
DARLING in the FRANXX
2018 · TV Series · TV-14 · 24 min · ★ 8.5
In a distant future, children raised inside a mobile fortress city are trained for a single purpose: piloting powerful robots to defend humanity against mysterious giant creatures in the wasteland. When a strange new girl arrives and singles out one struggling pilot, their partnership sparks intense battles, shifting loyalties, and questions about identity, purpose, and connection.
Also known as DariFura
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Details
- Original title
- ダーリン・イン・ザ・フランキス
- Years
- 2018
- Release date
- 2018-01-13
- Network
- Tokyo MX
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- TV-14
- Runtime
- 24 min
- Max quality
- HD
- TMDB rating
- 8.5/10 (1,902 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a sci‑fi romance with big feelings, ongoing mystery, and frequent action, but Not for you if you dislike fan service, familiar anime tropes, or uneven pacing like some found in Date A Live.
Pros: emotional romance; exciting robot battles; strong early episodes | Cons: heavy anime tropes; awkward fan service; messy later story
Themes
- allegory
- post-apocalyptic future
- love
- romance
- mecha
- unrequited love
- coming of age
- giant robot
- piloted robot
- orphan
- anime
- real robot
- +2 more
Cast & crew

Yuto Uemura
as Hiro (voice)

Haruka Tomatsu
as Zero Two (voice)

Kana Ichinose
as Ichigo (voice)

Yuuichirou Umehara
as Gorou (voice)

Nanami Yamashita
as Miku (voice)

Saori Hayami
as Kokoro (voice)

Marina Inoue
as Nana (voice)

Shizuka Ishigami
as Ikuno (voice)

Mutsumi Tamura
as Zorome (voice)

Aoi Ichikawa
as Mitsuru (voice)
Directed by Takahiro Shikama, Yoshiyuki Kaneko, Yoshihiro Miyajima +15 more
Episodes1 season · 24 episodes
Season 124 episodes
- S1E1Alone and Lonesome24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E2What It Means to Connect24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E3Fighting Puppet24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E4Flap Flap24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E5Your Thorn, My Badge24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E6DARLING in the FRANXX24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E7Shooting Star Moratorium24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E8Boys x Girls24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E9Triangle Bomb24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E10The City of Eternity24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E11Partner Shuffle24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E12The Garden Where It All Began24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E13The Beast and the Prince24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E14Punishment and Confession24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E15Jian24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E16Days of Our Lives24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E17Eden24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E18When the Sakura Blooms24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E19Inhumanity24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E20A New World24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E21For You, My Love24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E22Stargazers24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E23DARLING in the FRANXX24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E24Never Let Me Go24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video