Aldnoah.Zero is certainly true to itself, right to the end. From the very beginning this has been one of the more perplexing series of the year, seemingly countering every spark of brilliance with a complete headdesk moment.  This season has definitely been the better of the two in my opinion […] Read more

Does it still count as being NTR’d when the guy deserves it this much? Actually, if you want to really parse it there are a lot of reasons why what happened in this week’s Aldnoah.Zero isn’t netorare at all (not least that Inaho is at least as much the protagonist […] Read more

This is starting to smell quite strongly of a tragic ending, at least for the principal characters. I’m sure the Sl-apologists will find a way to write off his actions this week just as they have all the others, but it’s hard to see much good left in Slaine at […] Read more

 Oh, this is one hell of a mess we have building up here. We can’t yet know exactly what shape the splatter is going to take, of course, but it’s obvious that the shit is getting very close to hitting the fan.  And I expect things to get pretty […] Read more

The arrow is loosed, in more ways than one. I would adjudge that the course of events in this week’s Aldnoah.Zero has been cast for some time, but the awakening of the real Princess Asseylum was probably the last event that could have turned Slaine’s arc from it.  Based on […] Read more

Aldnoah.Zero is predictable, but it’s predictably unpredictable too. Superficially, this episode of Aldnoah.Zero could hardly have done a better job of following the template the series has established so definitively in a season-and-a-half.  There were two battles, and each went exactly the way they would be expected to.  The two […] Read more

Aldnoah.Zero continues to be the same combo platter of reward and frustration it’s been (almost) all along, but the overall result is still pretty entertaining. There’s some mighty interesting stuff happening with Aldnoah.Zero at the moment, as the larger story is continuing to evolve in a disquietingly logical direction.  Unfortunately […] Read more

Here’s the thing about Aldnoah.Zero – it is what it is.  Whether that’s good enough is up to you. This was not an especially great episode, and Aldnoah.Zero certainly isn’t a great series.  But there’s something about this show that’s still working for me – working better, in fact, in […] Read more

I think we can consider the ante officially upped. Is it me, or has Aldnoah.Zero actually started to make sense?  And if it has, is that a good thing?  If you put a gun to my head, I think I’d have to answer yes to both questions.  The thing is, […] Read more