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| So you knew what you would get with the character PV's, yet some still complain about character ''tropes''. Best first episode of the season so far, that looked pretty damn awesome and i'm liking Zero Two already. I have a feeling there's a real big plotline going on here, that's why we got so much info right off the bat that we can't actually work with for now. |
| More Trigger and I had drop it from the first episode. But strange enough that the mecha has a mouth and even talks... Feels like old Transformers cartoons. And good thing that the main male character is spineless fool. Guess we will have many discussion who has less balls, Shinji or him. |
GREW said: More Trigger and I had drop it from the first episode. But strange enough that the mecha has a mouth and even talks... Feels like old Transformers cartoons. And good thing that the main male character is spineless fool. Guess we will have many discussion who has less balls, Shinji or him. It took less than a minute for MC to make his decision about piloting this thing. No one beats Shinji. |
| DARLING in the FRANXX was pretty good. The protagonist and overall tone is pretty dull, but Lala 2.0 and the concept of girls & boys working together to power a mech has the potential to be very fun. This anime is mixing the best elements of Gurren Lagann & Kill la Kill and putting those ideas into a unique experience. The only things I ask for is better character development and good ecchi in the next episodes. |
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| That was great, I loved it. I'm glad I decided to go in blind to this without watching any of the PV's. XD Action is awesome as hell, like someone said above, Gainax vibes are real. XD Mech design is great, the mouth and talking was unexpected on my part. I love Zero-Two so far, she's a really interesting character. Not too exposition heavy in the sense nothing was linked together but I like how they're hinting at various things which is excellent since it gives a real sense of mystery and intrigue to the setting. Since this is 2-cour, I feel I can rest easy that things are gonna be eventually brought up and explained. I'm pretty sure I saw that leader dude stutter as though he was a hologram. I'm kinda neutral towards the MC for now, he's okay but I'm not too fond of the whole random encounter where the girl just instantly decides our MC is the partner for her but I did like his monologue at the end about how he finally took his own step out of his own free will so that does kind of appease my only gripe to the show. |
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| I guess i just don't share the love for mecha-type anime cause this opening was beyond generic. Like the same-type protagonist and here with the girl in pair and some other pilot pairs, well to be fair it's hard to come up here with something crazy/original. I remember when couple of years Bones were just stamping those mecha-anime and those were the times when i liked their works and then just wanted to question why are they doing it ... Very obvious Trigger's hand in this series so that might be the only thing to keep watching but otherwise it was just another one of those aforementioned. |
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| NGE’s vibes This is going to be epic, isn’t it? |
Aelyn said: It took less than a minute for MC to make his decision about piloting this thing. No one beats Shinji. All he did is get in and kissed the girl, didn't do anything and was asleep the whole fight. Shinji was actually awake. |
| For a second I thought we will not see any robot fight in this episode, but damn, few ending clips are top notch. |
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GREW said: lmfao look at the credits its barely any trigger.More Trigger and I had drop it from the first episode. But strange enough that the mecha has a mouth and even talks... Feels like old Transformers cartoons. And good thing that the main male character is spineless fool. Guess we will have many discussion who has less balls, Shinji or him. Darling in the FranXX committee: Aniplex ABC Animation Lucient Pictures Tokyo MX BS11 NBN Movic Lawson A-1 Pictures |
| Pretty great first episode. Art and animations looks nice. Got some good world-building and introductions to some characters. The mecha designs looks cool. Zero Two is a really interesting character. I'm not too fond on the male MC though. His encounter with Zero Two was dumb, but his monologue at the end was nice. I'm looking forward to see more. |
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moodie said: lmfao look at the credits its barely any trigger. Darling in the FranXX committee: Aniplex ABC Animation Lucient Pictures Tokyo MX BS11 NBN Movic Lawson A-1 Pictures Mecha design? Mecha fight? Enemy design? Effect design like those explosion stars? How about those, remind me of Trigger much. |
| I think this got off to a pretty decent start. That battle toward the end was over-the-top as expected, and that's what you get from a show with Trigger attached to it. It's nice to see this is a 2 cour show, as they'll have more time to really develop things and flesh things out, which I'm looking forward to. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| Oh boy... I can already tell I'm probably going to hate this haha Visually it's great, but the whole male-female co-piloting part ruins so much for me. And the Franxx designs are cool, but the animated faces and the fact that the mechs seem to have breasts... is throwing me off a little bit too. Looks like it has the potential to be a kind of fun series though. I'll stick out another episode or two |
| That was pretty fun, I'm not really a fan of either of the main two so far but the animation was great throughout and the action sequence towards the end was superbly directed. Hopefully it doesn't tank later on like every single original mecha made over the past decade. |
| THIS IS GREAT! THIS IS WONDERFUL! ANIME IS SAVED! TRIGGER IS SAVING ANIME! IF THIS TURNS TO SHIT IT'S A1'S FAULT! |
Edward Elric > your waifu  |
GREW said: moodie said: lmfao look at the credits its barely any trigger. Darling in the FranXX committee: Aniplex ABC Animation Lucient Pictures Tokyo MX BS11 NBN Movic Lawson A-1 Pictures Mecha design? Mecha fight? Enemy design? Effect design like those explosion stars? How about those, remind me of Trigger much. The mecha designs look like the mechs from star driver. Plus A-1 pictures has a hand it this as much a Trigger so give A-1 some credit here. |
| HACKs! 🤢🤮 |
| I just realized that the ending sequence was more beautiful than the entire episode: GREW said: All he did is get in and kissed the girl, didn't do anything and was asleep the whole fight. Shinji was actually awake. Hiro actually said that he took this step willingly. It's in the ED monologue. So, well, the "winner" is pretty obvious. |
Dlwuik said: THIS IS GREAT! THIS IS WONDERFUL! ANIME IS SAVED! TRIGGER IS SAVING ANIME! IF THIS TURNS TO SHIT IT'S A1'S FAULT! That's dumb. If trigger is saving anime so is A-1 Pictures. |
| HACKs! 🤢🤮 |
mehmehperson said: Dlwuik said: THIS IS GREAT! THIS IS WONDERFUL! ANIME IS SAVED! TRIGGER IS SAVING ANIME! IF THIS TURNS TO SHIT IT'S A1'S FAULT! That's dumb. If trigger is saving anime so is A-1 Pictures. a-1 pictures already saved anime with ergoproxymanga sensei |
Edward Elric > your waifu |
| Really good episode, the general settings and the fell of the episode was interesting and im looking forward to the next. Animation was ok but hope it get better cuz it felt a little weak. Anyway so far this and Violet are my fav this season. |
| mecha with boobies and moves its lips when talking |
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Aelyn said: Hiro actually said that he took this step willingly. It's in the ED monologue. So, well, the "winner" is pretty obvious. The first episode. We still have many to follow. Like 23. If MAL is right. But he still has zero idea what he did in the mecha with her or how should fight. I don't think that their next startup will go 0-100 and will have all fighting skills in the world. |
| I didn't expect much from this anime so it turned out to be fine. I have some issues with the build-up of the episode and I can see how everything can go on the trashy path but it has potential too. And I really liked Zero Two. |
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| another one generic shit with a beta-pathetic-shy-shithead-school-boy and forever™alone™demongirl™with-a-dark-past™ searching for a di**. Poor and simplistic graphics as always, ugly character and meha design, stupid and boring fanservice, plot... jeez i have no words. 2/10 so far. |
| This is some Frankenstein of a show. Lacks identity. Feels like someone tossed a bunch of other mecha into a blender, and didn't down the button long enough. 002 and the Franxx carrying so far. |
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| Sieg Zeon! |
| Cant wait to watch ittt ! Maybe this will be the 2018 best |
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| Looks like this will be good. this shit has me hyped |
| Well that was pretty....underwhelming? It's only the first ep so hopefully the next few eps will make me more attached to the cast because not feeling it right now and do they have to force romance immediately already :/ |
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| Loved this episode! i mean im watching it by default cause its TRIGGER but i hope it doesnt turn into "kiznaiver" somehow. |
| That was pretty freaking cool. The old man said something about how when the two pilots hearts connect (or whatever it was) the FranXX transform into a more powerful form. So I guess that kiss probably had something to do with that, and also, Zero Two probably didn't have a good connection with her old co pilot. Oh yeah, that red head said Zero Two has robot dinosaur blood in her. Literally? Explains the horns I guess? |
| Out of all the Trigger shows I have seen (Kill la Kill, Kiznaiver, Little Witch Academia, Space Patrol Luluco), this one definitely has the weakest first episode out of all of them. I guess I just really hate how infuriatingly generic the main character looks and acts. Comparing to all the other protagonists from Trigger, he definitely seems the weakest with very little redeeming qualities or intrigue behind his characterization (and yes, even Katsuhira, at least his character LOOKED like someone put effort behind it). Would it have killed the character designers to at least put SOME sort of interesting features like a birth mark or a scar or idk, multicolored eyes to distinguish him from ANY OTHER GENERIC ANIME PROTAGONIST WITH FLAT BLACK HAIR OUT THERE? In terms of visual department, this show is not as over the top and stylized as Kill la Kill and Luluco, not as elegantly beautiful like Kiznaiver, and not as uniquely charming as Little Witch Academia. It looks fine, and is well animated, but fails to really stand out. The setting is also doing no favors for the show thus far. However, I do dig the designs of the mecha and the "klaxosaurs." I'm going to continue with this show with trepidation and optimism that it will improve as time goes by. The story does have potential of becoming something great. I love Studio Trigger and every creative work that they have done so far, and I do NOT wish that this show to be an exception, but with so much influence and participation by A-1 (a studio known to produce a mixed bag of quality in their works), can this even be considered a Trigger show? Only time will tell I guess :/ |
 "Anime is trash and so am I." |
| Not impressed so far. The mecha action was gorgeous but the story and some of the dialogues were chuuni as fuck. |
| It was actually pretty good. This anime focus on the story than the fan service. This has to be one of best first episode anime in this season in my opinion. The animation is prefect, not to overly bright and saturated. This might be one of my favorite anime in this season but i'll wait for few episodes |
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| Great first episode. Please Trigger don't fail me now. |
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This is not a "Trigger show". No. Quoting myself: - It's the director and his creative team who're doing the job that makes the anime take its shape. - A-1 has a lot of talented people, not to mention some cool freelance dudes helping them during the tough times. - Trigger has a priority role of supervising the action scenes, but there should be enough episodes (fully?) produced by them too. - Khara (for the most part?) does 3D CG. Yes, don't expect everything to be hand-drawn, it's practically impossible for this project. I'm not getting into the details (because I'm as incompetent as you are), but at least I suggest you to think before posting complete nonsense later. Remember, it's Trigger x A-1 anime. Not just Trigger or A-1. Those are studios, not some uniform entities. They have different people working on various things, and there are other people responsible for putting the things together. |
| finally, a mecha anime to enjoy!!! nice first episode!!! Also, the boys were a surprised!!! |
Hibikase said: Out of all the Trigger shows I have seen (Kill la Kill, Kiznaiver, Little Witch Academia, Space Patrol Luluco), this one definitely has the weakest first episode out of all of them. That might be because you're forcing a Trigger tag onto it when it's no Trigger show. You don't seem to know the specifics about the staff so a little run down. This is Nishigori's baby ( Ex Gainax, A-1 regular, heart of the Idolmaster series ). He's supported by Toshifumi Akai ( Also heart of the idolmaster series and very competent animation supervisor on several other shows ) as assistant director and Naotaka ( Plastic Memories, S;G, Memories Off etc. ) on the series composition. Basically all the key roles for creative decisions except action sequences are filled with non Trigger staff. Designs are done by Tanaka ( Your Name, HSOTD etc. ) and Koyama ( Evangelion, KLK ). The sole influence Trigger has in the whole scheme of things is in the action department with Imaishi storyboarding the whole thing and some Trigger folks supporting it with animator prowess. Funnily enough that wasn't present in this episode at all as it was pretty much handled alone by A-1's partner studio and that very well in fact. Remember that this is a collaboration based on old relations back in the Gainax days, it's not a Trigger show and it's not an A-1 show. You should really turn off your favoritism of the one and your disdain for the other. This will help you a lot in enjoying the show more instead of forcing it into fulfilling some expectations that it just won't. |
| That was the best opening episode ive seen to a new series in some time. Top notch animation as well. My waifu alarm was also triggered |
| THE TRIGGER GODS ARE FUCKING BACK BOYZZZZZ !!! BEST EPISODE OF THIS SEASON YET Besides the second half of 3 gatsu no lion S2, this will be Anime of the season, I'm calling it now |
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| So.... Naomi died right? |
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