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EP. REVIEW: DARLING in the FRANXX

I have seen people say that A-1 is bad because they made SAO so there are people who have a dislike of the studio because they dislike some of the shows that they have produced.

I agree with him and several A-1 productions have been very well animated.

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[Shin Sekai Yori] was a mess. Had lots of bad art and animation throughout its entire run but had great background art

I remember watching that show and Space Brothers at the same time and wishing the artists illustrating the sky scenes in SSY could have worked on Space Brothers as well. It had those entirely unrealistic cartoony clouds while the skies in Shin Sekai Yori were often lovely to behold. The star-lit scene of Saki and Shun in the boat was stunning.

Its that factory mentality that got an animator to kill himself due to overwork.

And you seem like the type of person in which any piece of art that's not off model is "well-produced"

People have been shitting on A-1 since they did Persona Trinity Soul and even before SAO they were behind garbage like Valkyria Chronicles, Fairy Tail, Night Raid, Black Butler, Fractale, Anohana and Togainu no Chi which was so bad and poorly produced that they cancelled the singles released of the 6 volume DVDs and opted for one cheap boxset instead.

I got nothing....

If you're going to invoke a person's death in your crusade, at the very least try to get details like their job title right. Considering that it's the production assistant's job to wrangle all those freelance animators against tight deadlines, who knows, getting that detail right might have actually strengthened your argument. (You're welcome.)

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Incidentally, here's a good example of what might happen when a production team with very limited resources tries to prioritize staying on model above all else. Enjoy the (barely) moving cardboard cutouts!

Well the box set issue has also happened to Kinema Citrus with Kuma Miko. That A-1 makes so many shows each year means that it is not a surprise that they occasionally have a poor selling show. Also just to be clear I like Kinema Citrus and I am looking forward to The Rising of the Shield Hero.

Well the top three examples I would use for animation quality are Anohana, Black Butler, and SAO. Granted it sounds like you dislike those shows but there is a difference between disliking a show and saying that the animation of the show was bad.

Be it an animator or a production assistant doesn't change the fact that someone in the line of production died while working on a show which is a blemish to their own repuatation and the fact that you continue to defend them is quite discerning in itself.

All I'm getting from your posts is that its not easy being blind.

Could you elaborate?

Hilariously enough the first webm with the sliding robots is as well animated as the one from Dynamic Cord

garbage like Valkyria Chronicles, Fairy Tail, Night Raid, Black Butler, Fractale, Anohana

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garbage like Valkyria Chronicles, Fairy Tail, Night Raid, Black Butler, Fractale, Anohana

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Like, can you be anymore hateful than this? Anohana was not trash by a long shot, and everybody on the internet would agree with this, except of you.

Because people watch their works and notice how poorly animated the bulk of the are? Because people who are fans of a manga/game hate how they adapt their works (Blue Exorcist, Magi, Nanatsu no Taizai, Ace Attorney, Erased and even SAO)

That's quite the bold claim you're making and one that nobody will take seriously.

Wouldn't call any of these TOP LEVEL PRODUCTIONS especially Fractale, The Perfect Insider, Saekano and...Oreimo 2.

No. There's core staff within a given story that are moved around from project to project. A-1 is largely consist of freelancers who are not affiliated with A-1, do their share, get their check and get out meaning their production will never share the exact same staff between shows but will always never be consistently animated and that's their problem. Its that factory mentality that got an animator to kill himself due to overwork.

Yet every single one of there works that come out per season are among the worst looking shows of their respective season yet people will praise Toei for getting their shit together on one episode of DBS. Funny how that works.

You sure you're not just speaking things out of air?

Booru cherrypicks the sakuga moments of the show which isn't a prime indication of the actually quality in the show. Once again by your logic I can say that Black Clover is a "well-produced" show just by showing the booru of all its sakuga .

So according to you Naruto, DBS and Black Clover are all strong production. Bear in mind This is the same episode of Franxx you're claiming is a strong production with this and this in its second episode.

You can dislike the way it looks, by all means, but your opinion is in contrast to every animator, animation fan, and professional animation critic I've read in the last couple of weeks. This show is a bad production. See what I did there?

I'm going to have to disagree with this particular analogy, and the idea that the Evangelion comparisons shouldn't be made in general. While the nebulous intentions behind the Judeo-Christian imagery in Eva have been long documented, the clear and direct analogies FRANXX is making are much more difficult to write off as simple visual flourishes.

Disregarding the *many* shots, camera angles, and other cuts of animation that are either near or direct copies of shots from Evangelion and the Rebuild films, the first two episodes of FRANXX contain numerous other allusions to the Evangelion franchise. 02's character is a rather obvious amalgam of the three main girls of the Rebuild films, Rei, Asuka, and Mari. The concept of "not running away" has been brought up on multiple occasions in order to establish Hiro's character and arc, and many different aspects of this post-apocalyptic society, including the depiction of the mysterious organization of adults who are using the kids and their mechas to their own ends, can very easily be seen as a modern, remixed interpretation of NERVE, SEELE, etc.

Then there are the FRANXX, whose operation is dependent on pilot synchronization (or "sync ratios", if you'll allow), can apparently only be piloted by children who have been specially selected and raised to fulfill their roles as Parasites. Even if we were to overlook the similarity in premise here, the way in which the robots are being used as blunt analogies for puberty and sexual development is the same motif that Evangelion made famous almost thirty years ago.

Now, if there were just a few allusions here and there, then I wouldn't think too much of it. As many people in the forums have mentioned nearly every giant robot show made after 1997 has been influenced by Evangelion in some form or another. However, the fact that the team behind FRANXX have gone so far out of their way to make such a large number of very clear references and allusions to Evangelion means that the more direct comparison of the shows does make sense from a critical context.

Not only that, but I believe that the creators of DARLING in the FRANXX are themselves inviting the comparisons. A winking homage or a more direct reference every now and then can easily be justified as a simple shout-out from one anime to another. What FRANXX is doing, though, feels more like the creators are saying "Not only do we love Evangelion, but we have some things to say about some of the same themes and tropes Evangelion popularized, and we're going to use FRANXX to do it.

To make a long point short, I believe that FRANXX *wants* the audience to make these comparisons, and that doing so is a valid part of engaging with the series. Also, being a direct response/reaction to Eva doesn't make FRANXX a bad show, and doesn't necessarily have any bearing on how successful it will be as its own thing. It's just something to keep in mind as the show goes on.

if it wasn't for the subliminal "damn, she's got a fine ass" messages