Aldnoah.Zero

Aldnoah.Zero
Cover of the first Aldnoah.Zero DVD and Blu-ray volume
アルドノア・ゼロ (Arudonoa Zero)
Created by	Olympus Knights Plot designed by Gen Urobuchi
Anime television series
Directed by	Ei Aoki
Written by	Katsuhiko Takayama Gen Urobuchi Shinsuke Onishi Ayumi Sekine
Music by	Hiroyuki Sawano
Studio	A-1 Pictures, TROYCA
Licensed by	AUS: Hanabee NA: Aniplex of America UK: Anime Limited
Original network	Tokyo MX, GTV, GYT, BS11, ABC, AT-X
Original run	July 5, 2014 – March 28, 2015
Episodes	24 (List of episodes)
Manga
Aldnoah.Zero Season One
Written by	Olympus Knights
Illustrated by	Pinakes
Published by	Houbunsha[1]
English publisher	NA: Yen Press
Imprint	Manga Time KR Comics Forward Series
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	August 11, 2014 – July 13, 2015
Volumes	4
Manga
Aldnoah.Zero Gaiden: Twin Gemini
Written by	Kiyokazu Satake
Published by	Houbunsha
Imprint	Manga Time KR Comics Forward Series
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	December 12, 2014 – December 12, 2015
Volumes	4
Manga
Aldnoah.Zero Season Two
Written by	Olympus Knights
Illustrated by	Mahi Fuyube
Published by	Houbunsha
Imprint	Manga Time KR Comics Forward Series
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	February 12, 2015 – December 12, 2016
Volumes	5

Aldnoah.Zero (Japanese: アルドノア・ゼロ, Hepburn: Arudonoa Zero, stylized in logo as ΛLDNOΛH.ZERO) is a television and print series created by Olympus Knights and A-1 Pictures. It presents the fictional story of the Vers Empire's 37 clans of Orbital Knights' attempted reconquest of Earth—enabled by the empowering titular Aldnoah energy/drive technology—following return to Earth as a more technologically advanced people after a human diaspora to the planet Mars.

Plotted by Gen Urobuchi with direction by Ei Aoki, the series features principal Japanese voice acting by Natsuki Hanae, Sora Amamiya and Kensho Ono, with animated relational and battle scenes set on or in the orbit of the fictional Earth of 2014, the Landing Castles of the Vers Empire's Orbital Knights, Vers bases on a shattered remnant of Earth's Moon, and occasionally, the Vers palace of its failing emperor on Mars. The series began in July 2014, and as of March 2015, had presented two 12-episode seasons, with Urobuchi, Katsuhiko Takayama and Shinsuke Onishi, and then Hiroyuki Sawano and Kalafina, respectively, receiving principal script-writing and music credits.