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REVIEW: DARLING in the FRANXX Part 1 Limited Edition BD+DVD

This is just the sort of cheap hyperbole that flows too easily these days, such that calling something the worst or whatever is almost to the point of losing any meaning beyond "I did not think this show was good". Really, this is nowhere near stuff like Brain Powerd, Wings of Rean, or Garzey's Wing, stuff that is really historically, genre definingly bad (in the case of the latter, medium definingly bad). I dare say Franxx made a whole lot more sense than much of the plot of G-Reco. But enough about the works of Tomino. Really, I don't think it is hard to find worse anime or mecha anime specifically, and I think we can stand to be a bit more nuanced and not grab at easy hyperbole so often.

I submit that for me personally, I've rewatched Death March several times but haven't even been tempted to rewatch any of Franxx once since the original airing (and I watched them all once)...

It's no more or less cheap than calling Garzey's Wing, everyone's favorite punching bag, the worst ever. Here, simple: Garzey's Wing is, if you ask me, much better than Franxx. If nothing else, it's far shorter, which immediately makes it better because it wastes far less of your time.

See, I don't think that's enough, even putting aside my disagreements about it being a waste of time. I think to be the worst, a show needs to fail more thoroughly, in almost every aspect and in some cases ways we could not imagine beforehand. However one feels about the story, visually Franxx is nowhere near the worst and I think generally very good (though not the best, of its year or ever). Now, I've not seen all of Garzey's Wing, so I couldn't say it was the worst myself, but from what I have seen and what I have heard from various people who have reviewed it, Garzey does indeed fail almost across the board, and that consensus has stood the test of time, which is what I think can fairly be said to be historically bad, a level I don't believe Franxx meets, even if I had disliked it.

Ehh. I mean, we're talking about what qualifies as hyperbole here. I don't think someone declaring it to be that bad is any more or less fair than someone calling another anime they watched and hated that bad - but, yes, I think Franxx got hit harder than other shows simply because more people watched it, so in that sense, I suppose I get it.

...buuuuut on that note, it is admittedly a personal pet peeve that Garzey's Wing gets brought up as the baseline for "bad" when its status is basically a meme at this point, lifted largely by people who have seen little to nothing of it. I mean, doesn't THAT more deserve to be called hyperbole? Credit where it's due, watching part of it is still better in my book than people going around calling it the worst ever only after watching a dubbed clip compilation on YouTube.

You can tell when all the Trigger talent left to make Gridman and left the show rather aimless and with an ending that is...something.

And it’s still about a billion times better than Voltron Legendary Defender so it can’t even take home the worst mecha show of the year award.