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DARLING in the FRANXX

DARLING in the FRANXX

ダーリン・イン・ザ・フランキス

In a devastated post-apocalyptic future, Earth is a ruinous wasteland. Humanity’s only remaining strongholds are mobile fortress cities called Plantations, defended by giant robots known as Franxx. These machines are the only weapons effective against the klaxosaurs, massive beasts that have pushed mankind to the edge of extinction. Within the Plantations, children are raised for the sole purpose of piloting the Franxx in boy-girl pairs, knowing nothing of the outside world.

Hiro, a former child prodigy, fails out of the piloting program after falling out of sync with his co-pilot. His existence seems unnecessary, as not piloting a Franxx is the same as ceasing to exist. Skipping his group's graduation ceremony, he retreats to a forest lake, where he encounters a mysterious girl with two horns growing out of her head.

She introduces herself by her codename Zero Two, an infamous pilot known as the "Partner Killer." She claims Hiro as her "darling," but what can that word even mean in such a loveless world? A sudden klaxosaur attack forces them to pilot together, giving Hiro a chance at redemption, but at what cost?

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