History YMMV / AldnoahZero

** "I Say Fry" (?), the epic, epic music used during the fall of the Landing Castles.

* FridgeLogic: Related to the above, the elevations of central North America are far lower than the coastal areas--to the point where the Atlantic Ocean used to go right through the middle of North America, all the way through, covering everything between the Rocky Mountains and Great Lakes. With any rise in the sea level, the first areas of the continent to be submerged would be the central and mid-west United States. The last areas would be the east and west coast-based states--meaning the exact opposite of what would actually happen occurred in the anime. Made even more bizarre given that, with the destruction of the coastlines, the interior of North America would be even ''more'' likely to become flooded.

** After watching episode 3, a [[FreezeFrameBonus one-second scene]] from episode 2 becomes immensely important. [[spoiler: Right after the Nilokeras jumps off the sky carrier, as it is falling, a half dozen green objects streaks launch away from it that is almost impossible to catch unless you know to look for it. These are the surveillance drones being launched.]]

** After watching episode 3, [[spoiler: it becomes glaringly obvious in the previous episode that the background screens in Trillram's cockpit are camera feeds from drones high in the sky, as evidenced by the fact that they are displaying shots of the city from a bird's eye view.]]
*** Another scene from episode 2 becomes immensely important after seeing the third episode. Right after the Nilokeras jumps off the sky carrier, as it is falling, a half dozen green objects streaks launch away from it that is [[spoiler: almost impossible to catch]] unless you know to look for it. [[spoiler: These are the surveillance drones being launched.]]

** From the what's been shown in the previews, the opening theme, ''heavenly blue'' by Music/{{Kalafina}}, already qualifies. Considering [[Music/YukiKajiura who's composing it]], though, it's no real surprise.

** I guess future human colonization will either become taboo or only done with an ironclad, borderline tyrannical Earth stranglehold on any potential colonies. The notion that Earth would ever let a colony even get approval as a project would be through complete subjugation and overwhelming force being always present--so no independence from Earth in any way, either culturally, economically, or politically--in fact, even mere equal rights and citizenship would be under heavy doubt. But the worst part? ''It would be justified.'' If all it took for the collective population of Mars to go insane, become genocidal warmongers with grand delusions of superiority, and cause the destruction of the goddamn ''Moon'', was simply finding some advanced alien technology for the taking, then Earth would have every reason to be ''that paranoid'' about any notion of colonial independence or even equality.

* UnpleasableFanbase: One of the most common criticisms lobbed towards mecha anime is the fact that they often have protagonists who are either HotBlooded and make rash decisions, or who are "whiny" about being conscripted to fight in a war. Inaho is neither, is about as far from those archetypes as possible, and ''still'' has haters.

* FridgeLogic: Related to the above, the elevations of central North America are far lower than the coastal areas--to the point where the Atlantic Ocean used to go right through the middle of North America, all the way through, covering everything between the Rocky Mountains and Great Lakes. With any rise in the sea level, the first areas of the continent to be submerged would be the central and mid-west United States. The last areas would be the east and west coast-based states--meaning the exact opposite of what would actually happen occurred in the anime. Made even more bizarre given that, with the destruction of the coastlines, the interior of North America would be even ''more'' likely to become flooded.

* HypeBacklash: The heavy promotion by Aniplex, especially of the show's big name creators (including the [[KillEmAll infamous]] "Urobutcher" of PuellaMagiMadokaMagica [[CosmicHorrorStory fame]]), has led to this among some viewers.
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:The destruction of New Orleans.]] We are treated to people being vaporized alive, like in ''Terminator2''.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:The destruction of New Orleans.]] We are treated to people being vaporized alive, like in ''Terminator2''.

* BaseBreaker: Inoha and his emotionless reaction to everything that happens around him. He's either loved for being TheStoic and a nice change of pace from the usual HotBlooded hero of a mecha series, or he's hated because the complete lack of emotion makes him too robotic and impossible to relate to.

* HypeBacklash: The heavy promotion by Aniplex, especially of the show's big name creators, has led to this among some viewers.

* FridgeHorror: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LStCL94Gtx0 A briefly seen map of Earth]] shows that "Heaven's Fall" reconfigured the continents. To wit, most of the USA's two coasts have been replaced by crater-shaped bays, along with large portions of Brazil and Australia.

* CrapsackWorld: With near-[[NeonGenesisEvangelion First Impact]]-level devastation to Earth before the story begins, followed by devastating ColonyDrops in just the first episode, already we've established that this is one universe you can be lucky you're not living in.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:The destruction of New Orleans.]] We are treated to people being vaporized alive, like in ''Terminator2''.
* VanillaProtagonist: Several viewers have criticized the main hero as this, especially with his apparent lack of emotion to the chaos happening around him, [[spoiler:including his friend dying in front of his eyes.]]

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:The destruction of New Orleans.]] We are treated to people being vaporized alive, like in ''Terminator2''.

* AwesomeMusic: Though we haven't heard anything yet, Music/HiroyukiSawano, the man who brought us the soundtracks for Manga/AttackOnTitan and Anime/GuiltyCrown is composing the music for this show, so it's almost guaranteed.

* FridgeHorror: A briefly seen map of Earth shows that "Heaven's Fall" reconfigured the continents. To wit, most of the USA's two coasts have been replaced by crater-shaped bays, along with large portions of Brazil and Australia.

* FridgeHorror: A briefly seen map of Earth shows that "Heaven's Fall" reconfigured the continents. To wit, most of the USA's two coasts have been replaced by crater-shaped bays, along with large portions of Brazil and Australia.

** From the what's been shown in the previews, the opening theme, ''heavenly blue'' by Music/{{Kalafina}}, already qualifies. Considering [[Music/YukiKajiura who's composing it]], though, it's no real surprise.

** From the what's been shown in the previews, the opening them, ''heavenly blue'' by Kalafina, already qualifies. Considering [[Music/YukiKajiura who's composing it]], though, it's no real surprise.

* AwesomeMusic: Hirokyu Sawano, the man who brought us the soundtracks for Manga/AttackOnTitan and Anime/GuiltyCrown is composing the music for this show.