“Talk about fumbled ending”: ‘Darling in the Franxx’ Lost Its Edge by Abandoning the Anime’s Most Essential Element

Mecha and romance are the two most opposite genres in the anime industry, and there are very few series that have managed to do justice to this weird combination. One such series that lived up to the expectations of fans to a certain extent was Darling in the Franxx. It was a combined project of A-1 Pictures and Trigger, and it was quite popular when it started.
Darling in the Franxx Anime | Credit: Studio Trigger
The series was first announced at Trigger’s Anime Expo 2017 panel in July 2017. It was written and directed by Atsushi Nishigori and Naotaka Hayashi and was one of the prominent series back in 2017. And while the story of the series was quite intriguing, it got ruined in the end according to many fans. Evidently, the anime fumbled the conclusion, which led to the criticism of the series as a whole.
The series could have been...
Darling in the Franxx Anime | Credit: Studio Trigger
The series was first announced at Trigger’s Anime Expo 2017 panel in July 2017. It was written and directed by Atsushi Nishigori and Naotaka Hayashi and was one of the prominent series back in 2017. And while the story of the series was quite intriguing, it got ruined in the end according to many fans. Evidently, the anime fumbled the conclusion, which led to the criticism of the series as a whole.
The series could have been...
- 1/14/2025
- by Tarun Kohli
- FandomWire
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