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DARLING in the FRANXX - it's literal

Ford Prefect said:
I suppose in the sense that any artists current work is based on their previous work, then the FRANXX qualify as derivaative. But it's a kind of weird takeaway.
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It's absolutely fine for an artist to incrementally improve on what they like and know, but it's a little odd to see very similar central designs across two or more different and unrelated properties with otherwise distinct visual theming.

It just took me out of the show a bit when I first saw the Franxx for the first time.

(In fairness this is largely a matter of personal preference as to how much an individual artist's distinctive contribution might stand out in a collaborative work. It's a bit of a movable feast, I'll grant)
 
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SO CUUUUUUUUTTTTEEE

also some trigger fanservice and signs that the parasites are not in a healthy growth environment,(Personality cult of papa, 'whats a kiss,') but we knew that already
 
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God that was really plot heavy for a beach episode, and I loved it. That baby book is a really painful Chekhov's Gun though.
 
Plooooot. Character development, Ass-hat being an actual help to the group. Glasses definitely seems to have feelings for Ichigo, and Z2 is territorial as fuuuuuck.
Like, normally this is when I'd start ot3'ing but I think it's more a dominance thing, like...Hiro's HER Darling so she's literally rubbing Ichigo's face in the fact that the kiss didn't work.

Also, I'd just like to note how beautiful the animation is when she tries to confess. It's the perfect look of 'This is bad, this was a bad idea, but it's too late to turn back now'.
 
Hey wow, the beach has a lot of death flags littered around for some reason.
 
Dr. Franxx, who's not exactly young calls Papa and the Council a bunch of geezers which raises questions about how old they are.

It would appear that mankind either seriously messed up the Earth or something else rendered it uninhabitable, mankind went underground and started extracting energy from the magma...which somehow awoke the Klaxosaurs which lead to APE moving to the surface and the Plantations to continue extraction efforts. But the Klaxosaurs look and act too mechanically to be fully organic, there's probably more going on.

Dr. Franxx's "Don't let her devour your emotions if you plan on being her partner forever" is interesting. Hiro's character motivations have changed from "I want to serve Papa and the Plantations because that's what society deems useful" to "I'll be there to support Zero Two no matter what!" there doesn't seem to be any goals that he personally has. Or it could be Dr. Franxx is warning Hiro to think if being with Zero Two forever is what he really wants.

The other interesting thing is that the Boarding House appears to have been modeled off of a maternity ward (see the book Kokoro found) so either its a hint that something's up with the Parasites (possibly they're clones or artificial) or it could just be a coincidence.

My final question is if Hiro hasn't left the Birdcage and seen the outside world until very recently, how does he know about the stars, what happened to humanity, and everything he taught Ichigo about? He seems to have a lot of information about things that the other's don't know, and it doesn't seem like a lot of it is stuff that Zero Two told him.
 
Doctor Squared said:
Dr. Franxx, who's not exactly young calls Papa and the Council a bunch of geezers which raises questions about how old they are.

It would appear that mankind either seriously messed up the Earth or something else rendered it uninhabitable, mankind went underground and started extracting energy from the magma...which somehow awoke the Klaxosaurs which lead to APE moving to the surface and the Plantations to continue extraction efforts. But the Klaxosaurs look and act too mechanically to be fully organic, there's probably more going on.

Dr. Franxx's "Don't let her devour your emotions if you plan on being her partner forever" is interesting. Hiro's character motivations have changed from "I want to serve Papa and the Plantations because that's what society deems useful" to "I'll be there to support Zero Two no matter what!" there doesn't seem to be any goals that he personally has. Or it could be Dr. Franxx is warning Hiro to think if being with Zero Two forever is what he really wants.

The other interesting thing is that the Boarding House appears to have been modeled off of a maternity ward (see the book Kokoro found) so either its a hint that something's up with the Parasites (possibly they're clones or artificial) or it could just be a coincidence.

My final question is if Hiro hasn't left the Birdcage and seen the outside world until very recently, how does he know about the stars, what happened to humanity, and everything he taught Ichigo about? He seems to have a lot of information about things that the other's don't know, and it doesn't seem like a lot of it is stuff that Zero Two told him.
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Well, there are these things called books...
 
Doctor Squared said:
Dr. Franxx, who's not exactly young calls Papa and the Council a bunch of geezers which raises questions about how old they are.

It would appear that mankind either seriously messed up the Earth or something else rendered it uninhabitable, mankind went underground and started extracting energy from the magma...which somehow awoke the Klaxosaurs which lead to APE moving to the surface and the Plantations to continue extraction efforts. But the Klaxosaurs look and act too mechanically to be fully organic, there's probably more going on.

Dr. Franxx's "Don't let her devour your emotions if you plan on being her partner forever" is interesting. Hiro's character motivations have changed from "I want to serve Papa and the Plantations because that's what society deems useful" to "I'll be there to support Zero Two no matter what!" there doesn't seem to be any goals that he personally has. Or it could be Dr. Franxx is warning Hiro to think if being with Zero Two forever is what he really wants.

The other interesting thing is that the Boarding House appears to have been modeled off of a maternity ward (see the book Kokoro found) so either its a hint that something's up with the Parasites (possibly they're clones or artificial) or it could just be a coincidence.

My final question is if Hiro hasn't left the Birdcage and seen the outside world until very recently, how does he know about the stars, what happened to humanity, and everything he taught Ichigo about? He seems to have a lot of information about things that the other's don't know, and it doesn't seem like a lot of it is stuff that Zero Two told him.
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The stars should also be visible from the Plantation. The Mistilteinn's upper dome is transparent and the anime opened with Hiro looking up through it at the sky to see Zero Two's aircraft.
 
Man, between the soundtrack and the rusting, overgrown XXth-century city, I got serious Nier: Automata vibes from this.


GOD PLEASE NO, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
I'm not surprised that the show about weaponising heteronormativity and a child's desire for parental approval had a family holiday beach episode, but the brief diversion into Yoko Taro's head was a bit of a trip lol.

Also Hiro is a giant dumbass.

e: c,s,g
 
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Ichigo refuses to accept that she has currently lost the hiroball.

But I do like how you're seeing 002s influence on hiro starting on the rest of the group as well, making them more curious about stuff they weren't before, making them just a little bit less than the perfect pilots they ought to be.
 
Trung-t-rung said:
For an indoctrinated child soldier with less knowledge about love and sex than a grade-schooler, he did pretty well. The universe just wants to bully Ichigo.
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he literally wasn't listening to her trying to explain her feelings for him lol

he's honestly pretty clueless edit: even if there are definitely worse out there :V
 
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I'm much more interested in this, actually.


Either this could mean literally, as in there is a chance of mental contamination where Hiro's emotion would disappear the more he rides with 02. Or a relationship advice as in he must not let his relationship with Zero Two becoming his only emotional outlet. So far, we see that despite caring a lot about Zero Two, he didn't compromise his relationship with his teammates, yet. And Zero Two did seem to want him to herself for now and look almost disappointed after the obvious hint of an invitation during her evening swim.
 
and now for something completely different



the trainer's cockpit is just an arse complete with mons

sasuga trigger

(how did i miss this the first time around)
 
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I think we might be overthinking this. It's actually really good relationship advice for someone who hasn't had one...just done in a cryptic manner.

Like seriously, relationships don't work when you don't have any other outlets and God Knows Hiro is bad at that.
 
Strunkriidiisk said:
I'm faintly horrified and yet extremely curious to see what the girls' version is.
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I do wonder why a Franxx can't be driven by one person and the dummy component in place of the other, even though I can easily imagine Dr Frannx settling on the live pair design for the personal philosophical reasons he outlines in episode 1.

Having said that, this is a convention going back at least as far as Five Star Stories and its Headliner/Fatima pairs, and maybe we'll see some uncrewed units deployed later on that fill the venerable role of automated warmachine bogeyman, in the vein of Mobile Dolls and the MP Evangelion series.
 
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