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| Finally some backstory. Everything makes sense now, although they could have spreaded the infodump across 2 episodes and not one, because it was kind of hard to follow all the events at once. |
DeitysDynasty said: Lups said: how? why? i thought te backstory was handled really wellGod damn it, this episode was utterly disappointing. It basically just gave a nod to what the fanbase had already inferred, the real questions weren't answered and we have very little new information to work with. |
| Oh shit, we got 6 episodes left and explained fuck all! - Writers, Episode 19. |
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| Of course, Zero Two have the DNA of the klaxosaur Princess, pretty obvious... The informative episode came too late. I don't care. The anime have an incorrect order of episodes. Why didn't happened before? We lose time in meaningless episodes. FAIL. The klaxosaur Princess didn't kill Dr. FranXX because forced reasons and even gives her DNA off guard. I want a explanation of this. I'm sad that the Doctor's character barely has a presence in the anime, he is more interesting that our main cast. Everyone, outside the main cast (except Goro), are FAR more interesting. 3/5 pd: i want the origin of the Nines. |
NurguburuMay 26, 2018 11:19 AM
| All weebs creatures of the galaxy, hear this message. Those of you who listen will not be struck by western animation. You will no longer know hunger, nor pain. Your Anime have come to lead you now. Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper. However, for those who refuse our offer and cling to their western animation ways… For you, there will be great wrath. |
| This was pretty good, the much needed backstory episode. Zero Two was made from the Klaxosaur princess DNA, and since she's half klaxosaur only, that means half her DNA came from Dr.Franxx. The madman made a kid with a loli, I tip my hat to him. |
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Shingster said: The choice of immortality or loss of reproduction abilities though was a hard one. It apparently wasn't that hard since majority of the population went along with being immortal. - Wow... it took them 19 episodes for them to finally give us some history on its world and Dr.Franxx...yet it still feels super underwhelming. They still didn't adequately explain why it had to be male & female pairing, like every other character in this show my opinion on Dr.Franxx hasn't changed and APE's whole motivation of just wanting to be immortal is just felt really lame here. There had to be people that were pushing back against APE's ideas but they never showed it. This is the shit that makes Franxx so frustrating to watch for me They never ever show key moments like what I just said to really sell the world. |
MiiyoSonMay 26, 2018 11:21 AM
| such utterly lazy storytelling. 18 episodes with little/no world building and on 19th episode just infodump it through a flashback narration..... lol. |
SupremeEdgelord said: Oh well, at least they finally give some explanations and give Dr Franxx some backstory.  And for what reason did you build a robot that works only under that condition? Yeah that moment was wierd ... like what do you mean "discovered"? You did not dig this up in the backyard from that ancient civilization ... you MADE it! And atleast 13 times as mentioned! It seems to have been used as a quick way to kill off Karina ... which is wierd considering that her being alive or dead does not seem to matter to her "husband" all that much; or atleast the episode did not make it seem like it mattered. You could have used any of the other "scientist gets killed by their death machine research" cliches, and it would have made more sense. Also, the potential aliens is one thing, but the ancient civilization? Also it seems that the fall of humanity happened less than 30 years ago. Did humans really forget about everything for that time because they have the pleasure machines at home? Also, the "we are following an old tradition" and "apparenty in the past" lady talking about marrage in episode 10 - literaly her parents did it, and not more than 70 years ago! When you build a story on ambiguity for 20 episodes, you tend to get alot of hype since people fill in the gaps themselves and it always makes sense in their head. It is why, for example, alot of people believe that Dark Souls has a masterpiece story. But when you actually provide a resolution, the deeper into the story you do it, the more people you alienate - which has a negative impact in the end. Well, it is still entertaining ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
| The majority of this expository episode fell pretty much in line with all of my speculations, to this point... Made even better with the added insight into Dr. Franxx's past, the loss of his lover, and his infatuation-cum-obsession with the klaxosaur princess. Pretty damned good, all told. |
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| Oh my god, this episode gave us some amazing insight towards this anime... It did so whilst remaining fairly interesting between the flashbacks as well. When they started going on about cloning, I seemed to have seen a resemblance between Hiro and dr. Frank X dr. Milsa... Are they somehow related? Who knows? And zero two is apparently a clone of the klaxosaur princess; kudos to dr. Frank for managing to retrieve a sample -a hair sample at that- he is pretty obsessive though, but I guess this stems from his loss. However, whilst this anime does give off some Evangelion the premise of the anime seems original. |
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SupremeEdgelord said: Oh well, at least they finally give some explanations and give Dr Franxx some backstory. And for what reason did you build a robot that works only under that condition? I'm not too sure but it could be to do with the way klaxosaurs would have to be killed; with them having only X chromosomes, necessitating Y chromosomes for a reaction and because franXX's use klaxosaurs as it's base so women have to bear the brunt of it since they're compatible with the bodies whilst the guys control it and fight because of their Y chromosomes enabling them to do so. But those that are immortal become somewhat androgynous as physically, reproductive organs identify gender; whilst those of whom that have lost their reproductive may be lacking in that department of chromsomes. honestly though, it boils down to the fact that the concept of franXX originates from the remains of a klaxosaur he began experimenting with P.S. Forgive me as it is written in a such a runabout way |
tidoesstuffMay 26, 2018 11:41 AM
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SupremeEdgelord said: Oh well, at least they finally give some explanations and give Dr Franxx some backstory. And for what reason did you build a robot that works only under that condition? you forgot to add the context, Dr. FranXX is a cloning expert so its easy to say he cloned the Klaxosaur dead body they found to make the FranXX robot |
| SO Hakase Franxx is a PEDO!!! Finally, we got some answers, and Zorome stood against papa impressive Goro is still doing the big brother job not much screen time sadly. |
koudez said: such utterly lazy storytelling. 18 episodes with little/no world building and on 19th episode just infodump it through a flashback narration..... lol. I totally agree. This is such a unoriginal way to give the final battles some importance beyond the children's well-being like in all the previous fights. A flashback of a non main-character is also not consistent with the anime's storytelling which has been based on of the pilot's experiences. And I don't even want to mention the plain backstory itself. |
MiiyoSon said: Shingster said: The choice of immortality or loss of reproduction abilities though was a hard one. It apparently wasn't that hard since majority of the population went along with being immortal. - Wow... it took them 19 episodes for them to finally give us some history on its world and Dr.Franxx...yet it still feels super underwhelming. They still didn't adequately explain why it had to be male & female pairing, like every other character in this show my opinion on Dr.Franxx hasn't changed and APE's whole motivation of just wanting to be immortal is just felt really lame here. There had to be people that were pushing back against APE's ideas but they never showed it. This is the shit that makes Franxx so frustrating to watch for me They never ever show key moments like what I just said to really sell the world. True enough. But when given such a choice very few people can say no to it. |
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| It seems ironic, we wanted as Civilization to reach the culmination of our human development, and the only thing we achieve is to lose our humanity, destroy the planet and be on the verge of global extinction... ... Great achievement APE. Without a doubt it is the sin of our sins because we want to be like God... try to look for immortality, being that we do not deserve, using the planet as if we could achieve infinite progress on a finite planet that can defend itself against us... and use cloning to play at being masters and lords of the lives of thousands of Human Children and continue the destructive cycle of Human Instrumentation, the human as a tool. Without a doubt I agree with the saying that:  Darling in the FranXX can be summarized in that simple sentence. |
DonTrumpolino said: Wow, yet another filler. And an important one too. How can it be both a filler and important? |
Ravioli Ravioli, Don't Lewd the Klaxo Loli |
| Glad we finally get an info dump episode like this. Others are saying it should have come earlier, but I don't mind tbh. This works fine to bridge into the final arc. It was pretty interesting and obviously heavily inspired by eva, but I'm excited for what comes next. |
| They should have opened with backstory shown in this episode instead of fan service. |
| I shall know no fear as I am fear incarnated |
| A very interesting and important episode showing more of Dr. Franx and the past of humanity. The story was appealing and some questions were answered with this episode. The exchange of emotions for immortality, that magma is dangerous. What humans do for research, damn. Klaxosaur queen is still a mystery, but it have something related with humans. Squad 13 should be starting a rebellion soon, and that ending, I assume that was the origin of Zero Two. The doctor is crazy for research. |
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| I like Dr. Franx's character. He was engrossed by some cloning shiet his entire life, was not affected by thots, and was enamored by some xeno-loli. This old cyborg is a man of culture |
| In time, you will know the tragic extent of my fapping's... |
By the way, this episode confirms what Nana and Hachi are... well actually, we already knew that they were pistils, but we can see that they were also in the same house as Squadron 13. Fuck this is what most shocks me, Dr. FranXX's wife, Milsa reminds me a lot to Kokoro....  and to say it, Hiro looks like Dr. FranXX when he was young? xD  Very bad theory APE, live as immortals, so we need children? true ?, stupid, human evolution and its variability has been achieved precisely over billions of years from precisely its variability in reproduction, destroy this, implies the direct death of humanity, regardless of humanity can be immortal... but if we canT have children, civilization is doomed to extinction. Change human reproduction for immortality... is not a correct balance of things. By the way, even if they do not know it, Magma's technology in our world is already being studied... Well, we're screwed! xD    |
Lolikon_ExtremMay 26, 2018 12:22 PM
| Weeeeak. Oh my god was that a fucking mecha smacking its head against the wall just like in EVANGELION? oh damn I didn't see that coming Seriously weak, but I wasn't expecting much anyway. Also, Dr. Franxx just became more fucking annoying I have no idea where this is going anymore. Go live with the Klaxosaurs everyone. |
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| ok episode. Honestly it's about time that we get some worldbuilding. This was probably the best ep imo since it gives backstory to Dr. Franxx and it was actually interesting. Still, it doesn't excuse the fact that this episode should've been shown way way earlier. I mean like all of this should've been explained around eps 8 to 10 maybe. Imo A1 just can't balance worldbuilding and character development. But at least it's better late than never so i really can't complain. |
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| I'm rooting for the Klaxosaurs. The queen seems so magnificent |
| boohoo another shitty evangelion-copy, but with worse everything. |
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GangsterCat said: boohoo another shitty evangelion-copy, but with worse everything. Better remove some of that edge. I watched EVERYTHING of Evangelion recently and it is way too overrated. The rebuild had potential but it went to shit fast imo. Shinji ruins the series completely so I can just lol at people who talk shit about Hiro. They haven't seen a truly bad main character in their lives yet. |
| This was just so damn epic. It got intense when they stood up to Papa like that, but I don't think APE will let them off the hook so easily. I'm thinking that the klaxosaurs existed deep under the surface of the earth, up until APE disturbed them with their magma mines and stuff. Either that or they ended up actually creating them as a result. |
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