Thread 280601434 - /a/ [Archived: 271 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/15/2025, 8:35:45 PM No.280601434
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>you now remember Darling in the FranXX
Im still not sure why this was so big when it was airing. (7 years ago btw)
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 8:37:00 PM No.280601475
>>280601434 (OP)
The enthusiasm for this felt comically artificial at first and then it was drama
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 8:38:57 PM No.280601534
>>280601434 (OP)
a hundred men, maybe more
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 9:04:05 PM No.280602345
>>280601434 (OP)
Anime original, 2D mechs, Waifu-bait dino-girl - not necessarily in that order.
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 9:13:40 PM No.280602628
>>280601434 (OP)
>7 years ago
thanks for reminding me....
>>280602345
this
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 9:42:37 PM No.280603621
Make_Heroine_ga_Oosugiru!_light_novel_volume_1_cover
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>>280602628
It was fun when it started, then it when to shit after episode 15.
>in before it was always shit.

The good thing that came out of it at the end is that it inspired a dude to write Makeine.
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 9:44:24 PM No.280603681
>>280601434 (OP)
This was one of the few times I got genuinely angry at the anime. 16 was absolutely rage inducing.
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 9:47:50 PM No.280603785
>>280601434 (OP)
Remember Aldnoah Zero? Now that garbage absolutely blew up on this board.
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 9:49:44 PM No.280603843
>>280601434 (OP)
>Im still not sure why this was so big when it was airing. (7 years ago btw)
We were chasing the highs of the actual fun train-wrecks from before.
Anonymous
7/15/2025, 9:51:13 PM No.280603885
>>280601475
You had dedicated theory autists posting about the Charlemagne connection.
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 9:58:21 PM No.280604117
>>280603785
The first two episodes were good.
Anonymous
7/15/2025, 10:29:13 PM No.280605130
>>280601434 (OP)
All I know is fatso getting cucked
Anonymous
7/15/2025, 10:35:55 PM No.280605342
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>>280601434 (OP)
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 10:40:17 PM No.280605488
So, I hear Nishigori, the guy who fumbled the entire darlifra production up badly, still got to do one movie or so about a bunch of psychotic girls.
Was it good enough to redeem his prior work?
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 10:41:07 PM No.280605512
the image that broke a
the image that broke a
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I remember the shitstorm that happened when this episode aired:
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 10:49:36 PM No.280605792
>>280605512
Mitsuru and Kokoro having baby-making sex, serotsu being revealed to be an infertile inferior clone that becomes a statue and then a tree, zero one six pilots with the genderless clones of the infertile clone of the last klaxxosaurian in one of the shittiest space battles ever, papa stormtroopers who ended the little wedding ceremon, mind wipes that didn't really serve any purpose, sudden alien reveal, giant shitty mega mecha waifu bride, hackneyed tak about evolution and soul prison planetoids, and finally virgin protagonist suicide bombing.
And that's after several weeks of delays, where the director had to make filler interviews.
Anonymous
7/15/2025, 11:11:32 PM No.280606363
It used to be that back in the day /v/ would flood /a/ when a new Trigger anime came out. Nowadays that's pretty much an everyday occurrence.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 12:03:56 AM No.280607804
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>>280601534
Should've made Z.T. a more explicit canon slut who had sex with everyone in that house.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 12:05:46 AM No.280607864
>>280607804
but then the fact that Mitsuru and Kokoro rediscovered sexual intercourse which nobody has been doing for nearly a century wouldn't be such a shock.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 12:09:21 AM No.280607977
>>280601434 (OP)
I've wasted so much of my life.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 12:11:59 AM No.280608066
>>280603621
>>280603681
what happened at 16? I was thinking of starting this just based on how the pink haired girl looked in the plugsuit
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 12:15:01 AM No.280608169
grin
grin
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>>280608066
Just watch it. Form your own opinion.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 1:14:12 AM No.280609734
>>280601434 (OP)
was great
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 1:17:26 AM No.280609820
>>280608169
just spoil us already,dude
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 1:59:41 AM No.280610849
>>280606363
>le it was /v/ with the shit taste all along!
nah
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:27:46 AM No.280612672
>>280609820
spoonfeeding is for faggots.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:50:31 AM No.280613124
>>280612672
being a bitch is even more
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:35:52 AM No.280613945
>>280601434 (OP)
Because it was a Trigger co-production with several industry heavy hitters. It also looked and sounded incredible and had a cast of amazing girls all of which were expertly designed to increase Japan's birthrate. It also took a while for people to understand that the show was complete garbage, and a bit longer still for the wider audience to comprehend just how much of an absolute train wreck Darling in the FranXX was.

It was a GQuuuuuuX situation almost a decade before GQuuuuuuX was shat into existence.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:43:47 AM No.280614097
Was this the last time a show completely took over the board? Posting about it was more fun than actually watching it. It wasn't even *that* big of a trainwreck it was just bad, at least compared to shitshows like Guilty Crown or Valvrave which were way more entertainingly awful
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:44:58 AM No.280614115
>>280601434 (OP)
>Im still not sure why this was so big when it was airing. (7 years ago btw)
We wanted to have our next cross Ange/kill la kill to shitpost in group. It has fun beats like the fat dude getting cuked but overall a very shit experience
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:49:02 AM No.280614193
>>280603885
Anon, fandoms are all huge coping mechanisms. You see exquisite headcanons everywhere, some of which are so good you end up wishing the guy was actually in charge of writing the anime. When GQuuuuuuX was airing, I remember reading so many fucking theories that went nowhere. There was this random comment by some guy that stuck with me, about a painting featured during Gihren's assassination, Moreau's The Apparition, and then going on about the history and meaning of the painting and how this all symbolised that Gihren wasn't actually dead after being featured for just 30 seconds. It's all a huge cope. Sometimes there are some rare instances where you actually click with a work and it's almost like you can predict the future in a quasi-flow state, but this usually requires either a rare empathetic affinity with the author and/or for the work to be actually good and having some sort of rational structural meaning. Anime isn't a medium known for high discipline when it comes to writing and there are very few exceptions to this.

My favourite headcanon probably has to be the deliciously autiste "analysis" of Flip Flappers, and the deep symbolism about placenta eating. Though this was, I suspect, tongue-in-cheek and not actually a self-serious analysis of the anime.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:55:42 AM No.280614309
>>280606363
>It used to be that back in the day /v/ would flood /a/ when a new Trigger anime came out.
I partially subscribe to this theory, personally. Because this was a known phenomenon. But it wasn't just /v/'s fault, DitF was popular so a lot of people were following it for very different reasons. Even when it became clear that the anime was a smelly trashfire early on, many anons were still watching it for the excitement of experiencing an original show and riding the shitposting waves. Too bad it never became a so-bad-it's-good shitshow like Valrave or what have you.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:59:11 AM No.280614379
>>280614097
>It wasn't even *that* big of a trainwreck it was just bad
DUDE SURPRISE ALIENS!!

It was a shitshow. Darling in France is one of those works that thinks it's being clever and symbolic when it's just both incredibly dumb and too on the nose.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:00:22 AM No.280614401
>>280601434 (OP)

It was a mech anime with a top tier waifu.

It fell apart as a story halfway through
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:02:14 AM No.280614445
>>280614097
it was the last truly japanese anime experience, everything 2018 onward is western pandering with only glimpses of hope here and there.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:03:51 AM No.280614467
>>280614115
Mayoiga was the last time that I remember /a/ trying to chase the next camp cult classic. Which ended disastrously because these kinds of experiences can only happen organically and can't be forced. Darling in the FranXX was just a license to shitpost. It's waaaay more comparable to stuff like GQuuuuuuX where you had a fairly substantial portion of the /a/ audience giving it the benefit of the doubt coexisting with a huge population of trolls and shitposters.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:06:08 AM No.280614514
>>280614445
>???????????????????????????
I have no fucking idea what you mean by this and I will not ask you to elaborate.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:08:45 AM No.280614562
>>280605488
All I know is that he was complicit in 3.0+1.0. So he is essentially dead to me and I have absolutely no interest in him as an artist.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:20:32 AM No.280614750
>>280601434 (OP)
>7 years ago
maybe more
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:26:46 AM No.280614836
I'm convinced some shit happened behind the scenes and the second half had to be hastily rewritten for whatever reason. I remember a comment by Nishigori about not being allowed to do what he really wanted with the show. There never should have been anything to do with aliens. It was supposed to be a timeless epic about humanity, technology and nature.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:30:28 AM No.280614903
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never forget
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:43:52 AM No.280615138
There's a guy who works at a hobby shop I frequent whose car is covered in Zero Two decals and other shit, I don't fault him for his choice of waifu, just always reminds me of the show when I see it
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:47:34 AM No.280615210
>>280614193
>and the deep symbolism about placenta eatin
Does anyone have the jumping couch GIF?
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:47:36 AM No.280615212
>>280601434 (OP)
>make a compelling coming of age story
>shift gears three-quarters in and go "DUDE ALIENS LMAO"
Why is Trigger like this?
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DoctorGreen !DRgReeNusk
7/16/2025, 5:48:04 AM No.280615219
maybe more (6)
maybe more (6)
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>>280601534
>>280607804
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 6:09:49 AM No.280615664
>>280605342
God just imagine being Hiro and taking that huge lizard penis up our arse every day making this exquisite anal face.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 6:11:50 AM No.280615711
>>280605512
It was fucking retarded and emblematic of the half-assed nature of the show. No one actually gave a shit beyond shitposters enmeshed in the retarded "Fatoshi" bait wars found solely on /a/. The rest of the collective anime-watching public just yawned.

Had this been 02 + Hiro it would have been the defining moment of '10s anime.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 6:28:03 AM No.280616055
>>280601434 (OP)
>Im still not sure why this was so big when it was airing.
This is why, Anon.
https://e-hentai.org/?f_cats=959&f_search=character%3A%22zero+two%24%22
You think anyone cared about the plot? Or the animation? Franxx is the purest example out there of "waifu-bait".
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 6:32:10 AM No.280616145
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>>280601434 (OP)
What was the ending even about? The main girl turns into a huge mech and the male MC goes to space with her? What?
Absolutely bizzare
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 6:35:23 AM No.280616214
>>280601434 (OP)
>Im still not sure why this was so big when it was airing. (7 years ago btw)
you had to be there zoomie
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 6:57:00 AM No.280616562
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>>280605512
livewatch threads were amazing
good times
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 6:59:45 AM No.280616596
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>>280615212
they were clearly trying to channel gurren lagann and eva at the same time, but drank too much of their own kool-aid an completely fumbled the reveal and everything after it
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 7:00:32 AM No.280616607
>>280603785
Darling gets a lot of shit, but Aldnoah Zero is one of the dumbest fucking shows in anime history. It shit multiple beds, over and over again. And then it got worse.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 7:01:56 AM No.280616635
>>280616607
the first season was fine, decent to good even
they never should have made a second season
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 7:05:04 AM No.280616664
>>280601434 (OP)
As usual with trigger, it was fantastic for the first half but just kinda fell apart in the second half.

They seem to work better with 12 episode series'
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 7:05:18 AM No.280616667
>>280616607
At least the Slaine suffering was kinda funny.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 7:07:17 AM No.280616682
>>280616607
It's easier to have fun with Aldnoah Zero than with Darling in the FranXX. It's a way better so bad it's good experience.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 7:08:03 AM No.280616691
>>280613945
I started watching GQuuuuX recently. Is it gonna shit the bed later?
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 7:10:15 AM No.280616718
>>280616691
GQ was kind of interesting for the first episode or two, but went full retard and hilariously rushed the end

it's less offensive than gwreck, but not by much
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 7:12:10 AM No.280616733
>>280616691
It shits the bed like, episode 3.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 7:12:47 AM No.280616740
>>280616691
It took me a while to understand how shit FranXX was, and once it turns to shit and then turns into boiling shit, the entire show becomes retroactively worse somehow. But as for GQuuuuuuX, I would say that the signs of it being abysmal dogshit come very early on. I agree with the other anon that it's interesting for two episodes or so before revealing how fucking embarrassing the entire production really is.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 8:05:55 AM No.280617380
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>>280609820
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 8:07:38 AM No.280617403
>>280614097
The Snk Manga did
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 8:21:41 AM No.280617587
this poor kid
this poor kid
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>>280617380
Ichigo did nothing wrong.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 9:54:40 AM No.280618745
Count Orlok - from the shadows
Count Orlok - from the shadows
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>>280601434 (OP)
>me waiting hungrily for my yearly September re-watch
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 11:20:08 AM No.280619642
>>280614193
Yeah. More people should realize that 90% of what is shown in any anime is there simply because the director personally thought it would look/sound cool on a screen, and the other 10% is determined by who's sponsoring the production. It's ridiculous how some audiences glaze their favorite shows to make it appear more highbrow because they think it justifies their obsession as if it's an intellectual pursuit. Even if one can still understand this mindset, who exactly are these people trying to seek validation from? The general public? Other fandoms? I don't get it.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 11:34:33 AM No.280619780
>>280601434 (OP)
Ikuno a shit
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 12:14:46 PM No.280620178
>>280601434 (OP)
The quality of a mecha anime can be judged by how much fan art there is of the mechs, and I an just now learning that Franxx is a mecha anime.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 12:18:30 PM No.280620226
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>>280601434 (OP)
Sexo, that is all
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 12:30:10 PM No.280620326
>>280601434 (OP)
ironically the most influential thing it did was piss off a chinese chick so bad by being complete shit that she took the concepts and ideas and turned it into a historical fiction influenced sci-fi novel that became so popular and critically acclaimed that even the original team behind darling gave it a shout out for being better than their shitty anime LMFAO
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 12:35:00 PM No.280620385
Silver princess super pissed
Silver princess super pissed
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>>280605512
While I do feel a bit bad for fat boy, what really pissed me off was the fact that they stole the focus, the marriage, and the happy ending from Zero Two and Hiro
The second half after episode 14/15 should have been cut off or completely re written
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 12:36:29 PM No.280620402
>>280614193
>When GQuuuuuuX was airing
Why were you watching that shit? Are you a fucking faggot or something?
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 12:40:07 PM No.280620440
>>280601434 (OP)
Joint production by Trigger and A-1. Also it was an original about mechs and the first few episodes seemed promising.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 1:09:45 PM No.280620804
>>280601434 (OP)
The threads were fun. Simple as
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 1:37:27 PM No.280621108
>>280620385
Seriously, dollar store Shinji and the self-entitled manic pixie girl were the worst things about the show, at least until the aliens reveal.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 1:59:30 PM No.280621403
>>280620402
Not only am I a faggot, I'm a masochistic faggot. That's why.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:04:35 PM No.280621473
>>280601434 (OP)
Its downfall still wasn't as bad as SnK's. Maybe I should rewatch it, but I'd like to keep my good memories of the first half.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:07:34 PM No.280621516
>>280620385
>The second half after episode 14/15 should have been cut off or completely re written
You're assuming that the anime ever had a solid concept that was in any way salvageable. While I kind of agree that there is a clear line in the second half of the show where the story becomes putrid shit, it's silly to pretend that there was ever fertile soil for a much better story to sprout. And it's not like I expect Dostoyevsky out of my Taiwanese cartoons, but there was never a point in time where DitF wasn't a complete mess conceptually.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:12:41 PM No.280621584
>>280621473
>Its downfall still wasn't as bad as SnK's.
I never bought into the SnK hype because I always saw it for what it is: just another zombie Apocalypse story for millennials. But the fact that many people pretended for many, many years that SnK was more than what it ever was makes me agree with your statement, though I'm still baffled by how it was ever popular to begin with. I'm not even trying to be contrarian here, the signs were already there if people were paying attention.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:41:27 PM No.280621977
>Darling in the FranXX
>Aldnoah Zero
>Valvrave
>Guilty Crown
Absolute garbagekino
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:43:43 PM No.280622013
>>280621977
I'd take this over the endless isekai sewage we get fed these days.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:49:06 PM No.280622084
>>280622013
Absolutely. They weren't unique by any stretch, but at least we had a lot more fun watching and shitposting about them.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:50:25 PM No.280622103
>>280621977
When you lay them all out like that, I notice than only one of them isn't mecha/mecha-adjacent.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:53:57 PM No.280622147
>>280622103
GC actually had mechsuits too
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:12:07 PM No.280622491
>>280601434 (OP)
>Im still not sure why this was so big when it was airing
First 2 episodes, they trick you that's something like Evangelion but lewd. In reality, it's TTGL but for middle schoolers
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:16:38 PM No.280622567
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>>280622147
makes ya think
Mecha has as much shit in it as anything else, but I'm also biased towards it as the genre with "the highest density of anime-original good stuff".
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:18:03 PM No.280622590
>>280617380
>>280616562
fuck! I'm so much of an old fart that now even things from seven years ago make me sob in nostalgia
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:36:26 PM No.280622896
>>280622013
>>280622084

We never know how good we have it until it's over

Soon in a decade when anime is basically western goyslop, we will reminisce over shitty isekai.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:40:24 PM No.280622982
>>280622491

It's nowhere as good as TTGL that's the sad thing.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:56:42 PM No.280623272
>>280601434 (OP)
People did go Gaga over 02 and the whole mech controller setup. Also people were interested in A-1 Trigger collab in general.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:01:13 PM No.280623361
Given the circumstances this anime's longevity is impressive. Zero Two is still a fairly popular character.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:06:49 PM No.280623469
Kiss of Death is a good song.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:23:40 PM No.280623836
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:30:33 PM No.280623985
>>280601434 (OP)
It would be one of my all time favorites if the show ended at episode 15.

It's like the perfect simulcrum experience of being an Eureka Seven fan (which seems on the mark since it's one of the show's obvious inspirations)

Episode 1-15 is like you're watching Eureka Seven, then 16-20 is like you're watching AO and then 21-24 are like watching the movies.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:23:15 PM No.280625440
>>280601475
yup