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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I'm not sure anyone's explicitly addressed this yet, but yes, weird names are very much the Hiden tradition. Not only does it apply to pretty much all the Humagears, and their satellites too, but you've got Korenosuke and Soreo ("this" and "that"), and Aruto himself is literally "a person", which also apparently came from the staff's desire to portray him as a regular guy first and foremost, rather than as some paragon of justice who's always in the right.

I actually really like that about Aruto. It ties into alot of the things that I interpret the show doing, and makes me love him as a character all the more.

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It's a sort of broader theme with the show I can't really define that well off the top of my head, but the episode titles kinda fall in line with the same idea, as they're generally very straightforward phrases, with the consistent format of a pronoun or demonstrative word written in katakana for emphasis. And it's like, why is a boring regular word the part you're calling attention to? I still only sort of understand, even a couple years later, but I've definitely come to love how understated and sort of poetic those titles can be. I may not be able to describe it well on its own, but if you contrast it against how Takahashi's previous Rider show about garishly-colored video game doctors loudly mixed Japanese and English together for its episode titles, the deliberately subdued flavor of Zero-One's shtick might seem a bit clearer.

It's funny how, with Toku being known for being rather out there, especially to people not really familiar to it, that Zero-One chose to define itself in trying to come across as plain and to the point. Heck, it's one of the few nitpicks I have with the official subs; Them using ZEA instead of THERE. Still, it's a pretty fun meta thing overall.