Two of Souma’s fiancées (later wives) are from long lived races - Aisha the dark elf, and Naden the Ryuu. That’s something that he needed to address - all else being equal he was going to die long before they even started looking older.
Dojyomaru is clearly a man* of culture given the number of #ARIAtheANIMATION shoutouts he* squeezes into #RealistHero but this scene here is almost a direct quote from one of the better episodes in #ARIAtheNATURAL


so I wasn't sure there'd be much new to me on ARIA The BEST, but right away it opens with the original single version of Undine which I think only appeared as a single and on another 3-disc box set released in 2009. Happy to finally have the full size versions of these songs – they've become iconic to Aria, and they're really pretty in any context. 