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Aldnoah Zero Season 2 |OT| Inaho or Out, It's All The Slaine
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Heh, that was pretty tepid but I don't know what I was expecting at this point.
Slaine was just not a good villain and Mars Sandman II's arrival was kinda deus ex machina in the end. I didn't even care so much about the conflict between Earth and Mars at that point as much as the mysteries behind Aldnoah and hoping for Seylum and Inaho to end up back together. And for the rest of the Deucalion's team to do something cool but then
I didn't realize the Tharsis was the same size as the Sleipnir until this one. I was hoping for Inaho to have to pull some really cool last trick to get around its gimmick but then they just have a swordfight, yawn. Not to mention that Seylum going with Mars Sandman II kinda sucked a lot of the heat out of their rivalry.
4/10
Slaine was just not a good villain and Mars Sandman II's arrival was kinda deus ex machina in the end. I didn't even care so much about the conflict between Earth and Mars at that point as much as the mysteries behind Aldnoah and hoping for Seylum and Inaho to end up back together. And for the rest of the Deucalion's team to do something cool but then
they cut away from the fight with Harklight and Count Choudenji Yo-Yo before it finished.
I didn't realize the Tharsis was the same size as the Sleipnir until this one. I was hoping for Inaho to have to pull some really cool last trick to get around its gimmick but then they just have a swordfight, yawn. Not to mention that Seylum going with Mars Sandman II kinda sucked a lot of the heat out of their rivalry.
4/10
victreeb3l
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Awful ending. The show itself wasnt as terrible as everyone makes it out to be but this ending was just poorly directed and written. So anticlimactic.
Just have this huge feeling of disappointment.
Just have this huge feeling of disappointment.
Calling it now! Big bad Aldnoah aliens are going to come and attack humanity in an Aldnoah movie. Forcing Inaho and Slaine to join forces and save the human race. Inaho and Slaine will then have a child, and then their child will have a child with Asseylum's child. There will be a new season called Aldnoah One and it will follow the story of their grandchild.
...I was serious about the first sentence at least.
...I was serious about the first sentence at least.
And the name of their grandchild is L-Elf.
Huh, haven't watched that anime yet. But, his description does fit the bill. That show any good?
No. It's worse that this.
kiunchbb
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Aldnoah Zero END
SLAINE SAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy shit 10/10 would torture Slaine again.
SLAINE SAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Darn that traitor hippy princess! NTR twice! Then destroyed Slaine plan to create a all loving world! THEN DENY HIS RIGHT TO DIE AS A WARRIOR!
Blame the whole princess assassination on him (wtf).
THEN TORTURE HIM BY PUTTING HIM IN PRISON FOREVER!
Dude.
Don't fuck with the princess, she'll fuck you up.
Blame the whole princess assassination on him (wtf).
THEN TORTURE HIM BY PUTTING HIM IN PRISON FOREVER!
Dude.
Don't fuck with the princess, she'll fuck you up.
Holy shit 10/10 would torture Slaine again.
If nothing else, it's at least far more sincere about its own stupidity.
Aldnoah supposedly wanted to surpass Gundam and...looks like it didn't even get halfway there.
Oh well, thnx.
One thing I did realize about this show is that it did a good job of making me sympathize with most of the main cast on both sides. I didnt feel like I down right hated anybody. But, the biggest problem with this show is that I didn't feel like there was anything truly at stake(It did have its tense moments when I didn't know how things were going to pan out). Of course, you don't need to wager death to make a good story, but when it comes to a story about war you need to do that as an author. Watchers are not going to be able to take any of this seriously(yeah its an anime where the mc is a teeanage god pilot). Even with unrealistic character archetypes in a war setting, there is some belivability that can be achieved.
Barajas_201
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No main character died in an Urobuchi anime, WAT?!
Didn't like the ending, some nobody with no character development marries the princess, Inaho is still a boss yet is not commander in chief of the world, Slaine cries like a little kid, and again, no one dies. Season 1 was a solid 8/10 but now it's a 6/10. At least we got some good OST.
Has Urobuchi gone soft?
DiscoShark
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Urobuchi was only on the team until episode 3. He's not responsible for anything that happened after.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Wow, I really expected some kind of movie tie in. But I guess Slaine is just going to give up. Dude should've never been a villain in the first place.
AnathemicOne
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Dude, that ending fucking sucked. Slaine just gave up, hell even the end fight was anticlimactic compared to last episode's.
rrvv
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Is more entertaining thought
formasymphonic
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what if he was never considered a "villain" by the writers in the first place?
MetroidPrimeRib
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Then they should've at least made him somewhat compelling!
lol well played
formasymphonic
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Gonna have to disagree with you here, as I mentioned earlier he felt like the only thing that kept this show watchable. Without him and the show would have been a monster of the week show where everyone's sole purpose is to demonstrate how op Inaho is.
I'm now disappointed because I thought this was the reason why Slaine was activating the moon base's self destruction.
We don't know. Newtype magazine is having an article about the future in their next issue, so who knows.
Valkerionseven
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Great concepts but this show really was a hollow chocolate egg of a thing. Loved the "science tip of the week!" style approach to defeating enemies, was more interesting than let me shoot at it with the main characters signature weapon/skill, though that's literally what it boiled down to since Inaho was the signature weapon/skill. Think they only showed the throw away characters beating one guy without him and it was a small clip scene. The explanations were nice though I guess.
I dunno I liked it enough but still there was something missing in a bunch of places. Good music timing and w/e though.
I dunno I liked it enough but still there was something missing in a bunch of places. Good music timing and w/e though.
Ugh, I didn't like that ending for Slaine at all. Sucks that he was basically a good guy and went bad cos he got screwed over. Instead of dying in a blaze of glory, he's holed up like a rat? WTF
Hope we get another season somehow. Slane + Inaho clearing out the remaining landing castles? No official Inaho x Inko is also annoying (Yuki should have been at the ceremony and Inko should have been driving the truck at the end!)
All that said, I really enjoyed this series as a package and will be buying it on Blu Ray
Hope we get another season somehow. Slane + Inaho clearing out the remaining landing castles? No official Inaho x Inko is also annoying (Yuki should have been at the ceremony and Inko should have been driving the truck at the end!)
All that said, I really enjoyed this series as a package and will be buying it on Blu Ray
What... was the point of this scene in the end?
I love that idaho was just like "meh I don't need this eye thing anymore... so I just took it off with no side effects or anything"
I feel stupid for not noticing the similarities of that scene now holy crap > <
Learn Japanese and tweet it to them.
Even the room was made of glass as well. Why? Were they afraid that Slaine was going to metalbend his way out?
irfaanator
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so I still have no idea why slaine became bad. This show didnt explain anything. what happened to the sister?
She's the one the doctor is working on in the epilogue. I guess she just settled down on Earth.
So, as you might recall, I was hoping everyone would die at the end of this show.
Instead nobody died. Not a single character died onscreen.
What the hell was the point of this show? Why are we watching these people do anything? The vast majority of the ending is devoted to this grand melee in space between all these robots, but it's an utterly pointless battle, since before it even begins, Slaine has conceded defeat. The UFE has won, and they will get a broken moonbase, no matter how well Slaine's doomed assault goes. So why am I even watching these ships fight?
Why have Harklight and Barouhcruz and that one other random pilot lady get out of the fight alive, and then go back in without dying onscreen? We already know what they resolved to do, so what's the point of denying us the satisfaction of showing one person dying?
The ending isn't aggressively terrible, it's just unbelievably bland. At the end of the show, it feels like none of the characters (except for Slaine?) have shown any growth. Everyone on the Deucalion besides Inaho is exactly where they were when Season 2 started. Inaho is able to remove the eye that was gradually killing him by taking over his brain without any significant consequences. The resource scarcity and political turmoil that were Slaine's entire reason for contravening Asseylum's wishes and engaging in war are handwaved with magical Zero Requiem political blaming and vague talk of trade and peace. This makes the vast majority of Season 2, which is largely about his rise through the Versian aristocracy and his attempts to shake up the political structure of the Orbital Knights, pretty much irrelevant. It's nice that Asseylum forgave him for what he did, but so what?
An ending hasn't soured me on a show this badly since Mine Fujiko, and even that at least was kind of brave. I feel like I wasted my time.
Instead nobody died. Not a single character died onscreen.
What the hell was the point of this show? Why are we watching these people do anything? The vast majority of the ending is devoted to this grand melee in space between all these robots, but it's an utterly pointless battle, since before it even begins, Slaine has conceded defeat. The UFE has won, and they will get a broken moonbase, no matter how well Slaine's doomed assault goes. So why am I even watching these ships fight?
Why have Harklight and Barouhcruz and that one other random pilot lady get out of the fight alive, and then go back in without dying onscreen? We already know what they resolved to do, so what's the point of denying us the satisfaction of showing one person dying?
The ending isn't aggressively terrible, it's just unbelievably bland. At the end of the show, it feels like none of the characters (except for Slaine?) have shown any growth. Everyone on the Deucalion besides Inaho is exactly where they were when Season 2 started. Inaho is able to remove the eye that was gradually killing him by taking over his brain without any significant consequences. The resource scarcity and political turmoil that were Slaine's entire reason for contravening Asseylum's wishes and engaging in war are handwaved with magical Zero Requiem political blaming and vague talk of trade and peace. This makes the vast majority of Season 2, which is largely about his rise through the Versian aristocracy and his attempts to shake up the political structure of the Orbital Knights, pretty much irrelevant. It's nice that Asseylum forgave him for what he did, but so what?
An ending hasn't soured me on a show this badly since Mine Fujiko, and even that at least was kind of brave. I feel like I wasted my time.
I'm curious to know what Gen Urobuchi thinks of this (or if he even cares and just wants to distance himself away from this).
If he wrote the first couple of episodes, I wonder if he had some kind of ending that he wanted to do,
If he wrote the first couple of episodes, I wonder if he had some kind of ending that he wanted to do,
Laughing so much at this xD
Hahaha, so Slaine got shitted on again. Gotta pity this guy. Abused and slandered, got the wrong princess to like him, the actual princess NTR'ed him, all the Saazbum plotting which started the whole war got blamed on him and he got locked up. Being Slaine is suffering.
Glad this shitty show is done.
Glad this shitty show is done.
Werewolf Jones
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I too noticed the X-Men chess scene pretty much instantly. Show was dumb, I unironically liked it until near the end of the first season. Wasn't as bad as Code Geass or even Cross Ange. Slaine did nothing wrong except fuck up everything for himself.
It's been kinda fascinating watching a lot of great anime directors strike out, and I mean strike the fuck out, because the scripts have been terrible. You could make a pretty long nowadays.
There needs to be a lot more care towards picking quality script writers. Urobuchi would have never let half of this shit happened. The Princess would have been dead in that shower and Inaho would have been left with a gaping hole in his head.
There needs to be a lot more care towards picking quality script writers. Urobuchi would have never let half of this shit happened. The Princess would have been dead in that shower and Inaho would have been left with a gaping hole in his head.
Wut. Code Geass had a great ending that wrapped things up nicely. Nothing happened in this ending, anticlimactic fight scene plus the most offensive part is some random (character-development wise) married the princess.
Werewolf Jones
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I only saw S1 and it was bad enough if fans of the series say S2 is worse then it ain't worth my time. Saying that though I really enjoy Akito the Exiled.
That's fine if you haven't watched it, but please refrain from making sweeping judgments the ending of this versus that considering that you haven't even watched the second half of it.
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