 If you liked
Simoun
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 ...then you might like
Darling in the FranXX
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Reposting per guidelines: If you enjoyed the mood, tone, mild humor, and themes of growing from childhood to adulthood in a variety of ways, Simoun and Darling are the shows for you. Simoun is similar to Darling in many aspects, specifically that it is about couples piloting advanced devices that no one seem to clearly understand. In both series, the couples must have a harmonic relationship for piloting to be successful, which often results in difficulties as the couples try to grow up in their own individual ways. Both shows start out light and get deep quickly, with death, destruction, and lasting effects. Both shows
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Okay, jokes aside, both of these shows start a cast of teenagers dealing with their complicated emotions/feelings and the typical coming of age problems that come with these. One's mecha, one's more mecha-adjacent, but both of them involve flying their tandem-piloted, extremely weird machines in order to win a war. There's of course drama about who gets to be paired with who, themes of forbidden or unrequited love hampered by certain characters being unable to pair, and a lot of teenage moping. There's plenty of potential for weird gender exploration stuff in either show, but neither
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