Aldnoah.Zero Season 2 Episode 1 アルドノア・ゼロ Anime Review

First step to another masterpiece 

I skipped Aldnoah.Zero when it originally aired cause I wasn't that big of a fan of Mecha series. It was just 2 weeks back when I started watching this series and it completely blew me away. It had everything, beautiful music, amazing animation, superb plot and job dropping ending. The last episode of first season had one of the most horrible cliff hanger I've seen, in a good way. Season 2 was announced at the end of the last episode to cool down all the fans. It certainly is one of the most hyped anime of this winter season alongside Tokyo Ghoul √A. If you still have yet to see season 1, whether you like Mecha series or not, close this review (as this will contain some spoilers from season 1) and go watch it, trust me it's worth it.

He's back! 

"Why Slaine, WHY?" was the cry of everyone who saw the season finale (or episode 12). But guess what, the writers just shot back at us cause pretty much everyone who we thought were died are alive. Set 19 months after the events of episode 12, Slaine is off course alive, Saazbaum is alive as well. I never thought I would say this but Inaho is fucking alive! so glad to see that. He received mixed reaction for being a dull character with no expressions whatsoever last season but he pretty much sinked into everyone's heart over the period.

Inaho's Aldnoah Drive 

 We know he was shot in the eye so he now has a mechanical eye transplanted into him as shown in this episode. Midway between the episode we are given a hindsight about what happened after the end of episode 12, Slaine Joining forces with Saazbaum and escaping from the scene while it was also revealed that now, our main protagonist Inaho has Aldnoah drive, somewhat transferred to him when he gave CPR to Princess Asseylum (This could explain why Slaine could control the Mech in Season 1 without Aldnaoh drive). We are also introduced to a new Princess, Lemrina who is shown faking as the Princess Asseylum in a speech where she declares attack on Earth. We don't know much about her at the moment but she seems to have similar liking for Earth as the previous princess, the only difference is that she doesn't care about Terrans at all and just wants to capture Earth. But, it is revealed at the end of the episode that Princess Asseylum is actually alive like in a coma state, really sets out a interesting plot to look forward to. 

Princess 

Overall the episode was superb living up to the standards of the first season. Oh the music, both the OST and ending song, they were beautiful. I'm really looking forward to this series, the plot is certainly very interesting again this time, I just hope it's executed properly.Thank you for reading this anime review, have a wonderful day or night wherever you live! Thoughts? let me know in the comments below.