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Aria the Masterpiece Chapter 58: エピファニア

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Start Date: October 19th
Previous Chapter: Chapter 57
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That was a cute chapter.

I love seeing Athena acting confident!

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Aww, this chapter made me smile so much :blush: I love that they did something so pretty and magical for Alice. シャボンの国へようこそ! :smile: Another lovely Athena-Alice moment, proving once again why they are my favorite senpai-kouhai pair :heart: Plus, watching Akari and Aika frolic around in those animal heads was really amusing xD

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Athena is weirdly diligent about the strangest things. She’s, like… the motheringness of Alicia and the airheadedness of Akari stuck together :stuck_out_tongue:

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I don’t know how widespread the custom is in Italy these days but I learned something new from that chapter. Having not heard of the witch of Befana being celebrated during Epiphany before.
Also, it was cute to see Aria with reindeer horns. :slight_smile:

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Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure I came across references to Befana when I was researching bonfires in Venice a few chapters ago (the results of my research were that bonfires on Epiphany are common, but not in Venice).

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Oh, how gorgeous are they to create that piece of magic for Alice? :two_hearts:
Having said that… There are so many 摩訶不思議な things I want to believe in this book, but somehow bubbles with candles in them is not one of them! Every time I saw them I thought - HOW did they get lit candles inside those bubbles? :laughing:

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Ok, read the chapter.

I can’t entirely say that I don’t empathise with Alice at the start of the chapter, though I’m not sure I’d quite go so far as putting the coal-shaped sweets in my own stocking.

I notice that while she was offscreen between page 263 and 271, Athena Befana changed her mask, from a domino mask to a half-face Phantom of the Opera mask. And picked up an absurd pair of shoes.

The location of Bubble Land is the Scala Contarini del Bovolo. I made a point of visiting this place on my trip to Venice, but sadly it was closed for refurbishment. Had to take my photos from the campo.

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It’s also quite easily visible from the top of the San Marco Campanile (but then, what isn’t?)

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(Though, weird thing: Wikipedia says it was closed from August 2015, but I was there in March. It reopened February 2016, in any case.)