• Darling in the Franxx
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Fucking christ this show really hindenburged itself
I'd call it a trainwreck but it's debatable if it even left the station
It's more like somebody tossed a paper plane and for some reason people expected it to cross the Atlantic. It was exceedingly obvious that this show had zero potential right out of the gate.
If it was a trainwreck it quickly became a plane crash into a trainwreck, with recent developments revealing that the trainwreck took place on a sinking ship all along.
WE DID IT REDDIT ZERO TWO IS FUCKING DEAD can't wait for a deus ex machina to bring her back to life by the start of next episode
this week in DITF; Franxx doesn't know what a FUCKING CLONE IS EVERYBODY IS A CLONE, 02 IS A CLONE, THE NINES ARE ALL CLONES OF 02! Although that's NOT WHAT A FUCKING CLONE IS because none of them look like each other. Who really gives a god damn fuck about the Nines by the way? Did they need this explaining? Hiro has some exposition with 01, the rest of the squad decides to go and help. The Nines try to stop them... until they don't for some reason? One of them dies. Franxx and 02 are taken to the cockpit of the star entity. Ikuno ages rapidly after using an attack to clear the way.... for reasons. Two of them stay behind to fight as they can't pilot any more. Franxx reveals that he had... the hair in his arm the entire time? He uses it to open the door. 02 runs into the cockpit, she turns red again (once again, why?) and apparently can make her horns grow. 01 preforms some horn docking to give 02 her "remaining power," 02 merges with Hiro so that they can pilot and USES THE POWER OF LOVE to cancel the fucking self destruct... somehow. They shoot down some aliens, but the aliens manage to get away with that dumb spear thing they've been building for multiple episodes. 02 FUCKING DIES This is a stanky ass fucking episode. Even by Franxx standards it's full of dumb unexplained bullshit, desperately trying to string together something of a plot. Here are your big emotional moments, just don't ask any questions.
I finally found the deep metaphorical subtext fans of DitF have been raving about in the final shot of this episode. Ending it all on a cold fish dead stare of 02, which serves as a representation of what me and many others feel while watching this show, was a master stroke. 10/10 ding dong the witch is dead.
I feel the same way, Oni. I feel the same way.
rest in fucking peace dr.franxx died with a boner watching strelizia apath
Oldman Sachs died as he lived: With a huge crush https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2454/f0556fbb-674e-47e9-8fb8-5d1c1565b1f2/image.png
Hiro is probably also a clone Also I can't get over the alien twist in the last episode. ayy lmao
I genuinely found myself almost enjoying the latest episode in spite of being an incoherent trainwreck of asspulls, plagiarized story concepts and tropes; purely because it had a semblance of story progression and character development for fucking once in its lifetime. I wouldn't have minded the rest of the anime if the whole thing had been like that.
Seriously why did she age after using a full power blast. Are they just not gonna explain that?
After 17 or so episodes of not mentioning or showing it the writers suddenly remembered that this was maybe kind of a thing they'd introduced previously and just decided to use it to try and add some tension to a flat scene. We'd seen older pilots before, but like everything in this show, the actual mechanics behind how these things work are never explained. Where better to reveal an important detail than when the only time it'll ever be fucking relevant to anything happening in this show.
An additional wrinkle to this retarded ass plot, all the older pilots we saw earlier were male, but Futoshi didn't age when Ikuno did.
I always assumed that this meant they were destined to die in combat or as a suicide bomb before reaching adulthood, because their sole purpose was to protect the "real" adults.
i thought they were gonna have several episodes dedicated to the other characters but they keep focusing on this shitty shoujo couple, glad i dropped
https://twitter.com/pkjd818/status/1009722910179713024
Doesn't even have balls to temporarily kill off 02 lol
oh boy we're going to FUCKING MARS
Forced melodrama, the completely neglected plot point where Hiro is slowly turning into a klaxosaur which doesn't even make sense to bring up because they already established that klaxosaurs are basically the same as humans, 02 mind merging with giant titty robot lady after the power attack thing, even though Ikuno did basically the same power attack thing and she just turned old but she didn't, Goro being a selfish asshole, but then he's not, Naomi gets brought back up but she's a popsicle, then Kokoro is preggers, there's more melodrama but this time it's about abortion, and apparently using magma energy is bad now even though Klaxosaurs are officially as good as extinct without Princess Bride to lead them, and the Nines are just kinda dying, why does it get dumber and dumber every time you look at it again?
"No one can swim in the same river water twice" is something that Hiro has never said, but Franxx creates and destroys it's own mythos and backstory at whim as long as it sounds smart in the end. So now this is something that Hiro always said to Ichigo (he fucking didn't.) In this episode: a whole lot of fucking nothing. The children are now living alone on the surface, without the proper maintenance for their facilities or food. What's left of the nines are bedridden, and 02 is in a comatose state and keeps receiving mysterious injuries. The rest of the squad attempt to grow food but fail. The new Nana is the only adult present for some unexplained reason? Would have thought that they all got succed up my VIRM but I guess I'm expecting too much. Also unexplained: Ikuno's hair. As far as I can tell my previous theory was complete bunk because SHE DIDN'T AGE AT ALL. So now there's actually no explanation for the adult pilots, or the wording of their meetings with previous squads. Her hair just turned white for some reason, it is never brought up during the episode and I can safely presume that with two episodes left it won't be explained at all. That or A1 is doing such a bad fucking job of it that I can't tell she's aged. Kokoro is still pregnant, Nana suggests she get an abortion so she can keep piloting the Franxx. The Japanese government propaganda continues, the spectre of Abe. Meanwhile, that guy who I forget recieved a dead man's switch e-mail from Frank. Which leads him and the old Nana (who is still alive and now in a wheelchair?) to a database of adult minds, and cold storage containing children who dropped out of the garden. Also containing FUCKING NAOMI, WHO GOT FUCKING CRUSHED TO DEATH IN EPISODE 1. Turns out the adults lying was just a shitty red herring and that she really was a useless character the entire time, happy days. How did Dr Frank sneak out the bodies of hundreds of children and store them without anybody noticing? Nana and the other guy are told by Frank to guide the children. Continuing on this train of idiotic fucking coincidences, it turns out that Squad 13's old dome contained the last remaining fertile soil in the entire fucking world. What are the odds huh? Also when looking for the soil, the guy found a FUCKING KLAXXOSAUR SPACESHIP THAT JUST GOT LEFT THERE FOR HIRO TO TAKE. Hiro touches horns with 02 and discovers that her injuries are actually caused by damage to the Star Entity which is fighting in space. Which in itself is fucking stupid and makes no sense, but gets onto an extra level of stupid when you remember that 02 and Hiro can telepathically communicate by docking horns together. Hiro declares that he's going to take the spaceship and rescue 02, he has an argument with Gorou. We have some shitty monologue from Ichigo and the rest of the squad (excluding Kokoro and Mitsuru) decide to go with him. The nines are coming too for some fucking reason. (???) This show sucks.
Occasionally when I want to feel better about myself and my poor choices in life I come here to read this thread.
i would have really liked to see that space war going on up there i guess next week
it's just full of spaceships standing still and shooting lasers at each other
Huge props to this show for putting a giant space battle on halt just to have one last squeeze of attempted character development. Bigger props to ending last episode with "we'll be back, with reinforcements in tow" and starting this one with "actually we'll just take our battle to Mars"
Male Protagonist #2 pretty much sums up the series in this last episode https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/553/2410e1e2-920e-4f50-b5d3-44f5c1e9a825/mpc-hc64_2018-06-23_19-17-27.png
ugh We all teleport into space, where they just so happen to have equipment that allows the Franxx to be piloted in space. Hiro is piloting with that guy, and after spending the entire show telling us that compatibility is based off of the pilots feelings, we have a sudden retcon as he explains that Hiro can pilot with him because he's a clone of 02. Could have just left it, but Franxx loves retconning itself every episode so why the fuck not. This is the ugliest fucking episode of the show so far. The directing in particular is god damn atrocious. The episode relies heavily on still frames and ranged attacks because nobody working on this episode can actually animate a cut. Mechs statically slide across the screen like they've been moved in fucking photoshop, A1's problem with detail levels rears it's ugly head again etc. The space battle that the show has been hyping up for multiple episodes is about as flaccid as it can get, with ships shooting little lasers at each other in the background and the occasional fart gas explosion that never actually does damage. This is the penultimate episode of the fucking show and all the frames have been... allocated, to something that comes near the end. The guy sacrifices himself to allow Hiro to get on board the Star Entity, hacking out some shitty fucking dialogue about learning to be human as he goes. I can't remember if the other guys die but who gives a singular fuck about the antagonist squad? They never even fought squad 13. Hiro enters the cockpit and sucks on some electrical cables, which allows him to speak with 02 who has isolated herself in a weird picture book world. Never mind that shit, we go back to Earth and see Mitsuru say that his character is fucking terrible and that he now wants to look after the baby... for reasons. Some other characters stand in the background like they're about to drop the hottest album of 2037. Nana and the other guy escape the ship as it goes down. 02 begins contradicting herself again by saying that she wants Hiro to stay human, something at odds with multiple scenes from previous episodes because I guess the writers didn't really have much of anything for them to talk about for this emotional climax so they needed to make something up. I'm pretty sure 02 openly stated that she'd like Hiro to be a dinosaur too so they can be together at one point, but keeping track of 02's characterisation in this show is like trying to fucking push water uphill. 02 and Hiro connect together again and SOMEHOW THIS HAPPENS (There are those frames, by the way) AND NO, THEY DON'T FUCKING EXPLAIN The other members of Squad 13 congratulate themselves on a job well done, none of them express shock or awe at the sight of the star entity literally turning into a giant 02. The klaxxosaurs shoot two lasers into each other and open a warp gate for them to travel through so they can throw a bomb at them and win I guess. The episode ends with 02 and Hiro leaving through the gate. fuck off
It's a giant unicorn 02 in a wedding dress. The change happens after Generic Protagonist Man basically quotes wedding vows. This show is about as subtle and smart as detonating a nuke to assassinate one person.
The fuck?
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