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| So.. basically Darling in the Franxx is anti-capitalist. My inner communism enjoyed this episode. |
 Three things cannot be long hidden.. ...the s u n, the m oo n, and the tr u th. |
| I don't get how people cringe this much - this is shounen manga with waifus, simplified mecha and monsters, not Evangelion/1984/Bible/"whatever you fetish is" with dead serious plot. Just thought to consider - what if world building and "humanity will extinct by creating ..." is not an actual point, but decoration to a romance/aging story? Zelev said: So.. basically Darling in the Franxx is anti-capitalist. My inner communism enjoyed this episode. You can't be communist if you didn't starved do death, tovarisch |
nightcrawlercyp said: So many of my theories are revealed as true in this episode: - 02 is a clone of some sort of the klaxosaurs queen - they became immortal in exchange of their ability to reproduce - the klaxosaurs are humans that after the rich become immortal evolved - the children are clones used to fight the klaxosaurs - APE are the bad guys that created all this mess - the adults have no more emotions and they are basically dead inside with few exxceptions But still some questions remain: Is the doctor 02 father? i.e. did she use his own DNA in the cloning? What are the APE members? Will the kids join the klaxosaurs eventually? "the klaxosaurs are humans that after the rich become immortal, evolved"??? Definitely not confirmed, they seem to be older than humans, YOUR theories are pretty obvious by knowing anime tropes and having watched NGE. evoniee said: ButadonMeitantei said: If only people with reproductive functions can use Franxx, why is it that 02, who said she has no reproductive functions, is the best Franxx pilot ever made? Other than the small plot holes here and there, a good infodump was needed at this point in the show. The only good post right here. . . . Also i really dont understand about what happened to the whole world or other country in general. The only thing i noticed is the plantation always running on a plain desert ground. Thw summary is:
I found the futuristic scifi setting they trying to infodump not really great and impactful, i dont care anymore, because the major plot on previous ep is only a fucking teen drama. All the ep we get is only to interact with character, not the setting, too late to make it on this amount of episode. Lastly, even if im not watch this ep, i believe i dont even notice anything important for the whole series existance. This series basically a drama about the children, spesificly Hiro and the gang searching meaning of them to be born. I dont care about the whole setting. 100% Agreed Thank you, agree on mostly everything. #7 is just something you got to accept if you want to watch mecha anime, HUMAN MODELED MECHA MAKES NO SENSE IN A REALWORLD, looks cool though. |
SteelingMaxMay 27, 2018 7:38 PM
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MrBlackJack160 said: Zelev said: So.. basically Darling in the Franxx is anti-capitalist. My inner communism enjoyed this episode. Well, I doubt the kids have a class-struggle consciousness...they just want to be free. And also, despite that APE seems like some kind of monopolistic corporation, we don't know what kind of system they have inside their cities now that they are under control. An immortal society can be quite different from modern-day societies I am now convinced the creators of Darling in the Franxx intended to awaken the masses to fight against their oppressors through the use of allegory. |
Three things cannot be long hidden.. ...the s u n, the m oo n, and the tr u th. |
Ookami-des said: I don't get how people cringe this much - this is shounen manga with waifus, simplified mecha and monsters, not Evangelion/1984/Bible/"whatever you fetish is" with dead serious plot. Just thought to consider - what if world building and "humanity will extinct by creating ..." is not an actual point, but decoration to a romance/aging story? Zelev said: So.. basically Darling in the Franxx is anti-capitalist. My inner communism enjoyed this episode. You can't be communist if you didn't starved do death, tovarisch https://www.stlucianewsonline.com/cuba-among-countries-with-lower-rate-in-hunger-and-malnutrition/ Long live the revolution, Comrade. |
Three things cannot be long hidden.. ...the s u n, the m oo n, and the tr u th. |
| I certainly enjoyed the backstory (finally) although I still don't like any of Hiro's, Kokoro's, Mitsuru's or Futoshi' (particularly him) scenes |
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| It´s like someone took the beta of the beta of the beta script from NGE and turn it an anime only big disadvantage is DiTF airing now and not 30 years ago. |
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| I don't get why reproduction vs immortality is such a dilemma. We see that the immortality treatment works on adults, so if you want to have your cake and eat it too, why not just have a child or two first and then take the immortality treatment? Seems like a trivial solution to me. LilyWhiteheart said: I like this theory. With this episode the idea that the FranXXs are the reason because kids cannot become "adults" is stronger in me. I mean... we know Zero Two kills her partners in 3 rides. FranXX could be like Zero Two as whoever rides it will die before becoming human, more like Zero Two's partners; but not just so fast but like in X years, that could make sense with Miku's gray spots in the hair and the fever some of them are having in this last few episodes. So, like, a life shortener type of mecha? Zelev said: Haha, that picture is great! :DI am now convinced the creators of Darling in the Franxx intended to awaken the masses to fight against their oppressors through the use of allegory. |
| That's waifu material right there! :D hiecchi1 said: Good point. MomoSinX said: Dont forget what we saw in that big ass klaxosaurus after hiro and zero two killed himThey probably lied to her about that too. Of course they lied about that AivanK said: Hikikomori lifestyle. Who are we to judge? :)But i still wonder what is the point of this girl, i mean, what was she doing inside the earth all this time. |
| WOW.. I'm getting chills.. Finally the plot is clear now and Zero Two is a clone of the Klaxosaur Princess. I'm wondering if this episode replaced with the first one what's the rating of it now... 'coz lot of people drop this show lmaooo bunch of idiots. |
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| Damn, this episode reminded me of Neon Genesis Evangelion so much. |
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| My prediction for the finale: They go on the mission in hope to have their freedom afterwards. But then the 9s betray them and try to slaughter them. That would be the starting point of the big rebellion. People will die. |
| The backstory is too simplistic and the timeline is too short. Ookami-des said: Just thought to consider - what if world building and "humanity will extinct by creating ..." is not an actual point, but decoration to a romance/aging story? indeed. |
SteelingMax said: Ok it was not completely confirmed. But considering they appeared just as poor people were left out of those cities... and yes many theories are based by anime tropes. It had nothing to do with NGE . You insult me by even mentioning that vile anime. I just watched it to see what the whole fuss was about a lot of time after it aired and was disgusted.nightcrawlercyp said: So many of my theories are revealed as true in this episode: - 02 is a clone of some sort of the klaxosaurs queen - they became immortal in exchange of their ability to reproduce - the klaxosaurs are humans that after the rich become immortal evolved - the children are clones used to fight the klaxosaurs - APE are the bad guys that created all this mess - the adults have no more emotions and they are basically dead inside with few exxceptions But still some questions remain: Is the doctor 02 father? i.e. did she use his own DNA in the cloning? What are the APE members? Will the kids join the klaxosaurs eventually? "the klaxosaurs are humans that after the rich become immortal, evolved"??? Definitely not confirmed, they seem to be older than humans, YOUR theories are pretty obvious by knowing anime tropes and having watched NGE. evoniee said: The only good post right here. . . . Also i really dont understand about what happened to the whole world or other country in general. The only thing i noticed is the plantation always running on a plain desert ground. Thw summary is:
I found the futuristic scifi setting they trying to infodump not really great and impactful, i dont care anymore, because the major plot on previous ep is only a fucking teen drama. All the ep we get is only to interact with character, not the setting, too late to make it on this amount of episode. Lastly, even if im not watch this ep, i believe i dont even notice anything important for the whole series existance. This series basically a drama about the children, spesificly Hiro and the gang searching meaning of them to be born. I dont care about the whole setting. 100% Agreed Thank you, agree on mostly everything. #7 is just something you got to accept if you want to watch mecha anime, HUMAN MODELED MECHA MAKES NO SENSE IN A REALWORLD, looks cool though. About human modeled mecha not making sense... it depends a lot of what you try to do with those mecha. The humanoid model is extremely versatile and can be very useful in some case. What bothers me is why they have to have the people inside when it could be controlled through remote control or even by AI. |
| So Hiro it's child of the dragon queen? |
| You know what bothers me? This is exactly what I wanted from this show. The backstory, learning about the one and only Dr. Franxx, and I got that. BUT I still don't get why they had him do that ass grab on nana in episode 1. It makes no sense in the story, in his characterization, or anything. That's something I don't like about anime production.. the people who keep thinking to put pointless fanservice or tropes in their shows without giving them any reason of existing other then, i guess, because "that's just what anime does". Don't get me wrong, I'm not demonizing the use of cliches, or tropes or fanservice. None of those are inherently bad(some could argue it's the other way around) but it's the execution of those things that matters. Having that fanservice/character trope moment is only just kindof dumb because there was Literally no reason for it, and as we learn more about Dr. Franxx that just becomes more and more so the case. (and no I won't except an "he's kind of gone mad" argument)(I thought there might be a legitimate argument in the way of establishing the traditional setting, the sexual atmosphere of sorts... but it's still useless in that manner because it comes from a character who is detached from that setting, towards another character who doesn't come in to it for a while. Meanwhile that event never comes up again or effects the plot or characterization going forward. Then we get all the much better and more obvious setting establishments, 02 in the river naked, the ceremony, the piloting of the franxx in the first 3 episodes...) idk... That moment bothers me the more I think about it... rant over |
| This certainly was far more interesting than any of the other last few episodes. Nice to finally know what actually happened in the past for humanity to end up the way it is now. |
"At some point, I stopped hoping." |
| It was actually really fucking cool to see the life of Dr. Franks, and it definitely gave a nice background and view on the world of the show that we see as somewhat the norm because it’s really all we’ve seen so far during the show |
| “I love heroes, but I don't want to be one. Do you even know what a hero is!? For example, you have some meat. Pirates will feast on the meat, but the hero will distribute it among the people! I want to eat the meat!” - Monkey D. Luffy |
| Fantastic backstory, finally a time frame, a real setting and indication what happened to the world! That's the real stuff right here, still quite curious about the Klaxosaurs and their real origin (other than them being an "old" civilisation or something) and especially that ending it certainly here confirms that Zero Two is a clone or at least in some way a combination of human x Klaxosaur princess! I n general fantastic backstory, some sad and very interesting development I must say! Up to the next episode. |
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| Been too long since I put this show on hold. Read a review on reddit about it when it finished airing and although I didn't really read all of it, the final verdict was simple: the show had a lot of potential but they fucked it up. So I kinda lost interest but the rest of the episodes have already been downloaded in my phone so might as well watch it. Bunch of info dump in this episode btw but it basically says: mankind got too greedy and using technology and science they screwed themselves over, nothing new, actually I'm 150 hours in Fallout 4, my first fallout game and I just realized they have the same premise. Whatever, I'm just hoping these last few episodes will at least be entertaning and they should lay off with the romance and focus more in origin of the Klauxors and also I wanna know more about the Iluminati aka the APE. |
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| The origins of the APE and the times of the past is really interesting and actually managed to answer a few of my questions about this world. As said by the representative of humanity some episodes ago, humanity has waged war against the klanxaurs for almost a century, so, since 2037, it's almost 2137?! Interesting... The most interesting subject in this episode besides the mysterious appearance of the klanxaurs and the APE group is doctor Frank's backstory. he's one of those characters I want to know more of despite him being very distant from most characters. Sad backstory, of course, was expected... His meeting with the klanxaurs' princess made the Nines' and Zero 2's existence to be possible, all thanks to Dr. Frank being able to get a form of DNA sample. Cloning... That's how all these children are here... |
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pretty much, it feels strange to give so much now |
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| Dr Franxx being a crazy obsessed loli fetishist was the best moment of the series. |
jedmanDec 19, 2018 7:23 AM
| dr franxx a bit creepy... |
| So this was the so-called "controversial episode"? Or am I early? Huh. 10/10 episode Only thing, the Dr. missed the perfect comeback to the princess' "Stop killing my kind" in "We'll gladly stop killing your kind if you stop invading surface and killing ours", like lol no shit sherlock. There will be surely an explanation for this, right? I bet the extracting of the magma stuff is harming them. As for the enemies yay, I KNEW they were bio machines. WordIsBond said: Doesn't young Dr Franxx look suspiciously like an older Hiro would? Franxx probably regrets his cold life where he even sacrificed his wife for science. He might be vicariously living through Hiro, purposely setting him up to be with 02. Maybe he's his clone. |
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| I really enjoyed the back story to the world as it currently is. It put a lot of things in perspective. I feel bad for Zorome learning that they are only made for one purpose though. |
| Infodump episodes, was about time to be honest. Wasn't very exciting, but at least we now know pretty much all about the plot. |
| I cant get this episode... Really. |
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| So we learned that the Klaxosaurs are an ancient civilization, was kinda hoping for more but they went with the unknown. I expected the events that we've been watching to be in the distant future but everything moved so fast. The Magma energy, the cloning, immortality, Klaxosaurs, plantations, FranXX ... all in the span of 20 years. I'd still like to know why the core of a Klaxosaur contained a human-like form. End scene confirmed that Zero Two is the clone of the Queen Klaxosaur. |
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| This is the episode that I was waiting for forever since the first episode. I love the world-building episodes, and this was it and more. It actually blew my mind on satisfyingly everything circled back to the doctor and Zero Two. |
| Maybe I missed a part in the episode that said Zero Two was a clone, not a child of Franks and the queens dna? So a child of the two? Much too late to do an infodump of a backstory. While its nice to finally have the missing story filled in it was done in a dull way like a history lesson. The doctor had my same question from the previous episode though, why rock the boat by erasing their memories? Just because. How else to get the kids to demand to be set free? Which I'm sure will never happen at least not in the way I'm sure the "adults" intend. Death is freedom after all right? Zero Two - Hiro tragedy being foreshadowed again as well... |
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| Ah so Im guessing that Zero 2 was created by Dr franxx using the dna of the klaxosaur queen |
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| The worldbuilding infodump episode. Having it so close to the end helps build suspense, but I think I would have preferred to have it at episode 16, since it was directly involved with the professor's experiment at the time. Or when they were exploring Earth's abandoned surface. Otherwise before all this it was hard to understand or care about the battles since I didn't know what was going on. Oh well at least its here. I still love everything they've done with the characters so far. |
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| In this episode, I was very interested Dr. Franxx story on how the world is about and how it happened. Sucks for him to feel that wap for science, could've had a child. Didn't care for the kids what were they were doing in this episode. They could've taken all that out until the end when they barged in Dr. Franxx FaceTime meeting lol |
| A pretty informative episode if you ask me. It lacked action but granted us with the whole scenario of what was going on. Dr. Franxx's past did make me feel a bit bad for him. He was the one wanting to remain human but he became the one inhumane and tried to create a perfect human or should I say organism. Also the ending clip kinda confused me. Was Dr.'s wife's hair somehow related to genetically creating the Children? |
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| Finally, they presented what the world was before all these shenanigans happened although it is kinda late into the season at least we finally had one Dr. Franxx the creator of his machines certainly didn't have a perfect life but he did what he did and although it is unique and beautiful at the same time it really comes at a price at a whopping 399 fms Humanity's greed never really dispenses and that says a lot about this world, The queen showed up in front of Dr. Franxx and things have gone out of hand after that. |
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| This episode was really full of facts and information...we go deep into the history of mankind before and after they found Magma energy...quite a lot happened...Well wonder how this show is gonna go about now |
| After that all drama. It's nice to know what happened exactly in the past,how all this started . This episode was intresting all these things about adult , papa , children make sense now So zero two was created by the DNA of that Klaxosaur's princess.so I am hoping in the future she may control zero two also it's just my guess |
| Holy info dumps. lol It was interesting. I liked the explanations of how the present came to be. I also thought there might have been some subtext here about human evolution, which normally I would enjoy, but I felt like this lacked a big element for me to make me care: a heart. You can have an amazing backstory with all sorts of cool ideas and musings on society, but it only gets you so far when you don't feel much for the individuals involved. Dr. Franxx just came across as disillusioned and sociopathic. I'm surprised he was present enough to try a relationship with Karina. His obsession with the Klaxosaur princess was weird, and felt a little deranged and entirely out of place to me. He became a sort of mad scientist cliche rather than a fully developed character. They should have taken more time with him, and paced out some of these reveals better. Ideally, it would have been more natural and written from the context of how it affects or affected the characters. At least that was my impression. I'm sure it worked for others. Just not for me. But it was far better than the last minute reveal. Maybe I'll feel differently about it in time if I ever decide to rewatch this. Could just be I was missing on a lot of context because I was watching this late at night. |
NeoBaschJan 14, 2022 11:48 PM
| Wow! A huge development. Many questions were answered in this episode. Squad 13 revolted the acts being done by PAPA and his team. Another awesome episode. The backstory of Dr. Franxx was cool too. PS: May be they they could have expanded the back story into two episodes rather than rushing it in one episode. But, not too much bad though, it requires your keen attention to grasp in this epsiode. Or even they could have propagated the backstory in bits and pieces throughout the show rather than bringing all in at the pretty final stage. |
RKASHYAP621Mar 20, 2022 8:51 AM
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| Nor did they copy Evangelion. |
| Dr. Franxx was head over heels for the klaxosaur loli princess at first glance. Can't blame him, she's cute. |
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