Something about: Aldnoah Zero

Aldnoah.Zero, an anime probably a lot of people had high expectations for. A lot of people probably reviewed this anime already, but i felt like doing one myself. So let's go.

    In essence, Aldnoah Zero is about a war between martians (people from Mars) and humans when the princess who came down from mars to earth was assassinated. That's the anime in the nutshell. Since I'm not familiar on how to do these things, I'll just state what I personally don't like and like in this anime.

    Let me introduce the only few characters in anime that actually matters. First, is Inaho, a high school student who somehow can defeat any martian mech nobody can. That's the protagonist. Secondly, there's Slaine, the guy who is caught up in the middle of being a human and martian and he is also the guy that always loses no matter what. And then there's the princess who just won't die and eventually dies anyways. Most of the other characters are mostly useless and don't serve any purpose to the anime.

    My biggest issue in this anime, is the fact that Inaho, the main character, is a freaking overpowered twat that can do anything with succession. For example, when the martian castles came down to earth and started wrecking faces, they could literally just kill anyone with one swing of their mechas, powered by their aldnoah. But apparently, the almighty Inaho, will not get killed by these things. Instead, he formulates strategies that pop out of his ass to defeat them. And the key to his success and not his fellow's comrade's success? His mecha can move while his comrade's mechas can't. All his comrade's mechas do is stare at the enemy, spraying and praying, and when the enemy's overpowered mechas come towards them, embrace death. Did I mention that Inaho is also cold towards whoever the fuck comes near him? Do I know why? Nope, because the anime doesn't tell me jack shit about Inaho's back story. All we know about him is that he is a really bright student somehow who can formulate strategies that his generals can't think of.

    This anime's biggest problem is that they fleshed out Inaho way too much. It feels like without Inaho, humanity might as well just self destruct and suicide because every other character can't do anything. All the other characters in the anime do is, brace for impact, wait for death, while Inaho thinks of these stupid strategies that he formulates within seconds because he's the protagonist. Occasionally other characters do something, but that rarely happens because INAHO IS THE MAN FOR YOU, YOU DON'T NEED ANYONE ELSE. Right.

    Anything good about Aldnoah Zero? Well, I honestly thought the whole idea of aldnoah was pretty interesting. This war isn't without a good reason either. And honestly, some of the side characters had a pretty interesting back story to them. But sadly, these stories aren't really fleshed out that much and as interesting as they are, they are only sub plots.

In conclusion, Aldnoah Zero COUDL'VE been a much better anime without the addition of the stupid protagonist that could do anything he wants. Maybe it would've been better if they fleshed out the side characters more, but I really feel that the main character was the doom of this anime. I really don't like him as a character because he doesn't have any.