Aldnoah.Zero

[fireheart]

So Inaho doing all these absurd calculations in seconds is okay, but Death Note is unrealistic? Okay :P

Yes, I couldnt do these calculations, neither could other pilots. The question then is, why can Inaho? Has it been said that he´s autistic and that´s where his super-math skills stem from? Because otherwise, it´s just bullshit to accept this sort of skills without any doubts. No non-autistic person in reality could do calculations like those required on the fly like that.
If we accept these skills to be true, then Id rather call Inaho a robot, rather than a genius.

And still, the basic idea wasnt special. What made it somewhat special is to pull it off just like that. But then it remains to be question if it´s still genius-behavior or something beyond that.

You're mixing arguments from different people and throwing them together as if one person said it. IMO it diminishes your arguments since neither KrayZ33 or I mentioned Death Note but you're throwing it around as if we made that statement.

What you're basically saying in your second paragraph is "Why should we accept any genius type/OP character that doesn't have any kind of believable reason for it (that I can accept)?". The short answer is: Because it's fiction. Sure plot armor exists and is applied to Inaho but I sure didn't start watching Aldnoah.Zero because I wanted realistic action/setting/characters/plot. I honestly have no idea what you expected a mecha show were mechs have super powers to be like.

Does it matter that the basic idea wasn't special? Would you accept it more easily if it was some sort of absurdly elaborate plan that no one would have ever thought of?

It wasn't that Inaho knew to use grenades to close with the enemy kataphract. It's that he knew how many he would need and the appropriate intervals to fire them. He had to go at X km/h firing grenades at Y meters every Z seconds.

I should have you summarize all my posts, the point would probably get across way easier that way.