DARLING in the FRANXX - What the HFIL Happened?! 

A rebellion against Papa would have been infinitely times more interesting than going to space to fight aliens.

ah yes, my favorite 15-episode show

Goro: WHY ARE WE IN SPACE WITH A GIANT UNICORN WAIFU Everyone else: Because trigger

It was a mech anime until that one girl got pregnant, after that it became a PSA for the Japanese about the low birth rates

Writers: Alright, we have four episodes left, how do we fill them? That one writer who’s been sitting in the corner drinking while everyone else has been storyboarding: Aliens Writers: That’s perfect, great idea

Tbh, "love's good, have babies" is a nice message... For Japan

this anime needs a movie called "the end of darling in the franxx"

“You thought the we were the bad guys, but the real bad guys are: A L I E N S”

Let's be honest here, we all loved it when Zero Two was mischievous and snarky towards everyone.

To quote Gigguk's Goro - "This show has so many plot holes I don't know if we're in Space or the writers room!"

Ep 1 - 19: *takes away my depression* Ep 19 - 24: *gives it back*

Kokoro wanted to have a baby so badly that she stopped thinking. She didn't give a second thought about how the adults won't allow them to have a baby putting themself and the child life in DANGER and Not to mention that she was just 14🤦🏻‍♂️

And so hiro never learned to keep a promise to literally anyone but 02

I genuinely loved this show. Up to episode 19. We don't talk about the rest.

They had us on the first half, not gonna lie

I lost interest when Strilizia transformed into Arceus

So basically, Darling In The Franxx is a prime of example of what happens when you have too many cooks in the kitchen. ^_^

The whole “Bad aliens thousand of years ago only to show up again to only to go to war against them” sounds like Mass Effect entire plot.

You forgot to mention that Tru Apus is her wedding dress. A moon sized dress that shoots millions of lazer beams from her gown lmao. Honestly though, when she did that final transformation I was blown away by the sheer insanity of the concept. Actually got an audible "What???" out of me.

FOR GOD'S SAKE....... Why isn't anyone mentioning the Darling In The Franxx Manga? It had a better ending where there was no aliens, 01 killed the whole papa councils ,sacrificing herself in the process herself and guess what? HIRO AND ZERO TWO WERE ALIVE AND SHARED A VICTORY KISS as everyone gathered outside to witness the dawn of a new free civilization.

This is what happens when you try and mesh together Evangelion and Gurren Lagann

The space battle thing came outta nowhere tbh. If they planned to do it they should’ve just showed it earlier on. It was just so random.

To me, the ending is tragic for Hiro and Zero Two because they don't get to explore or experience their love as they lived it. Their whole lives were suffering and people keeping them apart. The hope that they'd get AT LEAST 5 min of on-screen happier ever after was the only reason I stuck through the story all 24 episodes. But seeing them spend years in space together but physically apart just to die and be forced to start over just left a void for me.

Zero Two kept me watching this anime. Their bond couldn’t be broken and I was so happy when they reunited again in episode 15. The aliens part ruined the anime they could’ve symbolized the Sakura tree a lot better

apparently the writer meticulously planned out till episode 15, and thought "things would develop naturally". today's greatest crime.

I HOPE EVERYTHING THAT HAPPEN IN 19-24 IS JUST A DREAM BECAUSE WTF JUST HAPPENED

Opinion 1: Honestly, they should’ve made 02’s personality the same after episode 15 but at the same time she learns how to be nice instead of 02 suddenly becomes a good person. Opinion 2: They should’ve made a simpler arc in the second half. Episode 19 should be split into a few episodes so to not wreck world building and left the VIRM arc for another season. Honestly I enjoyed the series but the ending destroys what the story’s message is about. Somewhere in the comments someone said about a rebellion against papa plot. I agree to that because the 9’s would’ve been proper antagonists and leaves a more likely possibility for season 2.

Be honest everyone was laughing when zero-two wipes honey on zoromes favorite shirt

Darling in the Franxx was just a work meant to solve the Japanese declining birth rate.

Every time I examine this show, I feel like the first arc (1-15) was written as a full season and the rest of the series was made up on the spot after they found out that the series was going to be 24 episodes.

I see Darling in the Franxx as a friend you grew to know deeply and together you cared for each other until one random they broke the law and were sent to jail for a decade. But hey maybe one day they can redeem themselves? Second season?

(snorts cocaine)Trigger: oK guYS i THInk NoW iS WhEn tHE aLiEnS coME iN

Futoshi's mustache at the end made it a 10/10 for me. Such magnificent facial hair.

The reason this ending worked for Gurran was because Gurran was an insane anime. It was so weird and bizarre that by the end, the fact that a galaxy sized (and eventually universe sized) mech piloted by practically an entire government was fighting the collective conscience of an entire alien race in a similarly sized mech was completely normal. Darling in the Franxx provided insightful commentary on Studio Trigger(and its past as Gainax). It wasn't the same mood, so them recreating the ending to Gurran (on a smaller scale but still pretty big( True Aegis is about the size of Super Galaxy Gurran Lagann)) Was completely out of place and complety ruined the show's identity. If this show was the same tone as other Studio Trigger shows then they could have gotten away with it, but in the end the ending felt like a completely different show

If they did an FMA style remake where they just... didn’t do season two, and wrote something actually good, they might have a decent shot at a successful anime.

I'm just impressed with how hard they managed to fuck it up, i genuinely liked it until that weird twist

I was crying at the end, but not for the reasons the anime wanted....

Darling in the franxx is like a phone charger, you find it pretty good and enjoyable, until that time when you have to untangle it in the dark, you don't know how it happened or what to even do in that moment

It's kinda funny how the anime is like an exam, the first parts of the exam are pretty nice but you realized that you only have 10 minutes left to answer the remaining questions, so it's time to throw random bullshit like aliens invading Earth, making a giant zero two and killing off hiro and zero two.

I loved when darling said, "let me be FRANXX with you" the best moment in all of cinema.

I cried when Mitsurue (probably spelled wrong) forgot that he got laid.

I’m going to be honest with you, Shinzo Abe, 54th Prime Minister of Japan, This anime will not solve Japan’s declining birthrate

I'd love to see Darling remade and have a couple seasons. I wanna see it follow them from where the original left off, I wanna see 002 and hiro grow up together, watch them go through things typical kids/teens go through. I wanna see them grow up together, get into fights and have emotional moments. I wanna see DARLING in the franxx not "rubber ball in the rubber room". Imo if someone ever decided to "make a season 2" or reboot it, they need to do it as a romance, like I said, pick up where 002 and hiro are kids and end the final season with them laying in each others arms as they pass. I wanna see 002 get the romance she deserves, not this "look, tits" bullcrap.

Ep 1-19, greatest anime ever Ep 20-22, okay, this better settle down soon Ep 23-24, COME AGAIN??!?!?!?!?!?

Maybe Darling in the Franxx should be remade.

'I'll show you what comes after kissing' god i wish that were me

They need a Darling in the Franxx recap film series that retcons the ending or something. Honestly, my biggest disappointment is how much they wasted the Klaxxosaur Princess. Enigmatic, lots of potential, but nope - here she is, oh, she is not really the enemy, here is the enemy and oops, they killed her.

Personally, having finally watched the show, I was never able to take it seriously from the start. Hell, the original reason I skipped it was because of the doggy-style piloting of the mechs. That combined with the design of the main mechs really took away from the action-drama the show was trying to be. So I wasn’t as thrown off or upset by the ending as you were. Not to say that it wasn’t still a disappointing answer to my question of “how are these kids going to separate themselves from “Papa” and the adults to live as true humans?” It also would have been nice if at least one of the kids or pairs (Mitsuru and Kokoro would have been a good choice) had challenged the lifestyle and ideals of the VIRM and confronted them about how they’d stripped away all humanity from humans and only brought those elements back to use as weapons. But also I keep coming back to the doggy-style piloting and with how ridiculous and silly that is, I can’t be too upset about the ending.

Darling in the franxx needs to have a Redo, fixing the last few episodes.

They rushed it, it would have been nice if they did a second season

Trigger and A-1: Hey, can I copy your homework? Anno: *Looks at Eva* sure, but don't make an exact replica The homework turned in:

i was kinda lucky with this one i bingewatched the whole thing after it finished my brain didnt have enough time to process how nani the fck was the third act, i was just enjoying the explotions and the romantic stuff by the time i finished watching the last episode i was like "aww that was cute" then next day when i was remembering the whole thing i began to realize some stuff and think "wait what the heck was that?"

I watched the anime and it basically went like this Up until ep 19 damn this is pretty good Ep 20-24 *brain has left the chat* When I was done: wait what just happened

Pretty sure “love’s good, have babies” is exactly the intended message. Also “sex is powerful.” All three of these are of pivotal importance in Japan, as I understand it.

literally all that needed to happen was for the apus while it was still mechanical, push the bomb through the warp gate, then hiro and zero two come home, and show us the rebuilding. wouldve been a fucking amazing show, especially if hiro had become almost entirely klaxosaur

Just the name “verm” is funny to me Personally.

There was just lots of shit going on that didn't really go anywhere in the end. Kinda feels like Guilty Crown tbh.

To be fair, Japan probably needs the message of "Have babies."

Imagine if the final fight would've been Squad 13 vs The Nines, with Strelitzia XX making another appearance (very underrated mode btw), and then the show cliff-hangs on teasing VIRM. We could've gotten a batshit season 2 that's full Gurren AND a good ending.

-“So, what are your thoughts on Darling in The FRANXX? Have you finished watching every episode?” -“Yes, all 15 of them.” -“B…but, there are 24 epi-“ -“DID I STUTTER?!”

DARLING IS LITERALLY IN THE FRANKXX

the great animation and art style is the only thing that i find alluring in this show

I'm calling it now, 10 years from now people are going to be calling this series an underrated classic.

This video literally cures my depression, and makes me agree that this anime only has 15 episodes lmao but the 2nd op and the last 2 ed songs are still fire 🔥

What happened? *People got pregnant,People got their character development shafted and the ending triggered me.*

We're not going to point out that Apus' True Form is just 02 wearing a wedding gown? Heaven forbid people somehow didn't catch how blatant it was.

I loved this show. I was super invested. After VERN showed up I was so sad. I've never felt so empty after finishing an anime I enjoyed.

I would’ve died inside if 02 and Hiro come back decades after they leave and the only person who sees them is Mitsuru and Kokoro’s kid. When they ask about the old squad the child (now turned adult) takes them to the graves of squad 13, fulfilling their promise (which was to revisit squad 13 again).

You know, there's the saying, "be inspired, but don't copy". Seriously, this whole series feels like a bootleg evangelion.

I was extremely disappointed in this series. I can confidently say that some of episodes in this series were astounding; and I was extremely fond of Zero Two, Hiro, and their dynamic. I found _Strelizia Apus_ assuming Zero Two's form to be cringe-worthy-and extremely plot damaging-, I was also annoyed at the lack of side character development. I do hope for a season two, which shall explore reincarnated Hiro and Zero Two's lives. A second season beginning from an alternate ending may also be possible. Nonetheless, _Darling in the Franxx_ shall always bear a special place in my heart.

When you get finished with episode 15 and you realize there is still 9 episodes left 😰

Everything was great upto episode 15. Maybe some till episode 19. But honestly, everything just went off. Should have ended with ep 15 with: *DARLING* *ZERO TWO*

Yea, I was enjoying the anime And when I saw the giant franxx I was like H O L Y S H I T But when 002's face appeared I laughed like hell because it looks so bad and the fact they the ending was incomplete because I thought they would get back getting praised like gods, instead they die turning into ghosts spinning in a circle to oblivion

They lost direction. You know what would have been more fitting for this show? If after APE left the planet, the remainder of it was about the kids figuring out how to adapt to life. That was supposed to be the theme of the show - kids becoming adults, learning to fly on their own or with a partner to lean on. Everything past that was just unsalvageable. The children learning to deal with being abandoned and forced to learn everything they were kept from learning would have been, in my opinion, the best possible ending.

I finally got around to watching Franxx this week, and I really feel like this series was crushed under its own hype. I had no serious expectations of it thanks to its reputation, and I ended up really enjoying the show and wondered if I was missing something. It wasn't the most amazing show I've ever seen, but I was actually shocked that some people felt so passionately about plot points and characters that just made sense to me. Even the ending theme of "love conquers all" was kind of expected, seeing as from episode one the show hinted at love and personal relationships being the driving force of the plot. I guess if I did have one real complaint, it would be the lack of build-up to Papa's reveal. I don't mind the twist itself, but it didn't feel super intentional with the way it was portrayed and I would have loved to see some more dystopian clues and some more distrust towards Papa before everything went to hell. I would want more episodes like when Zorome was accidentally separated from the group and met one of the lonely, sedated citizens of the city. It would have tipped more people off that the paradise they wanted so badly to be part of wasn't what it seemed. I remember having a raw feeling in my gut after that episode, and it really clued me into smaller details that kind of lead to the big twist, but there wasn't anything solid that felt like an actual clue. I gave it an 8/10, I think it's really good if you don't give it too much pressure to change your life.

honestly if the yellow haired w/ glasses dude (forget his name) died trying to save ichigo and ichigo cofessed to him right as that happened, that would be an amazing moment that could have been a semi ending. or if 02 and hero somehow ended up in purgatory and had to make adventures to get to heaven or whatever, even this would make the story a bit better knowing that no one is perfect.

Legit thought the season ended on like episode 13 when Hero and Zero 2 reunite. Didn’t actually continue watching because I thought that was it and that we were going to have to wait for a new season. Now that it’s done and everyone is talking about the ending, I’m just sitting here like: “did I dodge a bullet? Because that episode was a good way to end a season, imo”

I took a break from DARLING in the FRANXX after ep 19, but then came back to finish it to watch this vid. If you had never mentioned it, I would have completely forgot about Zero Two's quirky personalty and the sexual innuendos at the start of this show. DARLING in the FRANXX feels like 24 different people directed 24 different episodes.

Since people think the corona virus was deleted outta nowhere, I want a season 2 of Darling in the Franxx with a proper anime arc.

They should have ended season 1 on episode 15 then have the story arc in season 2 be about 001 revealing herself and trying to turn zero two over to her side, ending with squad 13, Dr franxx, nana and hachi joining 001 in a revolt against ape and the nines

I thought of Zero Two's sudden personality shift as her reverting back to the little girl she was when she and Hiro first met

Gurren Lagann literally starts in space so its a near given than it would appear again, this was just a shock not an expectation

I watched 18 episodes of this and I still couldn't get over the early situation when most of the team was sent underground for a mission and when they were literally going to lose most of them, the instructor was still saying: "We can't send Hiro and 00, it's too dangerous".

They kind of tried to pull off a Childhood’s End type ending with the hive mind thing but they made it so... so... bad

I don't know about you but I can't wait for season 2 Of Legends of the galactic heroes

Meh, 7/10. I figured the kids were going to rebel at the end. I got space battles instead.

I'm glad I went into this anime, already knowing it was going to pull "aliens" at the end. I was able to enjoy the good bits without getting my hopes up for a climax that would deliver a message with real emotional weight.

I loved this show so musch I'm trying my damb hardest to forget it and rewatch it and hope to experience the emotional rollercoser

the first 15 or 16 episodes were amazing but it pulled a complete 180 out of nowhere. Darling in the Franxx you were an excellent student with a 100 in the class and then you skipped the last 2-3 weeks of class and bombed the final exam. you still passed with like a C+ or a B-, but why did you do that?

The best way to consider the last few episodes is that,once the arc of the main characters was over,it became a contest to see how many gainax references they could drop in,plot be damned

I feel that the message was that the adults on their world lived just because of surviving, and they live because of love and passion, things that zero two teach to hiro and then to everyone else.

Yup, this was very poorly planned to the point that I think something happened in production behind the scenes that we don't know about. I really love the first half of this show, specifically the characters and the relationships of the main group, I like rewatching this show, but only the first 15 episodes 👍

_They didn't stick to what made the show great in the first place, that's what happen._

It's like they thought: "Hey, Gurren Lagann did that space thing." "Kill la Kill also did the space thing." *"How about we do the space thing with Darling in the FranXX?"* Edit: DitF had so much potential. Soooooo much potential. But they broke everything, piece by piece. And then they made a space thing that just didn't work.

Not gona lie, the second I saw your channels name was mother's basement I had to subscribe

Episode 1-15 was a masterpiece, Episode 16-24 was a fanfiction

The whole "we're going to space to fight aliens" bit ruined the suspension of disbelief. They should've stayed on Earth. At least for the rest of the season. The writers rushed things too much and really screwed themselves over. If they made a season 2, what the hell would it even be about? They literally tied *all* of their loose ends. I even felt like the side characters were more interesting than Hiro and Zero Two in the 2nd half. I didn't care about Hiro and his monster waifu fighting a hive mind, I actually cared more about seeing Ichigo and the gang rebuild society. Probably because Zero Two had no qualities anymore and Hiro becoming a klaxosaur had no repercussions. But then again I'm a sucker for some slice of life. Still a massive waste of potential. Sad that they took the same route as SAO. Side note: what the hell is with all the forced romance? Mitsuru and Kokoro found love out of thin air and Ikuno fell in love with Ichigo as if the writers were dropping hints all season. The Goro and Ichigo stuff was fine but what the hell, why not focus more attention on Futoshi getting over Kokoro since he was balling his eyes out half the time? Poor writing.

I think when you make a story, you have to really figure out the "surface identity" (what it appears to be about) and the "secret identity" (what it actually is about). The secret identity doesn't actually have to be a late plot twist, it can happen in the first episode (as was done in an anime this season) or just be themes that the audience might not expect at first. Darling's surface identity is fanservice mecha action, while its secret identity is the drama and romance behind it. It was reaching a point where that secret identity had been built up to become the focal point of the plot. But instead, they refused to let go of the surface identity, and so the most engaging aspect of the series had to play second fiddle during the climax. In my opinion, Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill manage their identities a lot better. In both cases, their secret identities stay in second place. In that spot, they can become a favorite aspect of the series to someone, but (in theory) not to the extent where it's the only reason someone is watching.

that was comforting the hear someone else saying what I was thinking

Although Ive watched this pretty late, thank you so much for making this video! I already thought I was the only one who thinks that the storyline was completely destroyed since episode 14.