• Darling in the Franxx
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https://twitter.com/pkjd818/status/999576087398006784 lol here's the entire backstory i guess
Multiple episode-long backstory exposition dumps are also a form of slow, subtle world-building and storytelling.
Yeah you see if it comes at the end of the series, then on average you learned it slowly.
it just keeps getting better
I'm very angry but I just kinda watched this latest episode in a resigned silence, I've abandoned my humanity. This episode is fucking bad. It's an affront to anybody who enjoys things. It's a backstory episode, and that's all I need to say on that front to be honest. Franxx monologues about how the world came to be how it is now. A group of mysterious individuals known as APE discovered deep mining technology, which allowed them to gain access to magma deep in the Earth's core. This became the new power source for humanity and affords them massive control over governments around the world. APE then hired Dr Frank, an expert in cloning technology, to work with them on making humans immortal... by injecting them... with magma? The experiments are a success, and humanity becomes immortal but loses their ability to reproduce. The world gets fucked up (RIP Australia) and humanity moves into the plantations. Dr Frank then moves into producing anti-Klaxosaur weapons to protect the plantations, his wife dies testing one of them. Eventually APE discover the location of the Klaxosaur leader and dispatch a team to meet her, allowing Frank to go under the condition that he obtains a DNA sample from her. The team is killed, but Frank falls in love with her for some reason and has his arm bitten off. However he manages to steal some of her hair, and I guess 02 is a human hybrid created from that DNA. On the other side of things, squad 13 attempts to convince Mitsuru and Kokoro to pilot together again, but they're unsure of why. For some reason Franxx has forgotten that earlier in the show 02 and Hiro got their memories back by piloting together, and when they try to ask APE to give them their memories back they say it's impossible. This show cannot go two minutes without making new plot holes for itself to fall into. This episode is filled with that black bar gimmick resulting in some truly ridiculous frames.
i hope the 200 coins were worth it streecer
I couldn't believe I actually saw this show directly state that they are injecting people with magma to make them immortal. Don't really need to add anything to this really.
there's no episode next week again btw
Man it's okay to do a whole episode of backstory if it's not all stuff that was mostly already clear, or has no bearing on the main plot. This was just boring. You could basically skip this episode and not miss anything, unless it's somehow important that 002 was made from the queen's DNA and not just random klaxosaur DNA, which would probably be dumb anyway. I'm going to be charitable and assume they're not literally injecting them with magma, they always call it magma energy so I think it's supposed to be something different. They really could have explained it better though.
It's nice to actually have some backstory about the setting and all, but it seems like the writers have never even heard the phrase "show, don't tell." They could've sprinkled this information throughout the series in a much more organic way, but NOPE let's just infodump to absolute fuck in a single episode. Still better than "LOL WE'RE AT THE BEACH YAAAAY" at least. Or the wedding, fuckin' hell.
This episode would have been pretty good like 10 weeks ago, and maybe cut one of those filler episodes too to make this a two-part exposition dump because it felt way too rushed
i knew all along that 02 was made in a lab but lets be honest what other outcome there was?
Putting all of your story exposition into one episode is incredible bad writing, don't do that regardless of placement, add details as you go not all at once it feels lazy.
I feel like someone could do a recut of the series, only using the scenes available but skipping stuff and reordering some flashback scenes and it would be much better. ..It wouldn't fix Hiro being a dumbass and ZeroTwo completely changing personality but y'know. The backstory and the world are cool and the scenes showing those exist. It's just hostage of bad character development and filler.
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I was genuinely expecting a deeper connection between the Tootasaurus princess and 002, like some red oni/blue oni shit where the two of them are long-lost sisters or something. Nope, the old man was just horny for a monster loli so he made his own bootleg in a jar. I feel a little stupid for expecting more.
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I dropped the show in episode 5 or 6 or 7 (I can't remember) because it was bland. Does it get so bad it's good? Or at least interestingly bad?
it's insultingly bad, don't even bother
I talked to someone online who's watching this show because it's made by Trigger. But here, I keep hearing Trigger has barely anything to do with it, and A1 is carrying all the weight. I tried to tell him that, but I have no source to back it up, does anyone have any solid evidence of that?
I'm not sure how episodes are split between Trigger and A1 but either way the name of the studio doesn't mean shit, he needs to take a closer look at the directors. Trigger's stuff is great when it's directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, aka the guy who directed Dead Leaves, Gurren Lagann, Panty & Stocking, Kill la Kill, Sex&Violence, and Luluco. Imaishi basically defines Trigger. I follow Trigger's other projects too but my expectations are way low when he's not involved. Wikipedia says Franxx is directed by Atsushi Nishigori, and even though he worked on big titles like Kill la Kill, NGE 3.0, LWA, and Gurren Lagann, it was as an animator, and for like 1 episode in some cases. The only thing he's directed before was fucking Idolm@ster.
Now the Idolmaster is a good show, and it's well directed for what it is. However, it is not a high concept mecha action show, so I understand the problem of putting him on the directors seat for franxx. Moreover, he is the character designer of ttgl and panty and stocking. Man, remember how great his character designs are? What if he didn't do the designs on this show and we got the idiot who made the generic losers from Your Name instead! I don't have a solid source on how many trigger people worked on it, but I remember reading someone on /a/ saying the credits for episode 1 featured a whole two trigger staff.
I don't care if Stanley Kubrick himself reincarnated in Japan and directed it, if it's shit it's shit.
The weirdest thing about the director is that this is supposedly the anime he always wanted to make. Maybe the story worked out in his head?
From what I've gathered from reviews in this thread and elsewhere, it sounds like the main faults of Franxx lie in the writing so you can blame the main writer/s. As far as I can tell, it's split between Atsushi Nishigori and Naotaka Hayashi. Since Atsushi Nishigori is from TRIGGER I assume he gets handed the mecha related stuff but It's impossible to tell who had control over what, especially since they haven't got much of a history writing yet. They probably contributed a bit to everything but if mecha battles take a backseat then I think you can assume that Naotaka Hayashi might have more influence.
You can tell that the director clearly thinks that his show is the most amazing interesting thing in the world right out of the gate. A lot of shows know their limits and you can tell, or they set out with achievable goals in storytelling, Franxx thinks from the bottom of its heart that its plot is intriguing, its characters are deep and interesting, the action is amazing, and that it's the best show you'll see all year. That's why there's so much downtime, the show genuinely believes that its characters are so great you're happy to watch them do whatever for twenty episodes. In a show with actually entertaining or interesting characters, it's a good metric to judge by that you would be happy to watch slice of life with these characters because they can carry the show on strength of writing over plot. Franxx can't do either. That's exactly what makes it so obnoxiously insulting to watch. It has zero self-awareness and thinks it's hot shit while being aggressively bland at its highest points.
The best way to enjoy Franxx is to watch all of the big hype climaxes (which so far are only in the first half of the show) on YouTube and never think about it again
But all of those climaxes fucking sucked and made me hate the show more every time they happened.
All over the internet people praise this show but I always see it get ragged on when reading FP. As someone who is basically a normie right now when it comes to anime, should I give it a chance?
no
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