Aldnoah.Zero

The discovery of a hypergate on the Moon once allowed the human race to teleport to Mars. Those who chose to settle there unearthed a technology far more advanced than that of their home planet, which they named "Aldnoah." This discovery led to the founding of the Vers Empire of Mars and a declaration of war against the "Terrans," those who stayed behind on Earth. However, a battle on the moon—later called "Heaven's Fall"—caused the hypergate to explode, destroying the moon and leading the two planets to establish an uneasy ceasefire.

Their peace was a fragile one, however. Fifteen years later, high school student Inaho Kaizuka witnesses the plotted assassination of the Vers Empire's Princess Asseylum Vers Allusia, who had come to Earth in hopes of repairing the relationship between the empire and its homeland. The ceasefire is shattered, and the Martians declare war on the Terrans once again. In the face of this insurmountable enemy, Inaho and his friends must now fight against the Vers Empire to settle the war once and for all.

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Kaizuka, Inaho Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Troyard, Slaine Main

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Vers Allusia, Asseylum Main

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Amifumi, Inko Supporting

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Kaizuka, Yuki Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Areash, Rayet Supporting

Misawa, Sachika Japanese

Marito, Kouichirou Supporting

Nakai, Kazuya Japanese

Saazbaum Supporting

Ookawa, Tooru Japanese

Magbaredge, Darzana Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Cruhteo Supporting

Hayami, Show Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Kananiwa, Kozue Producer

Kurosaki, Shizuka Producer

Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Producer

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Mar 15, 2025

Watsao

Recommended

Some sci-fi worlds feel unrealistic, but Aldnoah.Zero builds one that’s disturbingly real and grounded—where war is ugly, power is abused, and no one walks away unscathed. The tech is possible based on the world logic and science.

Characters are likable and well developed. Their whining and nagging make sense and doesn't mess up the story. Women are strong, smart but still feminine and conventionally attractive which is great and refreshing. They didn't make them obnoxious and unlikable.

Mecha animation and action are logical and plausible. It doesn't go around power tripping everywhere.
The tech even though not fully explained can be analyzed in a logical ... way based on the Ancient Civilization technology. So, it is indeed believable. Science that we have now IRL is still primitive, and a lot of unknowns are still present in the realm of science.
Animation movements are fluid and is fun to watch. A-1 still cooking.

This is a great Sci-fi Anime with well-developed likable characters.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Feb 25, 2025

VanVeleca

Mixed Feelings

It's not as god awful as many say but this shit is absolutely NOT a 7.39 (the current overall MAL score) like what the hell, at best this is somewhere between a 5 and 6 overall score.

A lot of the show is just mega generic, but basic doesn't always equal bad. It rhymes in the way action anime is supposed to and even though a ton of plot points make no sense I can feel the beat and pretty much can always predict what is gonna occur next. "Isn't that a negative?" Yes and no. It's been a while since I saw an action anime ... that doesn't constantly try to fit in some kind of bizarre humor or random fanservice into moments that are supposed to be taken seriously. There are moments like that but they're so short you barely notice them.

What is an absolute negative though? The cast, holy shit I either hate or feel nothing for the majority here. The only character I could tolerate at most was Slaine. He was trying to rescue the princess, he's trying to find out why the hell martian army seems to want her dead and he faces a lot of adversity that makes you feel for him, he does stuff that ACTUALLY had me interested and wondering where his subplot was leading to...I was very dissapointed with where it led to.

I. HATE. THE. PRINCESS. I hate her stupid name, I hate how the entire story is about her when she's so fucking boring, I hate that the show tries to make us care for this piece of talking cardboard. There's no other way of putting it, she's a failed waifu bait.

At first I thought she was cute, I found her relationship with Slaine very adorable, but for a majority of episodes she is either doing nothing or frustrating me due to how STUPID her actions are, seriously she has absolute golden luck to have survived so long. She coincidentally managed to avoid the assasination attempt, she coincidentally managed to find a guy who just kinda didn't care that she physically assaulted him and brought her to safety, she was lucky that those two ladies didn't shoot her the moment she pulled that crap AGAIN, she was lucky that Slaine and Inaho shielded her from the martian army. So annoyingly fucking lucky.

Inaho...is...um...uh...he's...certainly there...I guess. Due to the princess' stupid name that I forgot how to spell correctly sounding like "Asylum" I thought maybe this anime was gonna be like mental health related or have some sort of theme about that, since he showed signs of being kinda "special" if you get what I mean. Instead just...nothing. He's cool stoic fight guy who is smarter than everyone else, that's all you get and I suppose all the show needed from him...?

The rest don't matter...I'm not kidding. They. Do. Not. Matter. Like at all. From their designs, to their roles in the story, to the subplots, none of them matter at all in the end. Even Inaho's sister who I thought would be more prominent but just- wasn't.

Would I reccomend it? No. Especially if you like mecha in general because even as someone who has seen maybe like 5 these robots ain't shit and I didn't care for them. If you still wanna watch it anyway to find out if it's as bad as others will tell you, go ahead I guess, it's what I did.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Jul 10, 2024

CBMiura

Not Recommended

Aldnoah.Zero it's just bad.

I personally don't enjoy mecha that much, so if you are just like me, you'll probably gonna dislike this anime.

The characters seems kinda off, totally underdeveloped. The story doesn't lead to anywhere. The only solid thing about this anime it's the animation.

The characters lack a lot of things and they can be really annoying and nonlogical(?), the anime fails to built anything that will back up the characters actions. Looks like a brainstorm that didn't filter anything and produced this anime. It's just appailling.

As I already said, the only "good" thing about this, it's the animation, and even with this, it's ... not worth watching. I wouldn't recommend this even if it's the only thing left in the world.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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