Foreword::
Have received a fair amount of positive remarks in regards to my question a few weeks back, I have taken pictures of and uploaded a variety of pictures from the ALDNOAH.ZERO ARCHIVEZ. It is undecided at this point if I want to continue this as a new column/type of post centering around figures/goods/media, but depending on your comments/impressions below, I’d be open to making more posts of this nature once every month or so (and more often where possible). So let me know in the comments what you think and we’ll see how it goes. I’ve got a bunch of other storyboards/artbooks handy, along with some of the more popular figures and some CD’s while I’m at it, so there’s a lot more where this comes from.
After compression and saving it at a lower quality, they’re not as large as they used to be, but please note that the pictures below will be larger than typical episodic screenshots (about 4-5x as much) and will take longer to load.
Product Details:
The ALDNOAH.ZERO ARCHIVEZ were sold as a limited and exclusive item (￥4,500) at the Aniplex Booth at Comiket 86 earlier in August. Those that purchased it at the booth also received limited edition stickers. Alternatively, it was available for pre-order from 8/15 to 8/31 on the Aniplex+ JP Web Store, with delivery starting in September. The ARCHIVEZ are a set of three books.
BOOK 1: SETTINGS & DOCUMENTS
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BOOK 2: A/Z REPORT ARCHIVES
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BOOK 3: EPISODE 1 STORYBOARD
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Bonus Pictures
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Related Products:
1) A/Z | aLIEz ED Single w/ Limited Release Poster (¥ 1250 Regular, ¥ 1500 Limited)
2) ALDNOAH.ZERO KATAPHRAKTOS T-SHIRT (¥ 3500)
3) ALDNOAH.ZERO KG-6 Sleipnir and KG-7 Areion CANVAS Art (¥ 8000 / $79.98 excluding tax/shipping)
Awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing Zephyr.
x2 ありがとう Zephyr
Welcome!
Awesome share Zephyr. Thanks for the great pics. Though I’d really like to request some translations from book 2 that goes over the elements of the series plot and story line. I’m really interested about the background and current situation of the Vers Empire, which the anime has only lightly touched on, besides a more detailed insight on what and how the Aldnoah power really works. If you could spare the time that is.
Sadly I don’t have the expertise to do so on my end. The best I’d be able to do is take a few pictures and send it to someone who knows enough to be able to translate that.
Wow.
Thank you so much, I love you 😀
Well let’s see, there have been quite a number of other-than-anime posts,
and those were quite interesting to read as well.
Eg:
1) reviews on manga
2) reviews on visual novels
3) reviews on OVAs / anime movies
4) occasional highlight of Anime-Cosplay/Comics-Games (ACG) event
From what I gather, all of those are associated with the genre of Japanese entertainment,
and while RC is mostly about anime reviews, the Random Curiosity name itself does not impose any restrictions on what the nature of its contents should be, so yeah,
5) reviews on figures/goods/media
sounds interesting and wouldn’t be too off topic.
If one of the RC writers has the free time and the interest,
maybe other topics could be discussed as well, such as:
– Light Novels? (particularly those without anime adaptations yet)
– Anime industry stuff (eg Hayao Miyazaki & Ghibli issues, or Kazuma Kamachi’s 10th Anniversary Announcements, etc etc)
—Off topic stuff—
-Anybody here read Key’s Planetarian Kinetic Novel? It just got released on Steam..
-Internet anime fans seem to be hyping the Kazuma Kamachi event on October 5th after this video (http://youtu.be/Y8ZCp7FnD3w)speculations include To Aru Majutsu Season 3 announcement inclusive of New Testament, or even anime adaptations of ALL of the Light Novels that Kamachi is the author of.
I agree with Techim. This is a blog, more content that the writers likes to post is better. Anyone who dislikes a certain topic can just skip reading that post, I do so lots of times and I am sure others do to. With the varity of writers so are you bound to like or agree with someone posting here and as sure to have at lest someone you do not agree with or like the same stuff as. But disagreeing with someone on the internet is not the end of the world.
If we want more stuff on Randomc.net then we need follow things:
1) More Server space + bandwidth billings
2) More writers for the new Stuff, remember their doing here all on their free time and good will. They are not get paid to write here
3) If RandomC is growing, then someone has to give up his RL Job just to administrating this Site in a full time job. Well someone has to take the responsibility
I remember back then theres someone who blogs/talks about LN in RC too, sure hope it gets continued/resumed (particularly those without anime adaptations yet too xD).
I wonder if any of the Gundam shows will ever get this level of extra special coverage at any point.
I see Twilight in your book case. Also, I think you should improve your photos. They don’t do the goods any justice at all.
Remnants of a past age they are.
And well, photos go only so far if you’re trying to get posts out in a timely manner and make them size manageable for people to load them with. Obviously it’d be better if I had an actual proper set up for this stuff, but that costs money and time, neither of which are of plentiful supply at the moment.
In any case, they’re just meant to preview what the goods are and show what’s out there. They’re not meant to replace them in any sense of the word. If you don’t feel they showcase what’s nice about it, that’s fine, but I feel there’s definitely those out there that feel like it does.
COOL OMg
OOOoooo we’re getting artbook reviews. Nice!
The start of a new era for RandomC
I feel so much envy. I wish to have it 😀
Off topic question zephyr, where did you get your poster hangers?
They’re Large Acrylic Frames from Muji. Made to fit B2 size posters.
Just look at Darzana Magbaredge in that pic with her colleagues. Those nicely-shaped, child-bearing hips! Lt. Marito, hold on to her, and never let go! =)
haha, so funny poor Marito ;D
If only I wasn’t so broke this month, there would be so many things I would’ve ordered. ;_;
I understand you D:
Are the locked documents from the official site in the book as well?
If I’m reading/matching the numbers correctly, yes. The last picture in Book 2 lists it as 007, which is locked on the webpage. Seems to be the case for a few others like 002 + 003 too. I’m not sure if they’re comprehensive, but there’s definitely locked stuff within.
I did see actual physical file folders with the reports that people managed to get in Japan, so those exist as well. I don’t know how they’re acquired (the site seems to say in order to decode you need to visit a specific store) or much else about them however.
Thanks for the confirmation.
Anyway I think the Decode keys are published on stuff like leaflets, posters, visual sheets etc.
Thats what I get from the first sentence of point 4, section 2 of the Hints web page.
Theres also 5 information categories represented by a 2 letter prefix (point 2, section 2):
visual, text, website released info, video, sound
The hints page for those interested:
http://www.aldnoahzero.com/information/hint.html
Thanks for sharing Zephyr, love how you guys are experimenting with the format and content of the posts!!
Thanks to all the authors!
I think having a preview of anime merchandise is very useful. Importing items from Japan is not cheap, and I know when I’m head-over-heels in love with a series it’s very tempting to spend a large amount of cash on merchandise. If I know what’s actually inside the packaging and can assess for myself if it’s worth buying (which for me usually means character designs and other unpublished art work), then that’ll help me make a more informed decision and save my wallet from depletion.
Thanks for the post! *A*
That’s a gorgeous way of dealing with posters.
I’d love to know more about the contents–a translation would be too much to ask for but a short summary or the contents list and highlights of interesting points would be nice.
I’d love to see more posts like this. Preferably in monthly compilations for smaller items of lesser interest worth checking out (a list of what you’re planning to buy would be interesting too.) and soon after it is released for items of greater interest like this Archivez files.
I appreciate you sharing the contents of the Aldnoah Zero Archivez 🙂 I also learnt (from your comments) on how to “properly” pin up posters 😀 Would have loved a translation, but yeah, language barrier problems and time >< As much as RC blogs mainly anime reviews, the introduction of manga reviews (and the drama review of Ouran), music posts and events review is much appreciated as it covers the scope of Japan media instead of just focusing on one. So I think having posts like these are great to have on RC! ;P
And yet another Zephyr’s Monthly budgets endlessly flows on Aldnoah Archives.
Who’s up for S2 any way?
http://puu.sh/bgDKj.jpg
How many pages in total is that? Is there enough text or mostly images? I might consider buying it off Yahoo!Auctions :3 Thanks for the info!
It’s a mixture of text and images, with a slight emphasis on one or the other depending on which book you’re looking at. For instance, Book 1 (44 pages) has a lot more images due to its nature as a character design book, Book 2 (36 pages) has an even mixture of both, Book 3’s definitely more image heavy with the storyboard (140 pages), but it does have a copy of the scenario used for Ep 1, which is a lot of text on a few pages.
So you can’t get ALDNOAH.ZERO ARCHIVEZ anymore, except if someone sells it on yahoo or somewhere? ;-;
Yeah, it was a limited release item. You can only get it off second hand stores/sites now.
I see. 🙁 Do you happen to know some second hand stores/sites where I can still get it?
I’ve searched on Yahoo!Auctions but I couldn’t find it. ;_;
Zephyr, I just wanted to say “Thank you” for highlighting this, because that was one of the reasons I ordered one when I was in Japan over the last few months. I also sat down to work out what the “A/Z REPORTS” that appear in Book 2 are, though I didn’t try to find them all on the auction sites. I’m not sure if people are still interested in information at this point, but with regards to background info about Vers and its society, I think that rather than trying to decipher the small text in book 2, reading the relevant pages of the 1st guidebook is better. I am intending to translate some of it, and can pass some of that to you when I do if you like, in case any of it turns out to be useful…
Whatever you end up translating would definitely be of interest!
Apologies for a really late reply! I ended up translating/summarising more than I thought I would (^_^;;; ), but I’ve finally gotten through the history from the Guidebook.
To me, the most interesting part was about the peerage system of Vers, though with episode 14, I think we’re starting to get a clearer idea of it in the show itself. Other than that, what the guidebook says about the Aldnoah activation rights seems to suggests that there are still a few mysteries there…