Woah, woah, woah, woah, WOAH!! What happened?! I haven't seen a sequel to an anime bomb this hard since Tokyo Ghoul Root A and Psycho-Pass 2. It is quite astonishing how an anime can do a complete nose dive in quality over the course of a couple of episodes and even though I thought that the first season of Aldnoah.Zero was mediocre I would think that it would stay that way throughout its whole span but I was proven wrong.
Story: (2/10)
The story of Aldnoah.Zero 2nd Season starts off 19 months later after the ending of the first season with Slaine rejoining the Martians and the whereabouts of Princess Asseylum being unknown. One of my problems with the story is how predictable it is with its writing and it definitely shows this the most during the battles. This is how most of the battles go, 1. Enemy shows up with a new mech that has a special ability. 2. The characters get into their own mechs to fight the enemy. 3. The enemy's mech shows its special ability by killing many no name characters. 4. The characters all panic because they can't find a way to beat the enemy. 5. Inaho comes out of nowhere and comes up with a plan to defeat the enemy and then immediately kills the enemy. It just gets so predictable that it gets really boring to watch and to make things worse is how they give Inaho a new ability to make him much more overpowered that he already was. Another problem this story has is how season 2 doesn't take the time to close up any plot holes that were left from the first season and it even adds new plot holes to the story. The way Aldnoah.Zero Season 2 ends is just very unsatisfying. It feels like a big slap in the face after finishing the anime.
Art and Animation: (6/10)
The art stayed at the same quality like the first season of Aldnoah.Zero. The backgrounds still look pretty good and the character designs managed to stay consistent but the only thing that held the art back was the CGI which was also the main problem I had with the art in season 1. The CGI appears even more than it did in season 1 and seeing all these scenes with CGI makes things much more unappealing to look at. The animation still managed to stay consistent with its fluency.
Sound: (7/10)
The sound is still the best part about Aldnoah.Zero. They still kept all the same good songs from the first season and the OP and the EDs are good. The voice actors were all solid and the sound effects were average.
Characters: (2/10)
The characters yet again are the worst thing about this anime. All the new characters that were added into this season didn't add anything to the story and were very forgettable. Inaho and Slaine didn't improve at all, Inaho still stayed the same no personality character and his only purpose is being able to defeat all the enemies that appear. Slaine in this season became much more terrible because of how much more inconsistent his personality is. He pretty much changes his opinion on things every second just to further the plot. All the villains in this are either one dimensional or only appear for one episode because they die in that episode.
Enjoyment: (3/10)
The only things I found enjoyable in this anime is the art, animation, and sound.
Overall: (3/10)
Aldnoah.Zero's 2nd Season managed to make an already mediocre anime much more worse than it should have been and I would in no way recommend this anime.
