DARLING in the FRANXX

TV Series
2018
12
24m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

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Adult Animation Anime Coming-of-Age Dystopian Sci-Fi Kaiju Mecha Survival Action Animation Drama

In a future world where humanity has been driven to endangerment by giant beasts, a strike force is assembled to destroy the monsters and save the world.In a future world where humanity has been driven to endangerment by giant beasts, a strike force is assembled to destroy the monsters and save the world.In a future world where humanity has been driven to endangerment by giant beasts, a strike force is assembled to destroy the monsters and save the world.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

16K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

4,210

1,835

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Awards
- 8 wins & 14 nominations total

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The Franxx pilots' names are all designated after Japanese words for numbers:
Hiro is designated 16 ("hi"-"ro", 1-6)
Ichigo is designated 15 ("ichi"-"go", 1-5)
Goro is designated 56 ("go"-"ro", 5-6)
Miku is designated 39 ("mi"-"ku", 3-9)
Kokoro is designated 556 ("ko"-"ko"-"ro", 5-5-6)
Futoshi is designated 214 ("fu"-"to"-"shi", 2-10-4)
Mitsuru is designated 326 ("mi"-"tsu"-"ru", 3-2-6)
Naomi is designated 703 ("na"-"O"-"mi", 7-0-3)
Ikuno is designated 196 ("i"-"ku"-"no", 1-9-6 - it's actually a Japanese pun as "ku" is turned around to read "no", just as 9 is turned around to read 6).

Zorome, who is designated 666, stands out as his name is Japanese for "repdigit", a number that is the same (11, 22, 33 etc).

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8/10

One of my all time favorites

Ok now that I have had a couple of days to digest I think it's time for my official review of Darling in the Franxx.

Darling is an anime that started a little slow and felt quite strange at first, but quickly turned into one of my all time favorite shows. Some of those episodes towards the middle of the show are some of the best episodes of TV I have ever watched.

Unfortunately the show took a dip in quality from episodes 18-22 when too much was done in a short time. (I heard this might be due to 2 episodes being cut from the show) Never the less, Darling recovered and ended strong with an ending that was beautifully written and brought back memories of one of my other favorite shows, "Chuck."

While it has it's flaws, Darling in the Franxx is one of my favorite shows ever, and probably my second favorite love story ever. The story was fantastic and the characters are friends I likely won't soon forget.

Darling isn't perfect but it got pretty close there for a while. I highly recommend it.

9/10 definitely worth a watch or two.