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Aldnoah.Zero - Anime Spoilers & Speculation
The purpose of this thread is to allow free discussion of theories and speculation of the Aldnoah.Zero anime series, but be warned since it may contain unmarked spoilers. Having a central location may help focus the discussion instead of spreading speculation over the various episode discussion threads.
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2014-07-25, 18:42 | Link #2 |
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Here's an interesting speculation question. I wanted to think about the titular object known as Aldnoah? What is it really? Is it a mech or something more?
Whatever it is, scared the crap out of Lt. Marito so much that he's still drowning out the memory 15 years later. And what could be so huge that not only do the Earth Forces deny it's appearance, but the Martian forces do too? I wonder why they would do that? Earth I can understand, but Mars? Isn't Aldnoah and its power sacred to them? Wouldn't they want to revel in the awesome might of it? Why would they hush it up? How powerful is this thing? If just the "light of Aldnoah" can power ships (the glowy balls of light seen in the castles), can act as ultimate shields that can absorb anything from matter to sound to light, and can even manipulate matter (I'm speculating that the princess' power comes from Aldnoah as well as is actually literally changing her appearance rather than it being an illusion), than what can Aldnoah itself do? I'm speculating that Aldnoah might just be so powerful and unpredictable technology, that though the Emperor "supposedly" has control of it, it's too powerful even for him and that's why they hushed up the incident 15 years ago, because it would have shown that the royals are not as "divine" as they want them to think.
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I also believe there are more than one Aldnoah, and the titular Aldnoah Zero might refer to one hidden on earth, maybe discovered during the battle of Tanegashima. This is why UFE hush up the whole thing. There are some massive conspiracies going around.
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2014-07-26, 22:16 | Link #4 |
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Aldnoah is either a special power source or a special particle/energy akin to Gundam OO's GN particles. The assasins called the light given off the Trillham's mech the "Light of Aldnoah", so basically, all the mechs and/or all of the Martians tech probably give off this light and use Aldnoah.
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2014-07-26, 22:55 | Link #5 |
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I believe Aldnoah is an nonexistent bullshit come up by the Martain's emperor for propagandas and brainwashings the mass thinking that he truly a god. This is why the title is "Aldnoah.Zero", zero is nothing. Hence our MCs will used Kataphrakt, the system that will exposed the true to the world!!
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However, I think Aldnoah has to be something. The power in the glowing balls that powers the Martian machines. The light that can flow over objects and become a barrier that absorbs practically everything. And whatever it was that Marito saw that day that's scared him for 15 years. Aldnoah exists, whatever it is. We just don't really have any clues other than mentions of it right now.
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2014-07-27, 10:49 | Link #8 |
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In the story itself, I don't think Aldnoah is any particular thing, but rather the name of the ancient Martian civilization.
As for the title, "Aldnoah" is the name of the overall franchise and "Zero" is the title of this particular season, just like Fate/Zero, /Stay Night, etc., or Selector Infected and Selector Spread Wixoss. Given Urobuchi's involvement, "Zero" is probably being used in the same sense as Fate/Zero. |
2014-07-27, 22:45 | Link #10 |
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Here's a more realistic twist: what if the Emperor was behind the whole assassination in the first place? Think of it. What if he too wants to conquer Earth. He would need a cause to go to war and a bunch of supposedly "rebellious" knights to carry it out. So, he secretly gives orders to Saazbaum, one of his trusted knights, to have some Martians spies stage an assassination. His granddaughter and heir is killed, but Mars regains their "birthright" and conquer the Earth. The same Earth that took his son away from him.
As for who would be his next heir then? He can simply delegate the throne to the knight that has gained his favor. Asseylum is too soft to become Empress anyway. She's better served as being a martyr for her people. Hmm, it's actually a pretty sound theory.
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2014-07-27, 23:44 | Link #12 |
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My theory about how the Princess and the maid know it's Martians who were trying to kill her. The letter from Rayet's father. Those who've seen the supplementary materials for the show have seen the letter. Maybe the reason we know is that Assylum received the letter at the location she was staying behind at. That would have told her what was going on and could be the reason she and the maid fled.
As to her Grandfather being behind her assassination attempt - plausible but it could go a few other ways. I do think Assylum is way to sure that her Grandfather will support her but if she does make it out of all of this alive she's pretty much proven she's made of stern enough stuff to lead the Empire. BTW, if I remember the supplemental stuff correctly, it wasn't her Grandfather Ray who started the last war but her father. It ended when he died. I think the Crown Prince's death is needing to be looked at closer to explain just what is going on here, on the VERS Empire side of things. |
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I didn't read any supplementary materials, so my thoughts about how the maid and Seylum knew about the conspiracy is that something happened after that the princess "got killed". Why they were wandering alone around the city. What happened to their entourage? My speculation is that A) the princess' delegation was itself involved in the conspiracy so the moment the parade got wiped out they tried to get rid of the maids, the loli one and the double. That would imply that Seylum is indeed the double, because I suppose all the entourage would have known who was who in these situations, it's a decision that would be taken among the entourage and not just between the Princess and the double. Officially. There is still the possibility that due to a sort of confidence between the princess and the double they decided to keep it secret from the rest of the entourage. Did they do that by chance or did they suspect something? But that would not explain how they knew about the spies, that is a very circumstantial detail. So B) probably the Terrain conspirators had also planned to get rid of the whole princess' delegation, or just part of it. That could mean that the maid and Seylum saw by chance people of their delegation confabulating with some suspicious Terrains and then some of their entourage getting killed by these people. So they ran away. Again they should have known about the double, here the explanation is the same as above. And the accomplice part of the delegation went back to confirm the princess death and the events making all more plausible. Not that these speculations are free from inconsistencies, like if they ran away, why nobody chased them down? But in any case surely something happened.
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I just think that something really bad is going to happen if and when Asseylum gets in contact with her grandfather. Like she thought it was safe telling him she was alive, but in reality it was a big mistake.
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2014-07-28, 11:50 | Link #17 | |
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And having thought on it more, I really can't buy the idea that Ray ordered Asseylum's assassination. The problem with the idea of Ray ordering his granddaughter's assassination to have a casus belli is that he didn't need one. As far as we know, Gillsaia started the previous war without one and had no problem rallying the knights to his cause. If Ray had wanted to conquer Earth, he could have just called the knights and said, "Sup? Go conquer Earth," and the knights would have jumped at the chance. Though I do agree with the idea that something bad will probably happen when Asseylum (whether she's the real one or a double) finally manages to contact him. |
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2014-07-28, 18:02 | Link #18 |
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That's a point but that could also play out without the Grandfather turning on Asseylum. We don't know what sort of health he's in or how much real control he has over the situation on Mars. Asseylum is also going to be taking a big chance trying to contact him, when she does, in that the message is going to have to get past all of those Knights to reach him (it takes around five minutes for radio waves to get to Mars, though that's current technology).
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Now of course it's not going to be as easy as she thinks, but I think she should at least know somewhat of how much authority the office she will inherit actually has.
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2014-07-28, 23:00 | Link #20 |
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Theory: all those promotional images they had in the website are snapshots of events that happened before the episodes or offscreen. I recall Okisuke's picture in episode 4 to be actually part of this.
I suspect these two are also mean to be pictures in universe (I admittedly dismissed them as simple introduction promo, but not anymore, specially after the published material that shows the Vers as a photo). Meanwhile these four pictures are likely scenes that happened offscreen: Inaho walking into school in episode 1, Slaine getting ready to pilot his plane in episode 2, Asseylum dressing up in her room before meeting Slaine and going to Earth in episode 1 and Yuki showing the new Aerion model. Then, there is another set that pities mecha vs mecha which could be more metaphorical than precise. One is Vlad in his Arygyre defending Cruhteo's castle and the other one shows three Sleipnir (Inaho's, Calm's and Inko's most likely) protecting a base at the distance.
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