I enjoyed it a lot till episode 20, Virm was weird but whatever⌠at the end of the day I didnât think it was story breaking and there were still good elements to be had after that point. The plot isnât bulletproof but itâs not flimsy either. Overall a much more solid anime than many others itâs difficult to have such a wild story and keep it all tied neatly in a bow not everything can pull off an Evengelion and I think thatâs why everyone who is mad, is mad.
I would watch this anime again and still recommend it to others.
I enjoyed the series up to episode 15 for sure, but it just took such a nose dive after that. When a series does that it ruins the rest of it.
As for it being tied up nicely, I think it didnât really have to do much to finish it well. They could have left it with
They kill the klaxours and everyone lives happily ever after and I would have given the series a decent rating and maybe bought some merch. They consciously went out of their way to extend the story unnecessarily leaving a bad taste instead.
I struggle to see how itâs the same as Gurren Lagann, sure they defeated the enemy with their big robot not very original as far as final scenes go, in fact if they were going down that route anyway I would have preferred a little more GL in there.
The world and itâs mysteries never read mattered it was how they changed the characters and their relationships which I think the show did pretty good at all in all.
It was the fact that in GL they had a âendingâ then after that introduced a new villain right at the end, incorporated time skips and not letting the main characters ever stay together for more than 5 minutes.
from reddit - âIâve mentioned this in another comment, but a big reason the ending doesnât work is that it didnât match the tone and setting of the previous episodes. From the beginning, the setting was grounded in a certain plausible reality. I mean, yeah, butt controls, but the fights were for the most part interesting while not being too crazy. Even when Strelizia evolved in episode 7 and 15, it was still relatively realistic. Even in the unpopular episode 19 things felt like a lesser Evangelion. But after episode 20, things became insane. So it turns out APE were actually aliens and the Klaxosaurs were some ancient earth race and things just went off the deep end. The one thing grounding the drama was Hero and Zero Twoâs relationship, and even then it ended with a giant Zero Two. It doesnât gel with the rest of the series. Compare this with other insane shows like Kill La Kill or Flip Flappers. Those shows were crazy, but they started from a place of crazy ness so when their crazy twists were revealed, it didnât feel out of place because that was the type of show it was from the start. If FranXX was to end that way, it should have had crazy scenarios from the beginning of the series instead of the sudden genre shift in the last few episodes.â
Gurren Lagann went the same way.
Without an enemy the story will read like some fan fiction. They could have explained the Klaxosaurs earlier so it was such a mess later.
Why is everyone comparing this to Eva?
