Darling in the Franxx started off great with its first 15 episodes, you can even make the case that 16-18 were also very good. The ball gets dropped so hard that it's sad to think that I once was attached emotionally to these characters. I was rooting for the final episodes to be over, not for the characters to survive. The series undeniably has great animation and music, as well as fantastic world building similar to showslike Evangelion or even The Promised Neverland, but they eventually started explaining things way too much in episode 19 and also never explaining anything else last that point. They destroyed my faith in the series finale before I watched it, and I was right to lose faith, the series finale is one of the worst episodes in anime, all the emotion is ruined by one ridiculous character design that is never explained in the slightest. Things start happening for no reason without any explanation and it kills the show's quality. Although a majority of Darling in the Franxx is still great, the last 5 episodes are atrocious.
Review of Darling in the Franxx
