Aldnoah.Zero Season One
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AICW said: orangpelupa said: why MC's shot unable to hit the last Arm that flying? He was hitting it. But it was descending towards them at top speed at a 90 degree angle, and he was hitting directly, which is the point of most resistance. Inaho would need a MUCH bigger gun to displace that kind of mass traveling at that velocity. Fortunately Slaine hit it an angle which is why his shot knocked it off-course. Basic physics, folks. Huh, I was under the impression that Inaho was indeed missing the shots because of the trajectory the arm closing in from above, making it much harder to precisely hit the side of the arm and deflecting it. |
| Overall this was a nice episode!!! Can't wait to see that happens with slaine now that he has officially defected and such. |
Jaythor said: AICW said: He was hitting it. But it was descending towards them at top speed at a 90 degree angle, and he was hitting directly, which is the point of most resistance. Inaho would need a MUCH bigger gun to displace that kind of mass traveling at that velocity. Fortunately Slaine hit it an angle which is why his shot knocked it off-course. Basic physics, folks. Huh, I was under the impression that Inaho was indeed missing the shots because of the trajectory the arm closing in from above, making it much harder to precisely hit the side of the arm and deflecting it. Both explanations work really |
| This is going into a pretty boring direction. Hoping it won't get too formulaic with the "Kill knights in two episodes" thing. Basically a MOTW but slightly worse because it's always dragged out. Marito needs to gets out of his funk soon because he is taking out too much screentime being worthless like most of the adult characters. |
orangpelupa said: because the ship is broken. Next episode all people will ride the airplane with slayne? I don't think the plane is big enough. And before that they need to take out the lady knight |
orangpelupa said: because the ship is broken. Next episode all people will ride the airplane with slayne? no, not enough space for that many people. |
| Good episode, the action was good, the same with the ost. Hope next week will be as good as this one. |
| Inaho VS......Mazinger Z? The next one after this should probably have a Getter Tomahawk then. At least they mix the fight formula up a little bit this week by not having Inaho be the sole solution to all their problems though it keeps the idea of enemy knight attacks, Inaho and his team try to defend themselves from it and then run away so I assume we'll see them take down the Ashura Mazinger robot next episode since so far no Vers Knight has managed to last longer than 2 episodes. At least this Inaho Vs. seems to be off to a better start than the last one though and Slaine even does a thing. Though if anyone was expecting the female knight to have any more nuance to her character than Vlad and Trillham they can rest assured that she expectedly has the textbook sadistic Onee-san, "Come out to play with me my little boy toys" personality. It's funny though cause it's like they see the guy as Earth Command HQ or Earth's or something and like if they can just take him out they win the war. Anyway Inaho's character improves slightly in this episode in that he attempts basic interaction with other people that mostly devolves into chats about science and the wrongness of Slaine's scientific theory, but hey A for effort Boy though do the Martians still just look like the galaxies biggest assholes right now. First they wreck havoc on the planets surface and now they go and declare formal war after most of the damage has already been done in the name of "Justice". This enemy faction is one piece of work lol. The Emperor has completely bought into what Sauzbaum sold him and now Slaine in his attempts to see Hime's peace win through has apparently inadvertently escalated the conflict and is a wanted man and instead we get the Hime suffering scenes. I also was amused by the Martians complete inability to stop him from escaping either even while shooting at him as he's bordering one of the fighters that just flies right out of the hangar. This faction man lol....never change Most Honorable Vers Knights of Justice. Anyway I guess that's our Urobuchi style "fuck you and your altruism" style twist for the first half here, but it feels like a bit of a contrived one reliant on the Emperor just outright picking one sides explanation over the other just because it makes things more bitter. I did like that Marito and that Calm fellow basically called Mars bullshit for what it was though and things definitely needed a bit of a jolt right now so it'll do. Some of the exchanges between the human side were kind of amusing this week but mostly an improvement over what we've had so far. You can tell the show really wants the viewer to know still though that this is goddamn war and it's no joke and so there's a lot of little blurbs thrown in there to that effect like the drop of in-formalities between Yuki and Inaho which lasts all of 15 minutes or so this week which I found kind of strange. Like if she's going to just tell him to call her Yuki in the cockpits when the tension is spiking why get all super serious when they're just talking in the briefing room. It almost makes you feel like two different writers are working on the Inaho Vs. parts compared to the lulls between fights. Personally though I still think it's for the better in the long run, I just continue to be amused by this shows tendency to just drill it's ideas of gritty warfare right into the viewer and how they contrast with the Martian side and it's cartoonish villainy that sees things more like a war game than anything. A couple of other things, if you're going to go incognito like Hime at least try to hide your name better than just dropping the "Ass" part of it lol. It's a wonder they didn't question this conscript with all these Japanese people having a name that sounds strangely familiar to the Martian Princess when this girl sitting next to her is literally calling her Princess the entire time. Also speaking of which looks like this is the part where Hime gets her dose of Urobuchian "fuck you and your altruism" and is basically forced to give up on the idea of reaching out to her father who will never believe her now and just allows herself to be drafted. Really the Martians as a race just could not possibly look more like all they truly desire is a chance to just wreck Earth again like they tried to 15 years ago (Gundam X Space Revolutionary Army style pretty much exactly) and that they had no intention of ever listening so yeah you learn your lesson there Hime and get ready to be a Soldier of Sorrow, you're in an Urobuchi story concept goddammit lol. In a lot of ways though this episode was a huge improvement over the last few weeks since it feels like (more I hope) that the show has dropped some of it's pretenses towards constant grit, carnage and tryhard seriousness and instead actually took it's time to flesh out some back story with regard to Aldnoah and how it apparently fused itself to the emperors DNA and allowed him to gift the ability to use it to others (he chose his knights EXTREMELY poorly with regard to loyalty and character by the way, like good grief), gives the cast on the Earth side besides Inaho some real time to show what kinds of roles they are going to be performing and what they are about and kind of interestingly brings the conflict back to where it all apparently started in Tanegashima which is sure to present a challenge for Marito who really needs to make that breakthrough with his combat trauma where apparently he fought Martian Kataphracts using just Tanks apparently pretty much Zeon Earth Invasion arc style only even more lopsided in terms of technology. Apparently there's also some beef between him and the obligatory female captain character as well so it's like finally some real character threads and drama developing within the Earth side of the conflict, which is what this show desperately needed to remain interesting. Anyway I really hope I'm right about this show deciding to drop some of it's dumber pretenses about being a smarter more gritty robot show that does things oh so differently than the average mecha anime. Like just look at what you have right now. You have the hammiest most easy to detest 70's Super Robot show style villains in the Vers using Rocket Punches to try and take down a battleship with regular mechs on it and you have a decent setup for entertaining stuff at the halfway point. Just keep using the characters a bit better like it did this week, keep the pretensions towards ultra seriouness and "Man of Steel" vibe to a minimum and just roll with what you have right now and flesh things out a little more and make it enjoyable for the viewer and you'll have a solid summer show here. Edit: Lol just noticed Keten again pretty much said the same things I did this week. |
PeacingOutAug 9, 2014 11:39 AM
sillyanny said: TheUnbiasedOne91 said: This is going into a pretty boring direction. Hoping it won't get too formulaic with the "Kill knights in two episodes" thing. Basically a MOTW but slightly worse because it's always dragged out. Marito needs to gets out of his funk soon because he is taking out too much screentime being worthless like most of the adult characters. Marito has legitimate reasons for being useless at the moment, but I agree with you about how useless the other adults are being. It's embarrassing, and they really have no excuses for their uselessness atm. Especially the captains of the ship - come on, they didn't get promoted by being stupid. I'm sure they know some tactics, but so far, they have been very underwhelming. Inaho can't be the only smart one here. I actually think Marito is interesting. Sure he isn't able to do anything at the moment, but it's not like he doesn't want to, his memories of his past experiences keep showing up and stopping him. He clearly showed massive responsibility by throwing away his alcohol and leaving to get into the machine but unfortunately his past keeps haunting him. I love that about him. It's very human and heroic. Not many people with PTSD are so quick to jump back into action. |
| maybe we'll finally get some emotions out of the MC if his sis dies |
| With Inaho's brain & Slaine's plot armor, Vers doesn't stand a chance. |
| athrun comes to save the day... or would he be kira? hmm.. guess athrun. |
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antonn said: With Inaho's brain & Slaine's plot armor, Vers doesn't stand a chance. You just summed up the whole main cast perfectly I just hope so much the plot gets some weird-as-fuck 180 degree turn somewhere... Anyone snapping anything, making this series (apart from the pretty cool action) a bit less basic. Come on I really want this to surpass Code Gayass! |
orangpelupa said: Darklight0303 said: I don't think the plane is big enough. And before that they need to take out the lady knight do we have a scene where we can compare the airplane size? maybe when the airplane and a mech on same scene? although .. yeah.. the cockpit do looks very small You can see the air plane size in previous episodes when it carries the Martian mechs It is pretty small. |
YurikoRaine said: antonn said: With Inaho's brain & Slaine's plot armor, Vers doesn't stand a chance. You just summed up the whole main cast perfectly I just hope so much the plot gets some weird-as-fuck 180 degree turn somewhere... Anyone snapping anything, making this series (apart from the pretty cool action) a bit less basic. Come on I really want this to surpass Code Gayass! Not enough plot twists and thriller yet... Far from it actually. |
skudoops said: I feel like I do this every week but.. those impractical ass mechs the Vers have are really just getting on my nerves. Infact, can anyone tell me why she didn't just outright bunch the bridge? (I know the reason why I'm just being an ass here) Or better yet why did that girl's mech survive a punch when in a few scenes before a dude legit got 1 hit from it. Yeah I noticed that. The thing went right through the one regular soldiers mech but basically just tipped hers over and she was caught by Inaho. I guess there's's a passive ability called being a named character in this show that allows you to survive getting one shotted. |
chickenonthepan said: Not enough plot twists and thriller yet... Far from it actually. Yes, absolutely nothing so far... It has potential but it's not being used and it pains me... |
| Whey!!! Some character development! Not for Inaho though (awww) starting to like Lt Marito a bit more. Inaho's plan not working was nice too, at least he looked slightly troubled, Elaine coming to the rescue was predictable, though I don't mind. Elaine escaping was funny tbh, I liked how it looked like the doors would've taken an eternity to close when slaine made it out. Overall, I enjoyed this episode more than any other |
skudoops said: Or better yet why did that girl's mech survive a punch when in a few scenes before a dude legit got 1 hit from it. You made a lot of good points and I hope they get explained in the next episode. But I can answer this question. It goes back to physics (again lol). As soon as Inko saw the fist coming at her, she hit her jet thrusters and boosted away from it but in the same direction while at the same time lowering her mech down so the fist hit at at a sloped angle instead of dead-on. She also had Inaho's mech behind her which absorbed some of the momentum so that's why she took less damage. It's essentially the same concept as sloped armour in that hitting something at an angle bleeds off some of the kinetic energy so it doesn't hit as hard. |
Kaioshin_Sama said: skudoops said: I feel like I do this every week but.. those impractical ass mechs the Vers have are really just getting on my nerves. Infact, can anyone tell me why she didn't just outright bunch the bridge? (I know the reason why I'm just being an ass here) Or better yet why did that girl's mech survive a punch when in a few scenes before a dude legit got 1 hit from it. Yeah I noticed that. The thing went right through the one regular soldiers mech but basically just tipped hers over and she was caught by Inaho. I guess there's's a passive ability called being a named character in this show that allows you to survive getting one shotted. Yep, pointless shocking deaths for the sake of having pointless shocking deaths is sort of a thing with this anime. They kill off the nameless folk just for the sake of making it appear realistic and building a sense of hopelessness but because the people dying are never mentioned again their death has no impact whatsoever and Inaho and friends still manage to survive it fails to build that hopeless feeling. Not so much a bad thing but it's completely pointless and only takes away from the show. |
| Same repetitive format as the last 2 episodes... will it end in the next? Slaine escape was retarded. |
| Eh episode. Nothing is really happening. Since Slaine is coming down, maybe the plot will actually progress? The whole war is happening just because the Emperor of Vers is misinformed. Are they just not going to clear it up until the show ends? The fights are realistic I guess, but it's getting boring. Marito needs to get his act together. Maybe he should, I don't know, practice going in the machine because if he freezes everytime there's a battle *clenches teeth*. I know he has PTSD,but it's just annoying now. |
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solomon585858 said: Darklight0303 said: I think you're mistaking this show for Buddy Complex The result will be the same. One girl. Two fighters. One of them s madly in love with a girl. It was in Gundam SEED in 1 season, it was in Buddy Complex. It will be the same here. Gundam Seed? Who was the girl and the guys? The only one I can think of was Frey with Kira and Sai having drama over her but Sai was hardly a fighter... |
| Good ep. Still hilarious Slaine got of that place with no problems but whatever. I kinda want to see more of Lt Marito since learning more about what happen and even get that realization the captain was his best friend family was surprising to hear. It looks like all the pieces have finally assemble. Hopefully its now Earth's turn to have an OP mech. :P Sent with Mal Updater |
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AICW said: Gundam Seed? Who was the girl and the guys? The only one I can think of was Frey with Kira and Sai having drama over her but Sai was hardly a fighter... I think he means Kira-Athrun-Lacus. But if I remember correctly, this can hardly be a love triangle. Or I am mistaken? |
Keten said: Kaioshin_Sama said: Yeah I noticed that. The thing went right through the one regular soldiers mech but basically just tipped hers over and she was caught by Inaho. I guess there's's a passive ability called being a named character in this show that allows you to survive getting one shotted. Yep, pointless shocking deaths for the sake of having pointless shocking deaths is sort of a thing with this anime. They kill off the nameless folk just for the sake of making it appear realistic and building a sense of hopelessness but because the people dying are never mentioned again their death has no impact whatsoever and Inaho and friends still manage to survive it fails to build that hopeless feeling. Not so much a bad thing but it's completely pointless and only takes away from the show. Well they did lose the one guy in the 2nd episode that was in his school group but he hasn't been mentioned since then and I totally can't even remember his name because he had like one line in the entire show and it was about finding the Princess attractive and then he's dead. It's funny though cause I get the sense that Inaho cares more about getting to use these battles as some sort of science experiment and personal challenge than he actually does about protecting friends, family and allies since scientific stuff always seems to be the end result of every interaction he has with people and his spoken dialogue in general. The whole science obsession really is like his sole major defining trait as a character. Like you can tell he's way more interested in learning about this whole Aldnoah thing when talking with Asselyeum than actually interacting with and trying to understand where Asselyeum is coming from and then when he has a chance to pontificate about his scientific knowledge he just launches into this random who the fuck cares spiel about how Slaine was wrong about the way light refracts off the Earth's atmosphere comically earning him a pout from the Princess. |
PeacingOutAug 9, 2014 12:13 PM
Toaki90 said: This anime will get even better if they gave that martian loli, Eddelrittuo, more screen time Lol, this dude. +1 |
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| if the aldnoah drive recognized the princess'es grandfather as the rightful heir and infused its activation into his genes, how did he in turn pass it on to his knights? is that just a martian thing? passing of genes to the already living? slaine's unscathed exit was definitely interesting i suppose. i doubt that one martian wanted him alive for research information, but even still, you'd think it'd be easy for them to catch up to him with their superior robots. meh. predictable ending was predictable, but still very fun to watch. i was definitely still excited the moment i saw slaine come to the rescue. |
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