In slow motion, she clearly leans forward as if to protect Inaho.
Then we move to the muzzle, and back to Aseylum that gets the shot we don't know where with blood gushing out from we don't know where.
Her head airbag deploys after that, so I do not think they'll use that plot device if she survives.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
What a horrible ending. Slaine's motivations in this episode were nonsense.
I realized that Inaho probably committed suicide in the end. He was far too logical to pull a gun at that moment. The Inaho shown in the series so far should know that he would be shot if he did that. He was probably so damaged by the princess's death that he no longer cared or intentionally did it to follow her in death.
Peace.
Or maybe he was hoping the enemy who he knows cares for the princess would be too upset to respond in time.
Anyway, I did not see this ending coming.
That was too high risk for Inaho to do. He could have just stopped crawling and waited for help. If Slaine wanted to shoot him anyway, he would not have warned Inaho to stop.
Peace.
This makes the most sense.Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Every time I hear the fucking songs for this show, it makes me tear up.
Gen, why the hell do you keep doing this to me?
This is like Fate/Zero's Sora ha Takaku, Kaze ha Utau and Kiritsugu's tragedy all over again.
I can really empathize with seemingly emotionless characters who actually hide their feelings. I respect their iron will, but also feel pity for the side of them that gets crushed by it.
Asseylum was probably one of the most likable princess characters in anime. She wasn't written to be unique or different. She was simply a really good person and understandably naive. The facts that she is really pretty and kept kissing the male characters are also points for consideration.
Peace.
Damn right Buff, suicide by Slaine.
It's weird though, because it's like Gen remembered on the last episode he was supposed to butcher. The previous episode had no build up to that ending
Aside from the princess dying once before and the general danger Inaho is always in?
Peace.
I guess I was never in the mood for this series, but ... it all fell flat on me. Not only consisted every episode of showing Inhahoīs superior mind by showcasing the incompetency of all others. I had no emotion at all over their death in this last episode (quite ironic, eh, Inaho?! lol).
The writing of this anime just feels so incompetent, so rushed, so ... "wanna-be". Like itīs trying to emulate other, more famous, more popular anime series that had a theme of desperation and cruelty. But where other anime manage to present properly developed characters with properly developed motives and behaviors, Aldnoah.Zero never even got close to that. Instead, itīs formualic almost to Pokémon-levels: Episode begins with some exposition -> action scene -> hopeful occurence -> suddenly desperation -> cliffhanger ending on either positive or negative note, accompanied by awesome Sawano-music. And in before, no, you could not describe every anime like that. It was painfully obvious in this case.
In the end, I guess your enjoyment depended on what you were expecting. From the bombast, time-taking beginning, I expected a much more intelligent, satisfactory story. What I got was a China-ripoff of Attack on Titan.
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
I shouldn't even touch this one but I have to.
Emphasis mine.
What. the. Fuck.
If this is a ripoff of anything it is Gundam SEED. I have no idea what would make you possible think this could be a knockoff of Attack on Titan. This has more in common with Muv Luv Alternative or even Code Geass than it does Attack on Titan.
I donīt know Gundam SEED, so I cannot draw comparisons here.
The setting is closer to Code Geass, true, and the main character wishes he was 1/10 as smart as Lelouch (heīs not).
But the overall theme in atmosphere and mood is an attempt at Attack on Titanīs popularity. Introduce characters, have them unexpectedly die, raw gruesomeness and cruelty, desparation and despair ... yeah.
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
You're so off base that I can't even come up with an appropriate analogy to describe it.
edit:
I'll try this one:
You make drive-in movie theaters jealous with your projections.
The way you describe it, Shingeki no Kyojin was the first series ever to have characters die.
Hell, this series has more in common with Guilty Crown than it does Shingeki no Kyojin.
Last edited by Ryllharu; Fri, 09-26-2014 at 02:28 PM.
You can't blame him for his inexperience.
...Wait, you can.
Peace.
I could have also mentioned Claymore, although that one is somewhat detached from typical human grief.
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
Whenever I read something you wrote about a show, I can't help but think that I/you watched something totally different. I can't even say its "wrong" because I'm not really sure if we are talking about the same series. Wth.. seriouslyBut the overall theme in atmosphere and mood is an attempt at Attack on Titanīs popularity. Introduce characters, have them unexpectedly die, raw gruesomeness and cruelty, desparation and despair ... yeah.
I guess different people tend to focus on different things.
I, for one, was focused on the love story veiled in all the war and politics bullshit in this show.
Even though I liked Inaho's badassery at first, it grew more and more unbelievable as it progressed. The last fight made me lose suspension of disbelief.
Peace.
Cant say i didnt expect the neg rep for my postings in here today :P
Anyway, as I said, I guess I just couldnt ever connect to this anime in the way many of you did. For me, it was a poor attempt at replicating the success and popularity of Attack on Titan and Code Geass. For you, it seems, it was another anime on par with the aforementioned.
No need for personal insults, though.
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
The annoying part was that Inaho+Saazbaum kept crushing through walls whenever the Princess entered a new room.. as if they're trying to say "Hey, I'm here too"
the fight itself was okay, the fights prior to this one were hard because they had to figure out how to fight them... since the last one was a mixture of all cats so far (which was both unlikely, since all cats were so different up until that point, and boring imho), Inaho knew how to defeat him from the get-go
For me, it was a poor attempt at replicating the success and popularity of Attack on Titan and Code Geass.
*maybe* it didn't try to replicate anything at all
just like Death Note didn't want to mess around with Code Geass or the other way around for example, I don't know. ("Both have clever MCs, damn dis' copy-pasta!")
If you want to review a show you might want to view it in all objectivity and not nit-pick on stuff in one show (for example how stupid everyone is except for Inaho) and ignore the very same thing in the second show (Code Geass) just because you like that one more.
Last edited by KrayZ33; Fri, 09-26-2014 at 04:08 PM.
The entire combination thing was a bad idea I think. Maybe it was done to sell figures or something?
@Mfauli - I'm not saying that you're right, but imitating a popular series or format is a normal and accepted way of getting popular and selling. That by itself should not have a negative connotation.
Personally, I don't think Aldnoah is up to par with Code Geass and Shingeki, but we have only seen the first season.
Peace.
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