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Darling in the Franxx

★ 7.4 22K votes 2018–2018 1 season · 24 episodes Ended Tokyo MX
AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 10/10Coming of ageGrowing up as the central arc.This show: 8/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 8/10DystopiaOppressive imagined societies and the people caught in them.This show: 7/10Young adultTeen protagonists with teen-first appeal.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Yûto UemuraKana IchinoseNanami YamashitaSaori HayamiShizuka IshigamiBrittany Lauda
Written by
Atsushi Nishigori
Starring
Yûto UemuraKana IchinoseNanami YamashitaSaori HayamiShizuka IshigamiBrittany Lauda
Written by
Atsushi Nishigori
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
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About

"Gorgeous coming-of-age mecha that loses its nerve late"

In a walled-off future where humanity hides from monstrous Klaxosaurs, teenagers who've never known family or freedom pilot giant mecha called Franxx in mixed-sex pairs, their coordination tied to intimacy and emotional sync. The show starts as vivid, melancholic coming-of-age sci-fi with striking mecha battles and a prickly, memorable central pairing. It's visually gorgeous and emotionally earnest, but pacing wobbles badly in the back half as it juggles too many ideas, swinging between tender character work and overloaded, rushed plotting that frustrated a lot of viewers by the finale.

Watch it for

the striking visual design and the raw, awkward chemistry between its two leads.

Maybe skip if

you need a consistently paced back half without tonal whiplash or rushed plotting.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12018
8.028K249h 36m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Alone and Lonesome7.8
1K24 min
▶2What It Means to Connect7.5
1K24 min
▶3Fighting Puppet7.8
1K24 min
▶4Flap Flap8.1
1K24 min
▶5Your Thorn, My Badge7.8
1K24 min
▶6Darling in the Franxx8.7
1K24 min
▶7Shooting Star Moratorium7.7
1K24 min
▶8Boys × Girls7.3
1K24 min
▶9Triangle Bomb7.7
99024 min
▶10The City of Eternity7.7
99024 min
▶11Partner Shuffle7.4
97424 min
▶12The Garden Where It All Began8.4
1K24 min
▶13The Beast and the Prince9.5
2K24 min
▶14Punishment and Confession7.8
1K24 min
▶15Jian9.1
2K24 min
▶16Days of Our Lives7.9
1K24 min
▶17Eden7.9
99824 min
▶18When the Sakura Blooms7.9
1K24 min
▶19Inhumanity7.8
96724 min
▶20A New World7.6
96724 min
▶21For You, My Love8.2
1K24 min
▶22Stargazers7.6
98424 min
▶23DARLING in the FRANXX6.7
1K24 min
▶24Never Let Me Go8.1
1K24 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Yûto Uemura Hiro
Kana Ichinose Ichigo
Nanami Yamashita Miku
Saori Hayami Kokoro
Shizuka Ishigami Ikuno
Brittany Lauda Ichigo, Young Ichigo
Jeannie Tirado Kokoro
Matt Shipman Hiro
Bryn Apprill Miku
Leah Clark Ikuno

Crew

Atsushi Nishigori

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