Line #10 Manga/AkatsukiNoAria


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2	[[caption-width-right:222:The Dawn Girl]]
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4	''Akatsuki no Aria'' (''Aria at Dawn'') is a manga by Creator/MichiyoAkaishi, dated to the tumultuous and ever-changing Japan of the ''Taisho'' era (1912-1926). It was serialized from 2006 to 2012 in the magazine ''Flowers''.
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6	The protagonist of this story is a young girl named Aria Kanbara, the illegitimate daughter of a rich man and a former {{geisha}}. Aria herself is beautiful, stubborn, emotional, ambitious, and specially ''blessed'' with an incredible potential for piano playing and singing. She wants nothing more than getting away from her very severe mother and start making it big in the world, and her chance comes in when she applies to the Tokyo Music Academy.
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8	From then on, Aria starts living her life in Tokyo and honing her piano playing skills so she can become the best pianist. Her love life, however, begins to get heated -- not only does she find her half-brother Natsuo Nishimikado, the rightful heir to her father's state, but she begins to ''fall for him''! This is on top of her teacher Shiroyuki also starting to develop more-than-platonic feelings for her, '''and''' soon she is publically presented to the Tokyo society as a member of the Nishimikado clan -- which also marks her and Natsuo discovering what their bond actually is. What follows is a ComingOfAge story with lots of romance, confrontations and discoveries...
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10	Not to be confused with ''[[Manga/YonaOfTheDawn Akatsuki No Yona]]'', ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf'', or ''Literature/AriaTheScarletAmmo'' (''Hidan no Aria'').
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14	!!Akatsuki no Aria has the following tropes, among many others:
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16	* TheAlcoholic: [[spoiler: Tsukio. To the point that he ''dies from liver failure'' for it.]]
17	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Natsuo's younger sister [[SpoiledBrat Ayako]], is rather immature and childish.
18	* ArrangedMarriage: Aria and Natsuo find themselves engaged to [[PrincelyYoungMan Daidouji]] and [[{{Yandere}} Beniko]], respectively.
19	* BrotherSisterIncest: The main couple, Aria and Natsuo, are half-siblings from their father's side. [[spoiler: [[NotBloodSiblings Except not]]: Aria's actual father is a foreigner musician who was an acquintance of Mr. Nishimikado, and Aria later starts searching for him]].
20	* ComingOfAgeStory: For both Aria and Natsuo.
21	* CoolBigSis: Shouko is this for Aria, as her sempai in music school.
22	* DaddysGirl: Both Aria and Ayao want this ''badly'' with their father, Mr. Nishimikado.
23	* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler: Nishimikado Sr. dies at some point, making Natsuo swear that he and Aria will be LikeBrotherandSister]]. Additionally, [[spoiler: Aria's actual father left her mother to return to Europe, and Aria sets out to find him.]]
24	* ElegantClassicalMusician: Aria's goal is to become this, and not only she's pretty enough but she has such talent that she can [[spoiler: completely switch from piano to opera singing when she can't play anymore.]]
25	* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Looks like this happened to Natsuo, as when he reappears in Shanghai after being thought of as dead he's wearing an eyepatch.]]
26	* FirstGirlWins: The whole story was sealed by Natsuo and Aria meeting as children almost by chance.
27	* FreudianExcuse: Aria has ''huge'' problems with how, in her opinion, her mother only "waited" around for the man she loved. [[spoiler: And then Mrs. Kanbara dies after being gravely wounded in the Great Kanto Earthquake, leaving Aria quite sad... and leading her to realize that her mom's deals weren't ''that'' simple. (She ''always'' knew that her lover/Aria's actual father would never return to her.)]]
28	* HeroicBastard: Aria is the illegitimate child of a former geisha and a rich man. [[spoiler: Actually, of said former geisha and a foreign musician.]] She is ''not'' happy about it.
29	* HotForStudent: Shiroyuki loves Aria, but cannot date her because he's her teacher and he's married. [[spoiler: And later he dies of illnesss.]]
30	* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler: Shinnosuke Shirayuki, due to his tuberculosis.]]
31	* IWillFindYou: [[spoiler: Aria is ''determined'' to meet her biological father.]]
32	* KimonoIsTraditional:
33	** Aria wears ''hakama'' all the time, a JustifiedTrope since ''hakamas'' were used as school uniforms for girls. [[spoiler: Her mother's favorite kimono becomes her TragicKeepsake after her mom dies, [[ChekhovsGun and it's a clue on who her actual father is]].]]
34	** Also, the rich girls Ayako and Beniko are always wearing kimonos.
35	* LoveDodecahedron: Aria and Natsuo love each other. Shiroyuki-sensei, Tsukio, Daidouji and others love Aria. Shouko, Beniko and others love Natsuo.
36	* LovingAShadow: [[spoiler: Tsukio's French girlfriend, whom he dates because she is Aria's IdenticalStranger.]]
37	* ParentalMarriageVeto: The Nishimikados obviously don't want Natsuo to date a girl of lower social standing ''and'' who is his half-sister.
38	* PluckyGirl: Aria! The plot bends over to break her, but she keeps going on.
39	* TerritorialSmurfette: Ayako is this towards Aria... and then ''both'' Aria and ayako are this to Beniko.
40	* WhamEpisode: More than one, but specially [[spoiler: the one with the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 as its climax]] and [[spoiler: the one where Natsuo disappears]]
41	* WickedStepmother: While Mrs. Nishimikado isn't ''as'' throughly evil as other cases, she still treats Aria with disdain. [[spoiler: When her husband dies, she tells Aria that she'll pay for her education but will never let her into the family home again.]]
42	* YamatoNadeshiko: Subverted with Beniko Kujou, Natsuo's fiancée. She looks the part eerily well with her dark hair and super beautiful kimonos -- but she's also a rude, arrogant and stuck-up RichBitch. So much that [[TerritorialSmurfette Aria and Ayako team up in their shared dislike of her]], Aria slaps her at some point, [[spoiler: Natsuo calls off the engagement... and see below for what she does later.]]

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