what was actually wrong with darling in the franxx?
Was it truly a knockoff evangelion/eureka 7?

It was an original project that was squandered by a colossally nonsensical final act.

>>280282439 (OP)
Second half was big stupid

There wasn’t anything wrong with it, people were just upset th

>>280282439 (OP)
Second cour bad.

>>280282439 (OP)
Garbage tween drama, poor pacing where it peaked at episode 15 then speedran the ending in the last quarter after 3 slow sol episodes, a terrible trigger meme ay lmao ending, most of the characters just did not fucking matter at all, the action and mech designs were shit, mediocre animation at best, dumb fanservic that hurt it more than help.
But its worst sin was the undeserved hype. It was a highly marketed anime original with a seemingly interesting premise, and it did not deliver on anything.

>>280282760
You sound upset. It's been 7 years.
Well, literally. I think the final episode aired in early July 2018.

>>280282813
Not upset, just saying the truth. I watched it while it aired with /a/ which was a lot of fun shitposting, but I don't recommend it at all to anyone who missed that chance.

>>280283080
The shitposting was the worst part, at least the faggot shitposters, which were something like 80%.
Also, 2018 was around the time that /a/ became completely unusable because of faggots and baitposters.

>>280282439 (OP)
slurrrp

Hiro was an irredeemably bland protagonist, even for a self-insert.

>>280283235
japs think they're slick when they name a character "hero"

>>280283235
I doubt he was a self-insert. Have you seen Nishigori?

>>280282439 (OP)
evangelion, but with more romcom and drama

>>280283176
Who did it better?

>>280282439 (OP)
Second cour was a lot of garbage nonsensicly put together.

Man, I miss 2018.

>>280283235
He could have been great if the anime just embraced his suicidal horny madness. It was a jarring disconnect where the writers had him talk like the standard bland good guy protagonist, but he treated everyone around himself like disposable garbage in his pursuit of 02.

>>280283302
Oops, I'm retarded. I meant the audience insert.

>>280282439 (OP)
good opening with an abysmal second half, its a real shame, could have been remembered as a great show or good show at least, instead of mediocre.

>>280282439 (OP)
To me it felt like the last part was written by someone else entirely. It felt that plot was setting up that the klax (or whatever they were called) were more of a natural threat like a hurricane and the real antagonist/"bad guys" were actually the adults who were sacrificing the kids so they could live in pointless hedonistic pleasure. It felt that the plot was building for the kids to rebel against the adults and take back humanity from the amoral hedonists. But nope, instead you get ayy lmao aliens introduced at the last minutes. Also I think reincarnation endings don't really do well with the west which is what /a/ mainly is, so 02 and Hiro dying still feels pretty shitty and them reincarnating generations later doesn't really feel satisfying.

>>280283564
He wasn't much of a self-insert for any group. People were just disappointed by how he didn't embrace his old self in the second cour, and how the show betrayed everything it had built up to... also in the second cour.
I'm still pissed.

>>280283378
What big ass fish was she expecting to catch

>>280282439 (OP)
It needed one more season worth of episodes in between

>>280283681
When /a/ says "self insert" it doesn't mean anything other than a generic insult of a character they don't like.

>>280283709
Well, it's a valid argument in many cases, particularly for anime and manga released in the past decade. There's been a huge shift towards MCs who are extreme losers who pair up with domineering waifu characters.
It's actually kinda sad how popular it's become, and how it reflects on the fags who make up the contemporary weeb community.

>>280283796
>There's been a huge shift towards MCs who are extreme losers
This is why it doesn't mean anything on /a/. Self insert can mean a power fantasy character or it can mean a loser character or it can mean a character with little personality. Really it should keep its original meaning as an author's self insert because then it has an understood meaning.

>>280283908
I suppose, but I believe a lot of the loser characters we've seen in anime and manga over the past decade are deliberate self-inserts. As in, it's a self-insert for the author, but also for the intended audience.
I mostly stopped posting on /a/ over a decade ago, but I occasionally drop by, and it disgusts me how much it's changed. I mean, both the medium and the community.
/a/ has become far more reddit than reddit.

>>280283709
you are the guy that gets triggered everytime a protag is called a self insert lol

>>280282528
It's not like the rest of the show was any better, don't understand why only the final arc is singled out.

>>280283971
don't mind him, this guy can't even understand the concept of self insert, for him all the characters who are not completely silent don't count as self inserts, he thinks /a/ also came up with it like a retard when the concept is being talked about everywhere on the internet

>>280282439 (OP)
Franxx has nothing in common with those series, much less being a ripoff of either.

>>280284065

>>280283989
What kind of schizo posting is this? I haven't even been in a DxF thread in years.
>>280284067
Never said /a/ came up with the concept. I even said the original meaning of self insert, which is also what this anon thought>>280283302 i.e. the authors self insert.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-insertion
>Self-insertion is a literary device in which the author writes themselves into the story under the guise of, or from the perspective of, a fictional character (see author surrogate)

>>280284065
I still have a visceral hate-filled reaction to this meme due to how much it was spammed across the site

>>280284067
>he thinks /a/ also came up with it like a retard when the concept is being talked about everywhere on the internet
No one is that retarded. The concept is older than both 4chan and the internet itself.

Post the webm. Yes, that one.

>>280284162
>DxF
The fuck? Nta, but is that some kind of reddit term for the show?

>>280284215
Why don't you go check and come back and tell us?

>>280282439 (OP)
It peaked incredibly hard at episode 15.

>>280284233
Nah, I'll leave that to faggots with leaky sphincters like you.

>>280284162
> I haven't even been in a DxF thread in years
lol wat? you are the same faggot that complained in another thread about some other generic protag, crying that /a/ is calling protags self inserts and sperged out about it.
Yes the og meaning which you can't wrap your mind about it works for both the author and the audience. The author is literally part of the audience.

>>280284303
Whoever this anon was btfo you out so bad you still seethe about it to this day. Just read the wiki article, sperg

>>280284266
I wonder how Nishigori feels about how he ended his supposed "passion project". The first cour was very successful, and it just kept gaining traction and popularity up until it peaked with ep 13, 14 and 15.
Then he just shat the bed. He could have had a major success, not quite on par with the most top 5 or 10 shows/movies, but right behind them, but instead he just went full retard.

>>280284404
I almost feel that it could have used another cour or two like E7 or Gundam Seed or something. Pacing was really a problem, and spending even a few episodes on slow slice of life stuff near the end rushed everything else.

>>280284461
Nah, I think the length was fine. It's just that the second cour was shit. The lack of bridging following the first cour's conclusion, the awful enemy reveal, and the terrible conclusion that betrays everything the show had built up to.

>>280284595
More episodes could have maybe helped with bridging over from the first cour or maybe allowed some foreshadowing for the enemy reveal. But yeah even the enemy reveal is part of the betrayal and more episodes couldn't fix that.