at the rate this is going the second cour is probably going to be an actual 2nd season
in that case ill drop this shit, even if a theorical S2 is good
god this episode nearly put me to sleep
New opening using the second verse, in any other show I'd like this a lot but fuck it.
Once again, Franxx demonstrates that it is completely incapable of combining action and character development. A technique mastered by children's TV for decades apparently eludes the
staff writing this show. I feel like they outlined the character development points of a chart and forgot to integrate them into the actual narrative, so instead they just dedicated the occasional
episode to sweeping character development.
With the destruction of the city the kids are running low on clean water, and have to look after themselves. We finally have our first mention of the antagonist (??) eight episodes from the end
and they're just as underwhelming as I expected. I'm not interested in the slightest in finding out anything about them.
Mitsuru finally remembered his sole character trait after suddenly forgetting it last week. He blurts out some character development like a turd out of an asshole, not by actually doing
anything. They cut his hair for some reason so he can join the most generic looking man competition with Hiro.
The squad decides to learn how to cook. Zorome just casually drops that Futoshi developed an eating disorder off-screen. (???) A character reveal that serves seemingly no purpose, at least
in this episode.
But once again, it can't help but open more plot holes. Suddenly the squad knows that they were slowly dying the whole time, immediately harpooning all of the build up that that particular
sub-plot had until now. They've repeatedly shown that they didn't know this. But by this point I've run out of good faith with these writers, they clearly forgot this, or didn't think it was
important for them to learn this on-screen. This episode sets up a perfect opportunity for us and the characters to figure this out but apparently they just know now?
02 says some shit, but honestly who gives a single god damn fuck because she'll probably be back to her old self by the next episode for no reason
this show sucks
Not only were the Klaxosaurs human all along but it looks like the mastermind behind them is also a human, because apparently Trigger decided to look at the likes of Hundred, Masou Gakuen HxH, and Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut for inspiration
I hope the writers from Gurren Lagann have moved on already because I refuse to believe this is the best they could come up with
that shit that was shown in the end better be something good
none of the gurren lagann writers are working anywhere near this, the series composition is by the guy who wrote Steins;Gate.
Considering the way the series has been, I don't think they can pull off a good villain. I thought it kind of worked when the enemy was mysterious but I can't imagine anything they could do to make this work. My guess for where the series will go with this is that 02 and this lady will be related or some shit and she will have a dumb crisis.
I thought the episode was okay, other than the sudden eating disorder and knowing they're dying. These are glaring problems they should have fixed when writing the script, I have no idea what could have happened. Also if the squad has any more major internal problems after this I'll be pissed off.
Show is on thin ice for me, but I still like it more than I hate it. I guess I have low standards.
Fucking hell this is so bad, next to no plot development for 16 episodes, the show switching themes every two episodes and doesn't seem to know what it wants to be, and now they're just dumping all the plot in one big go.
i found zero-two announcing breakfast oddly amusing
I disliked every character from the first episode.
After this episode, I wouldn't feel bad if the children lived up to their destinies. Delayed by a week for a filler episode that barley moved the plot forward.
On the plus side the new ED is pretty good
https://twitter.com/DARLI_FRA/status/994504288574488576
TLDR: hiro and mitsuru swim a bit, hiro and zero-two have a pretend-marriage, kokoro is about to fuck the gay away from mitsuru, alpha swooces in to ruin the day
I genuinely at this point don't understand why there's even mechs or action in this show if every episode they make is going to be drama between characters or really bad slice of life shit.
So wait, they have mechs, yet they hardly use them?
A lot of episodes feature zero/very minimal mech action, in fact last weeks episode and this upcoming episode don't have any at all. They don't know how to tie "character development" into
actual action, so instead they're sectioned off from one another most of the time.
episode 17 fuck off
Hiro is growing horns suddenly, something that really should have been happening since episode 6 but this show is fucking garbage so they just didn't mention it until now, I must one again
comment that there has still been zero explanation as to how Hiro recovered from the tumour in episode 6.
the evil squad shows up at the house and find out that kokoro wants to have a baby, leading to one of the dumbest pieces of exposition we've received so far, humans (?) apparently don't go
through puberty (which begs the question of how there can be adults,) and that children are the only ones with reproductive organs, so they are the only ones who can pilot the franxx. There's
a lot of dumb lines here which only make this show's scattershot themes even worse.
one of the handlers "regresses into puberty" which is a dumb line
kokoro wants to smash real bad, and in the end they do
some of the evil leaders go see the klaxosaur princess and die, it's implied that the klaxosaurs are responsible for creating this new race of sexless weirdo human, the evil squad snitch on
kokoro who's fucked mitsuru
this show is a fucking dumpster fire and i hate it and myself for watching it
It feels like there are three or so writing teams working on this and the one that actually wants to advance the plot and pick up all those plot threads that are just lying on the floor doing nothing finally broke out of the broom closet they were locked in
I haven't been this disinterested in a story since Clannad
I can't believe Trigger saved anime only to murder it violently four years later.
trigger is not responsible for this
a-1 ruined anime and they will always do
also i felt super fucking insulted by that 3 second flashback that happened before kokoro and mitsuru fucked, like what was the point of it
You know you love to hate it.
A race of genetically engineered post-humans is a great sci-fi concept but they really didn't do it justice here.
I still think Hiro and 02 are cute together, sue me.
Zero faith in audience. Maybe they think people only made it this far by virtue of not paying attention.
I get that the show's fun to bash on or w/e but at least it has some "proper" western romance development compared to other romance shows where the viewers are always "on edge" if characters like each other or something little such as a kiss is at the end of the show. Franxx has an early relationship establishment between Zero Two and Hiro (other characters too I guess) which puts the show ways ahead of other so called romance shows
That's true, but there are certainly better anime to watch if you want this. I don't watch a whole lot of romance, but I really liked My Love Story.
I've probably seen every romance anime known to man, and in terms of lengthy romance development Franxx is pretty up there.
I'm enjoying Alpha being such a bastard more than I ever have this episode solely to balance out the yet another personality trait, but worst of them all: play house 02
also fucking of course Rie Kugimiya (probably) as the Klax Princess
So is this even worth watching? I watched Aldnoah.Zero on Netflix and had to force myself to finish it. So if this is anything like that, I'll just skip it.
Christ no.
Stay away
i watched and slog through this series and its pretty much shit i rather watch beatless then this
I keep running into people who keep saying they enjoy the series. Is there some sort of killphrase that would make them realize that they are objectively wrong and show their true reptilian visage?
Pink hair camletoe is the new horizontal striped panties.
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