No.9503
>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 not until the 1970s and 1980s that the form became a part of mainstream Japanese culture. This was no doubt a contradictory phenomenon.
>Japanese anime no doubt has mobilized considerable skill and even artistic brilliance. But like other artistic forms that emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s, it inevitably bears the stamp of the cultural and social problems of the time. The receding of the radicalization of the late 1960s and early 1970s (which had been very intense and explosive in Japan) had consequences. No matter what its admirers may say, there is an element of escapism in anime. That doesn’t disqualify it, but one has to be honest. It cannot be a coincidence that the rise of anime coincided with the collapse of the Japanese cinema as a serious intellectual force. One of the greatest national cinemas of the postwar period, Japanese filmmaking has produced almost nothing enduring or penetrating about the reality of life in that country over the past several decades.Get the full article at
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/20/frxx-a20.html and other important insights, of the ICFI.
No.9504
Post this shit on /anime/ dood.
Mods move pls.
No.9505
>>9503The growing Darling in the Franxx movement, despite increasingly desperate denial from the pseudo-left Pabloite revisionist renegades, is striking fear into the hearts of the global imperialist monopoly bourgeoisie. Global capitalism, now more than 80 years into its terminal death agony, can only be transcended through the fulfillment of the objective historical revolutionary role of the proletariat. The emancipation of the proletariat must be the act of the proletariat itself - under the leadership, of course, of the one true world party of socialist revolution, the International Committee of the Fourth International. In their steadfast struggle against all forms of pseudo-left vulgarizations of revolutionary Marxism, David North and the SEP have won the Rank and File proletariat to a genuine Marxist program. The contradictions of global imperialism threaten a Third World War fought with nuclear weapons, much alike what happens in the hit anime TV series, Darling in the Franxx, and therefore the fate of not just the working class, but the human species itself, depends on resolutely exposing the Pabloites, Grantites, Cliffites, Healyites, Hansenites, Wohlforthites, Mandelites, Steinerites, and all other forms of counter-revolutionary opportunism blocking the path to left unity and planetary proletarian revolution. We urge all workers, youth, and intellectuals stirred by this call to action to unite in Rank and File Committees, watch Darling in the Franxx, and praise its brilliant decision to end in a struggle against the eternal alien menace and their crypto-fascist hivemind agenda, and to contact the International Committee today.
No.9506
>>9503Much agreed comrade. The growing Japanese animation movement, despite increasingly desperate denial from the pseudo-left Pabloite revisionist renegades, is still striking fear into the hearts of the global imperialist monopoly bourgeoisie. Global capitalism, now more than 80 years into its terminal death agony, can only be transcended through the fulfillment of the objective historical revolutionary role of the class conscious proletariat. The emancipation of the proletariat must be the act of the proletariat itself - under the sole leadership, of course, of the one true world party of socialist revolution, the International Committee of the Fourth International. In their steadfast struggle against all forms of pseudo-left vulgarizations of revolutionary Marxism, David North and the SEP have won the Rank and File proletariat to a genuine Marxist program. The contradictions of global imperialism threaten a Third World War fought with nuclear weapons, and therefore the fate of not just the working class, but the human species itself, depends on resolutely exposing the Pabloites, Grantites, Cliffites, Healyites, Hansenites, Wohlforthites, Mandelites, Steinerites, and all other forms of counter-revolutionary opportunism blocking the path to left unity and planetary proletarian revolution. We urge all workers, youth, and intellectuals stirred by this call to action to unite in Rank and File Committees and to contact the International Committee today.
anarchismAnarchism No.9507
This article was actually better than expected, although the WSWS did just have someone from their organization go through a late night anime to produce this piece.chinaChina
No.9508
>>9503Darling in the Franxx has to be most right wing anime which aired in recent years. It subtlety plays with the conservative ideology (traditional gender roles and Cis identity) unlike Gunbuster which blatantly romanticized the imagery of Imperial Japan. By emphasizing on Mitsuru and Kokoro, it is trying to propagate this idea that humanity must stick to traditional role of continuation of species. By rendering Kokoro unfit for piloting Franxx, a metaphor for career women losing their job after getting pregnant, we are told that it’s okay as long as they are curing gays of their homosexuality like Mitsuru.
Mitsuru was your stereotypical angst gay who was frustrated for repressing his homosexual urges in a strict heterosexual environment. His character development involves not only giving in to the advances of a girl whose secondary sexual characteristics are way more mature than any of the pilots but also impregnating her after being made to undergo intercourse on her urging. Which brings us the curious case of Ikuno, the lesbian dyke of the entrouge. When she finally confesses her feelings to Ichigo, all she gets in reply is that it is okay to have wrong feelings, thus outright stating that homosexuality is wrong. Then we have Franxx, facsimiles of Klaux. By making them strict constructs of binary pairing and intentionally extending it to ancient civilization of Klaux, we are being told that strict hetero cis normitivity is the way things are since olden times and should be followed even in far future. Nines and Virm therefore become the very caricature of left the right wing tries hard to portray. It is very apparent that nines are there to demonize transgenders and their affinity towards Papa to imply the collusion of some concocted Cultural Marxism that leads to this kind of behaviour
No.9509
>>9508You aren't really analyzing Japanese culture, you are doing cultural imperialism, by imposing a American normative structure on them. You have to realize that your cultural norms aren't universal and do not grant you the theoretical basis for an objective judgement of the sort you are attempting. You are lead to erroneous conclusions because you use categorical enforcement that negates any archetypal construct that doesn't conform to your own presets.
No.9510
>>9506I love this copypasta kek
No.9511
>>9509As a SEA who reads Yaoi and Yuri - you are wrong.
No.9514
>>9511You just made a self referential appeal to authority, and that's not a real argument, because it's fallacious to assert categories of being could change the qualitative nature of actions.
No.9515
>>9514I am authority thus it is correct to say that Franxx is by extension of the culture industry of Japan a reflection of ideology of the ruling class.
No.9517
>>9515>I am authoritywhat a weird name, but ok, hello Auth, nice to meat you
>culture industry of Japan a reflection of ideology of the ruling class.fine I'm going to watch some of this Franxx, just to see what's up with it.
No.9518
move it only if the thread is about to get bumped offalbaniaAlbania
No.9522
>>9503>Not posting your own text for the OP and linking to the Article for details>Posting Darling in the FranxxThe show is a ripoff of Evangelion mixed in with some Gundam, it's full of Moe-blob shit and bland characters as well as the kind shitty romance triangle that Evangelion specifically avoided for good reason. Honestly I never thought I would need to repost my breakdown of WHY Darling in the Franxx is shit but I guess I'll have to recover the archives and do that, just so some poor sap doesn't get suckered into watching this trashbin by the hype and the Studio Trigger logo.
The article is also pretty shit since it just says generic things about "anime over the 1970s and 80s" and goes out onto a tangent from the anime at hand.
>>9511A-are you implying that Yaoi and Yuri means you have an understanding about gays and dykes? Yeah, no wonder everyone hates you Fujos.
>>9521Because it allows for cute angry antics and dumb romance drama about "forgetting our promise" and also putting in less work for having a relationship seem real.
>>9517 Don't, just watch Gundam and Evangelion and you've seen 90% of Franxx, everything else is a fanfiction tier obsession with sex and relationships that resembles the Clan Restoration Act from a decade ago (CTRL+F in
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FandomSpecificPlot/Naruto)
No.9525
>>9516Fuck off, cuck, you're alienating us animechads from socialism. If you keep shitting on us, we'll eventually want nothing to do with socialism. Is that really what you want?
No.9526
I keep seeing the pink haired anime lady memed (Fran?). I finally know where the hell she's from now.
No.9563
>>9508>Darling in the Franxx has to be most right wing anime which aired in recent yearsWhen I finished watching it at the behest of a conservative friend I half-jokingly said that the show could've ended with a recitation of the 14 words and the effect would've been the same. He didn't take too kindly to that.
No.9564
>>9563A bit sad that Trigger worked on this, given how they generally put leftist themes in anime.
No.9565
>>9564Trigger isn't the darling (heh) studio certain fans make them out to be.
No.9566
>>9565Their other stuff certainly doesn't look like they were written by Nippon Kaigi.
No.9567
>>9566They had a labor dispute regarding unpaid overtime with one of their workers on SSSS.Gridman, and iirc a handful of studio veterans have somewhat 'problematic' views on US politics in general—but that's to be expected. People point to that one scene from Little Witch Academia (which totally wasn't tongue-in-cheek, right?) and god knows how much of Kill la Kill and get a sense of confirmation bias. I just don't get this longing for 'left wing media franchises' within fandom communities. It just seems like a waste of time.
No.9600
>>9508mitsuru isn't a fag. his old partner was a lesbo so that's why they couldn't connect.
No.9880
Embedding error.
Not usually a fan of Gigguk but his video on Darlin in the Franxx is fun
No.10484
>>9525This thread was redirected leftypol, that's why it has these responses… also the vid was funny
No.10485
>>9503From the Article Unedited:
>Many of these series do have their charms, as does Darling in the FranXX, and the animation is very skilled, but there tends to be a larger focus on more juvenile themes, which express themselves in the ultimate plot and character progressions in many series, preventing them from saying anything truly insightful about life.
>The themes involved here are fairly banal and platitudinous, and the view of life one takes from them is inevitably limited. The creators of this and most anime series are trying to “teach messages,” but such advice doesn’t amount to much more than empty moralizing in a world racked by escalating social inequality, poverty and war.
>Social inequality is mentioned in passing, but the focus is on interpersonal relationships and sexuality as the real defining characteristics of what it means to live and be human. In their arrogance, adults threw away their ability to reproduce in a selfish attempt to become immortal, but “nature” had other ideas and forced the children to regain their sexuality in order to survive and propagate the human species. The idea of human “progress” is depicted as inherently flawed.
>Darling in the FranXX does have some redeeming qualities in that it pushes the viewer to consider larger social questions and shakes up one’s view of reality, but the lack of a real commitment to thinking through the problems of contemporary life means that the viewer, in the end, is not pushed far or challenged enough. No.15232
>a couple years pass
>The hype of darling in the Franxx dies
LMAO
No.15241
>>15232Nothing memory-holes an anime faster than an ending nobody likes.
I even forgot Trigger were involved in this lmao.
No.15242
>>15241The thing is that Trigger only worked on the mecha animations, absolutely nothing else.
No.15246
>>15242Ah fair enough. I knew they weren't behind everything but didn't realize their role was that small.
No.15247
>>15246I wonder if it would've been any better had Trigger been more involved (probably not……)
No.15249
>>15244pochincoff pls (to be fair,they basically were made to look like women)
>>15247Promare sucked ass,Gridman was meh,BNA is pretty iffy,so mostly not. (they're the ones making the cyberpunk 2077 anime too,jesus)
No.15254
>>15241That and it's blatant Evangelion rip-off aspects.
>>15244Because you're a coomer. But seriously the designs remind of "robots" from early 2000s anime and hentai like pic rel.
>>15249>>15247 Like one of the posts in the BNA thread says, Trigger hasn't been good since it was part of Gainax.
No.15258
>>15244based and good taste pilled.
No.17182
how come often the female coded robots are sexualized?
No.17184
>>17182We need to sexualize male robots like gay japanese artists on twitter do.
No.17185
>>17184We need to sexualize *EVERYTHING*
No.20785
>>17182Because sexual repression being released into hentai and ecchi elements of anime/manga
>>17185>>17184>>17188 Please, touch grass.
No.20786
>>15242Didn't Trigger also do Kill la Kill and Brand New Animal?
>>9567 Speaking of Gridman, that was one trippy ass mecha with a lot more meta implications than there oughta be. Nothing like what I anticipated.
No.20871
>>10541Yes we all want to fuck Zerotwo but who doesn't?
No.21023
>>20871Honestly… I never felt much lood attraction for the dumb Dino-Demon girl. Dunno why
No.21030
>>17184this. male charactwrs are rarely sexualised or romanticised the same way females are
No.21821
>>15254Sauce on the robo-maid?
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