| The last few episodes were trash. I don't think anyone would protect them. |
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| I only here to say that Darling in the FranXX was one of the worst anime what I saw from the year. It was never good in the first place. PD: ep 14 was great! 2/10. |
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| Initially, before the tragic 2nd half aired it was a solid 8.5 possible 9 for me but I ended up giving it a 7 |
Tipo said: The last few episodes were trash. I don't think anyone would protect them. Eh, I liked them. Don't see the need to protect anything as I couldn't give more of damn about anything other people say. Doesn't mean I wouldn't if i actually gave a damn. |
Swagernator said: I kinda agree. This show ain't worth that much discussion (it doesn't even have a unique identity and there's really nothing new to say about it). Then again, it's so fucking awful that it deserves another beating XDIt's already dead, man... don't bring it back to life its not worth it. I just wanna see the show drop even further so that it isn't within the top 1000 |
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| Honestly after seeing the ending and how the plot progressed I thought it should be rated 6 or something. The ending was total bs, zero two the only character that I love, who was butchered with shitty personality after ep 15 or 16 (don't remember), full of plot wholes, adding unnecessary elements all over the place, dull main character and forgettable side characters. It was a total mess at the end and a wasted potential. God knows what went wrong with the staff. Even after having good ppl working behind it idk how did they screw up so badly. |
Mayuka said: I thought this anime was widely hated in the anime community? It is. It even reached a point where MAL had better taste than /a/. Times are changing I tell you. And after seeing the top reviews for this pure shit anime, for once, I might be proud to say I have a MAL account. |
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| It was still good until episode 19 but after that it went downhill fast. |
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| It's a pretty shit anime, not sure I'll pick it up again from where I left it, around episode 8 or 9. |
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| The moment Mitsuru x Kokoro happened all was starting to fall apart. Best thing is that some producers stated in an interview that they didn't have plans for the second half and wanted it to develop naturally from episode 15 and onwards. Also the committee had time restrains and communication problems throughout the show, that explains the mess they created at the end. |
| You seem to care a lot. Why? |
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| Nah I did care once and I regret it now |
Striker-3649 said: To all those fans who were saying it will easily cross 8.30 or even 8.50 back when it was still airing, where are you now? Its on 7.75 already. P.s.: Dont gimme that ratings are irrelevant crap I predict it to end up around the same as A/Z. It really deserves sub 7, but this is MAL, so it being sub 8 alone is a miracle right now. TheISOlatoR said: The moment Mitsuru x Kokoro happened all was starting to fall apart. Best thing is that some producers stated in an interview that they didn't have plans for the second half and wanted it to develop naturally from episode 15 and onwards. Also the committee had time restrains and communication problems throughout the show, that explains the mess they created at the end. After episode 11 and the actions of CUCKWHORO, this anime was cemented as 2/10. When she didn't die a horrible and painful death in the following episode, le memory wipe and then AYYLMAOs in space, it was 1/10. And still people defend the writing of Nishigori..... I don't even..... |
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| I thought it would stay around that rating until about episode 16 or 17 rolled around. Then it just went completely off the rails and turned into TTGL but without anything that made that show good. |
| It definitely had the potential to break 8.30+ Except once the last few episodes started rolling out. It's like the writers stopped giving a shit and just wanted to flex their art and animation |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
Short_Circut said: Honestly, I rarely felt like the writers gave a shit, even in the early episodes. Sure, we got episodes 10 and 11 that actually tried to do something with world-building and actually letting our characters be more fleshed out and have something to do despite still being one-not as balls, but the show everywhere else reeked of trying desperately to be other shows without understanding what made any of them good. Even the visuals were subpar, with fights that never have a sense of impact to any attack, glaring frame-rate slowdown issues in the beginning and end, mostly lame character designs (which is why no one markets the males and only the females and the robots), and a weird misuse and overuse of aspect ratio manipulation. The finale is undoubtedly worse than the rest of the show thoIt definitely had the potential to break 8.30+ Except once the last few episodes started rolling out. It's like the writers stopped giving a shit and just wanted to flex their art and animation |
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CodeBlazeFate said: Short_Circut said: Honestly, I rarely felt like the writers gave a shit, even in the early episodes. Sure, we got episodes 10 and 11 that actually tried to do something with world-building and actually letting our characters be more fleshed out and have something to do despite still being one-not as balls, but the show everywhere else reeked of trying desperately to be other shows without understanding what made any of them good. Even the visuals were subpar, with fights that never have a sense of impact to any attack, glaring frame-rate slowdown issues in the beginning and end, mostly lame character designs (which is why no one markets the males and only the females and the robots), and a weird misuse and overuse of aspect ratio manipulation. The finale is undoubtedly worse than the rest of the show thoIt definitely had the potential to break 8.30+ Except once the last few episodes started rolling out. It's like the writers stopped giving a shit and just wanted to flex their art and animation I think there were lots of different moments where the show had the potential to have really good plot development, but it was disregarded in favour of "character development." Hell, I'd be fine if they tried to desperately be other shows if they actually went anywhere with it. So yeah, I guess you're more right in saying the writers really didn't give a shit early on (except for a few instances of course) |
'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
| Zorome was the real MVC (most valuable character) of the show. At least for me. Especially how he looked all grown up at the end after the aging. ZeroTwo was trash from the beginning, Hiro was just overly boring and *mostly utterly useless, and Ichigo got railed repeatedly to the point where it wasn't even worth rooting for her since you knew she was always going to get shafted (but Ichigo is easily 1million x better than ZeroTwo ever could be). The people that like ZeroTwo are just people who needed something to jerk off to their fantasies and wanted to be mildly 'edgy' while not at all caring about real *quality* characteristics. |
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Wasshio said: Part of what would have helped would be if the characters were more consistent, and if the plot actually went with and highlighted their natural growth more over the series of events that took place. Would have made seemingly boring archetypal characters feel like a genuine group of human beings we can invest in. Their adult character designs are so much better than their earlier ones and honestly, f they did what I just brought up, seeing them the rest would've definitely been more of an emotional moment for more people. As they are now, it's impossible for me to care. The writer definitely had no foresight, which is a shame as I would have loved to have been surprised by me enjoying the show.CodeBlazeFate said: Honestly, I rarely felt like the writers gave a shit, even in the early episodes. Sure, we got episodes 10 and 11 that actually tried to do something with world-building and actually letting our characters be more fleshed out and have something to do despite still being one-not as balls, but the show everywhere else reeked of trying desperately to be other shows without understanding what made any of them good. Even the visuals were subpar, with fights that never have a sense of impact to any attack, glaring frame-rate slowdown issues in the beginning and end, mostly lame character designs (which is why no one markets the males and only the females and the robots), and a weird misuse and overuse of aspect ratio manipulation. The finale is undoubtedly worse than the rest of the show tho I do agree and disagree on your sentence. But it is clear as day that the writers didn't had an idea what to even do with the second half. I think as I said before, it could have been a better idea to leave all of these things up to interpretation since the series established a "show don't tell" aspect. Yeah they don't have to keep it all the time, and at points you do need to drop that to make it clear for some people in the narrative, however they did it in a sense where it went against them hard. For me the show could have been better off without the main plot about the entire system, and instead it would be about the characters questioning their own urges as well as their surroundings. Where as Zero Two's focus would mainly be her selfish desire. That particular part in specific wasn't executed well by the end and I do like that in concept, execution could have been much better. |
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| *Spoilers, but I honestly don't think anyone cares* The beginning of the show did look quite promising. But it never expanded on the topics that I was hoping it would. Like I was really excited to see Hiro's struggles with him loosing his humanity, and to see how his character changes because of it. Additionally, I was disappointed that Squad 13 just accepted that he was loosing his humanity, especially after they saw his horns. If the show focused more on what Hiro was experiencing as he was loosing his humanity, and the turmoil inside Squad 13 that should've developed from it. It would've been really neat to see what kinds of arguments arose, maybe even some double crossing by Hiro and 02 to fight against the humans. I know that these are just my thoughts, but they already seem much more interesting compared to the alien bs that they gave us. So in my opinion, the reason the score dropped so much isn't because of bad writing or uninteresting characters, but because they weren't able to tell a good, coherent story. And in the end, that's what left us disappointed. |
Short_Circut said: There were moments where it tried to flesh out the characters' backstories while giving some more insight into the unfortunately broken worldbuilding, but those were few and far between, and the narrative shoulda let the characters be more consistent and capable of changing naturally instread of at the drop of a hat. It's a real lack of foresight beyond "let's try to do what these popular shows do" that sank this ship.CodeBlazeFate said: Honestly, I rarely felt like the writers gave a shit, even in the early episodes. Sure, we got episodes 10 and 11 that actually tried to do something with world-building and actually letting our characters be more fleshed out and have something to do despite still being one-not as balls, but the show everywhere else reeked of trying desperately to be other shows without understanding what made any of them good. Even the visuals were subpar, with fights that never have a sense of impact to any attack, glaring frame-rate slowdown issues in the beginning and end, mostly lame character designs (which is why no one markets the males and only the females and the robots), and a weird misuse and overuse of aspect ratio manipulation. The finale is undoubtedly worse than the rest of the show tho I think there were lots of different moments where the show had the potential to have really good plot development, but it was disregarded in favour of "character development." Hell, I'd be fine if they tried to desperately be other shows if they actually went anywhere with it. So yeah, I guess you're more right in saying the writers really didn't give a shit early on (except for a few instances of course) |
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| A lot of people say the characters were dull and uninteresting fro the beginning. And, I sort of agree with them. But don't all anime characters start off dull and uninteresting? Its the experiences they go through, the decisions the make, and the way they change that makes them interesting and important to us. That's exactly what DitF did wrong. Out of the 10 main characters, only two of them showed any sort of dramatic change from the beginning to the end of the series. The writers could have easily killed off a couple of the members of Squad 13. This would've allowed for more screen time for the remaining characters, which probably would have changed because of the deaths of their teammates. I'm not trying to say that the story wasn't dark enough, it's just that there were too many characters for a single 24-episode series to give enough screen time and backstory to each of them. And the fact that the writers chose not to narrow down the large cast ended up being a poor decision. |
Zepphire said: Honestly, in a good anime, many characters are entertaining right out the bat, with fun character designs and personalities. They definitely get better but they usually hook you in real quick. The FranXX cast doesn't do that. It's hard to get invested in their backstories when we don't have very good reason to get invested in them as characters and people in the first place. They weren't consistently written, nor were any of them written in a compelling way beyond backstories for 4 of them.A lot of people say the characters were dull and uninteresting fro the beginning. And, I sort of agree with them. But don't all anime characters start off dull and uninteresting? Its the experiences they go through, the decisions the make, and the way they change that makes them interesting and important to us. That's exactly what DitF did wrong. Out of the 10 main characters, only two of them showed any sort of dramatic change from the beginning to the end of the series. The writers could have easily killed off a couple of the members of Squad 13. This would've allowed for more screen time for the remaining characters, which probably would have changed because of the deaths of their teammates. I'm not trying to say that the story wasn't dark enough, it's just that there were too many characters for a single 24-episode series to give enough screen time and backstory to each of them. And the fact that the writers chose not to narrow down the large cast ended up being a poor decision. |
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Wasshio said: Golden_Scarlett said: >To be fair is it just me or is MAL getting a bit too much when it comes to that part? Now I'm not saying people shouldn't criticize but I've been noticing a pretty weird stigma around it. explain what u mean by this fam Before 2016, not a lot of series got multiple shats below a 7. Around 2016 or the beginning, a lot of scores started to get that treatment from the get go and a lot of the entries has below a 7, applying to the fact that MAL at the current moment is more critical than before. oh then you're right i blame the fact that i join mal around that time and bookmakered everyone to become elitists :> but i guess it was around that time, that seasonal anime started really taking off after the dead period of 2015, with erased konosuba. then re:zero so people finally entered seasonal hell |
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Pixel_Vapour said: Please don't. You'll waste some precious time that you can spend on googling anime tiddies.I dropped it from episode 3 but maybe I'll pick it back up again |
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Wasshio said: Golden_Scarlett said: oh then you're right i blame the fact that i join mal around that time and bookmakered everyone to become elitists :> but i guess it was around that time, that seasonal anime started really taking off after the dead period of 2015, with erased konosuba. then re:zero so people finally entered seasonal hell I can see where you're coming from with that but, yeah I've noticed that pattern because anime didn't got hammered this badly when it comes to seasonals until Winter 2016. Some are justified, but a lot of these at face value are rather ridiculous. this is why we need to burn seasonals and go back to the good ol day of fansub, or every seasonal is netflix, 10/10, all mal anime would have better scores |
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Striker-3649 said: >taking ratings from mal seriouslyTo all those fans who were saying it will easily cross 8.30 or even 8.50 back when it was still airing, where are you now? Its on 7.75 already. P.s.: Dont gimme that ratings are irrelevant crap Oh I am laffin at both sides. |
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Striker-3649 said: To all those fans who were saying it will easily cross 8.30 or even 8.50 back when it was still airing, where are you now? Its on 7.75 already. P.s.: Dont gimme that ratings are irrelevant crap With ending like this, the 7.75 average is still generous. The last 4-5 episodes were clusterfuck. No wonder it sunk down so hard. |
| Raise your hand if you saw this coming a mile away. A little critical thinking in the Anime community would go a long fucking way. |
| Episode 6 resolving a seemingly hopeless situation with power of love was already a big red flag to me, so I wasn't expecting anything from this show. They did a good job at deceiving me into believing it was going to get good in episodes 7-13, though, I'll give 'em that. |
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LordLagann said: Raise your hand if you saw this coming a mile away. A little critical thinking in the Anime community would go a long fucking way. I saw franxx being shit even before Re: Zero was released. |
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LordLagann said: Raise your hand if you saw this coming a mile away. A little critical thinking in the Anime community would go a long fucking way. Why did we even expect too much of the show in the first place? it's japan, it's anime, some things never change and it was always possible that this series will be a trainwreck with a shit ending. Makes me still sad cause I really had high hopes and expectations for DitF to become something great |
Wasshio said: OutlawedDrifter said: It was ok until after episode 15 where it started to go downhill but still ok, but Ep 19 and beyond was just them trying to be Gurren Lagaan/Gunbuster and failing miserably. The whole "AILENS" plot twist couldve been better had it had more episodes rather than being crammed into 5-6 episodes. I will agree that the entire aliens part could have been expanded upon with more episodes. It just feels like they kind of wasted time and space and didn't knew what to do with the closure being close. After seeing the result they could have maybe cut down the character focus arcs a little and not a lot could have been lost, despite me liking that part of the series as a whole. I didnt even understand it. I liked the first part but it really turned trash. |
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Swagernator said: Even looking at the poster before the show aired, I had a feeling it would be utter drivel. I just didn't know exactly how bad things would get.LordLagann said: Raise your hand if you saw this coming a mile away. A little critical thinking in the Anime community would go a long fucking way. I saw franxx being shit even before Re: Zero was released. |
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Aymen_Maf said: Pixel_Vapour said: Please don't. You'll waste some precious time that you can spend on googling anime tiddies.I dropped it from episode 3 but maybe I'll pick it back up again True. I really regret that I finished the whole thing when I was already having thoughts of dropping this show since episode 10 if I remember correctly. |
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| I liked it but I felt dissatisfied towards the end. I think the end was too tragic, it's not what I wanted after all they went through. So a lower rating sounds alright. |
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Quste said: well, it certainly did show realistic take on how romantic relationships are :/https://imgur.com/a/ii3HHXj DitF is a social commentary on contemporary Japanese society where young adults stay single and don't have children... He also says that althouh his creation may be filled with artificial ingredients, he hopes kids will get something from his anime like he did as a kid watching anime. |
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Quste said: As what I get from DitF is about saving and prosperity of humanity which is shown very clear in the show, the said social commentary has indeed reached to me. This is good.https://imgur.com/a/ii3HHXj DitF is a social commentary on contemporary Japanese society where young adults stay single and don't have children... He also says that althouh his creation may be filled with artificial ingredients, he hopes kids will get something from his anime like he did as a kid watching anime. |
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| The score of the show is now 7:69 |
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