It feels like "the new thing" that's sweeping anime now. Killing off main characters is becoming the new thing. Not that it's necessarily a bad plot device, but the animes that mostly end up using it have such great characters. I watch oh so many harem, moe, semen demons shows, come across a show like Aldnoah Zero with superbly developed characters AND THEY ALL DIE. It just makes me sad. And Cruteo was so awesome too, full of hardcore loyalty. Then a loving heart warming moment happens, and they decide to bring down the axe (well, mecha with an inter-dimensional-shield-thingy) on his head. He was shaping up to be my favourite character too.The Wykydtron said:Yeah it really had all the signs of a 24 episodes series too, there was enough potential for the plot to be stretched out that long without running out of material. Like that guy who had PTSD and had relapses whenever he got inside a mecha, it was building up to him getting over it in the future with therapy but nah, let's just leave that.CpT_x_Killsteal said:Well if you wanna get real fuckin' retarded-
Already brought up. Which is a good thing. Because it was retarded. I honestly thought it was gonna be a 24 episode season, then it just ends with the blue-balling of a lifetime.The Wykydtron said:Aldnoah Zero
The Wykydtron said:Oh and Seylum's body went missing after that so Slaine's probably working on sci-fi necromancy in the already announced Season 2 because he was the only one left alive on the scene.
Good to know it's actually going to go somewhere. Who knows, could end up being great with the protagonist switch up. It's worked well before.
Either that or Gen Urobutcher just wanted to kill off some main characters.
I think your last statement is the most likely. I hate how randomly killing main characters like it was nothing is becoming a somewhat common thing in battle anime now. Now I like Attack on Titan as much as the next guy but I have to wonder if it's having negative effects on the genre... It was like that in Akame ga Kill too, at least it feels that way. After the tone of Episode 1 i'm expecting mass character death (only on Episode 6 but I would be surprised if they don't.)
Slaine had such potential as a character too, so did Cruteo for that matter. Not two minutes after he realised how loyal Slaine actually is (it was a a kind of touching moment too) he gets deleted by that bullshit one man army Strausbaum before he can even get into his mecha.
What happened to good old Power of Friendship anime, man? I know it's cheesy as fuck but I love it when it's done right. It's like every anime is actively working against it now.
It's like they're working on extremes. It was all about friendship, no blood, no gore, ecchi, characters weren't all that deep, no one really died, not even the "villains". Then someone flipped a switch, so now we have these absolutely amazing anime with well fleshed out characters, but all of them die.