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

 iNAHO'S LEFT EYE

This series just keeps on getting better and better by each episode! The opening, pure eargasm! I suppose that opening song was played during the ending credits of the previous episode but none the less, it's now the opening and what a opening it is, beautiful, really sets out the perfect atmosphere for viewers. Moving on to the episode, it looks like the King or Vers Rayvers is not yet aware that his granddaughter, Princess Asseylum is in comma or similar state as Princess Lemrina, introduced to us in the previous episode is shown in her Asseylum's avatar talking to him. So that means Saazbaum who first told Vers Rayvers that his granddaughter was assassinated is now lying to him that she is alive, interesting.

This episode had one particular scene which was really confusing. Slaine was not able to start his mecha with his Aldnoah drive he obtained from Princess Asseylum as Princess Lemrina deactivated it. So Slaine requested her to activate it but she refused it and said that he is only using her for her Aldnoah drive which Slaine bluntly accepted. A very interesting fact is also revealed to us during this scene that Princess Lemrina is actually step-sister of  Princess Asseylum and basically she envies and hates her sister as she got more attention than her. So Slaine consoles her by stating that even he went through tough times as he was a Terran. In the end, she kisses him and now he can activate Aldnoah drive again, what the? After all that saga, Saazbaum and his battleship along with Slaine are shown heading towards Trident Base  to destroy it. Inaho and others had already arrived there beforehand.

That battle or war, whichever you find suiting, was the first time Slaine and Inaho encountered each other after events of previous season's finale. Before even encountering Slaine, Inaho just single handedly destroyed most of the enemy's so called Stygis Plantoon with pin point accurate shooting that none of his colleagues could do. Inoah was the smartest of them all, first season pretty much showed that a lot of times but now that he has this new eyeball, he is even better than he ever was! As the threat increases towards the main battleship, Slaine enters the battlefield to act as a decoy only to encounter his nemesis who he thought was dead, epic! 

That whole battle scene was brilliantly done, the music created an amazing atmosphere that sucked viewers in and as usual the animation throughout the episode was top notch. We are yet to see the entire fight between our main protagonist and antagonist which we'll probably get to see next week. Besides that I wanted to discuss two things before I end this review, firstly, Inaho is shown investigating the speech that Princess 

Asseylum gave which declared war on Earth, and he seemed to have come to the conclusion that she was not the real princess based on her stress levels during that speech. Secondly, the opening, from how it looked, are they really trying to set up a love triangle between Inaho-Slaine-Asseylum? It might sound stupid but we never know. Thank you for reading this anime review, have a wonderful day or night wherever you live! Thoughts? let me know in the comments below.