First there was ARIA the ANIMATION.
Then there was ARIA the NATURAL.
Followed by ARIA the OVA: Arietta.
Now a third full tv series has been announced: ARIA the ORIGINATION.
This would make ARIA one of the longest-running series amongst the current crop of post-midnight madness. Certainly the only one still running from 2005. This show is so slow, soporific, pretty to look at, mind-numbing and, most of all, nice (so much so that any more criticism would just make me look like a thug), that it is remarkable that it has become such a franchise.