It was super strange getting into anime when darling in the franxx was airing. I didn't watch it and only heard about mostly zero two from outside. Hearing only bits and pieces about it made it seem like the wildest thing ever
The best way to explain Darling in the FranXX is to understand that Nishigori only wrote the first 15 episodes. He turned the writing duties over to his co-director for the second half of the show. That's why the direction changes so drastically from fucusing on the characters to focusing on the mecha battles. I will always believe that DarliFra should have ended with the revelation of VIRM's true identify and the end of Season 1, and the introduction of the Klaxosaur Princess. Season 2 could havr then picked up the story with a new focus, and started developing the secondary characters. With more time to work on the writing and build up to the ending, it wouldn't have been so overwhelming. I think it's also important to note that the relationship between Mitsuru and Kokoro is as important as the relationship between Hiro and Zero Two. While the first half of the story is sbout the metaphor of the Franxx being a stand-in for sex, the second half drops that metaphor, and has Kokoro wanting to start a family in a totally literal and physical sense. Zero Two even admits that she cannot have children, and so the Klaxosaur form of connection is the only one she can have with Hiro.
I actually found something out. Technically, Zero Two might not literally be unable to have children. It could either be A. She was fed a lie by APE so she wouldn't get distracted or B. because she is mistaken that since klaxo-sapiens can't reproduce, then she can't. However, canonically, the pair who controls the mecha have to have functioning fertile genitals, and therefore she would be incorrect in that sense. It could also just be that she associates having children with being human, like how she associated marriage with being human. Otherwise, another theory I've heard people talk about is that she might just not be able to reproduce with normal humans. Being half klaxosaur, it could mean that she just needs another half-klaxo hybrid person (Which is what hiro becomes since he ingested zero twos blood during childhood). However, these are just theories I've heard so take them with a HEAVY grain of salt
I don't think the shows 'revelations' could ever have been satisfying given how much of a rip off of Evangelion it is, without an original twist it was doomed from the start.
@@kennethferland5579 I think the "twist", if you can call it that, is that Evangelion strongly implies that all relationships are toxic, and will lead to disaster, while DarliFra takes the approach that communication can repair even a toxic relationship, if those involved are willing to take responsibility for their actions. Of course Evangelion is not telling the same story as DarliFra. It has a different point to make with its ending.
Darling, in the Franxx was my first ever anime, shit had me questioning why I never gave anime a try earlier than realized a few months later that apparently everyone hated it
it was amazing until they decided to introduce.. space triangles? then they just decided to go full "trigger pulls the trigger" on the show and well.. we all know what happened
Now, I know I'm reaching a bit far here, but if anybody here liked Darling in the FranXX's premise, but was disappointed by the anime, I highly suggest you read "Iron Widow" by Xiran Jay Zhao. The book is great, there's mechs aplenty, no beating about the bush whatsoever and she's even stated that she was inspired by this anime series.
I just transitioned from comics to manga & anime over the last 6 months. I'm really impressed by the difference in quality between the two mediums. It's like they're from completely different worlds. I found Darling in the Franxx a few days ago, and binge-watched it over 2 days. It wasn't the dystopian future or the mechs. It was the personal growth of the core team, their friendships, their rivalries, the rifts, and their development from fighters to friends to family. It was also the on-the-go world-building and the behind-the-scenes building of the mystery about their society and world.
It can be very difficult to explain the differences of Anime/manga to a culture that sees them as interchangeable with cartoons/comic books. I've tried to have this discussion a few times, but people seem to have a hard time realizing that, even though they probably have also seen "adult cartoons" (South Park, Shrek, Bevis & Butthead, etc.) that anything animated is just a kids cartoon and any drawn story is nothing more than a power fantasy comic book for thirsty nerds to drool over (though there are plenty of horny nerds drooling over manga/anime also). For some reason people don't like accepting that the artistic media actually gives a lot more freedom to stories because you can create something that "live action" has only just started being able to do with very high budgets, but it also has the same range of stories that any other media has from the standard power fantasy to slice of life all about boring office work. Like you mentioned a lot of anime/manga is much more than the flashy battles. Some of the major differences you see in the media are the relationships that develop, the characters that get fleshed out, and a lot of the time an underlying moral story that you don't get in Western comics/cartoons. If we were to say that Superman and for argument Goku were some of the most popular/well known super heros you can see the drastic difference in the plots. Both are absurdly strong aliens (that for some reason look like humans), but where Superman just has to be under a yellow sun to be almost impossibly strong, Goku constantly gets his ass beat and has to over come it by working far harder. Superman might get punched a little but all he has to do is stand back in the sun to power up, Goku has to go through absurd training with even more powerful people and insane challenges to overcome the next bad guy. Sure Superman is still a "hero" to aspire to in many ways as all heros are, but the major Eastern difference is showing that it takes a LOT of hard work to better yourself and you are going to go through hard times before you make it through as well as there likely being even more hard times later on. I've been watching anime for well over 20 years now, started as more of a respect for the artistic talents that I have never personally had, and then grew into more of a fascination of stories from a different perspective. Myself only recently getting into manga because I always though reading novels was just easier than small text bubbles with pictures to scan through, only starting now because I got a Quest 3 and can make the manga the size of a wall. I try to get others into it a little, but living in the States currently there is still a lot of pushback on the idea of any Eastern animated content not helped by the companies that have been turning them into "cartoons" for kids for years and the current disputes of people intentionally making changes to the original work because they don't agree with someone else's art (also partially because of the gross weebs that are horrible ambassadors of the content). I can see some of the issues, even I have a difficult time watching some of it because its not intended for adult audiences so mildly sexualized high school kids feels off, but its a different culture AND its made for high school kids so thats where the fan service is created for NOT for late 20s + dudes.
@@ooneybird27 I'm out and about so I don't have time to respond fully currently. You misunderstood my post. It wasn't about you. I was saying that the general perception in Western people is not to understand the difference in the content. You are part of the new trend to accept anime\manga, regardless of your age. I would have had zero idea your age from your post, and while I was already glad to see someone getting interested in the media I'm even more so now that you've said you are older and getting into something new. So again I was in no way insinuating that YOU were one of those people, I guess I should have been a bit more specific but I felt as though through your own post that you also somewhat understood what I was talking about. So I apologize for the confusion.
The ending of the show with the tree broke me, I had a crisis it made me think even though the two main characters risked their lives to save everything they looked almost as if they were forgotten by the time the “reincarnations” of the characters met, that scene is what made me really think about the finite reality of life
I dont think they were forgotten. I think at one point in the final episode they talk about how that book that Zero Two made was shown to every kid in the future so they could know of Zero Two and Hiro's story.
Glad you got the video back up. In my experience, appeals don’t work very well and it’s generally best to just tweak the video and reupload it, as much as it may suck.
i sewed a zero two body suit from scratch back then and it was the hardest thing ive ever done. cosplayers are on another level, ive never been to a real con but looking at the construction of some of these costumes is ridiculous.
I guess I'm not the only one who thinks the series should've ended at ep. 15. The finale of the wedding episode could've been a great way to continue the theme of humanity, from learning about it to being forced to fight for it - the cast rebelling, going full Johnny Silverhand mode in a suicide mission against their overlords to give themselves and the mankind a chance at freedom. However that would end is another thing, but it'd be a hell of a lot better than the silly ayyliens shit the creators actually went with. At the very least in the manga they were smart enough to simplify the ending, completely cut the space battle and all the goofy shit that came with it and sort of minimize the damage it did in the anime.
Futoshi: Hey Kokoro, do you remember that time when… Past Futoshi: Promise we’ll be partners forever? Past Kokoro: I promise we’ll be partners forever! Kokoro: Nope! Futoshi: But that was literally five minutes ago! Kokoro: Oh yeah… Of course we’ll be partners forever. Futoshi: Phew, For a second I was afraid that- Kokoro: Hey Mitsuru, wanna be my partner? Futoshi in the distance: Kokoro, what the fu
I literally stopped watching after the wedding episode. Something came up in my life at the time as the show was being released. After I remembered the show and went back to watch the rest of it, but I was involved in the community so I saw all the hate for it, and never bothered to finish it. Honestly it holds such a beautiful place in my heart. Watching this video was the first time I learned about KIRM and I was always curious about "papa" and the other things they didn't fully explain. But there's this uncanny valley for me with the show. The feeling of having a childhood friend who calls me "darling" but my memories were ereased so I can't remember her.... gives me chills.... it's so familiar yet I can't remember it. Breaks me sometimes. Especially the way 02 is like a glitch in the matrix of the "perfect" world. Almost like glitch in Wreck it Ralph which had a similar feeling. The "problem" that we are is our "humanity" but also our greatest power. fks me up real good.
Trigger also created Cyberpunk Edgerunners. I definitely think that the mistakes that they faced repercussions in DITF for, they made up for in CPE, which won anime of the year (top 10 all time btw)
I never understood why people hate on it. I get that it might be wrongly paced, too fast, thus confusing because of a lack of backstory, but I don’t agree with what he says in the video, it still aligns with the character builds. The end is great, actually great, not happy just for the sake of having a good ending but still happy because of the last scene. And if you don’t like this, just read the manga and get the happy ending you wanted. This show is a masterpiece, and it’s not a mech anime, it’s a life anime. The whole build up, and for me, the most important part of the story, is the Jian. In China, JianJian is a name you’d use to say to a couple, meaning lovebirds. It’s originated from Chinese mythology and it has only one eye, and one wing and you know the rest… What I found that made DitF and the ending most beautiful was this : There is famous sentence in a famouse ancient poem "* 天愿作比翼鸟，在地愿为连理枝"（"On high, we'd be two lovebirds flying wing to wing; On earth, two trees with branches twined from spring to spring." ) Two headed Bird and Sakura tree! This is what the whole thing was written about, and from the start. So I’m sorry, but despite a few incoherences, it’s done an INSANE job at coming to this conclusion. And that’s why it’s been my favorite anime, I’m not scared to say it!
I didn’t dislike the ending either, so I can agree with you a bit. I also think the ending ending scene wasn’t the problem. It was episode 18-24, not that part of episode 25. It’s great to see them together after all that time again, see the real conection they had led them there, the concept with the bird and tree and all, and I think if that scene hadn’t been added we really would have crashed at the anime. I would have hated it with all my guts at least, and given it a 5/10 instead of the 9/10 i consider it till this date. But I think for most of us The problem is the pacing. You make people uncomfortable and really confused when you throw so many problems and concepts at the same time at them, change completely the whole mood from mecha to an alien invasion all in 1 or 2 episodes without giving a hint before. The director cut off a lot of content that we could have seen from it too, so he literally made impossible for us to enjoy more content about it (like a season 2, ova, or whatever…) and it really seems like he didn’t know where to go. It’s simplicity that makes a story great, so even if you have 10 good ideas, as soon as you mix them and make the whole thing confusing, you are killing your story
Do you understand the concept that people don't like the 2nd half of the anime beyond the idea of having a "happy ending"? and that the anime isn't "Perfect"? Because it isn't. You like it great, stop acting like everyone else has to find it that way because YOU do, The story became insanely off-track on the 2nd half.
To be completely honest, I've got a lot to say about the show and my history with it. So the comment writing space we all got in this section isn't gonna be enough :D I suppose I'mma dedicate a video to it as well. P.s. I know I'm VERY late to the party, mainly cuz I got the video in my feed just now (we don't talk about it), but...I love the video, Kor. It's well written and focuses on some of the most important points of the show. Also, I feel the same pain as you on the fill footage. I used to be an AMV editor, so...yeah...Trigger/A1 didn't like the idea of some of the scenes being on TH-cam. Even if they fall under the ,,fair use,, section of article 13 for copyright. If you still read this comment, despite how long and shitty it is, I appreciate it
Great video. Darling in The FranXX was one of the greatest things I ever saw until that ending, when it became everything I didn't want it to be. I will eternally cherish 4/5 of that series, and I will always be yearning to strike those ending episodes from my memory. If I could Homura tf outta time, I'd do all I could to have the final arc of Darling actually make fucking sense, and be relevant to the rest of the series.
This video got me into Darling in the Franxx. I've always kind of known it, but never watched it. Now, thanks to you. I did. And man.. It's both beautiful. And a rollercoaster ride in the end. Thank you for an amazing experience. And giving me the thought of "Hey, I should actually look at this. And then continue on with this video once I'm done."
Bro you have captured all my feelings about this anime perfectly in one video. I too watched it at a similar time in my life and this is very close to how I felt. Great video dude you will do big things
I saw a comment about game of thrones that said that the series was like the best tub of ice cream you ever had and then there's a dead rat in the end. That's what happened in this show as well.
Long story short: 02 is the character that attracted me into anime Honestly tho, 02 was the first anime lookin character that i saw a lot on the internet without watching anime, back in 2020 when I finnaly decidet to look what is all this anime thing about I was searching specific for "anime with pink haired character" By accydent ended up wathing "kaguya-sama love is war" after this I found "Darling in the franxx" and now I am into anime culture. It's crazy how only one well marked character can involve people to discover something new
+ Trigun's premise of humanity surviving on a scorched world only around magical reactors that burn alien lifeforce for fuel, and the aliens having a problem with that
@@mddavids8778yes, inspiration is paying homage. plagiarism is ripping some scenes, plotlines straight from the source and slapping some doggy style on top
Darling in the Franxx: „I am an emotional mecha anime, about what it means to be human. Whit deep characters, and dramatic development!” Neon Genesis Evangelion: “Am I a joke to you?”
darling in the franxx was the second anime i ever watched. I watched it back in june 2018 and it absolutely blew my mind. I totally fell in love with anime after that and even tho objectively its not the best anime i ever watched its my favourite anyway cause i f love it and 2018 was the best time of my life. I get so much nostalgie from it its painful. I wish i could discover it all over again. I think this anime got so much hate because people didnt undestand its true meaning. Its not about mechas its about humanity. Of course i could go even deeper into that but its a youtube comment lol
Just rewatched again after years. I wish i could see them reunite and slowly regain their memories. So far into the future too so they can witness what their old friends accomplished and find things their friends left for when they return as everyone will have read the book about them
first started watching this video with the mindset "eh, i'm not that into mecha, but i AM curious about how this one got so big, guess i'll watch the video", but now that ive teached the halfway point, i'm genuinely considering watching at least a bit of the show. so sadly, i am not finishing this video right now, but in a sense, getting a new pair of eyes on the show might be a better outcome in your eyes :) great video, korbro!
Darling in the franxx will always have a special place in my heart. Was my first conscious anime since i didn't know what anime was when i watched Inazuma Eleven. I was so shocked to find out it's hated. Also a cherry on top about the ending 4 that plays when Hiro gets his memories back is the fact that the voice actress of Zero Two is the one singing it
Hey guys, my original upload which I posted this morning got claimed and blocked, and after much thought and struggle I just decided it would be better to reupload. Sorry to those of you who got the notification twice, but reuploading or getting blocked tends to hurt the video a lot, so I would really appreciate it if you could share, comment or engage with the video in any way 🙏 Besides all that, thanks for watching, this video was probably one of the hardest I ever made, but I also tried and experimented with a lot of new things and overall for a month of work on top of final exams for my college, I'm pretty proud of it! I hope you enjoyed it too.
I think this is totally underrated video, but really only 22K views on a masterpiece like this? Even though I'm 6 months after upload I still hope that this video will make it to atleast 100K and your content overall is a lot underrated. You definitely gained a new subscriber - me >:)
Bro this video had me going crazy, I was mad, happy and sad. But you did an excellent job of describing Darling in the Franxx and what makes the anime just so amazing despite some of the conflicting plots and pacing which was 100% intentional.
Darling in the franxx is probably the only anime I will watch because it tells it's story without tons of filler unlike other shows I watched when I was like 11.
My guy... the twist is the exact same as Gurren Lagann. Bad guy was defending Earth from an even worse threat all along and when humans beat him passes the torch on to them.
I honestly had Darling in the Franxx in my watchlist for years but never got past the second episode in my previous starts of the series until this year and I must say. Even as a first binge watch recently it will forever be one of my favorite anime's of all time. I guess I just have a thing for darker themed anime's but it was also just a perfect blend of wholesomeness and had a philosophical theme about what it means to be human, what it means to experience emotions, and to find love, etc. Where we also get to see what the absence of embracing those key points of humanity and compassion can lead to in a sci-fi extreme way.
Somewhere at 27:36 I realized that the main plot twist just flew by me when I've been watching the show... or my brain decided to forget it for some reason.
Great video! You gained a new sub, I can't forgive this show for the emotional turmoil it just put me through! I only started watching anime last year so I just experienced this shit storm of a show and I'm glad to know I'm not alone in my grievances with its conclusion. I just read the manga and I wish I had stopped the anime at episode 15 and finished it with the manga because the manga is just infinitely better in its conclusion though I think the better villain should have been APE but meh Thank you for this video.
I was riding the Franxx roller coaster live. Nothing has been or will ever be quite like it. What a wild time. Like a 3 course meal with good appetizers, amazing entrees but shit dessert.
No other anime in my life time has had this much of a run on the internet. January 2018 came and for the next six months, the memes and the GIFs and the Discords were just covered in it. Even my good friend changed his main name to Darling. He has still kept that name to this day.
02 was what got me into anime for the first time, and im ngl i was obsessed with 02 as a character, first time i ever was that interested into anything anime related, tho i found out it was disliked later, it still holds a special place in my heart
I can't help but keep drawing parallels between DITF and Pacific Rim (I never finished the season, only got to the halfway point of Episode 13) and I kinda love how Zero Two and Hiro are like "Drift Compatible" in PR's terms since 02 just Eliminates her other partners
Watching the episodes as they came out on Crunchyroll and drawing fanarts with my friend was indeed an experience back in my anime days. Still glad people remember It in a good light, despite the flaws following the finale. Great video 🫶🏻💖
I was there tuning in when it aired. The ending was super confusing and a total rollercoaster yhe first time arround. Upon rewatching it, however, it becomes much clearer. Since the first time i watched it i grew up a lot; I was single back then freshly in college and really quite immature. rewatching it with my fiance after several years of adult life really gave me a different perspective on the show and jts deeper meanings. Having grown a lot in the years between watches i realized that dispite the fantastic setting and big fights and twists and turns the show was trying to tell an incredibly grounded story. Its about how messy relationships can be, all the pain and heartache and joy and frustration that comes with a real relationship. Its about the uncertainty of the future, being scared and vulnerable to the one special person that you chose and who chose you. It's about unrequited love, and the pain that goes with it. Maturing and falling down and getting up again and changing. At its core it's about how important that one human connection is, and how everyone has their own struggle to find it. It may feel like insanity when you're going through the worst of it, but remember the Jian. The one winged bird cannot fly on its own. Just because you haven't found your other half doesn't mean you won't ever. The ending is bittersweet. You are a team with your spouse fighting the world, trying to survive for each other and for the relationship. And sometimes the world fights back harder than you can and it's tragic and sad and messy and meaningless. But it's not always about the final victory. Even if you lose, you can still have won. Just like we love those who we have lost, the story you leave behind vindicates you in all of the time you spent with that one special person. The good, bad, and ugly all culminating into your cumulative affect on the world. The ending is sad and its bittersweet, but what happened after the ending redeems it. Even if it took hundreds of thousands of years, you still won. The show had a rather succinct ending, I thought. In it's final episode it went far beyond the characters we knew, showing us glipses of the people they became, and then farther beyond that. The love that was fated in 02 and Hiro finally had it's time in the sun. And it didn't show us anything more than the short exchange of words and eyes and meaning between the two of them because that's not what it was about. It was never ultimately about showing the minutia and detail of these two peoples messy lives, or the perfect iteration they attained after the world went on long after they died. We saw a glimpse, a snapshot of the beautiful moment that started everything, the single point in the children's lives from which everything else unfolds. But we as the viewers are not entitled to see that. That privilege is for them alone, as is my privilege to share my life with the woman I love and nobody else, as is everyone's privilege to do the same. The story of the two perfect children goes on, unseen to anyone but themselves. And that uncertainty we experience as viewers is beautiful.
Honestly I loved darling in the Franxx and still do! It was one of the first times I saw the joys of anime and I felt so attached to the world building, the massive scale robot fights and OMG the animation was amazing.. this anime inspired my art so much and the vibe was honestly immaculate.. though I would say, the giant robot lady in space was a bit weird😭(felt epic but felt out of place lol) anyways it’s been years and I’ve watched hundreds of animes but darling in the franxx holds a very special place in my heart:)
Hey dude, Liked the video. This is the first anime I ever watched and the only anime i ever truly got into. I first watched it 4 years ago, and I was hooked to it. I cant even explain how deeply this show has effected me, and the funny part is I have no idea how! I guess it's nice to see other people havent moved on from this absolute masterpiece. It just leaves an emptiness inside you and you feel something insanely deep hit your heart Im not completely sure if it's just me though, but nevertheless I love this showwwe (I totally simp over zero two 😂)
Personally, for me, I loved the soundtrack of this anime. I don't know how often it is talked about, but soundtracks really can make or break these kinds of things.
Chained soldier was one of my first animes and it set my standards so high, I never thought that I could find an anime as good as that. Untill I found Darling in the Franxx. This shit not having a season 2 made me so mad. So currently... I'm currently working with a team of developers to make a fan made season 2 ❤
The premise was fun but, it felt rushed about the midway point and got a sloppy ending. Zero two's personality also had a change where she wasn't playful and instigative. I till this day think if it had gotten more episodes it could have had a chance for better writing. It felt as if it was trying for the same tones as FLCL but, more in your face about sex rather then puberty. ( all just my opinions )
Episode 15 of darling in the franxx was one of the greatest anime episodes I ever watched.This anime was so emotional I wish it didn’t end.I go back and watch the anime every year.
It's so fuckin stupid this anime gets compared to EVA just cuz they have similar plot setting. I personally find the 2 anime entirely different in the messages they convey through their storyline
@@chrispbacon002Lmaoooo, similar setting is one thing but the reason Eva fanboys compare it is because some things in ditf were straight ripped off from Evangelion, gurren laggen and others. Ditf had so much potential but it disappointed heavily
Honestly man, I love this show still. Even though the ending was a diversion I still love the entire show and though I don’t watch anime anymore this was my first and it had a massive impact on me, it’s the only title I can actually remember off the top of my head 😂. Great analysis tho well done mate.
Man I'm glad i found my way to this video. Darling... is one of my favorite anime...ever. I also had a hard time with the simulated sex situations / positions as I watched this as an adult but I'm glad that I continued watching this excellent human drama. (edit.. and oh yea. the music was awesome)
After watching episode 8, you should watch Vandread. The boy v girls plotline extended over an anime. All the same mech tropes with boy / girl combinations. Classic
I just wish there was an article or interview or something about why the show took such a drastic direction change after episode 18. The bad exposition dump, aliens out of nowhere, splitting up Zero Two and Hiro again despite already having resolved that, Strelizia Apus being somehow Zero Two, it just feels so weirdly out of place. The show before that was relatively consistent and it seemed like it was building towards a rebellion against Papa and APE. I love this show despite it's faults, but I wish the creators explained what happened because it's very bizarre. It's like they just changed their mind halfway and wanted to make a different show. The manga apparently has a completely different ending too, probably influenced by the insane amount of criticism the ending got. It just sucks because I love this show so much but there will probably be no answers (unless they're somewhere I missed). I miss when this show was being talked about and when Zero Two was really popular. I recently rewatched the show and I miss it ngl. Zero Two is still one of my favorite anime characters
I wanted the anime to last longer, this anime has a whole place in my heart. Whenever i remember this anime makes me devastated, knowing its really done
This is a really good review, its nice to see that you have good taste in anime and we have some common opinions. My opinion on Darling in the Franxx is that its a really good anime, gets messed up in the later episodes. When I watched it, the only other animes I have ever watched was Attack on Titan and Cyberpunk Edgerunners so I didnt have that high expectations. To me, it had a lot of parallels with AOT, not sure if it was just me but I enjoyed it. Its a good anime, however it definently could have either ended shorter or extended to another season. Introduction of VIRM or whoever the aliens were was super rushed and felt like "okay, we need to kill the main characters to end the story... have them sacrifice themselves for some aliens!" But yeah, other than that this is a good anime and people should definently watch it. 02 is definently one of my favorite anime characters
I remember watching this show back when it was airing as it came around the same time I got back into anime with MHA and iirc it aired close to when S3 aired. And it reminded me why I enjoyed anime. The complex narrative and incredible character development. Was it flawed? Absolutely. I wish the last 4 episodes didn’t exist and the sex euphemisms make me incredibly uncomfortable. But at the same time, I can see the beautiful themes and great execution of those themes beyond those flaws. I don’t think I could ever truly hate Darling in the Franxx despite its issues.
in the official manga that went alongside, they did just finish it after Gran Crevasse. And finishing reading that feels infinitely more gratifying than finishing the anime did. DITF wasn't my first proper anime, that would be Initial D, but I hold it in similarly high esteem for the effect it had on me at the time - it was only my second or third maybe. I now look back and kinda cringe in some places, but that's just part of growing up. Everything does change, and nothing does stay stagnant as Goro's final monologue says - And I probably wouldn't quite be where I am now not for it
I remember seeing this title in the popular section, reading the very brief synopsis, and thinking nope. Then wondering what show the pink girl with horns was from when the meme exploded all over. Eventually, probably only a year or two ago, linking the two; reading the synopsis again, and again deciding nope. Thanks for showing me this more in depth review. Even though it's still a nope for me, I like the review.
My favorite anime and the reason I like anime how I do today. People hate on this because a few people started saying its a eva rip off and then everyone said that as if eva is the forefront of mecha and doesn’t take front ultra man and devil man cry baby and lets not start on the ass ending eva had please. That show was a clusterfuchk of BS and I am a fan but eva aint this god anime. People overlook references completely as a paying respects thing which literally every anime does. Darling is so good at character development and actually able to get its themes and messages across. Plus look at our world today, darling is lowkey becoming a reality, we are already half way there and society keeps heading that direction. Darling just may be on point and foreshadowing where humanity is going. Darling is a master piece
When zero two and Hiro remembered their past as children then they looked at each other crying at the end of episode 15 that moment kept me crying and I am 26 years old , that shows u how this anime despises his floughs it's still very emotional, man I wish they feature zero two in another anime or if they can renew the series from the manga because the anime's ending can't allow for continuation, also this anime is now stuck in my head for weeks I can't stop thinking about zero two and her love to Hiro after episode 15 ofcorese and her saying darling to him , I literally cry when I remember some scenes , I just wanted to share my feeling man maybe that will make me feel better because after finishing it something in me is touched for ever ❤
darling in franxx was my first ever serious anime that i watched fully. i personally thing this anime first like 20 eps where the best until it was handed to someone else to complete thats where the downfall started but this is a slice of life where you can learn lots and lots from. and its home and starting house to many of the anime fans
Good work dude! Great video essay. First time watching your vid and youre good. I remember watching this and being crushed how it turned into a whole new show in 2 episodes. The first arcs are great and it should've just ended there. This is a common theme in anime and shows. Didnt know when to stop while they were ahead. Glad this was your first anime! I could see the care you had in talking about this anime. One piece was my first when it was introduced on 4kids lol it's just special to me no matter any criticism it gets. It's unnecessarily long but I've cried so many times while watching the heart of the anime
I only just remembered the fat guy being cucked. But it also had some of the greatest world building I've ever seen in an anime. There was 1 specific episode where they visit a city with humans with basically zero emotions. I don't remember anything crazy happening in that episode. But I remember the melancholy feeling it gave me as I watched. It wasn't rubbed against your face or anything. It was amazing. That episode made me realize that sometimes a whole series can have a single episode that will stand out, even after watching many other series.
This anime was my first time getting back to anime since pokemon, beyblade and bakugan way back when. and i was obsessed eventhough i never saw past episode 20 since a few months ago. And to me the ending isn't bad just a pleasant surprise cause who would have guessed it would end like this. But it was fun. Sure that might be my nostalgia talking or the fact that i aint fully grown up yet but for now i will defend it no matter what
It was super strange getting into anime when darling in the franxx was airing. I didn't watch it and only heard about mostly zero two from outside. Hearing only bits and pieces about it made it seem like the wildest thing ever
Same same. It's a wild introduction for sure 😂
It was my first anime....
The story is basically Elfen Lied in the future. lol
Darling in the franxx isnt as bad as elfen lied@@saesang352
I found my long lost brothers! It's also my first anime ever!
(Tbh it was weird but at least the end made me drop 1 tear)
The best way to explain Darling in the FranXX is to understand that Nishigori only wrote the first 15 episodes. He turned the writing duties over to his co-director for the second half of the show. That's why the direction changes so drastically from fucusing on the characters to focusing on the mecha battles.
I will always believe that DarliFra should have ended with the revelation of VIRM's true identify and the end of Season 1, and the introduction of the Klaxosaur Princess. Season 2 could havr then picked up the story with a new focus, and started developing the secondary characters. With more time to work on the writing and build up to the ending, it wouldn't have been so overwhelming.
I think it's also important to note that the relationship between Mitsuru and Kokoro is as important as the relationship between Hiro and Zero Two. While the first half of the story is sbout the metaphor of the Franxx being a stand-in for sex, the second half drops that metaphor, and has Kokoro wanting to start a family in a totally literal and physical sense. Zero Two even admits that she cannot have children, and so the Klaxosaur form of connection is the only one she can have with Hiro.
I actually found something out. Technically, Zero Two might not literally be unable to have children. It could either be A. She was fed a lie by APE so she wouldn't get distracted or B. because she is mistaken that since klaxo-sapiens can't reproduce, then she can't. However, canonically, the pair who controls the mecha have to have functioning fertile genitals, and therefore she would be incorrect in that sense. It could also just be that she associates having children with being human, like how she associated marriage with being human. Otherwise, another theory I've heard people talk about is that she might just not be able to reproduce with normal humans. Being half klaxosaur, it could mean that she just needs another half-klaxo hybrid person (Which is what hiro becomes since he ingested zero twos blood during childhood). However, these are just theories I've heard so take them with a HEAVY grain of salt
in short, they really should have broken down the story in more episodes
I don't think the shows 'revelations' could ever have been satisfying given how much of a rip off of Evangelion it is, without an original twist it was doomed from the start.
@@kennethferland5579 I think the "twist", if you can call it that, is that Evangelion strongly implies that all relationships are toxic, and will lead to disaster, while DarliFra takes the approach that communication can repair even a toxic relationship, if those involved are willing to take responsibility for their actions.
Of course Evangelion is not telling the same story as DarliFra. It has a different point to make with its ending.
@@richardryley3660 How the hell did you get that message from eva bro ToT
Darling, in the Franxx was my first ever anime, shit had me questioning why I never gave anime a try earlier than realized a few months later that apparently everyone hated it
it is basicly a bad copy of one of the best anime of all time: Neon Genesis Evangelion.
It was great until the ending.
The robot part is great, the non-robot part was the most atrocious thing to ever come out of anime.
@@MMK-MIKA Well considering Franxx and evangelion both had the worst endings imaginable id say it was a perfect copy.
it was amazing until they decided to introduce.. space triangles? then they just decided to go full "trigger pulls the trigger" on the show and well.. we all know what happened
"You no longer have the need for human contact. You simlpy EXIST." Why did bro violate me like that
darling in the franxx - 2018, existencialism - 1800's. start reading to avoid further violations...
Now, I know I'm reaching a bit far here, but if anybody here liked Darling in the FranXX's premise, but was disappointed by the anime, I highly suggest you read "Iron Widow" by Xiran Jay Zhao. The book is great, there's mechs aplenty, no beating about the bush whatsoever and she's even stated that she was inspired by this anime series.
Sounds interesting!
Screenshot this to check it out later
Commenting so I remember to check this out, thanks for the recommendation!
I just transitioned from comics to manga & anime over the last 6 months. I'm really impressed by the difference in quality between the two mediums. It's like they're from completely different worlds. I found Darling in the Franxx a few days ago, and binge-watched it over 2 days. It wasn't the dystopian future or the mechs. It was the personal growth of the core team, their friendships, their rivalries, the rifts, and their development from fighters to friends to family. It was also the on-the-go world-building and the behind-the-scenes building of the mystery about their society and world.
It can be very difficult to explain the differences of Anime/manga to a culture that sees them as interchangeable with cartoons/comic books. I've tried to have this discussion a few times, but people seem to have a hard time realizing that, even though they probably have also seen "adult cartoons" (South Park, Shrek, Bevis & Butthead, etc.) that anything animated is just a kids cartoon and any drawn story is nothing more than a power fantasy comic book for thirsty nerds to drool over (though there are plenty of horny nerds drooling over manga/anime also). For some reason people don't like accepting that the artistic media actually gives a lot more freedom to stories because you can create something that "live action" has only just started being able to do with very high budgets, but it also has the same range of stories that any other media has from the standard power fantasy to slice of life all about boring office work.
Like you mentioned a lot of anime/manga is much more than the flashy battles. Some of the major differences you see in the media are the relationships that develop, the characters that get fleshed out, and a lot of the time an underlying moral story that you don't get in Western comics/cartoons. If we were to say that Superman and for argument Goku were some of the most popular/well known super heros you can see the drastic difference in the plots. Both are absurdly strong aliens (that for some reason look like humans), but where Superman just has to be under a yellow sun to be almost impossibly strong, Goku constantly gets his ass beat and has to over come it by working far harder. Superman might get punched a little but all he has to do is stand back in the sun to power up, Goku has to go through absurd training with even more powerful people and insane challenges to overcome the next bad guy. Sure Superman is still a "hero" to aspire to in many ways as all heros are, but the major Eastern difference is showing that it takes a LOT of hard work to better yourself and you are going to go through hard times before you make it through as well as there likely being even more hard times later on.
I've been watching anime for well over 20 years now, started as more of a respect for the artistic talents that I have never personally had, and then grew into more of a fascination of stories from a different perspective. Myself only recently getting into manga because I always though reading novels was just easier than small text bubbles with pictures to scan through, only starting now because I got a Quest 3 and can make the manga the size of a wall. I try to get others into it a little, but living in the States currently there is still a lot of pushback on the idea of any Eastern animated content not helped by the companies that have been turning them into "cartoons" for kids for years and the current disputes of people intentionally making changes to the original work because they don't agree with someone else's art (also partially because of the gross weebs that are horrible ambassadors of the content). I can see some of the issues, even I have a difficult time watching some of it because its not intended for adult audiences so mildly sexualized high school kids feels off, but its a different culture AND its made for high school kids so thats where the fan service is created for NOT for late 20s + dudes.
@@ooneybird27 I'm out and about so I don't have time to respond fully currently.
You misunderstood my post. It wasn't about you. I was saying that the general perception in Western people is not to understand the difference in the content. You are part of the new trend to accept anime\manga, regardless of your age.
I would have had zero idea your age from your post, and while I was already glad to see someone getting interested in the media I'm even more so now that you've said you are older and getting into something new.
So again I was in no way insinuating that YOU were one of those people, I guess I should have been a bit more specific but I felt as though through your own post that you also somewhat understood what I was talking about. So I apologize for the confusion.
Welcome to the boundless worlds of anime and manga fellow enjoyer.
evangelion
You will never escape from anime and manga now, you played yourself
Wow the man behind the korbro channel turns out to be an absolute baddie
😳
The ending of the show with the tree broke me, I had a crisis it made me think even though the two main characters risked their lives to save everything they looked almost as if they were forgotten by the time the “reincarnations” of the characters met, that scene is what made me really think about the finite reality of life
I haven't rewatched the show because I went through some real suffering towards the middle and ending there. God that tree is burned into my retinas
@@captainforrix956 yeah it’s wild how something that simple was so insane
then AOT copied it hahaha
true dat
I dont think they were forgotten. I think at one point in the final episode they talk about how that book that Zero Two made was shown to every kid in the future so they could know of Zero Two and Hiro's story.
this video is criminally underrated, keep up the good work man 🤞
Saw this when I was in the fifth grade and I’m pretty sure it’s why I’m like this now
LOL real
fatal
nah, more like u r like that bc ur parent's upbringin in ur first years of life. u're welcome
@@LucianoD.OcampoPelli Weirdo
The soundtrack is legit one of, if not the best I have heard. The piano and violin, the intense tracks, and of course, vanquish.
Glad you got the video back up. In my experience, appeals don’t work very well and it’s generally best to just tweak the video and reupload it, as much as it may suck.
Thanks man. Yeah it sucks but luckily it happened before the big wave of views came in 👍
i sewed a zero two body suit from scratch back then and it was the hardest thing ive ever done. cosplayers are on another level, ive never been to a real con but looking at the construction of some of these costumes is ridiculous.
I guess I'm not the only one who thinks the series should've ended at ep. 15.
The finale of the wedding episode could've been a great way to continue the theme of humanity, from learning about it to being forced to fight for it - the cast rebelling, going full Johnny Silverhand mode in a suicide mission against their overlords to give themselves and the mankind a chance at freedom. However that would end is another thing, but it'd be a hell of a lot better than the silly ayyliens shit the creators actually went with.
At the very least in the manga they were smart enough to simplify the ending, completely cut the space battle and all the goofy shit that came with it and sort of minimize the damage it did in the anime.
Futoshi: Hey Kokoro, do you remember that time when…
Past Futoshi: Promise we’ll be partners forever?
Past Kokoro: I promise we’ll be partners forever!
Kokoro: Nope!
Futoshi: But that was literally five minutes ago!
Kokoro: Oh yeah… Of course we’ll be partners forever.
Futoshi: Phew, For a second I was afraid that-
Kokoro: Hey Mitsuru, wanna be my partner?
Futoshi in the distance: Kokoro, what the fu
I literally stopped watching after the wedding episode.
Something came up in my life at the time as the show was being released.
After I remembered the show and went back to watch the rest of it, but I was involved in the community so I saw all the hate for it, and never bothered to finish it. Honestly it holds such a beautiful place in my heart. Watching this video was the first time I learned about KIRM and I was always curious about "papa" and the other things they didn't fully explain.
But there's this uncanny valley for me with the show. The feeling of having a childhood friend who calls me "darling" but my memories were ereased so I can't remember her.... gives me chills.... it's so familiar yet I can't remember it. Breaks me sometimes.
Especially the way 02 is like a glitch in the matrix of the "perfect" world. Almost like glitch in Wreck it Ralph which had a similar feeling. The "problem" that we are is our "humanity" but also our greatest power. fks me up real good.
Trigger also created Cyberpunk Edgerunners. I definitely think that the mistakes that they faced repercussions in DITF for, they made up for in CPE, which won anime of the year (top 10 all time btw)
No wonder why I love the anime so much! Amazing!
I never understood why people hate on it. I get that it might be wrongly paced, too fast, thus confusing because of a lack of backstory, but I don’t agree with what he says in the video, it still aligns with the character builds.
The end is great, actually great, not happy just for the sake of having a good ending but still happy because of the last scene. And if you don’t like this, just read the manga and get the happy ending you wanted.
This show is a masterpiece, and it’s not a mech anime, it’s a life anime.
The whole build up, and for me, the most important part of the story, is the Jian. In China, JianJian is a name you’d use to say to a couple, meaning lovebirds. It’s originated from Chinese mythology and it has only one eye, and one wing and you know the rest…
What I found that made DitF and the ending most beautiful was this :
There is famous sentence in a famouse ancient poem "*
天愿作比翼鸟，在地愿为连理枝"（"On high, we'd be two
lovebirds flying wing to wing; On earth, two trees with branches twined from spring to spring." )
Two headed Bird and Sakura tree!
This is what the whole thing was written about, and from the start. So I’m sorry, but despite a few incoherences, it’s done an INSANE job at coming to this conclusion. And that’s why it’s been my favorite anime, I’m not scared to say it!
It's evangelion
I didn’t dislike the ending either, so I can agree with you a bit. I also think the ending ending scene wasn’t the problem. It was episode 18-24, not that part of episode 25. It’s great to see them together after all that time again, see the real conection they had led them there, the concept with the bird and tree and all, and I think if that scene hadn’t been added we really would have crashed at the anime. I would have hated it with all my guts at least, and given it a 5/10 instead of the 9/10 i consider it till this date.
But I think for most of us The problem is the pacing. You make people uncomfortable and really confused when you throw so many problems and concepts at the same time at them, change completely the whole mood from mecha to an alien invasion all in 1 or 2 episodes without giving a hint before. The director cut off a lot of content that we could have seen from it too, so he literally made impossible for us to enjoy more content about it (like a season 2, ova, or whatever…) and it really seems like he didn’t know where to go. It’s simplicity that makes a story great, so even if you have 10 good ideas, as soon as you mix them and make the whole thing confusing, you are killing your story
Do you understand the concept that people don't like the 2nd half of the anime beyond the idea of having a "happy ending"? and that the anime isn't "Perfect"? Because it isn't. You like it great, stop acting like everyone else has to find it that way because YOU do, The story became insanely off-track on the 2nd half.
Its clear you put a lot of work into this. It’s a great video bro, congrats
To be completely honest, I've got a lot to say about the show and my history with it.
So the comment writing space we all got in this section isn't gonna be enough :D
I suppose I'mma dedicate a video to it as well.
P.s. I know I'm VERY late to the party, mainly cuz I got the video in my feed just now (we don't talk about it), but...I love the video, Kor.
It's well written and focuses on some of the most important points of the show.
Also, I feel the same pain as you on the fill footage. I used to be an AMV editor, so...yeah...Trigger/A1 didn't like the idea of some of the scenes being on TH-cam.
Even if they fall under the ,,fair use,, section of article 13 for copyright.
If you still read this comment, despite how long and shitty it is, I appreciate it
Great video.
Darling in The FranXX was one of the greatest things I ever saw until that ending, when it became everything I didn't want it to be. I will eternally cherish 4/5 of that series, and I will always be yearning to strike those ending episodes from my memory. If I could Homura tf outta time, I'd do all I could to have the final arc of Darling actually make fucking sense, and be relevant to the rest of the series.
This show either you love/ like it or you hate it. For me it was one of the best I've seen. The mix of emotions is perfect.
This video got me into Darling in the Franxx.
I've always kind of known it, but never watched it. Now, thanks to you. I did.
And man.. It's both beautiful. And a rollercoaster ride in the end.
Thank you for an amazing experience. And giving me the thought of "Hey, I should actually look at this. And then continue on with this video once I'm done."
Bro you have captured all my feelings about this anime perfectly in one video. I too watched it at a similar time in my life and this is very close to how I felt. Great video dude you will do big things
20:53 hiro is hospitalized trigger could have remake the comatose german girl scene with reverse gender, but no😂😂 Ichigo is on the way
I saw a comment about game of thrones that said that the series was like the best tub of ice cream you ever had and then there's a dead rat in the end. That's what happened in this show as well.
the manga ending is much better
@@FutureDragon what?
@spectorjz4447 if I remember correctly it ends before the giant hand breaks there house dome they blow up the klaxasaur "base" and that's it
Long story short:
02 is the character that attracted me into anime
Honestly tho, 02 was the first anime lookin character that i saw a lot on the internet without watching anime, back in 2020 when I finnaly decidet to look what is all this anime thing about I was searching specific for "anime with pink haired character" By accydent ended up wathing "kaguya-sama love is war" after this I found "Darling in the franxx" and now I am into anime culture. It's crazy how only one well marked character can involve people to discover something new
Us bro 😂
pretty sure 90% of the people who finished watching darling in the franxx did it for 02 LOL
still my favourite anime
the last few episodes got slightly confusing but the end was still so good
Darling in the Franxx is basically a group project. An Evangelion, Gurren Lagann, Pacific Rim, Gubuster/Diebuster and maybe more combined.
+ Trigun's premise of humanity surviving on a scorched world only around magical reactors that burn alien lifeforce for fuel, and the aliens having a problem with that
thats a funny way of saying its plagiarized.
@@Ivel1oss do you know the difference of inspiration and plagiarism
@@mddavids8778yes, inspiration is paying homage. plagiarism is ripping some scenes, plotlines straight from the source and slapping some doggy style on top
Darling in the franxx was my First Anime and i will never Forget it
Darling in the Franxx: „I am an emotional mecha anime, about what it means to be human. Whit deep characters, and dramatic development!”
Neon Genesis Evangelion: “Am I a joke to you?”
Weirdly this is the show that brought me back into anime and made me into an animator myself. Pretty strange to think about
darling in the franxx was the second anime i ever watched. I watched it back in june 2018 and it absolutely blew my mind. I totally fell in love with anime after that and even tho objectively its not the best anime i ever watched its my favourite anyway cause i f love it and 2018 was the best time of my life. I get so much nostalgie from it its painful. I wish i could discover it all over again.
I think this anime got so much hate because people didnt undestand its true meaning. Its not about mechas its about humanity. Of course i could go even deeper into that but its a youtube comment lol
and yet here i am 6 years later still hoping a season 2 would release some day even though deep down i know it wont ever happen
Just rewatched again after years. I wish i could see them reunite and slowly regain their memories. So far into the future too so they can witness what their old friends accomplished and find things their friends left for when they return as everyone will have read the book about them
first started watching this video with the mindset "eh, i'm not that into mecha, but i AM curious about how this one got so big, guess i'll watch the video", but now that ive teached the halfway point, i'm genuinely considering watching at least a bit of the show.
so sadly, i am not finishing this video right now, but in a sense, getting a new pair of eyes on the show might be a better outcome in your eyes :) great video, korbro!
Darling in the franxx will always have a special place in my heart. Was my first conscious anime since i didn't know what anime was when i watched Inazuma Eleven. I was so shocked to find out it's hated. Also a cherry on top about the ending 4 that plays when Hiro gets his memories back is the fact that the voice actress of Zero Two is the one singing it
You explained this so perfectly! This video is so interesting I love it! I love Darling In The Franxx too! ♥️
Hey guys, my original upload which I posted this morning got claimed and blocked, and after much thought and struggle I just decided it would be better to reupload.
Sorry to those of you who got the notification twice, but reuploading or getting blocked tends to hurt the video a lot, so I would really appreciate it if you could share, comment or engage with the video in any way 🙏
Besides all that, thanks for watching, this video was probably one of the hardest I ever made, but I also tried and experimented with a lot of new things and overall for a month of work on top of final exams for my college, I'm pretty proud of it! I hope you enjoyed it too.
very nice video, did you see 86: Eighty-Six? i think you will like it
@@iguanaATTACK I regret to inform you that I think that show sucks 😞
I think this is totally underrated video, but really only 22K views on a masterpiece like this? Even though I'm 6 months after upload I still hope that this video will make it to atleast 100K and your content overall is a lot underrated. You definitely gained a new subscriber - me >:)
Bro this video had me going crazy, I was mad, happy and sad. But you did an excellent job of describing Darling in the Franxx and what makes the anime just so amazing despite some of the conflicting plots and pacing which was 100% intentional.
Who’s watching this in October 2024
also to all the naruto fans that say boruto is garbage: look at the end of this anime
When we watched darling in the franxx, we learnt we liked romance. We just didn’t know it yet
I like how pale the color pallet is when we are around the humans, but near the mechas it seems more vibrant and alive.
this changed my whole persona for like 2 months
bro i still get tears when i watch the scene where hiro finally realize 02 was his childhood friend
Darling in the franxx is probably the only anime I will watch because it tells it's story without tons of filler unlike other shows I watched when I was like 11.
There are tons of other better anime that tell a story without filler 😭😭
@@KorbroYT tell me an anime that isn't naruto or one piece and I'll watch it
@@Friggity_Frank Gurren Lagann if you liked darling fra
@@KorbroYT k
@@Friggity_Frank evangelion, death note and cowboy bebop ezzzzz
My guy... the twist is the exact same as Gurren Lagann. Bad guy was defending Earth from an even worse threat all along and when humans beat him passes the torch on to them.
Gurren lagann did it 1000x times better
@@KorbroYT yes, and i dont hate it for it.
Except in GL it wasn't a twist and it happened midway through. Remember the very first scene in the show depicts them fighting aboard cathedral terra.
He is real once again
I am in fact not Jigglypuff irl 😔
I think this video is beauitiful, the 2021/22 nostalgia hit
Sewerslvt 14 min in was a GREAT pic for music, good taste
Seeing people talk about getting into anime through DITF made me check my face for wrinkles
I honestly had Darling in the Franxx in my watchlist for years but never got past the second episode in my previous starts of the series until this year and I must say. Even as a first binge watch recently it will forever be one of my favorite anime's of all time. I guess I just have a thing for darker themed anime's but it was also just a perfect blend of wholesomeness and had a philosophical theme about what it means to be human, what it means to experience emotions, and to find love, etc. Where we also get to see what the absence of embracing those key points of humanity and compassion can lead to in a sci-fi extreme way.
Epic Anime loved every minute of it flaws and all! great break down dude! good luck in all your ventures!
The star rail music in the background makes this so much better
Somewhere at 27:36 I realized that the main plot twist just flew by me when I've been watching the show... or my brain decided to forget it for some reason.
y'know, my first time watching the show had me not notice the sex implications until the later episodes. my second watch though, oh god.
Never watched the anime but I enjoyed this video a lot, well made, great producing, inciteful and all around an amazing video about the topic
Great video! You gained a new sub, I can't forgive this show for the emotional turmoil it just put me through!
I only started watching anime last year so I just experienced this shit storm of a show and I'm glad to know I'm not alone in my grievances with its conclusion. I just read the manga and I wish I had stopped the anime at episode 15 and finished it with the manga because the manga is just infinitely better in its conclusion though I think the better villain should have been APE but meh
Thank you for this video.
I was riding the Franxx roller coaster live. Nothing has been or will ever be quite like it. What a wild time. Like a 3 course meal with good appetizers, amazing entrees but shit dessert.
No other anime in my life time has had this much of a run on the internet. January 2018 came and for the next six months, the memes and the GIFs and the Discords were just covered in it. Even my good friend changed his main name to Darling. He has still kept that name to this day.
I know a lot of people hate the ending of this anime but I actually loved it,,, I'm not a mecha anime person but it's still one of my favorites ever.
02 was what got me into anime for the first time, and im ngl i was obsessed with 02 as a character, first time i ever was that interested into anything anime related, tho i found out it was disliked later, it still holds a special place in my heart
I can't help but keep drawing parallels between DITF and Pacific Rim (I never finished the season, only got to the halfway point of Episode 13) and I kinda love how Zero Two and Hiro are like "Drift Compatible" in PR's terms since 02 just Eliminates her other partners
I think there’s a couple things that were missing in between certain parts but overall this is a really good video.
Watching the episodes as they came out on Crunchyroll and drawing fanarts with my friend was indeed an experience back in my anime days.
Still glad people remember It in a good light, despite the flaws following the finale.
Great video 🫶🏻💖
I was there tuning in when it aired. The ending was super confusing and a total rollercoaster yhe first time arround. Upon rewatching it, however, it becomes much clearer. Since the first time i watched it i grew up a lot; I was single back then freshly in college and really quite immature.
rewatching it with my fiance after several years of adult life really gave me a different perspective on the show and jts deeper meanings. Having grown a lot in the years between watches i realized that dispite the fantastic setting and big fights and twists and turns the show was trying to tell an incredibly grounded story. Its about how messy relationships can be, all the pain and heartache and joy and frustration that comes with a real relationship. Its about the uncertainty of the future, being scared and vulnerable to the one special person that you chose and who chose you. It's about unrequited love, and the pain that goes with it. Maturing and falling down and getting up again and changing.
At its core it's about how important that one human connection is, and how everyone has their own struggle to find it. It may feel like insanity when you're going through the worst of it, but remember the Jian. The one winged bird cannot fly on its own. Just because you haven't found your other half doesn't mean you won't ever.
The ending is bittersweet. You are a team with your spouse fighting the world, trying to survive for each other and for the relationship. And sometimes the world fights back harder than you can and it's tragic and sad and messy and meaningless. But it's not always about the final victory.
Even if you lose, you can still have won. Just like we love those who we have lost, the story you leave behind vindicates you in all of the time you spent with that one special person. The good, bad, and ugly all culminating into your cumulative affect on the world. The ending is sad and its bittersweet, but what happened after the ending redeems it. Even if it took hundreds of thousands of years, you still won.
The show had a rather succinct ending, I thought. In it's final episode it went far beyond the characters we knew, showing us glipses of the people they became, and then farther beyond that. The love that was fated in 02 and Hiro finally had it's time in the sun. And it didn't show us anything more than the short exchange of words and eyes and meaning between the two of them because that's not what it was about.
It was never ultimately about showing the minutia and detail of these two peoples messy lives, or the perfect iteration they attained after the world went on long after they died. We saw a glimpse, a snapshot of the beautiful moment that started everything, the single point in the children's lives from which everything else unfolds. But we as the viewers are not entitled to see that. That privilege is for them alone, as is my privilege to share my life with the woman I love and nobody else, as is everyone's privilege to do the same. The story of the two perfect children goes on, unseen to anyone but themselves.
And that uncertainty we experience as viewers is beautiful.
Honestly I loved darling in the Franxx and still do! It was one of the first times I saw the joys of anime and I felt so attached to the world building, the massive scale robot fights and OMG the animation was amazing.. this anime inspired my art so much and the vibe was honestly immaculate.. though I would say, the giant robot lady in space was a bit weird😭(felt epic but felt out of place lol) anyways it’s been years and I’ve watched hundreds of animes but darling in the franxx holds a very special place in my heart:)
Hey dude, Liked the video. This is the first anime I ever watched and the only anime i ever truly got into. I first watched it 4 years ago, and I was hooked to it. I cant even explain how deeply this show has effected me, and the funny part is I have no idea how! I guess it's nice to see other people havent moved on from this absolute masterpiece. It just leaves an emptiness inside you and you feel something insanely deep hit your heart
Im not completely sure if it's just me though, but nevertheless I love this showwwe (I totally simp over zero two 😂)
The music's also freaking GOATED
Theres something special and different to Franxx. I love it
Personally, for me, I loved the soundtrack of this anime. I don't know how often it is talked about, but soundtracks really can make or break these kinds of things.
Chained soldier was one of my first animes and it set my standards so high, I never thought that I could find an anime as good as that. Untill I found Darling in the Franxx. This shit not having a season 2 made me so mad. So currently... I'm currently working with a team of developers to make a fan made season 2 ❤
I needed this video, thank you
Np 😃
19:19 this still makes my body chill every time i see or hear it
Sorry about the copyright and having to reload : P
+1 sub keep up the quality content
The premise was fun but, it felt rushed about the midway point and got a sloppy ending. Zero two's personality also had a change where she wasn't playful and instigative. I till this day think if it had gotten more episodes it could have had a chance for better writing. It felt as if it was trying for the same tones as FLCL but, more in your face about sex rather then puberty. ( all just my opinions )
Yeah Super Robot Wars would fix the plot
Episode 15 of darling in the franxx was one of the greatest anime episodes I ever watched.This anime was so emotional I wish it didn’t end.I go back and watch the anime every year.
It's so fuckin stupid this anime gets compared to EVA just cuz they have similar plot setting. I personally find the 2 anime entirely different in the messages they convey through their storyline
Someone gets it. Its the edgelord eva fanboys that swear. Eva wished it could portray the themes and symbolism like darling does
@@chrispbacon002Lmaoooo, similar setting is one thing but the reason Eva fanboys compare it is because some things in ditf were straight ripped off from Evangelion, gurren laggen and others. Ditf had so much potential but it disappointed heavily
Honestly man, I love this show still. Even though the ending was a diversion I still love the entire show and though I don’t watch anime anymore this was my first and it had a massive impact on me, it’s the only title I can actually remember off the top of my head 😂. Great analysis tho well done mate.
DitF is in this weird multi-vein of cerebral human critical sci-fi like The Giver, Equilibrium, The Island, Enders Game, and Brave New World.
Man I'm glad i found my way to this video. Darling... is one of my favorite anime...ever. I also had a hard time with the simulated sex situations / positions as I watched this as an adult but I'm glad that I continued watching this excellent human drama. (edit.. and oh yea. the music was awesome)
After watching episode 8, you should watch Vandread. The boy v girls plotline extended over an anime. All the same mech tropes with boy / girl combinations. Classic
I just wish there was an article or interview or something about why the show took such a drastic direction change after episode 18. The bad exposition dump, aliens out of nowhere, splitting up Zero Two and Hiro again despite already having resolved that, Strelizia Apus being somehow Zero Two, it just feels so weirdly out of place. The show before that was relatively consistent and it seemed like it was building towards a rebellion against Papa and APE.
I love this show despite it's faults, but I wish the creators explained what happened because it's very bizarre. It's like they just changed their mind halfway and wanted to make a different show. The manga apparently has a completely different ending too, probably influenced by the insane amount of criticism the ending got.
It just sucks because I love this show so much but there will probably be no answers (unless they're somewhere I missed). I miss when this show was being talked about and when Zero Two was really popular. I recently rewatched the show and I miss it ngl. Zero Two is still one of my favorite anime characters
I wanted the anime to last longer, this anime has a whole place in my heart. Whenever i remember this anime makes me devastated, knowing its really done
Time to rewatch DitF again...
Bad anime, shit taste
This is a really good review, its nice to see that you have good taste in anime and we have some common opinions.
My opinion on Darling in the Franxx is that its a really good anime, gets messed up in the later episodes. When I watched it, the only other animes I have ever watched was Attack on Titan and Cyberpunk Edgerunners so I didnt have that high expectations. To me, it had a lot of parallels with AOT, not sure if it was just me but I enjoyed it.
Its a good anime, however it definently could have either ended shorter or extended to another season.
Introduction of VIRM or whoever the aliens were was super rushed and felt like "okay, we need to kill the main characters to end the story... have them sacrifice themselves for some aliens!"
But yeah, other than that this is a good anime and people should definently watch it. 02 is definently one of my favorite anime characters
This is one of the realest videos ive watched
I remember watching this show back when it was airing as it came around the same time I got back into anime with MHA and iirc it aired close to when S3 aired. And it reminded me why I enjoyed anime. The complex narrative and incredible character development. Was it flawed? Absolutely. I wish the last 4 episodes didn’t exist and the sex euphemisms make me incredibly uncomfortable. But at the same time, I can see the beautiful themes and great execution of those themes beyond those flaws. I don’t think I could ever truly hate Darling in the Franxx despite its issues.
in the official manga that went alongside, they did just finish it after Gran Crevasse. And finishing reading that feels infinitely more gratifying than finishing the anime did. DITF wasn't my first proper anime, that would be Initial D, but I hold it in similarly high esteem for the effect it had on me at the time - it was only my second or third maybe. I now look back and kinda cringe in some places, but that's just part of growing up. Everything does change, and nothing does stay stagnant as Goro's final monologue says - And I probably wouldn't quite be where I am now not for it
I remember seeing this title in the popular section, reading the very brief synopsis, and thinking nope. Then wondering what show the pink girl with horns was from when the meme exploded all over. Eventually, probably only a year or two ago, linking the two; reading the synopsis again, and again deciding nope. Thanks for showing me this more in depth review. Even though it's still a nope for me, I like the review.
This anime made me cry
This anime plagiarized so many other anime’s it actually kinda pissed me off I don’t understand why gainax was allowed to get away with it 😂
Trigger plagiarizes all their past works. Kill la Kill almost becomes gurren lagann at one point, complete with faces on chests.
My favorite anime and the reason I like anime how I do today. People hate on this because a few people started saying its a eva rip off and then everyone said that as if eva is the forefront of mecha and doesn’t take front ultra man and devil man cry baby and lets not start on the ass ending eva had please. That show was a clusterfuchk of BS and I am a fan but eva aint this god anime. People overlook references completely as a paying respects thing which literally every anime does. Darling is so good at character development and actually able to get its themes and messages across. Plus look at our world today, darling is lowkey becoming a reality, we are already half way there and society keeps heading that direction. Darling just may be on point and foreshadowing where humanity is going. Darling is a master piece
When zero two and Hiro remembered their past as children then they looked at each other crying at the end of episode 15 that moment kept me crying and I am 26 years old , that shows u how this anime despises his floughs it's still very emotional, man I wish they feature zero two in another anime or if they can renew the series from the manga because the anime's ending can't allow for continuation, also this anime is now stuck in my head for weeks I can't stop thinking about zero two and her love to Hiro after episode 15 ofcorese and her saying darling to him , I literally cry when I remember some scenes , I just wanted to share my feeling man maybe that will make me feel better because after finishing it something in me is touched for ever ❤
darling in franxx was my first ever serious anime that i watched fully. i personally thing this anime first like 20 eps where the best until it was handed to someone else to complete thats where the downfall started
but this is a slice of life where you can learn lots and lots from. and its home and starting house to many of the anime fans
its so funny how accurate the emotions were with this lool.
Good work dude! Great video essay. First time watching your vid and youre good. I remember watching this and being crushed how it turned into a whole new show in 2 episodes. The first arcs are great and it should've just ended there. This is a common theme in anime and shows. Didnt know when to stop while they were ahead. Glad this was your first anime! I could see the care you had in talking about this anime. One piece was my first when it was introduced on 4kids lol it's just special to me no matter any criticism it gets. It's unnecessarily long but I've cried so many times while watching the heart of the anime
amazing how low the bar is for "braking the internet"
watch plenty of anime, and never once even heard of this
I only just remembered the fat guy being cucked. But it also had some of the greatest world building I've ever seen in an anime. There was 1 specific episode where they visit a city with humans with basically zero emotions. I don't remember anything crazy happening in that episode. But I remember the melancholy feeling it gave me as I watched. It wasn't rubbed against your face or anything. It was amazing. That episode made me realize that sometimes a whole series can have a single episode that will stand out, even after watching many other series.
KORBRO'S FACE REVEAL?!?!?!
This anime was my first time getting back to anime since pokemon, beyblade and bakugan way back when. and i was obsessed eventhough i never saw past episode 20 since a few months ago. And to me the ending isn't bad just a pleasant surprise cause who would have guessed it would end like this. But it was fun. Sure that might be my nostalgia talking or the fact that i aint fully grown up yet but for now i will defend it no matter what
This anime completely broke me demolished me.
I absolutely don't remember subscribing to this channel
But I'll be honest it wasn't that bad
I'll keep it