Audience reviews
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Princius
Aldnoah Zero peaks in episode 3 and starts a long descent from there. I really think this show had a great premise, great character designs, and great setting, but terrible writing. It seems like there was no direction and as a result motivations make no sense. On the earth side the main cast gets almost no development or action. Inaho is very one dimensional and has an answer for any situation. To the point that he was too overpowered, but not in a clever way, just in a supercomputer way. I can’t remember if anyone other than Inaho even managed to kill a martian Kataphrakt. I feel like the writers spent too much time on his character with very limited development for others. The rest of the cast does get some development in season 1 but it’s mostly focused on Rayet and Marito. But by the…
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6/10 ~ So close to greatness
This is a review for both season 1 and 2: This Gundam knock-off clone of a show was actually decent and sits up there amongst some of itis peers as a not horrible standalone. If you watch it in English Dub you will immediately recognize many of the charecters from Iron Blood orphans, SEED, and Build, such as Kira Yamato (also as the MC in this), Uno Takaki (IBO), Flay (Seed), Lafter (IBO), Echo (IBO, Naze and many many more. The plot and how the store was originally started was a bit interesting but at the end of the day was a bit of an underdog story (that didn't last too long that way). The powers of the boss monsters was interesting, the music was alight. The show atleast in the begining wasn't afraid to kill off characters, show trauma and have built up re…
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First of all. Anime is bad, BUT, I love it.
I do recommend it... I like Slaine... He is the best character in the entire anime. Why? He is basically the most interesting character and has character development. Also Counts Saazbaum and Cruhteo, and also false princess.
Yes, he does mistakes (Slaine), he is child basically. But he did more in his short political life then everyone else. And I do not wanna talk about Inaho, he is literally chatGPT and this is a good name for him.
Basically authors had a great concept and they would make something really good... But, not in this timeline. And it is what it is. I am disappointed and it is like that. But it really could be like Leluch revolution or some kind of Gundam. Well...
Still, all show get 5/10. First s. - 2/10. Second s. - 8/10.
An…
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The part 2 of Aldnoah.Zero really did a great job in being worse than the 1st part.
It doesn't make any sense. The anime lacks in every possible aspect.
The characters still undeveloped, we have the same problem of the 1st part in the 2nd. Looks like they didn't even bother to make this more "watchable".
The story maitain the same quality of being appalling. Nothing make sense in this anime, the dialogues between characters, the explanations, the motivation, everything it's terrible.
The animation it's really the only point of this anime worth something, it's pretty solid, a decent animation. But as I said in the 1st part, the animation can't save a horrible work. It's not worth your time, don't watch it.
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Part 1 English
Part 2 Bahasa Indonesia
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to buckle up and get ready for another ride with Aldnoah Zero Part 2, an anime that's as thrilling as a high-speed car chase through downtown Tokyo. Part 2 of this anime picks up right where Part 1 left off, with the Earth forces locked in a desperate struggle against the powerful Martian invaders and their advanced technology.
One of the things that makes Aldnoah Zero Part 2 so exciting is its well-crafted storyline that keeps you hooked from beginning to end. The characters are all well-developed and have their own unique motivations and quirks, making it easy to become emotionally invested in their struggles.
The animation in Aldnoah Zero Part 2 is nothing short of bre…
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This review is a reflection on BOTH seasons/parts of Aldnoah.Zero. SPOILERS are mentioned.
I first heard of this anime as I was playing its 2nd opening, &Z by SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mizuki, on osu!. I vibed A LOT to that opening and aLIEz by the same artist. Intrigued, I gave this anime a go and I finished within 2 days! I'll be giving a different review than most of the ones that are trashing on such a slept-on anime.
Aldnoah.Zero (AZ) gives you so much action and hooks to keep your eyes on the screen for as long as it can. I finished the second season in ONE sitting. The mechs have unique abilities, there is in-fighting present (in both seasons) rather than a simple "good guy vs. bad guy" type of cliche, the atrocities of war are deeply emphasized and detailed sympathetically, and cliffha…
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I'm going to sum up pt 1 here too. The ending of part 1 was good and I overall liked part 1 more than part 2. Part 1 showed more charcater with Inaho and everyone, while part 2 showed more mars development and the reasoning (I just explained everything bad rn) what i mean is i liked part 1 a lot more because it was a bit more enjoyable and emotional. In part 1 we learned about the characters and there were more deaths that mattered. Meanwhile in part 2 we learn more about Slaines progression through the rankings and his goal and how he wanted to demolish war, so he had to get rid of Earth. Slaine did few good things in this part (he was shown being human, but he fucked up massively) He tried to get rid of Earth (honestly idk what I would do in his situation because he didn't think Asseylum…
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Aldonoah Zero 2nd Season
And here we go into the second round, full of lack of creativity, lack of motivation, and horrible scenery.
And the best thing that could convince me at the beginning of the anime was lost. First and foremost, the plot became even more monotonous, the characters lost their remaining charm, the protagonist became even more powerful and the fights lost their creativity, which they possessed in the first season.
[Story 2]
Slain wants to play the glorious antihero, without any real approach and this he does. But instead of it becoming fascinating, none of that happens. He does boring things, throwing around contentless dialogues. There is fighting. The protagonist now shows his new omnipotent ability and massacres all his opponents.
Only the last 5 minutes of…
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I'm here to give a positive review instead of the many negative ones out there.
Note that I am not a professional reviewer and will not be basing my review from the different categories (i.e. story, art, character etc). In this review I will be focusing on the good aspects, since all the bad ones have already been written in depth.
So why did I give it a good review? There are a few reasons why. I personally feel that there are many other animes that are worse than this, and it should not be deserving such a low score. I also wish for the creators to be recognised for their work. This is an original anime, and you must admit that the animation was pretty darn good. Next, I think that this anime deserve views. Unlike what some other reviewers claim, I feel that those who finished season 1…
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there is only one reason i'm not giving this anime 1, Slaine.
i hate 90% of the characters, i hate Asseylum, the dumbfuck who talks about birds during military meetings! i hate Inaho, motherfucker is god, he knows everything in advance and has a Sharingan of an eye! i hate Inko which her only trait is how much she loves her brother
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i hate the fight scenes, i hate mecha in general
i hate how all the people we taught were dead in the last episode of season 1, came back alive
i hate the ending, the princess married some dude we barely knew, and war just ended!
i hate the Forced and artificial tention between Inaho and Slaine
and i hate how characters don't have the balls to pull the fucking trigger at important moments!
now the reason i'm writing a review is because how som…
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When it comes to second seasons of anime, it's either hit or miss (mostly misses). However, I personally feel that this is a great second season.
The story picks up from where we left off and hints at things to come while also reestablishing the overarching plot and what has happened so far. The story is good, as it really does go off of what we know so far very well. However, coming from the first season, the story this time around is a bit more chaotic and all over the place. With the way the first season ended, it left me wondering what would the second season do. After watching this season, I still don't get why they did what they did in the first season. Some parts are done in order to introduce a new mechanic to the story while others are done merely to add controversy. After all th…
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Phew... okay... time to start talking about the 2nd season of Aldnoah Zero. Please be aware that there may be MINOR spoilers (more-so for the first season), but I'll do my absolute best to minimize them.
Season 1 of Aldnoah Zero left so many things in the air that, to be quite frank made my jaw drop. It left an amazing cliffhanger and had SO much potential to change the direction of the narrative. This left me excited for what was going to happen in Season 2 and almost had me giddy to watch future episodes.
Season 2 let me down in regards to this. The overall story of this anime pales in comparison to the first season. There is some political intrigue, but it felt that the hugely increased stakes and potential direction of the narrative fizzled out and left us with a decent story, but on…
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So with season 1 I gave it a very generous score and I am also doing that here because overall I'm not too critical and can enjoy most anime I watch.
So spoilers for episode 1 of this season nothing that happened in the last scene of season 1 mattered as even though Inaho definitely got shot in the head and died and the princess should have too they are both alive for this season. The season starts with some random ice mecha but no mecha like this shows up again which leaves unique mecha powers which could be interesting behind and instead they go for the all in on Slaine's character which leads to basically nothing happening all season, this season was needed and stretches about 5 episodes worth of content into 12. Nothing really happens until around episode 4 and then nothing else happ…
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Wow just wow one of the best show I have ever watched in the first season only to have it end like this.I could not wait to see the second season of the show but almost everything that was good about it was torn to sheds.The characters made sense and their decisions too in the first season but now they all seem to just stop and the do opposite in this season I was left asking why a lot and I am still asking 3 years later after finishing.Pace at times was awful and new characters are thrown in at out of no where with no backstory given or their is one given so fast you have to watch it twice.I am still mad at how this ended my advice to you don't watch the first season so you won't me mad at binging let down.
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Okay, my fellow patrons of MAL, we need to have a serious talk. How in the actual fuck is this rated a 7 out of 10 average? Like seriously who's coming and watching this shit and going "Oh yeah baby this is a masterpiece right here." Anyways, on with the review. I did my best to clean this review up for spoilers, but I kinda have to at least break the first episode wide open to rate the series for you.
Story 2/10: The "plot" if you can even call it that, is a continuation of the last season 2 years after the events it ended on. Now, I didn't love the last season or anything, but it had its strengths. One of those strengths was a strong, Albeit somewhat out of character for our protagonist, ending that had three of the four major developed characters die on camera. Surprise surprise, they'…
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I feel blue-balled. 12 episodes sitting through with Inaho for the ultimate ship. Pretend this season doesn't exist. Unless you wanted a story of how to obtain world peace. But, I'm sure if anyone is watching season 2, it's because they wanted their ship to be sailed.
I'm depressed now. So blue-balled. Why. What the hell.
Story: 6/10 [Fair]
On a serious note, I think the story was fair. It wasn't the best ending, but they got world peace at least. I'd call it a bad ending in gaming terms. Wish we had a "True Ending". Sooooooooooooooooooooo blue-balled.
Art: 8/10
The serie's art is great and that's just a continuation from s1.
Sound: 8/10
Hiroyuki Sawano, always great.
Character: 4/10
This season was annoying. No development with the main cast other than Inaho's eye. Everyone suddenly…
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Ironically, this is my favorite season of the series. It heavily focuses on my favorite character Slaine so if you dislike him or his relationship with the princess this season isn't for you. Slaine is bound to be defeated by the "hero" of the show Inaho, but you get to deeply understand Slaine's motivation for fighting and the messed up things he does. As a hero Inaho falls flat as he emotionless-ly is able to destroy everyone and have better chances of being with the princess. The ending might be tragic but the entire show is enjoyable and worth the watch. Not just for the romance and space politics but for Gundam fans to see awesome robots fight each other.
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tl dr; The score is most likely inflated due to my favoritism towards mecha anime in general, but I liked it a lot, contrary to the many low scores given by a good portion of the reviewers.
With the relatively "shocking turn of events" at the end of Season 1, we get to see much more action in this season as well as a bit more "diversity" in views on the side of Vers. From what I remember, there were 3 crucial points in the story that could have been stretched to more episodes if the studio had the opportunity to do so, in my opinion. By this time, the audience knows how the scene is going to go from the background soundtrack that plays behind the discussion taking place between the characters.
Slightly abrupt ending, the fighting scenes were pretty (although they could have been much pr…
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*Mild spoilers, particularly for the end of season 1*
How did this happen? Why did this happen? I know season 1 wasn't necessarily a masterpiece, but you could at least make the case that it had clear intentions, contrived as its methods tended to be. Here's it's a gigantic car crash at the beginning and end, occupied by a lot of nothing of note happening! What happened to all the big moments that season 1 was peppered with? What happened to letting characters sometimes have backstories or anything that could help them somewhat resemble actual characters rather than caricatures (not that the antagonists of the first season weren't caricatures anyway)? What happened to the wonky action scenes that often used actual movement and terrain to its advantage sometimes? How do you shit the bed th…
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well...i just finished the second season and decided to write a review about it...it was horrible really...i expected a lot more than this :|
story 1/10:
so basically all 4 major characters are alive not dead...i was like WTF? :| and then Slaine went insane and decided to kill everyone because of his princess and Inaho stopped him and then the princess married another guy and Slaine went to prison for the rest of his life...OMG CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?
what is this?one of the worst ending ever with a shity plot alongside it :|
art 7/10:
art was good enough...character designs were specially good :)
sound 9/10:
i loved the soundtracks in this anime more than anything else..specially the ending *~*
character1/10:
none of the characters in this anime act straight...in season1 i had the right…
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