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>Darling in the FranXX: Japanese anime series about fighting for the survival of humanity

>Darling in the FranXX is an original Japanese animated (anime) television series that aired between January and July 2018. It includes 24 episodes and was created by Studio Trigger under the direction of Atsushi Nishigori, who was the character designer for the popular series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagannin 2007. The series is now available on the streaming service Crunchyroll, which specializes in East Asian media.


>The series takes place in a future dystopian world where humans live in self-contained, glass-domed cities, defended by young teenagers who operate the FranXX—giant robotic weapons (mecha) that require a pair of pilots, one male and one female, to operate. The children defend the cities from klaxosaurs, a mysterious race of beings who live underground and regularly attack the cities.


>The children themselves are indoctrinated in regard to the history of humanity and the overall circumstances surrounding their service. They aspire to be “adults,” a number of whom live in the center of the cities, but with whom they never get to interact. The people in power are collectively referred to by the children as “Papa,” and they pray to them, as though to a deity, before each meal.


>The series’ main protagonist is a young pilot named Hiro, who once showed great promise, but in recent years has found himself unable to operate the machinery with success. The operation of the FranXX is associated with the onset of puberty, with the male and female crew members assuming positions within the machines that are overtly sexual.


>The principal aim of the show’s creators seems to be to examine what it means to be a human. (But how enriched and developed is their conception?) We learn that the society’s “adults” are humans who underwent a process whereby they could become immortal at the expense of their reproductive systems. They live in an advanced state of unchanging age, but no longer have interactions with each other and live sterile lives where they do not even speak.


>Anime is a complex medium, with many divisions and subdivisions. Its roots in Japan are generally traced back to the early twentieth century, but it was
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>>24615
Can you kill yourself instead of being nothing but an annoyance to others? Pretty please with sugar on top

>>24662
Yall do that to yourselves already when you dont get the idyllic young adult romance you wanted.

>>24593
>>24640
>she suddenly transforms to a good girl
did you watch the show? she acts the way she acts because for all her life she is led to believe that she is a monster that kills people only by opening up does she slowly change into a good person.

>>24824
What do you mean, "slowly"?

She is one person in episode 15 and an entirely different person in episode 16. She doesn't merely lose her tendency to push people away, she loses all aspects of her former personality and becomes your typical anime waifu good girl.

I didn't read a single post of this thread(including OP). Just here to blow off the dust.



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>cool powerful villain/side character doing nothing for the majority of the plot
>fight scene that ends after one or two moves are used
>exposition dumping instead of a flashback scene
>x minutes before some big disaster hits (those minutes last multiple episodes)
>main character saving all the side characters at the last minute when they’re losing
>forced romantic subplots that go absolutely no where (god I fucking hate these in particular man)
>women being useless to the plot
>monologuing and chatting when there’s a disaster/fight going on
>skinny ngas with glasses being comedically OP
>will they won’t they drama for several hundred fucking chapters
>chosen one schtick (man I miss when the power of friendship and teamwork was more commonly used by lazy writers)
>mandatory tiddy and panty pics at the end of each arc
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>cool powerful villain/side character doing nothing for the majority of the plot
>main character saving all the side characters at the last minute when they’re losing
Lazy writing.
>x minutes before some big disaster hits (those minutes last multiple episodes)
>monologuing and chatting when there’s a disaster/fight going on
Lazy directing.
>exposition dumping instead of a flashback scene
Both are bad. I'm so fucking tired of flashbacks. What happened to implicitly contextualizing past events?
>fight scene that ends after one or two moves are used
Nothing wrong with this. It's not a videogame. Sometimes the villain gets shot in the head and fucking dies, that's fine.
>forced romantic subplots that go absolutely no where (god I fucking hate these in particular man)
>women being useless to the plot
>skinny ngas with glasses being comedically OP
>will they won’t they drama for several hundred fucking chapters
>chosen one schtick (man I miss when the power of friendship and teamwork was more commonly used by lazy writers)
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>Nothing wrong with this. It's not a videogame. Sometimes the villain gets shot in the head and fucking dies, that's fine

Not to me it’s not. I’m not waiting 30+ episodes of having a major antagonist get glazed and hyped up by the author just for them to get offscreen or taken down by some contrived ass trick. Makes the conclusion feel like a total waste of fucking time waiting to reach.

Personal opinion aside, from a writing perspective, finishing off a major antagonist too quickly is often a shitty way to conclude a story off the fact that doing so usually fails to provide any narrative closure in the sense that the audience or readers won’t see the villain putting up any actual resistance to whatever the fuck killed them. In application, this also means that writers can end up with copout deaths or unclear endings if audiences cannot entirely trust that the villain in question died in a way they genuinely couldn’t get out of.

>Sometimes you guys forget shonen manga is written for 13 year old horny Japanese boys. The authors have to make a living, so they pander to that audience.

If the guys that wrote made in abyss and rent a girlfriend are indicators for anything, youre placing way too much optimism in the sense of discipline manga authors carry.

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>>29453
>I’m not waiting 30+ episodes of having a major antagonist get glazed and hyped up by the author just for them to get offscreen or taken down by some contrived ass trick
There are many ways to show conflict that would give a satisfying resolution through a quick death. More realistic media does this all the time. I myself hate dragged out fights. The opposite is having every conflict resolved with a bloated-hp videogame fight and having every antagonist also be a powerful fighter or whatever.
>youre placing way too much optimism in the sense of discipline manga authors carry
It depends on the magazine. WSJ is a dog-eat-dog world. But even the authors you describe have to pander to certain audiences, intentionally or not.

>>29454
I phrased myself very poorly. What I meant to say is that what you miss is not a fight, but a proper cycle of tension -> ramping up -> release.

>>29454
Dude, I get what angle youre coming from, but it is rare and I mean RARE for major antagonists to have rushed deaths that don’t feel entirely contrived or forced compared to just having characters organically duke things out until someone drops. What’s worse is that rushed deaths are far more common in media mainly in the romance, drama, and comedy than understandably in action based media. 90% of those deaths usually fall into either the result of the authors laziness to stick with a consistent narrative about their characters or author bias towards their favourite characters with no in between. I don’t care what you have to say on that specific idea. I don’t want to have to sit through an entire season just to watch the main antagonist die before the author can insert their preachy garbage on to me the next scene about how the protagonist is righteous or free or whatever despite literally doing next to nothing. Just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.



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Post ya'll's animanga 3x3's
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>>29417
>evangaylion
>code gay ass
manime chart ruined, smh

>>29418
Post yours or shut up bitch

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I just now realized I haven't watched/read much animes/manga but these are some of the ones I have read/watched more than once

>>29436
>gurren lagaan
nice
I'm not familiar with the anime in the top left corner and the one in the bottom center. what are they?

>>29437
top left
ID:Invaded (it has a direct sequel in manga ID: Invaded #Brake Broken)
Psychology (Freudian psychology), mystery/detective, and crime/thriller.
Bottom center
Aku no Hana (I only read the manga)
Coming of age, romance, modern tragedy



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>AYO YAMCHA CHILL BRO, THIS AINT DBZ YET MAN
> HUAAAAAAHHHHHHH



 

Let's not bullshit around. If you've been into anime long enough you've fallen in love with a fictional 2D guy, gal or nonbinary pal.
And you WILL tell me who it was and why, because that's the point of this thread. Go.
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She is my life

>>29364
Impressive how someone made this list full of obscure characters but didn't have Demona from Gargoyles.

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claiming the hottest anime character of all time

Not a character from anime, but she is so pretty and cool it is despair inducing, knowing that women like this dont exist IRL.

Revy from Black Lagoon



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You have
>seasonal and shonen kiddies who consume exclusively slop which they treat as unironic masterpieces, have never watched anything made before 2010
>blatantly reactionary loli-avatar culture war types who see themselves as "gatekeepers" and literally only care about fanservice and mindless violence because they mean a manga is "based" and sticking it to the cucks, and hate classics like Utena or Ghibli stuff because they have too much appeal to the wrong crowd
>SJW morons who think sex is evil and make the most superficial video essay brained criticisms (did you know young superheroes are literally "child soldiers" and should be treated as such?) and will doxx you to your employer because you said you like something like Made in Abyss
Is it possible to talk about anything these days without having to either walk around eggshells to avoid offending people who will assume a million things about you based on your tastes and choice of words, or tolerate the company of literal Nazis?
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>>28474
>Homofashoid calling other people pedophiles

Fandom in general breeds reaction. All of us are consuming media, but when it turns into your identity, then the focus will shift frim the media itself to whatever will satisfy your consumption, which will tend to the far right on average.

retards with no compunction or critical stances to the media they consume want to project their world into the comunities and make their own little nations on them, and this world is obsessed with how you are perceived, the SJW's and reactionaries malding about woke are the same thing, people obsessed with the appearance of the comunity, if they are based or wholesome without the evil they perseive, they end up acting like colonial forces on fandoms where people just like the media they consume, and these people either convert or shut the fuck up and get harrased.
this will go on as the world gets more conected by the internet and get more miserable so people flee to escapism in subcomunities of medias.

>Is it possible to talk about anything these days without having to either walk around eggshells to avoid offending people who will assume a million things about you based on your tastes and choice of words, or tolerate the company of literal Nazis?
Yeah it's called getting off twitter. The anime fandom is huge, since that's a whole medium of art. Go look at how people with personal websites or activitypub engage with anime, waaay different from what you're talking about.

Main issue is YouTube is pretty much an outpost for twitter, so you'll occasionally see youtubers that haven't left twitter reflect these same issues.

I hate anime fans so much. No fan group is worse than them. They will attack you for watching good anime.



 

Is Attack on Titan fash?
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>>6766
>if a story depicts something that means it condones it
are you sure?

Shingeki geki, gek-geki-gek-geki, no Kyojin


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We've got titans pouring over the border. They eat people, they're mindless monsters, but some, I assume are good people. Nobody knows where they came from. We gotta plug up wall Maria until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

We're building 3 big beautiful walls name after king Fritz's 3 beautiful daughters, who have very nice figures by the way, and Marley is going to pay for each one of them.

We're the greatest country in the history of the planet, and we're getting a terrible deal. All the other countries have been very very nasty, very very unfair, rude and disrespectful towards us, and we've been giving them everything, and getting nothing back, but that's going to change really soon, believe me.

Sleepy Zeke wants to negotiate with me. He thinks he has the cards but he has none of the cards. He has royal blood and very very useful spinal fluid, but I think we'll be using that instead of him. He thinks he's going to sterilize Eldia, well guess what? Eldia's not getting sterilized. the founder Ymir agrees with me and has given me the power of the founding Titan. Now I am a giant hideous skeleton marching across the Earth. Eldia's going to be having billions and billions of beautiful babies far into the future, and the rest of the planet? They're getting rumbling. We're doing rumbling. It's coming, folks. They're calling it rumbling, and it will Make Eldia Great Again.

Ms. Ackerman is very upset with me, but she's still kissing me on the mouth and mourning for me for a whole decade, which i think is a very good deal. Lots of very beautiful women, like Mikasa Ackerman, and Armin Arlert in that one episode where he cross dresses, are giving sweet tender kisses to my decapitated head, and having long thoughtful conversations about the wonderful time we had committing war crimes together in The Paths with founder Ymir.

Captain Levi is very upset, he got a very bad deal. Maybe he should have thought twice before rigging a guy with explosives only a few feet from him.

At the end of the day lots of people in Eldia are very very upset with MEGA and the Jaegerists, and all the winning we've been doing. They're killing Floch, they're stealing the airship, they're saying please sir, Mr. Jaeger, we're tired of winning, but you have to ask yourself: Was winning all bad? The power of the Titans is gone, and what remains of humanity is free to rebuild without the fear of their return. Except for OnyankPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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Shit had an aesthetic that reminded me of bleach, and the few comics we got were shockingly more mature than what I was expecting. It’s rare to see a marvel character that is: competent in combat regardless of whether they have powers active or weapons present, have a no nonsense attitude that comes to wasting time, preaching, or holding back in a fight, and genuinely not need any transformations/plot armour/power ups because their strength is implied from the get go with the idea that they train off panel independently. It also meant that the comic writers got to write Eric as a character dealing with far more mature subjects on self acceptance, subjective cases of heroism, and loneliness that I wasn’t expecting to see from a small standalone series of comics on what amounts to a minor character reduced to cameos in various animated shows and video games. Blade reminds of me of spawn, Goku, and wolverine in that sense. Wish we got more of him.



 

>No Black Lagoon thread
Time to fix this.spurdoSpurdo
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How's the manga coming along?
Stopped two years ago when they caught some chick a year ago, and forgot to check up.

The series seems cool, it was just too slow on uploads despite feeling like a massive story that needs to be told.
Similar with Vinland Saga, but at least Vinland doesn't have a bad arc after its anime adaption.


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Black Lagoon has a ton of Revy fans and fan-art. Where the fuck is the love for Balalaika? Especially here.

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Black Lagoon is fire because it has both communist anime characters (Punishable by death in japan) and also big strong muscular women who can kill me

post quotes and help me find this quote from the series, something about "learning from your enemies" supposedly a Mao or Ho Chi Minh quote from the islamist faction in the series

i remember being close to another quote about the sunken cost phallacy



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What is quintessential /leftypol/core anime/manga? I DON'T mean "which anime are anti-capitalist/left-wing" like we're always talking about, but stuff that's kinda /leftypol/-coded even if it's not left-wing.
I propose
>Kaiji
<loser desperately fighting for his life against the whims of the wealthy
>Code Geass
<class traitor megalomaniac playing out his fantasies of violent revolution
>Welcome to the NHK and Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei
<NO EXPLANATION NEEDED
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>>29349
code gayass is really cool, madoka magica is also on my personal canon of quintessential anime, and kino no tabi but people will disagree with me over those, i think

>>27322
>Also, what is popular does not easily seperate into generational cohorts
yes it does, you can clearly distinguish demon slayer, jujutsu kaisen, and maybe my hero academia as popular with zoomers. i think pop culture is liquid and fast enough to do these sort of distinctions

>>29349
>I keep hearing Code Geass is really based
Code Geass doesn't really map easily onto any real ideology, it's mostly just aestheticized rebellion but it's still cool. Also very stupid in an endearing way, it's about a metrosexual noble who has to balance his normal school life with wanting to depose his absurdly tyrannical imperialist family.

>>29361
And Pizza Hutt




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