Review Aldonoah Zero

Your super advanced prototype is no match for my mass produced training unit

Fifteen years ago there was a short war between the people of Earth and the Vers Empire who lives on Mars. Then the princess of Vers went to Earth to have a more formal peace between the two peoples. Suddenly an assassination attempt on the princess not only wrecks her plans of peace but ignites a new war between Vers and Earth as the orbital knights almost immediately launch an attack on Earth.

Don't do it. There is a second season to live for.

Aldonoah Zero is a mecha show that is made up of two twelve episode seasons. This review only covers the first season. The story of a war between the Earth and space is a well worn trope of the mecha genre but I feel this show does breathe new life into the tale. This show has considerable strengths to it, primarly it's rather tight pacing and inventive fight choreography.

Slaine, in the middle of shooting someone

There are some more controversial aspects to the show as well. Most of this has to deal with the characterization of the two main leads. One of them (Inaho) is mostly emotionless, and the other (Slaine) seems to have little point in the show, other than to throw a major wrench into the plot at episode 12. However It has been a while since I enjoyed a mecha show as much as Aldonoah Zero and good mecha shows are hard to find these days.

Overall I found Aldo Noah Zero to be a welcome take on old story tropes and exciting action scenes.

Rating the Silver Zeon medal of Merit (Gundam) for being one of the best mecha shows in recent years.