Aldnoah.Zero Season 2 Episode 5 アルドノア・ゼロ Anime Review

DEATH-FLAG? 

A Count that agreed (to some extend) with Inaho? Perhaps its a first step towards a bigger picture, that is to establish a bridge between Terrans and Martians. Besides that we got a lot of development on Inaho and Rayet's characters in this episode as they both work together and help Mazuurek escape so that he can carry on Inaho's message to let everyone know that the current princess is an impostor and so on. But it is the trouble in paradise among the Martians Count which is the highlight of this episode. Before that, lets discuss some other things stuff shown in this episode. 

It has been shown many times before but in this episode, Yuki's message reached out to Inaho loud and clear. As his sister, she never wanted him to get involved in all this war and stuff but, whether he wanted it or not, he got involved and to such an extent that he can't back out now, something that Yuki knows but considering in how dangerous situations Inaho gets himself involved, she doesn't wanna bear the pain of losing him again. In the end, Inaho shrugs off all the concern and tells her that he can't just stay around doing nothing and has to save her cause she was shot right in front of him while trying to save him. The way this scene was portrayed, its clearly a deathflag. It's likely for Inaho but who knows, perhaps that deathflag might be for Yuki as well cause in previous episodes, it's shown how Inaho is somehow getting less and less in contact with her lately as he didn't properly met her after coming back to Earth and so on, again I could be wrong. Besides that, we also get to see a short reunion of Marito and Magbaredge.

The irony in that whole "caged bird" dialogue, damn. It can go in both ways, to Princess Asseylum, who no one knows is in coma state cause Slaine wants to keep her to himself as he mentions "some birds are caged cause they are beautiful" clearly referring to her kind hearth and perhaps the possibility of someone else exploiting her for powers. And secondly, to Princess Lemrina who no one knows is portraying as impostor princess and is pretty much being exploited for her powers by Slaine. She can't even move freely on their base as it might reveal her identity. We also get to see the outburst of Rayet's emotions as she tells Inaho that she hates all martians as they betrayed and killed her father and also herself for trying to kill Princess back then. Though it was hard to convince Mazuurek, somehow Inaho did it and won his trust as he helped him when Inaho and Ryet caught him running away to escape safely in a hope that he'll let others know of Slaine's devious act and find out where the real princess is. And only Yuki knows all of this as she refrains from telling other know she spotted Inaho and Rayet with Mazuurek. 

Mazuurek is probably the only Count at the moment who had/has the same objective as the princess and not just attack Earth. Coming towards end, we get a very interesting challenge laid out by Marylcian as he challenges Slain for a battle in order to determine who'll take over the vacant role of Mazuurek's position as they consider him dead having lost his contact. Interesting to note how others Counts are starting to suspect Slaine as not only did Saazbaum died oddly soon after he adopted Slaine as his son but also the fact that the Asseylum is always with him coming to an conclusion that he is using her. If this battle does takes place, it'll be interesting, as we know nothing about Marylcian's mech. Hopefully we'll also get the answer as to what's Slaine's objective is as Inaho asked Mazuurek to find it out. Overall a good episode, music was really good throughout. A lot of build up and character developments as well. Thank you for reading this anime review, what do you think could be Slaine's main objective? let me know in the comments below and have a wonderful day or night wherever you live! Links to this episode are available in download section.