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| Decent start and I quite enjoyed the first episode. Zero Two is interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing more of her. |
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| Is this one of those straight boy fantasy anime? |
| Wow, what a convoluted mess. There's a ton of unexplained terminology and Zero Two likes the protagonist because... uh.... reasons? This partnership seems to be weighing down TRIGGER more than everything - the show so far has a watered down version of their style and none of their substance. |
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| Hooo boi. I liked this a lot. Looks great, sounds great! I especially love the character designs. |
| Prologue, quick set up and time left over for a little action at the end, the pacing worked well for a first episode, although I wouldn't have been put off it was all set up, world building and character introduction and the action had been saved for the next episode, but I suppose doing it this way covers more bases Logically I want to say that Zero Two is an amalgam of overused character aspects, unique genetic difference that makes her special, never had proper friendships/relationships, has attitude and disregard of authority, uninhibited and forward towards the male MC, and their first meeting was pretty much Lawrence and Holo if they were mecha teens. However, as much as I want to say that, I'm still more inclined to say I'm interested in her and she's frickin cool anyways |
| Mecha is my least favorable genre, but I quite enjoyed this ep. |
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| Pretty Solid episode for me and giving it a 10/10 |
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| It's like a modern Evangelion clone. Nothing else. That makes it a 6, just like I gave Evangelion. It's not a higher-tier Mecha like Cross Ange, which I gave an 8. |
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| Worth watching if you aren't a fan of mecha? |
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J0HN_L0CKE said: Worth watching if you aren't a fan of mecha? Yup, 100% But it takes it's time to get good (From episode 4 it is brilliant) |
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| After 1 episode I'm convinced this is a blatant Eva ripoff. Can someone tell me if it actually gets better later on and starts being more original? |
| Ano Hana characters piloting Gainax mechs. Off to a pretty great start. There's a lot of potential here. |
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 In this scene 02 was speaking in the past or future? Because i read, that the sub are incorrect |
Angel942 said: In this scene 02 was speaking in the past or future? Because i read, that the sub are incorrect 100% in past tense. The subs are not incorrect but they made it sound more emotion heavy. She said 美しいと思ってしまったのだ which can be directly translated to "I thought it was beautiful." The subs just added a literature feel to it by translating "It struck me as profoundly beautiful" even though words like とっても before 美し or 感じ after 思う was not used. I hope it helps. |
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ItsExoDuS said: Soooo this stamen and pistil thing? Is it alluding to the parts of a flower? Is the mecha supposed to be the flower whats going on and why? Is Hiro supposed to be the prodigy I read about in the synopsis or is it ZeroTwo???? Someone help me understand. Yeah, I wondered about that too... ...guess we'll have to watch Ep 2. :) Tho I wish the series focused on Zero Two rather than Hiro. Do we really need another story of "wimpy kid overcoming his own self conscious predilections to be become the hero we all need"? Just give us the bad ass lady pilot and let her do her job killing bad guys, even though their blood is in her veins. There is the conflict. :) |
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| Wow that was a good start! I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy this naime. |
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| I have a love-hate relationship with Studio Trigger. I loved Kill La Kill but vomitted and shat blood with Kiznaiver. MC boy should've been a girl. He looks like a toned down and wimpier version of Ryuko and is easily manipulated. Either the women in this series are strong and amazing or the MC is just a weakling that can be easily pushed around. I'd imagine he'd be the kind of guy who would have a heart attack during his first blowjob. Everything looks good so far and hopefully it will be one of thr best series for this season. |
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| This seems like a very thinly veiled attempt at recreating Evangelion, but I'll keep watching because of the hype. Also, the sex metaphor seems very obvious. The fanservice? Darling? Partner? Stamen? You might as well just outright state it at this point. |
| The Iron Maiden FRANXX looks like the Nova from Freezing. |
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| that was a pretty solid start also, dub hiro is portrayed by matt shipman who played shun kurosaki in ygo a5 I actually really like him voicing Hiro in the English dub of Darling in the FranXX, even though I'm not into dub versions for most part also liked him voicing Shun Kurosaki in the Arc V dub as well |
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| Of all the names they can call kids sacrificing their lives piloting giant robots to fight other giant creatures treathening their existence, they call them parasytes. |
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| Well this took me by surprise. I feel like I know what direction this anime will take but at the same time, I feel like I don't. I think I'll continue watching just in case it's different from the typical "Boy is powerless but meets his RIGHT ONE (Female) gains power, rekts shit" anime. That face tho.  |
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Iam_Jermaine said: I think I'll continue watching You, 12 episodes later:  |
This is so damn accurate I'm already on episode 7. |
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EurekaLuke said: After 1 episode I'm convinced this is a blatant Eva ripoff. Can someone tell me if it actually gets better later on and starts being more original? It get's better.. Particularly from episode 4.. |
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| Checking it out...looks pretty awesome. |
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| High production values, kinda bland character designs, usual trigger flair here and there. Not bad, not bad at all. Fan service was, meh a bit much. A little goofy seeing a kid just make out with some girl and fall into their little bed sized cockpit and pass out and everything be wrapped up conveniently. Definitely could of benefited from 2 episodes to better set up the threat and actually establish everything a bit as well as concluding the fight in a more earned way then just, new pilot, super saiyan level mech, win in less than 5 minutes. I'll give it a few episodes, curious about the backstory and the setting. |
PANDEMlC said: High production values, kinda bland character designs, usual trigger flair here and there. Not bad, not bad at all. Fan service was, meh a bit much. A little goofy seeing a kid just make out with some girl and fall into their little bed sized cockpit and pass out and everything be wrapped up conveniently. Definitely could of benefited from 2 episodes to better set up the threat and actually establish everything a bit as well as concluding the fight in a more earned way then just, new pilot, super saiyan level mech, win in less than 5 minutes. I'll give it a few episodes, curious about the backstory and the setting. Backstory is at episode 13.... I very much recommend to see at least till episode 13.. Trust me its worth it.. |
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| Well. That was... a disappointing start. Fancy visuals, and fan service galore, but it basically did nothing to introduce any characters or plot. This first ep was almost a carbon copy of Gurren Lagann's first episode as well. In fact, it's resting so heavily on the laurels of shows like TTGL and Eva that there was very little fresh material to even be seen here. Hoping this gets better, and doesn't follow the same tired path KLK did. 2/5 |
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GREW said: Guess we will have many discussion who has less balls, Shinji or him. The fact that he isn't crying about literally everything puts him way ahead of Shinji. |
| Well it still baffles me but on the other side it's still Trigger so I shouldn't be so amazed that such amazing story telling and character development already took place in the first 24 minutes of this series. Quite an impressive setting, pacing, characters and in general feel of this series! I hope Trigger will outperform themselves again with this series, so let's see what it has to offer! |
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| I'm quite excited so far. The show did little to really explain the world to the audience in the first episode, and rather go straight into the characters, not that it's a problem but yeah... Though the world and character types so far are pretty cliche, let's just see how this show gives out of it. The 'Franxx' are robots?! One that transforms to suit the characteristics of the 2 pilots of different sexes? What purpose does the boobs have and the face and the moving mouth?! It's best to not ask questions but...I demand a detailed explanation for such things like this! Hmmmn... Zero 2 might turn out to be a great character... |
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| So Naomi, Hiro's ex-partner is dead? Poor girl, her words were right, they wouldn't see each other again. Something mysterious about 002. She 'kills' her partner. Just how does a FRANXX work anyway? The monsters are so similar to Angels in Evangelion or Zoids. They have mechanical like bodies and a core. I wonder if a FRANXX is a type of monster which is pilotable like EVA. Will Hiro get 'killed' by her too? |
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| It brought some memories of my younger anime watching days(watch very little now) but i agree the MC looks too much like the archetype of "insert your self here Mr. Japanese teen dude hoping for a girlfriend while watching anime". |
| This looks like a Eva clone and protagonist looks bland as hell, I would rather watch Shinji do some random shit honestly. Energetic horned girl is kinda meh as well, whole concept of "only you can understand me" is kinda boring |
| Pathetic start and I bet that even first impression from first episode is enough to admit that the whole anime is pure garbage in all terms since even its strongest part - combat looks cartoonish 6+ tier. Characters are boring, dialogues are some gibberish, so called Zero Two is typical ecchi tier (same as brainless fanservice) thot and nothing more, concept of pairs which charging a robot is old and I saw it in a weak ecchi comedy mecha anime (who knew that even this low tier anime is better than Darling in the FranXX). |
| aight a bit late to the show but woof those are some crisp mech and monster designs, im digging it don't watch a lot of futuristic mech anime's but damn there are some interesting design ideas that i would have never thought of in this anime also did the first like 20 minutes of the entire anime just abolish what other anime's would have taken like 2 seasons to do? |
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