I noticed right away that the animation was themed on the topic of naval sailors coming to shore and falling in love with native women and putting children in them, so I hoped it would be a less demeaning of the navy. Alas, as opera tends to end in tragedy, so does Aria and Madame Butterfly. It was disappointing how the phases of the story seemed to drag out every fabric of their being, slowly and boringly (not effectively or painfully, as it should have been). I understand that the story in Aria is modeled after Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, but I feel like there could have been a less animate and more inanimate way to depict it that would have come across more effectively and emotionally taxing, like if the characters were actually butterflies with a human life cycle, and the butterfly was a flower or something. Regardless, I found it incredibly political, as some liken the Navy to Samurai or even Vikings (who were known for rape). In reality, many sailors that followed the path of the first half of the animation (literally to the halfway point in its duration) didn't know that they had children, and when they found out, they went back and took the women with them as a wife (not many individual men went out and had children with women across the globe, as is depicted in Aria) without delay. The message of Aria depicts the sailor as a prideful, lustful, despicable playboy by the end. I would not recommend anybody watch it, honestly.