phoenix fruit
^ a b Pineda,
Rafael Antonio (
December 9, 2020). "Chainsaw Man, Onna no Sono no Hoshi Manga Top Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2021 Lists". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 10, 2020. Retrieved December 10, 2020. ^ 【2020. 12. 10更新】『このマンガがすごい!2021』今年のランキングTOP10を大公開!!【公式発表】. Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (in Japanese). Takarajimasha. December 10, 2020.
After they're defeated, Mahito appears and
touches Nanami's back, ready to use Idle Transfiguration on him. Nanami thinks about his life's choices and wondering if it was all worth it, when a vision of Haibara points him toward Yuji, who had just stumbled himself into the encounter. Nanami tells Yuji he's leaving the rest to him, as he's killed. An enraged Yuji fights Mahito as the two exchange blows all throughout the subway, with Mahito taking advantage of Yuji's emotional instability to get under his skin. Meanwhile, a double of himself that Mahito had created earlier when hunting for Yuji encounters Nobara out on the streets. After she starts to fight him, he decides to target her in order to drive Yuji further into despair. 4319"Right and Wrong, Part 2"
Transliteration: "Rihi -Ni-" (Japanese: 理非-弐-)Naoki MiyajimaNaoki MiyajimaReina IgawaNovember 30, 2023 (2023-11-30)N/A After Akari is taken to safety, Nobara re-enters the veil, not wanting to stay back while the others are still fighting. Nobara fights the Mahito Double, who is unable to use Idle Transfiguration on others like the main body. They discover that Nobara's Resonance is actually the perfect counter to Mahito, damaging the soul of both the double and main body still fighting Yuji. Seeing the effects of Nobara's attack rejuvenates Yuji as he pounds away at Mahito. Both Mahitos escape their combatants, luring
them into a hallway, where they trade places, allowing the real Mahito to catch Nobara off guard and touch her face.
-The launch sequences are essentially mirror images of Evangelion’s launch sequences (see a theme here).
-There was some kind of testing that was being performed in the early episodes that paralleled the synchronization tests in Evangelion.
-Episode 6 of Darling in the FranXX has been compared to episode 8 of Gurren Lagann. Which makes perfect sense, since Atsushi
Nishigori (the director of Darling in the FranXX) was the director for episode 8 of Gurren Lagann, but this brings up a more serious issue: why is Nishigori reusing old ideas from over ten years ago? Not only that, but why is episode 6 of Darling in the FranXX a worse rendition of his earlier work (he couldn’t come up with improvements in all these years)?
-Episode 13 is a reverse retelling of Beauty and the Beast — in fact, the title of the episode is The Beast and the Prince (they’re not even attempting to disguise their intentions at this point).
-Episode 20 we find out that VIRM wants to annihilate the klaxosaurs who retreated underground, similar to the spirals (who lived underground) fighting the anti-spirals in Gurren Lagann.
-Mecha’s transforming to absurd levels of scale and power like Gurren Lagann.
-Instrumentality, much?
Then comes the real “butt” of my issue with this series, and this concerns the “doggy-styled” positions the girls must assume to pilot their Evangelions — I mean, their FranXX’s. It’s one thing to engage the viewer through
needless fan-service, but there are limits one can go before coming off as ridiculous. Kill la Kill, another studio Trigger production, already ingratiated the anime community to the concept of excessive lasciviousness, the difference being: they did so with a self-deprecating tone. This show, on the other hand, is treating the matter with solemnity; and sure, they attempt to shoehorn in a half-assed explanation, but the whole immortality subtlety doesn’t fit well with the predetermined conclusion. Immortality, as a concept, lends itself to numerous paths of intrigue about the overall worth of life, the monotony of existence, and the deterioration of cognitive faculties.
