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ANNCast - FRANXXly my Darling, I Don't Give A Damn

This is a supposedly uber controlled dystopian society with an authoritarian government that can easily wipe people's memories, yet they not only decide to reinsert their newly reindoctrinated subjects into the ideologically contaminated group -a group they could've easily reindoctrinated too, but for some random reason chose not to- they don't even take off the bloody rings.

Yeah, given the degree to which they want us to accept the lives & knowledge of the people in this dystopia as divorced from all traditional human emotion and tradition, choosing to set it only some 50 odd years in the future was a pretty dumb decision.

Just wanted to point out that the first klax attack was in 2037 and current events are in 2137. So yeah, it's well over 100 years.

That sounds very much like saying that consuming anime is about "break(ing) it down to find nuggets of truth."

Apologies in advance for taking part of your reply out of context, but...

NeverConvex wrote:

That sounds very much like saying that consuming anime is about "break(ing) it down to find nuggets of truth."

That is the entire point of fiction as a whole, not something unique to anime. No matter how unrealistic the events portrayed are, they have to be based on some commonality of the human experience or the audience will reject them.

macattack wrote:

I agree. I think the reaction to Franxx is in some ways similar to the backlash over The Last Jedi when it released. People are projecting their hopes and fears onto the story and it is causing strong emotional reactions. There isn't much room for middle ground here in the eyes of the strongly opinionated.

The Last Jedi is a good example of that since that movie did cause strong emotional response in almost everyone who watched it. I think there is a similar situation with Darling in the Franxx and The Last Jedi in that both movies have themes that resonate with people though for very different reasons.

I think it is curious that some people are trying to convince other people not to watch the show. Personally I think that Darling in the Franxx is a good show and is the best mecha show I have seen in the last 5 years. Gurren Lagann is still the most entertaining mecha show but it would be incredibly difficult to match the pure exuberance of that show.

The biggest issue I had with The Last Jedi was spoiler[when the sacred texts in the Jedi temple were burned with the argument that the books were no longer needed. I find it baffling that a growing number of people argue for historical ignorance. History is the best way to avoid making the same mistakes that people in the past have made.]

Chrono1000 wrote:

I think it is curious that some people are trying to convince other people not to watch the show. Personally I think that Darling in the Franxx is a good show and is the best mecha show I have seen in the last 5 years. Gurren Lagann is still the most entertaining mecha show but it would be incredibly difficult to match the pure exuberance of that show.

When people say stuff like this it just goes to show you don't watch mecha anime. Top it off with the fact that the mevha aspect in Franxx is as much of a let down as is writing hell there jas not been a single mecha battle within the last four episoded so the fact that you think Franxx is a good show let alone the best mecha anime within the last 5 years is an insult.

I don't think FranXX is all that great a show, but I can't remember many good mecha anime from the past 5 years either, so it feels like the competition's a little shallow. Have there been any recent mecha standouts? I thought Gundam Unicorn was alright. Other than that...?

Where is it stated that this is set in 2137? I don't remember that ever coming up.

I would say that Gundam the Origin and Gundam Thunderbolt have been the best of the last 5 years IMO, but in terms of new mecha series, I would agree that its competition is a bit shallow, though I think a bit more highly of some of those series than you seem to. I don’t really want to go too deep into this here, as it may be a bit off topic.

This is something so many people seem to just ignore. They treat a bad review of a show they like as some sort of personal insult. As if the reviewer is saying if you like this show you're scum or stupid. Which has never been the case here, ever.

I agree that there needs to be enough content in fiction for it to be intellectually or emotionally comprehensible on some level (the alternative is practically equivalent to watching white noise or 'reading' uniformly-random character sequences), but I don't think that's the same thing as 'finding nuggets of truth.' People consume fiction for many reasons. Identifying meaningful truths is one, but there're plenty of others entirely orthogonal to that, e.g. to escape from their day-to-day concerns or simply to enjoy some mindless spectacle.

Fair enough. I also haven't even seen Gundam the Origin or Gundam Thunderbolt, so I don't know that I'd have anything meaningful to say there anyway. Unicorn was one of the few main gundam universe(s) shows I've watched end-to-end recently.

Mmm, there's also the new Full Metal Panic series. I've been avoiding it until I can find time to re-watch the original two seasons though, since I've forgotten a lot've the plot.

Oh, and Iron Blooded Orphans! I actually thought IBO was pretty good as well.

There was also the new Aquarion installment, but despite being a fan of the original series I gave up on that thing 3 or so episodes in.

But yeah, a bit off topic, as you said, so maybe I should stop there, heh.