Now thats it's been a while we can all agree this was just flavor of the month bullshit right?

only remember space ship waifu and fatty getting cucked

TPBP.
All this polarized shit about was it the worst thing, the best thing, was it a masterpiece that people didn't appreciate because they were brainlets is silly.
It had some good concepts, some bad concepts, did some things well, did somethings okay.
Started devolving into pure mediocrity after the halfway mark, with the last few episodes being particularly bad.

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my dick dares to disagree

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Nah it was good people just have shit taste and take that reddit anime YouTuber's opinions too seriously

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SPBP

>several Franxx threads every week
>lucky to see one VEG thread a month

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>It was an overly ambitious romance anime
Nishigori's statements kind of imply that that is coincidental. That's the tragic part.
>likeable characters
Ehh..
>but if you're just for the mechas it's completely skippable
The mecha stuff is pure window dressing, yes, so any mecha enthusiast will be offended by it, as they always are when a show with mechas isn't squarely focused on the mechas.

Regardless, DiTF is a love-hate relationship. I really feel it turned to shit, but there are some things I still like about it and ways in which I think it could've been way better. I also borrowed some ideas from it.

It's not flavor of month, you faggots are still posting it after all. That doesn't mean it's good either. Also what is this this dishonest fan support, you are making threads to shit on it just to gain attraction. Just be honest with yourself, spammer OP. AND stop making the same thread every week

I honestly don't get why people where bitching about the last few episodes. I kind of wish that I had watched it with everyone here, but... I guess it can be helped.

Because they were particularly bad, although you can probably say that for the most part, FranXX has declined since episode 1.
>Episode 1: people were tentatively excited.
>Episode 2/3: Mecha enthusiasts realize it's not really a mecha anime, so they drop it.
>Episode 5: Considered pretty good by most, to the point that the developments in episode 6 are thought to be a mediocre followup.
>Episode 6: Hiro wills away dino cancer. Turned away a lot of people who thought it was convenient.
>Episodes 9-11: Dumb partner drama and Zorome has an adventure, only to forget about it and really learn nothing useful from it.
>Episode 12: Zero Two loses her shit. Considers Hiro follower. Blow to the fans of the main romance.
>Episode 13: AWWI, considered a high point.
>Episode 14: Misunderstandings, drama, Ichigo pushing herself on Hiro in front of Goro. Seen as a low point.
>Episode 15: Enjoyed a lot by many, scoffed at by some.
>Episode 16-18: Slice of life filler with some drama, foreshadowing, etc.
>Episode 19: Considered superfluous.
>Episode 20-21: Red flag promises between Hiro and Zero Two. VIRM shows up, ready to ruin the series because every anime that some guy from old Gainax worked on has to have aliens.
>Episode 22: Depression, but also madlad Hiro.
>Episode 23-24: It can't be stopped anymore. We're heading for a complete crash. Zero Two was the true Apus we met along the way. Dead because bittersweet = deep, and reincarnation because fuck the non-humans.
>[Bonus] Interviews: Nishigori reveals he's a hack who didn't really bother to plan everything and that most of the great stuff in FranXX was coincidental.

It was worth it for the memes though

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I don't understand why people didn't like the end. I thought it was fine, and enjoyed it thoroughly

i assume because it felt rushed

I heard the manga ending was much better.

I can see what they mean if they are truly invested in the plot, but the plot is superfluous, the story is about the characters and their relationships. If you look at it from that perspective, it didn't miss a beat

agreed. Franxx fans have the same IQ as Fortnite kids who beg for support over a dead product.

I swear even those who are addicted to Game of Thrones are more honest compared to your shitshow of a timeflop, especially against VEGchads.

There's a minuscule possibility that the fat man can give me closure at least.

Because all the characters who put in a minimal amount of effort got full on happy endings while the two leads who did everything and went through the most suffering got a bittersweet ending, with the amount of bittersweetness depending on how you view what will happen after the final shot.

It is. Watch the anime up to episode 15, and then switch to the manga for the rest of the story.

Just watch VEG instead.

For the most part.

>the story is about the characters and their relationships. If you look at it from that perspective, it didn't miss a beat
You mean the story where the main couple ends up dying in space after le epik Gainax pose and then reincarnates because non-humans are impure and they need to be reborn as new people because that is both symbolic and bittersweet.
If you cared at all about the characters, then the story was garbage.

Time flop

It is but it's rushed beyond belief.
I was actually afraid that Yabuki will go down the same path as anime since his best work was literally about a guy moving on after the death of a girl but luckily the guy decided to give fans what they wanted.

you're just mad you didn't get your happy ending

Iconic classic, iconic characters

on top of being an actual flop

Not really interested in VEG. Maybe someday, but not now.

a bigger flop than Infinite Warfare for sure

That's what it sounds like when somebody can't refute the argument.

I am "mad" that I didn't get an ending that fit.
You can rewatch the anime again and then tell me at what point the notion of the MCs dying in space and reincarnating started making sense or became thematically relevant.

making VIRM the big bad was a mistake. final arc should have been the kids rising up against the boomers. certain characters needed more development as well.

The storybook foreshadowed it the entire time. And we always knew the end villains would be Ape. It's just nice they were an actual threat

The storybook played no role other than a potential future outcome to resist. If anything, your mentioning of it is an argument in my favor more than anything.
Unless you want to argue that fatalism suit Darling in the FranXX.

Hiro chose that path when he chose 02. It was always going to end that way for him.

So your point is that fatalism is a big part of the FranXX story?
Even though it really didn't come into the picture until the ending, which means it wasn't built up at all and is contrived and hamfisted.

We flew too close to the sun and got burnt

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Gee it took you 2 years to get to this conclusion?

>muh threads on 4chin
Kek rent free.

Papa could’ve been the ultimate boomer and still be lower than the Virm. He just had to be the final real obstacle in the war (because under his cloak, it’s filled with 001’s technology that Virm gathered up in her “temporary human” deal) with his klaxospear ship, his metaphorical penis. Papa could easily represent humanity’s best and worst traits, like how 001 could represent her race’s overall traits.

>Hiro states he doesn’t like the ending. He and 02 even considered on changing the ending.
>Papa and 001: the guys who push the idea of fate are usually seen in the wrong.
>”They were supposed to follow the shitty fates because it was fate!”
Nishigori, get the fuck out of here!

>Hiro and Zero Two spend most of the anime overcoming adversity for the purpose of building a future together
>This is usually framed in a triumphant and hopeful way
>Clearly proclaim desire to not follow the storybook to its conclusion and to reject that fate
>No ok they die like the storybook says anyway and then reincarnate because
I can't believe that people take issue with the argument that this seems thematically incongruent. It just is.

Honestly this show reeks of inconsistency. The dumbest people are those who can't see how a theme can present itself in a thematic way/in a proper execution. Seriously, have you not played any game or watched any movie that actually places its themes first? Like you know? Darkest Dungeon or Children of Men?

It really shows how dumb franxxfags are, and you can't prove me otherwise

At least it subverted your expectations.

It became too much of a EVA rip-off after around 5/6 episodes so I dropped it

The most confusing shit for me are the villains because it feels like they had a ton more of worthy screen time and backstory, but they either get skipped over, retconned, die nonsensically, or all three.

Papa for example was established to be a completely separated from Virm, what the hat guy seems to be as the hat guy is shocked and cleverly calls him a monster in pic related, takes in sex-related titles like Papa without being bothered at all (and is shown to actually enjoy this title in the Mato comic), and really seems to hate Klaxosaurs or anything that resembles one - which also goes against Virm’s ideal about race. After the Virm reveal, this established character just vanished in thin air as some kind of half-assed character design. What’s worse is that the Virm guy actually somewhat resembles the witch from the picture book and Papa is wearing a pope outfit, meaning that Papa was always meant to bend down for a higher power by design. So, it makes even less sense for him to be the god-like being, Virm.

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Depends how it subverts the expectations? Did it subvert it naturally like Half-Life: Alyx or did it subvert expectations in an artificially bad way ala The Last Jedi. Since this is a Franxx thread, the latter is what you mean.

I think he just wanted to make a Rian Johnson joke.

So basically like the Last Jedi.

If so, then people are right to hate Franxx because its a representation that "original" anime are a lost cause. This project should have been canned as soon as possible instead of showing its rear ugly head

It builds up something then the climax is the polar opposite of it.
Shock! Haha, isn't that deep?

They already had those set ups with the Nines and 001 (as the former would reveal that Papa actually could accept klaxosapiens as family and the latter had indeed been the tragic beast princess), but you know, fuck good writing!

Wow, all the shit starts flooding back in after I stopped posting NTR.
It was really quite something was it? But Im man of my word.
No more NTR from now on. Besides Im starting to feel bad for you fags,
when you make these godawful threads and posts. You fags are truly lost cause.
But now, proceed. Dont mind me

Now that I think about it. HL:A is the polar opposite of Franxx, sets up for the mid-end game and creates an ending that actually subverts the expectations all while matching the "Half-Life" theme.

Then you see this shit, with a setup in the first 9 episodes, goes downhill on episode 16 and above and episode 24 just goes fuck it and leaves a sour taste.

If Half-Life: Alyx can set up a good ending that is both mysterious and fulfilling, then it Franxx should have no excuse to fucking up.