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The story focuses on Aria Company, the smallest gondolier tour business in the city with only two employees. It is run by [[Onee-Sama|Alicia Florence]], who one day welcomes a new apprentice called Akari Mizunashi. Most of the plot deals with [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|the relationship between the two girls]] and Akari's efforts to become a Prima, the highest rank of undine, signified by being allowed to steer a gondola without wearing gloves. Akari also befriends and trains with apprentice undines from other companies, who each get their own screen time as the series progresses.

For people who like lovely imagery of beautiful girls against a wondrous backdrop, this [[Slice of Life]] series is a nice change of pace from the action-filled and [[Fan Service|fanservicy]] fare of most other anime. For this reason ([[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|and others]]), it's often compared to another Slice-of-Life work, ''[[Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou]]''.

 

 

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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Several chapters in the manga that would normally cover only half of an episode in anime are expanded to full-episode stories in the anime. Examples include Akira taking a couple on a tour prior to training the three apprentices together (and including the couple in the training) along with the wedding sub-plot when Akari helps the mailman one day.

* [[Darkskinned Blonde]]: Athena, though she has purple hair.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Alice, and occasionally Aika when dealing with Akari's wide-eyed idealism.

* [[Dojikko]]: Athena, despite being an excellent undine and a great singer.

* [[Earth That Used to Be Better]]: Though tourists are apparently happy to return home, in some cases unimpressed with the beauty of Aqua, it's made clear in dialogue that this applies. Until she comes to Aqua, Ai has never seen a blue sky, and Akari comments that back home she couldn't go in the ocean or dig in the soil like she does on Aqua, and, most importantly for the series, Venice flooded a couple centuries ago.

* [[Sweet Dreams Fuel]]: So, so much :)

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Akira.

* [[Theme Naming]]: Pretty much all the characters' names start with A; also a partial example of [[Theme Initials]]. It can get pretty confusing sometimes, especially when there are some characters with very similar sounding names. (Alice and Alicia break the [[One Steve Limit]], for example.)

** On a smaller scale, all three Himeya Company undines named have a Japanese-sounding given name (Aika, Akira, and Ayumi), a middle initial, and a non-Japanese family name.

* [[Time Travel]]: {{spoiler|Akari does this by crossing a bridge to witness the birth of Neo-Venezia}}, complete with age shifted versions of much of the main cast. Like a lot of the weird stuff in the series, cats are involved. And there's a bit about a letter delivered from the past. It's not really time-travel, but the effect is much the same, as Akari is pulled into an odd bubble of space/time by the woman's cat-as-little-girl so that the letter could finally be delivered.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Alicia (the girly girl) and Akira (the tomboy) when they were young.

* [[Tsundere]]: Aika, especially in the first season.

 

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