Hm... it's from the director of Azumanga. But he hasn't done anything good since then so I'm staying skeptical.

Perhaps. A crappy adaption would kill it, but I'm hyped since the manga was/is great.

Remember guys, polling closes after tomorrow. As of now, Aldnoah.Zero and Terror in Resonance are firmly in the lead, with Sabagebu and Tokyo Ghoul tied for third. The tie-breaker would belong to Sabagebu.

My vote was not aldonoah because I'll be watching that anyway.

I'm just a few episodes away from catching up to all my 22 current animes. I will have a look at Aldnoah then. I will try really hard not to bore myself to death. *fingers crossed*

edit: Watched first ep. Now I know why it's so popular. It tries to be as unspecial and mainstream as possible. And succeeds.

edit2: Can you get more predictable and generic? Ep 2 and they're still doing nothing but pulling all the tropes they can find. Please someone tell me how this anime is better than others except for the production values.

Random Picture of the day: From my favorite childhood manga comes Yotsuba&! I guess shes trying something new

You know, you made a post a week or so back about how people shouldn't just bash certain anime, since all have an audience. I think that would apply here as well

I personally find Aldnoah.Zero great and I don't usually like most of the mainstream anime. 

I apologize for the harsh tone and I had it coming. I tend to react overly negative or positive when confronted with something new.

I've watched 4 episodes now and I still don't see a single element in this anime that would make it better than other animes. It's like they took the most generic pieces of other scifi/mecha/war animes and added a bit polish to it.

Neither story nor characters seem compelling(read not special in any way) to me.  There has to be more to it seeing who wrote it. I am preparing to see some MC death.

No problem, a lot of people are divided over the anime, so I understand if you have some criticism for it.

I've liked the action and political tension in the anime, I was reluctant on it at first but I've found it personally pretty enjoyable.

But there is no actual political tension. This isn't Maoyuu. Politics start and end with the first episode.

2 warring nations, one princess visit and an obvious plot by the aggressors to provoke a war that they will win. An obvious not dead princess later and the invasion begins. The end.

Most of the martian knights seem very satisfied with starting this war and they are by far superior. The hunt after that girl who saw too much seems ridiculous since it wouldn't change a thing. What happens if the human HQ gets hold of a witness? Telling the martians to stop because they're actually the baddies? As if they would believe that. And they have no reason to believe anything, they're the superior race, they can just raze the planet and don't have to take shit from anyone.

And even if it gets known to all martian knights that the princess is still alive. Why would they stop? They've already destroyed so much. Who will force them to stop? This war is what they wanted all along.

The only thing that can stop them now are contrived plot devices like overconfident and slow knights or a neat little deus ex machina that will pop up somewhere to make the humans worthy foes out of nothing.