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The episodes of _Aria_ (all 3 seasons + specials) were not broadcasted in the
same order as in the manga (both _Aqua_ and _Aria_ , which were
chronologically-ordered). Instead they were broadcasted in an order to make
each season have certain overarching themes. This makes it difficult to
compare the individual stories from the anime and manga, and also to determine
which episodes are anime-original.

Which anime stories correspond to which manga chapters; which are anime-
original; and which chapters of the manga were not adapted in the anime?
Ideally I'd like the answer to be formatted in such a way so that I could
watch the anime in the original manga order.


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Which anime episodes of Aria correspond to which manga chapters?


This is a very difficult question to answer, but I love this series, so I'll
take a stab at it. I made [this chart showing which manga chapters correspond
to which anime episodes](http://tsleyson.github.io/aria_table.html). It's
ordered by manga chapter. At the bottom I included tables of manga-only
chapters and anime-only episodes. Please let me know if you find any mistakes
or oversights.

Unfortunately, establishing a correspondence between the Aria manga and anime
series is very messy. For some reason, the chapters that introduced important
characters were almost never adapted, and were replaced with anime-original
episodes. But these episodes would often include material from the manga
chapters that introduced these characters. The most egregious example is Aria:
The Animation Episode 3, _With That Transparent Young Girl …_, which includes
material from four different manga chapters and introduces two major
characters, Alice and Akatsuki. In other cases, introductions very much like
the manga stories were implied to have happened sometime before the series
began (Woody and Al were both introduced like this.) Because of this, if you
watch the anime series in manga-order and exclude the anime-original episodes
entirely, you'll miss important pieces of the story.

The anime writers frequently mixed and matched scenes and bits of dialogue,
added pieces of manga chapters into otherwise anime-only episodes, added
substantial material to adaptations of manga chapters, merged multiple manga
chapters, and partially merged parts of manga chapters. My chart probably
misses at least a few major mergers (and please let me know if you find one).
Many of the "wonder of the week" chapters were excluded from Aria: The
Animation due to its short run, but later adapted in Aria: The Natural, which
accounts for most of the jumbled continuity.

tl;dr: It's incredibly hard, maybe impossible, to watch the anime in the same
order as the manga without missing parts of the story. But if you're okay with
that, the chart gives you the information you need.


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