History Anime / DarlingInTheFranxx

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: While the events of episode 8 have a fair dose of RuleOfFunny, those kinds of childish fights are to be expected when you put a bunch of teenagers who are just entering puberty to live in the same house. Dr. Franxx drops a LampshadeHanging on this matter when Nana and Hachi ask him for advice on how to deal with it.
** In Episode 24, [[spoiler:despite having used a warp gate to clear the heliosphere and presumably coasting at relativistic speeds, it still takes Hiro and Zero Two ''years'' to cross the void and reach the VIRM homeworld.]]

* RealityEnsues: While the events of episode 8 have a fair dose of RuleOfFunny, those kinds of childish fights are to be expected when you put a bunch of teenagers who are just entering puberty to live in the same house. Dr. Franxx drops a LampshadeHanging on this matter when Nana and Hachi ask him for advice on how to deal with it.

* YouAreNumberSix: Only Zero Two is known by her numbered designation while the rest of the children have actual names. And even those are only a very small step above this trope, as they are based on alternative readings of their respective numbers (invented by Hiro). [[spoiler:It's later revealed that all Parasites are identified by their designation, and Hiro's group are an anomaly for having adopted nicknames - another team comments that such a thing seems pointless]].

** TheChick / TheSixthRanger: Strelizia, due to its pistil being part-klaxosaur.

''DARLING in the FRANXX'' is a 24-episode HumongousMecha {{anime}} series directed by Atsushi Nishigori, with mech designs by Shigeto Koyama (of Anime/StarDriver fame) and is a co-production between Creator/StudioTrigger and Creator/A1Pictures. Best characterized as a ComingOfAgeStory and TeenDrama in the SuperRobot genre, it premiered on January 13, 2018 and concluded July 7. A manga adaptation drawn by Creator/KentaroYabuki (''Manga/BlackCat'', ''Manga/ToLoveRu'') is in simultaneous production for Shueisha's ''Shonen Jump+'' website; it initially follows the anime's story before deviating later on.

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!! ''Darling In The Franxx'' contains examples of:

* AceCustom: All the Franxx of Squad 13. Justified in that the entire plantation seems to be some sort of experiment, though not much more is known as of Episode 15.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: In the animé, no nipples are shown.

''DARLING in the FRANXX'' is a 24-episode HumongousMecha {{anime}} series directed by Atsushi Nishigori, with mech designs by Shigeto Koyama (of Anime/StarDriver fame) and is a co-production between Creator/StudioTrigger and Creator/A1Pictures. Best characterized as a ComingOfAgeStory and TeenDrama in the SuperRobot genre, it premiered on January 13, 2018 and concluded July 7. A manga adaptation by Creator/KentaroYabuki (''Manga/BlackCat'', ''Manga/ToLoveRu'') is in simultaneous production for Shueisha's ''Shonen Jump+'' website; it initially follows the anime's story before deviating later on.

''DARLING in the FRANXX'' is a 24-episode HumongousMecha {{anime}} series directed by Atsushi Nishigori, with mech designs by Shigeto Koyama (of Anime/StarDriver fame) and is a co-production between Creator/StudioTrigger and Creator/A1Pictures. Best characterized as a ComingOfAgeStory and TeenDrama in the SuperRobot genre, it premiered on January 13, 2018 and concluded July 7. A manga adaptation by Kentaro Yabuki (''Manga/BlackCat'', ''Manga/ToLoveRu'') is in simultaneous production for Shueisha's ''Shonen Jump+'' website; it initially follows the anime's story before deviating later on.

* InSpiteOfANail: The anga's final colored illustration shows what happens to the cast past the alternate final battle. [[spoiler:Despite eerything and not delving into sexuality as much as the anime, Kokoro and Mitsuru still remain the first of the pairs to have a child, as the former is pregnant in the picture. The cat sans Zero Two and Hiro also take roles similar to the ones they had when they began rebuilding old human civilization.]]

''DARLING in the FRANXX'' is a 24-episode HumongousMecha {{anime}} series directed by Atsushi Nishigori, with mech designs by Shigeto Koyama (of Anime/StarDriver fame) and is a co-production between Creator/StudioTrigger and Creator/A1Pictures. Best characterized as a ComingOfAgeStory and TeenDrama in the SuperRobot genre, it premiered on January 13, 2018 and concluded July 7. A manga adaptation by Kentaro Yabuki (''Manga/BlackCat'', ''Manga/ToLoveRu'') is in simultaneous production for Shueisha's ''Shonen Jump+'' website; it initially follows the anime's story before deviating later on. There's also an official {{Yonkoma}} by mato. It's viewable in both their official Website/{{Twitter}} and ''Shonen Jump+'' website.

A boy named Hiro is called Code:016, and he was once known as a prodigy. However, he has fallen behind, and his existence seems unnecessary. Not piloting a Franxx is the same as ceasing to exist. One day, a mysterious girl with horns on her head known as "Zero Two" appears before him.

*** And yes, [[TheTalk The Birds and The Bees]] is exploreda s well...

* AmbiguouslyRelated: Zorome meets a kindly old lady who helps him after he got lost in the city. Their dialogue and interactions seems to point to the fact she maybe his mother.

* UnexplainedRecovery: In "Jian", ''Delphinium'' is badly damaged [[spoiler:trying to immobilize ''Strelizia'' long enough to pass Hiro aboard to reunite him with Zero Two]], with her weapon destroyed and part of her head ripped off. But in the next shot while she's [[HoldTheLine holding the line]] against klaxosaurs she's back to normal.

''DARLING in the FRANXX'' is a 24-episode HumongousMecha {{anime}} series directed by Atsushi Nishigori, with mech designs by Shigeto Koyama (of Anime/StarDriver fame) and is a co-production between Creator/StudioTrigger and Creator/A1Pictures. Best characterized as a ComingOfAgeStory and TeenDrama in the SuperRobot genre, it premiered on January 13, 2018 and concluded July 7. A manga adaptation by Kentaro Yabuki (''Manga/BlackCat'', ''Manga/ToLoveRu'') is in simultaneous production for Shueisha's ''Shonen Jump+'' website; the second tankoubon volume was released in May 2018. There's also an official {{Yonkoma}} by mato. It's viewable in both their official Website/{{Twitter}} and ''Shonen Jump+'' website.

The story is set in the distant future. The world is ruined, and humanity establishes mobile fort cities called "plantations". Pilots produced inside Plantation live in Mistilteinn, also known as the "birdcage." Children living there know nothing of the outside world or the freedom of the sky. Their lives consist of battling to carry out missions. Their enemies are mysterious giant lifeforms known as klaxosaur, and the children pilot machines called Franxx to face off against them. For the children, riding the Franxx proves their existence.

** The Nines stand in for nearly all nontraditional relationships: Stamen girls with Pistil boys, the Zeta triplets as artificial clones, sex without love, LGBT (two girls can pilot without problem, [[spoiler: the Nines have no biological sex]]), and [[spoiler: childfree couples, though in Alpha's case it crosses over with being disgusted with the idea of making them.]]

* BatmanColdOpen: Some of the episode start with a brief Franxx fight before moving onto more talky pursuits, particular episode 8 and 10.

* FiveManBand: The individual FRANXX mecha:

* DropTheWashtub: PlayedForLaughs in episode 8, when the boys are tricked into walking in on the girls in the bath. The girls start throwing a near endless supply of washtubs at the boys. One shot shows dozens of tubs floating around in the bath, much more than any of the girls would actually need for bathing.

** Ichigo [[spoiler:''diving in a Klaxosaur by herself'' to save Goro]] in Episode 9. In the manga's equivalent to this plot, the "saver" and the "saved" are reversed.