Aldnoah.Zero - Episode 5 Discussion / Poll

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[LightningZERO]

Inaho solo the Beam Saber Martian mech and won. While it was pretty cool, I hope they gonna tone down Inaho's OP-ness a bit

Now waiting for the subs

[Kazu-kun]

The fights are just ridiculous with Inaho being more a superhero than a soldier at this point and everyone else being so useless and dumb.

This series is proving to be a huge waste of time.

[Key Board]

episode 5

Spoiler:

- goddamnit anime, that's not how you do CPR
- Either Inaho is a tactical genius, or everyone else is not as bright. Martians, included.
- oops.. Slaine was framed as a spy. But it's possible that the Emperor is just playing along and really believes Slaine deep inside.
I'd say there's a 50% chance that Slaine is set up to fail everything in the end.

on another note, I ship Inaho x traitor-chan, because why the hell not

[Kazu-kun]

They should make Inaho general or something. In fact, they should fire the whole army and let Inaho take care of the war on his own. They're useless and he doesn't need them anyway. He'll beat all the bad robotos with his roboto brain alone.

[Stark700]

Lol, Inaho the one man fighting machine.

I wasn't surprised by the CPR/Kiss since I did see the PV for this episode.

Spoiler:

[Dr. Dahm]

Originally Posted by Kazu-kun

The fights are just ridiculous with Inaho being more a superhero than a soldier at this point and everyone else being so useless and dumb.

This series is proving to be a huge waste of time.

Yeah I didn't think the writing for this characters scenes was going to be this much of a downer on the anime. He continues to feel very self-insert the way he's so quiet and just so improbably good at everything kind of like one of those silent RPG protags. I mean I could swallow the first fight where he sort of needed all of his friends to help, I could tolerate last episode, but now it's getting pretty one dimensional. At least Slaine's portion of the episode kind of made up for it though he continues to feel like Inaho's opposite in how he just never succeeds at anything which is sort of starting tip me further in the direction of a theory I've been working on about this shows chief story concept designer little by little. Basically though this show is much better any time Inaho isn't involved much like SAO is kind of better the less screen time Kirito gets for sort of similar reasons.

Oh well it basically makes Saturday like the Aniplex Blockbuster Anime/OP MC Power Hour cause you get Mahouka, SAO and now Aldnoah pretty much one after the other.

[LightningZERO]

Interesting episode. Slaine's plan backfired and the Saazbaum knows about his involvement. His line about irony seems to suggest Slaine's father is/was involved in the conspiracy as well. Very interesting. Now that Cruchteo is carrying out his own investigation as well, I wonder if an in-fighting between VERSi s imminent?

Pretty good fight. Inaho obviously is OP so I hope they will tone that down, but that is a very successfully carried out self destruct attack. Good thing he's not piloting one of the kind Prototype.

[Kazu-kun]

Originally Posted by Dr. Dahm

Oh well it basically makes Saturday like the Aniplex Blockbuster Anime/OP MC Power Hour cause you get Mahouka, SAO and now Aldnoah pretty much one after the other.

I was hoping this series wouldn't go there but yeah.

Oh well. It only needs to get just little more dumb an I might be able to enjoy it as an unintentionally comedy.

[ankgembala]

it's hard to please everyone..
while in other mecha show, people complain about how op the mecha,, now, here, we will see more complain about how op the mc is..

[Utsuro no Hako]

Given the title of the episode, who wants to bet that the "Emperor" at the end was a hologram?

[DevilHighDxD]

That's two Martian downed by Inaho and zero for the Earth's army, the emperor seem to be a reasonable authority but easily manipulated. So what you gonna do now Slaine?

There's no need to toned down the amounts of Inaho's brain cells, the Martian is just need to grow some of their own's.

[liemtodaisu]

FFS people, it's freaking called mouth-to-mouth CPR, not a freaking kiss. If you got drowned and I performed CPR on you, you think I'm french-kissing you?

[Lantern]

Originally Posted by DevilHighDxD

There's no need to toned down the amounts of Inaho's brain cells, the Martian is just need to grow some of their own's.

This. While I'm still enjoying the show, I can't help but to think "Why don't you just cut up the bridge?!" when Vlad goes around cutting up fodder mechs

[liemtodaisu]

If they have any brain cells at all they wouldn't fight like 12 year-old arrogant whiny kids. 2 Man-children already got rekt by Inaho. Can't wait for an entire Orbital knights to get on to Inaho's to-shit-on list.

[Cabaen]

There's no need to toned down the amounts of Inaho's brain cells, the Martian is just need to grow some of their own's.

This might be true but the idiocy of the martians and the uber intelligence of Inaho are really "boring", I don't ask for a martian Norris Packard but at least I want decent enemies... the Sociopatic Mecha Jesus show isn't really that awesome, personally I prefer the Slaine part of the show.

[liemtodaisu]

Though some disagree but I have to say every episodes so far got me all goosebumps and excited. Especially when seeing Inaho in combat. This mecha series just hit my personal preference I guess...

[Thess]

Originally Posted by liemtodaisu

FFS people, it's freaking called mouth-to-mouth CPR, not a freaking kiss. If you got drowned and I performed CPR on you, you think I'm french-kissing you?

Yes, because that's the way to perform CPR (go google if you don't know how it's done). You clearly don't know about romantic troupes.

Designer Takako's gift art:



More.

The episode was kind of weak on the Earth front side. I liked the Martians politics, but I agree with others who said Inaho should face someone with a brain.

[foxbox360]

Originally Posted by Thess

Yes, because that's the way to perform CPR (go google if you don't know how it's done). You clearly don't know about romantic troupes.

Designer Takako's gift art:



More.

The episode was kind of weak on the Earth front side. I liked the Martians politics, but I agree with others who said Inaho should face someone with a brain.

Imagine Slane be his destined rival like in all those other mecha animes but with no mask.

[randomxd]

Originally Posted by Lantern

This. While I'm still enjoying the show, I can't help but to think "Why don't you just cut up the bridge?!" when Vlad goes around cutting up fodder mechs

He basically wanted a 1 vs 1 with the orange mecha.
He's the typical proud-character that's focused on his objective regardless of being stupid or anything else.

I'm enjoying more the time-screen with Slaine than with Inaho, but I think I'm not the only one.