Aldnoah.Zero Anime Gets New Episode 24.5 with BD Box Set in March 2025
The Aniplex Online Fest livestream announced on Monday that the Aldnoah.Zero anime will get a new episode titled "EP 24.5 Ame no Danshō -The Penultimate Truth-" (EP 24.5 Fragment of Rain -The Penultimate Truth-) in its Blu-ray Disc box set release. The box set will release on March 26, 2025.Aniplex streamed trailers for the release. Gen Urobuchi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero, Psycho-Pass, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet) wrote the series with Fate/Zero director Ei Aoki at A-1 Pictures and TROYCA. Katsuhiko Takayama was in charge of the series scripts. Manga artist Takako Shimura (Wandering Son, Sweet Blue Flowers) provided the original character designs, which Atsuko Matsumoto adapted for the anime. I-IV and Kenji Teraoka designed the mecha, and Hiroyuki Sawano scored the music.The first season includes cast members Natsuki Hanae as Inaho Kaizuka, Kenshō Ono as Slaine Troyard, Sora Amamiya as Asseylum Vers Allushia, Sachika Misawa as Rayet Areash, Mikako Komatsu as Inko Amifumi, Taishi Murata as Calm Craftman, Ai Kakuma as Nina Klein, Yoshitaka Yamaya as Okisuke Mikuni, Sayaka Ōhara as Yuki Kaiduka, Kazuya Nakai as Koichiro Marito, Kōsuke Toriumi as Soma Yagarai, Ai Kayano as Darzana Magbaredge, Yu Shimamura as Kaoru Mizusaki, Inori Minase as Eddelrittuo, Shō Hayami as Cruhteo, and Tōru Ohkawa as Saazbaum. Daisuke Hirakawa played the character Harklight in the second season.A manga adaptation of the anime ran in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Forward in 2014 and Yen Press published it in English.Sources: Aniplex's YouTube channel (link 2), Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web