiss, that moment during the 2nd birthday of a certain someone gave me tears, lots of motivation and lessons, Christmas and Epiphany, and before I knew it the volume was over. It was just so much fun to read this one.

I would once again highly recommend this manga to everyone looking for a slow slice of life with fantastic backgrounds, art, and characters.

ARC Copy...Lavish and beautiful as always in terms of art style and the sheer beauty of Aqua-Neo Venetian locale. It was nice to see more slice of life episodes with the main cast.

Good easy reading fun. I am really happy Net Galley accepted my request to view this. Thank you very much!!!