I'm not quite sure why Ecchi isn't in the genres list. The show has about as much Action as Infinite Stratos, the plotline is garbage, and they focus an insane amount on lewd shots and fanservice. In my perspective, the primary genre of this show IS Ecchi.
Despite doing its best trying to be deep and establish meaningful relations, characters are overdramatic, glossed over, and fall into extremely common, predictable tropes and stereotypes. As a result, they just end up with a shallow fanservice show, because let's be honest, the only reason why anyone watches this is for 02 and the show relies on waifubaiting for its content.
Very disappointing release from Trigger which had some of the more unique and charming concepts in recent anime IMO, and Darling in the Franxx is just a generic show that panders to some of the most boring tropes in anime.
