Darling in the FranXX (media)

Darling in the Franxx (Japanese: ダーリン・イン・ザ・フランキス, Hepburn: Dārin In Za Furankisu, stylized as DARLING in the FRANXX), abbreviated as DarliFra (ダリフラ, DariFura), is a 2018 Japanese science fiction monster romance anime media co-produced by A-1 Pictures and Trigger and animated by Trigger and CloverWorks that premiered in January 2018. The series was announced at Trigger's Anime Expo 2017 panel in July 2017. A manga adaptation by Kentaro Yabuki and another four-panel comic strip manga began serialization in January 2018. On January 11, 2024 Chace! Inc. Trademarked & Licensed the series since Zero Two became the mascot of the company.
== Main Series ==
=== Darling in the FranXX (2018 series) ===
==== Season 1 ====
In a post-apocalyptic future, humanity has been under constant threat and driven to endangerment by giant beasts known as klaxosaurs, which are sub-divided into at least four categories based on their size: ‘Conrad’, ‘Mohorovicic’, ‘Gutenberg’, and ‘super Lehmann’. In the 21st century, the progress of human civilization accelerated by ground-breaking discoveries in mining technology, allowing extraction of magma energy for a low-cost and all-encompassing energy source. Scientists who contributed to this discovery formed APE, an internationalized organization that gained large influence over politics and the global economy. After discovering human immortality, much of humanity opted to become immortal but at the cost of their reproductive systems. The magma energy drilling eventually led to the sudden emergence of the klaxosaurs, which began attacking the drilling facilities and leading to a huge number of casualties.
Pushed to the brink of extinction, APE led the remnants of humanity to abandon Earth’s surface for the relatively safe mobile fortress-cities called Plantations. The adults live in these cities and have become immortal due to receiving injections of magma energy but at the cost of their reproductive systems. The adults live peaceful and uneventful lives within the Plantations where procreation and relationships have become obsolete. To defend the Plantations, humanoid military weapons called FRANXX were created. However, it was later found that they required a male and female pilot who retained their reproductive functions. Because all of humanity lost those functions in exchange for immortality, there were was a need for fertile children and through genetic cloning, children were born. The children, referred to as ‘parasites’, are educated only for piloting the FRANXX in boy-girl pairs and are kept in isolation throughout their childhoods, and placed in environments called ‘Birdcages’, which emulate that of a bygone era, so they can develop the emotional responses needed to pilot the FRANXX.
After a century of warfare against the klaxosaurs, a parasite named Hiro, who is initially viewed as a prodigy, fails his capacity test and is deemed unfit to pilot, making him lose interest in life. While skipping out on his class's graduation ceremony, Hiro encounters Zero Two, an infamous FRANXX pilot who is actually a human-klaxosaur hybrid with red horns on her head and a dark past in which her partners die after riding with her thrice. After her partner is killed in a klaxosaur attack, Hiro says to Zero Two that he'll help her pilot her robot to defeat the klaxosaur. After they succeed, Zero Two announces she has found her "darling."
==== Upcoming Season 2 ====
The 2nd Season was announced by Chace Inc., and was to be after 1,000 years later after the events of the 1st Season. Chace! Inc. expected the 2nd season to be worked on either by 2024 or 2025 or later in the 2020s.
=== Film Adaption & Sequel ===
==== 2023 Film ====
A Film based on the 2018 Anime series was released, and took place of the first part from episodes 1-12, due to time constraints.
==== 2024 Sequel ====
A sequel that took place of the rest of the episodes 14-24, was to release
=== The Meeks in the FranXX (crossover film) ===
A crossover animated film about both The Meeks and Darling in the FranXX in the same universe.
== Spin-Offs ==
=== Darling in the FranXX: Squad 26 ===
A Spin-off series based on Squad 26, during the events of Darling in the FranXX, was worked on, and set to release on February 2, 2024
=== Darling in the FranXX: Zero Two's Story ===
A Spin-off film based on the 13th episode of Darling in the FranXX before the events of the first 2 films, was to be worked after working on the second half of the sequel film.
== Canceled Projects ==
=== 1998 Darling in the FranXX Movie ===
The 1998 film was originally going to be worked on, and released, but was cancelled in favor of Pokémon: The Movie.
== Trivia ==
* As of 2023 this is the only anime/media:
** That isn't based on any Manga or Video Game works, and is the first to do so.
** That became a live action based on Anime works.
** That doesn't have a 2nd season.
*** Until 2024 after Chace! Inc. announced the works on the 2nd season.
* Chace! revealed a new logo to fit the series and for the upcoming season 2.
* This is the first anime/media:
** That isn't based on any Manga or Video Game works.
** To be worked by CloverWorks (now Clover)
** To collab with Brave Nine
** To have one character become the mascot of Chace! Inc. from an Anime series
** To have romance humor.
** That was not distributed by Paramount Anime Television
== Gallery ==
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File:Darling in the FranXX New Logo 2 2024.png|Unused Logo
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File:DITF NEW 2024 LOGO CONCEPT asofjune.png|Logo as of June 9, 2024
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File:Darling in the FRANXX - logo (English).png|Old logo (2018-2024)
Category:Chace! Media
Category:Darling in the FranXX
Category:2018
Category:Anime Media
Category:20th Anime
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