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>>23720
Generic anime character development is cheaper.

Well it's not a rusty bathtub in a run-down building but it's something.

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Too ridiculous not to share

>>23742
I still do not understand who this person is and why she has any following.

>>23742
I am not going to bed happy tonight.

>>23742
I did not need to know this happened.

>>23744
did you try wikipedia

I refuse to enjoy such an episode where the drama stems from an emergency escape system that only ejects one of the pilots.
Everything just seems to be going too well. All the partners that are supposed to be together are getting together and it's just a little boring to me right now. Maybe things will stay like this and it'll become a little more plot oriented, or some drama will happen to shake up the relationships. I have no clue what direction this is going in but I just want something to happen already.

>>23799
Surely they won't keep this for much more. Something will probably happen until the end of the cour or in the beginning of the next and the real purpose of their team will come to light. Probably start moving towards the frontlines. Except if they think to have another season. Then, oh boy, get ready for some slow ass episodic dramas for weeks to come.

I just want more mecha fanservice. (And I'm not just talking about ecchi.) Is that too much to ask for?

>>23799
>I refuse to enjoy such an episode where the drama stems from an emergency escape system that only ejects one of the pilots.
It was fucking retard. Surly the writers could've put more thought into this.

>>23807
Can you even call it a mecha? The robots move like humans. Even their faces. They are more like cosplay costumes.

>the real purpose of their team will come to light
Doktor Franxx is competing against another designer whose mechs require only one pilot and run on spiral power.

>>23809
You can call it mecha. After all, they do pilot giant bipedal robots. Though I wish we could get more "realistic" mechs like those of old. I appreciate cute robot butt; however, for example, the Franxx do nothing for military urges.

>>23809
Mecha's pretty broad and can cover some ridiculous "robots." They're getting into cockpits to pilot huge bipedal weapons, not punching things with their own hands.

The spirit of mecha is to let a helpless, tiny flesh blob become awesome and powerful by piloting a superscience device, and this whole show is about that.

Remove oni.

Cute.
This is the first episode in a while I've enjoyed. Still needs robots though.

Holy shit that was too cute. Please give me more of this (and mecha).

Fucking hell, I thought him getting his memories back would put an end to this drama and we could get back to the fun stuff, but no, everyone seems to be doing everything they possibly can to keep it going.

>>24319
So far that's keikaku doori for Ichigo. The problem is 02 shooting herself in the foot because she has to be a berserk monster for some reason. Hopefully they'll get that big battle started and shake everything up.

Haha, baby making time!

I hope we get an orgy. Better yet, I hope we get a mecha orgy.

>>24657
I'm sure Dr. Franxx would enjoy the data from a high impact nines vs. babymakers mecha orgy. Both squads could really get into it.

I don't even care about the rest of the episode.

So I'm guessing humanity and the klaxosaurs will be teaming up to fight the space invaders.
At least we got some mecha ass.

>>24669
I'd much prefer some data on our gloriously flat hime draining the semen out of pilots.

Are people still actually watching this show or are they just 'watching' it in the sense of people watching re:creators?

>>24962
I don't think it is great or anything, but definitely better than RE:Creators.

>>24966
I dropped it after it went full trigger around episode 14-15
Did it regain its sanity?

>>24962
I dropped it on episode 14, it pretty much confirmed for me the show wasn't going in a direction I'm interested in.

>>24968
>it pretty much confirmed for me the show wasn't going in a direction I'm interested in.
Did you want it to go in TLR direction because it literally went in TTGL direction.

>>24971
But I don't want to watch TTGL where all the characters are from some angsty romance show.

>>24962
I have a lot of free time, and I think the hime is cute.

To me this is one of those kinds of shows that looks awful in every way but I would watch anyway just because a lot of other people are and I want to keep up with what's relevant in the anime fandom.
But I stopped watching shows like that in 2014, when I decided that SAO II wasn't really worth it.

>>24962
It may be ridiculous, but it's interesting and the technical production is pretty good. Annihilating everything from space is the ideal solution to having too much personal romance angst.

RIP DR FRANXX

I sure am glad I read Childhood's End when I heard it had influenced Eva. As I'm glad the Eva ripping off is still going on as proudly as thoroughly.

This anime, while not epoch-making, is good at what it tries to be, which is basically pornography. Obviously not only in the shallow sense, with the skin-tight suits and innuendo, but also in a broader sense, with the creepily biological mecha, the absurd size of things, the occasional religious terror, and pretty visuals in general. The writing and direction are at least good enough not to distract you from the porn with second-hand embarrassment.

>>24962
I watched it up to episode 8 and still wasn't seeing anything appealing about it outside of 02 being cute and the robots being fuckable, and fan artists have greatly disappointed me in regards to the latter.
I don't see where all the hype for this comes from beyond it having Trigger's name attached to it nor do I see any reason to keep watching.

>>25037
I dropped it for a few weeks around that point, then caught up one day in a fit of uncharacteristic boredom. It does get better, but I can totally understand not wanting to give it the time.

FINAL FORM
TITS IN SPACE

This shit is over. Does anyone even care?

How can a show, whose characters end up in outer space, feel so small?

>>25321
Well did they make space really feel vast? Not really. Forget about that. There wasn't much of a meaningful build to it, nor meaningful time spend on it. It was all about the characters themselves and their masturbation over their rediscovery of humanity. The setting didn't matter.
Think about it, even TTGL. Not that I remember it that good, but I am pretty sure it had a little more of a build up to them going to space, though it was still kind of a sudden thing after the time skip. That said the "Earth" arc of it got a satisfying ending. In FranXX they didn't really achieve much of anything on Earth. They didn't win against anything. They didn't wage a war against the adults. Nothing of the sort. Things just changed and the characters, had little to no input on it.
What about the space arc of TTGL? I don't remember how long it was, but if I remember correctly that they didn't spend more than 2-3 episodes on Earth after the time skip, therefore most of the second half of the anime was in space. That's why it was a 3-cour anime. It wouldn't have worked otherwise. And it was a long, hard struggle to get to where they went. They had to suffer a lot, experience even more losses. With a journey of war and survival. In FranXX? One episode in Mars where the characters (mostly Zero Two and Hiro) fap to each other and then another episode of the same. They warped somewhere closer, though it still wasn't close enough. Regardless of that, it was only the two of them. Not much of a story to tell. Not much of a sacrifice to tell, other than just theirs. But they didn't even make it feel as they sacrificed themselves. Everyone believed everything is going to work out just fine anyway, even for the two of them. And it did. What about (TTGL spoilers, in case someone hasn't seen it) Simon and Nia? Or even to go further back, Kamina and Yoko? Even the rest of the cast. In FranXX the space was time skip after time skip. I mean, it made sense considering the plot, but the plot wasn't good to begin with. There was a lot of human fapping, but no real human drama. The suffering of the human struggle to exist. What we as humans might really see as what it is to be actually human, probably rightfully so, and relate the most to. In FranXX the characters were victories, but it doesn't feel like they won against anything. In TTGL they suffered and suffered and only then won. They won by losing the reasons they had for living. They won, yet the main characters remained living in suffering. Tragic heroes through and through.
So ultimately, in FranXX there was almost nothing to relate to, so it felt small and pointless.

>>25322
I'm awful at articulating the reasons why I (dis)like something, and you explained every problem I have with the show. So thank you, anon!
Throughout the entirety of the show, I only felt emotionally invested once, and that was the little oni episode. Your comparison with TTGL is apt; the former's portrayal of conflict was done so much better than Franxx's depiction of war. There was too much space where I felt that little progression was occurring, and when it did occur, it wasn't compelling, and the subsequent moments felt disconnected.
I try to enjoy a show for what it is, and I really wanted to enjoy Franxx, but in the end, I felt like I wasted a bit of my time watching this series.

>>25322
>One episode in Mars where the characters (mostly Zero Two and Hiro) fap to each other
>There was a lot of human fapping
I'm not sure if you're being literal or figurative. I hope it's literal.

I feel like people took this shit way too seriously, I thought it was just an entertaining mech show angsty teen drama. The TTGL shit at the end was just an extra fun bonus.

>>25393
I'm sure some people did, but Franxx repeatedly fell below my threshold for entertainment of any kind. Hell, even the "twist" was boring to me.
I'm not picky; I just want something to entertain me so that I can forget about my shit life.

>>25322
>>25340
Space ended up being a honeymoon like they suggested: the climax of the story had already passed before they went to space, and it just physically represented their conclusions. You're right that a third cours would've been needed to flesh it out into a proper arc.

As for things to relate to and "winning" on Earth, it was characters vs. the environment with winning being producing the next generation. Not everyone will relate to that and it was absurdly rushed.

At least they made the ending look pretty, so I'm not exactly disappointed.