Dr. Franxx was a 90s kid! I mean, I think that episode 19 just covered everything about why the fuck adults are adults and children and children and all the rest of the shit we wanted to know since episode 1. Still, I felt it was stupidly fast. Just 5 years and 70% are inmortal? One year passes and the whole world turns into a desert after only South America was? I know it’s some little nitpicks but it kinda took me out of the episode.
Yeah… this is a lot of almost overwhelming information. I’m not sure where the plot is going from here. It sounds like the squad is going to continue to be loyal, but on the condition that they win their freedom by doing so. Dr. Franxx seems to be ready to utterly destroy APE with the kids still, but isn’t really an ally and his hands seem tied. It seems to be basically confirmed as well that Zero Two is at least the clone of 001, or barring that, and what I think was pretty heavily implied, she has some of Dr. Franxx’s genealogy in her, to make her different enough as to not be a perfect clone of her mother.
- Shocking reveal/plot twist? Check.
- The real enemy is aliens? Check.
- Battle goes to space? Check.
- MCs separated and one needs to find the other? Check.
It amazes me how often Trigger can essentially inject the same plot points repeatedly into different stories and still make them unique and worth watching. But can we talk about this for a second? What the actual fuck was she trying to do with that “kiss”? That wasn’t no kiss, it was like some sloppy attempt to make him eat her tongue. I thought she was trying to make him take in some sort of compound via mouth-to-mouth but there wasn’t even that. It was the worst kiss ever! 001’s an untrained virgin!
So basically Papa, Vice-Chairman and Tarsier were always aliens that infiltrated human society, and for some reason pushed research of immortality technology. I mean it’s almost implausible for them not to be aliens. Like when the humans first met them as “scientists” they were wearing masks of different kinds of earth-based apes. Humans just let these random people who never showed their face take over society cause they had a solution to the energy crisis. Obviously VIRM knew about Klaxosaurs and Magma, either because of their war against them eons ago, or because they’ve been monitoring Earth for eons after the war. They also knew magma drilling would dry up the planet. It probably also affects Klaxos too.
Whether they knew magma energy would sterilize humanity is unknown, but it was quite convenient: not only Earth was stripped away of their natural resources (it became an arid desert), but also humanity became infertile, meaning they would eventually go extinct if they were to fight in a war. Not only that, the ones currently being kept ageless due to magma were being made docile and fragile. And the kids who could fight were indoctrinated.
The character progression of the team also changes the dynamics of the story. Like, what if we made a couple that got their memories wiped turn out to be preggers with a child. I can’t right now. I have nothing that says anything other than “WTF?!” I still feel like this ‘world’ needs Zero Two and Hiro to survive, and even more so, Kokoro and Mitsuru. They now officially have the first human child in over 100 years.
But then the flags. “I want to see the world.” “What should we see first?” “I will always come and get you.” And then at the end Zero Two doing her best John Wick on the walls to go save Hiro. My perhaps blind optimism has always said that when Hiro monologues he speaks to Zero Two in the present tense. That the story of the Jian makes no sense if one dies, or they both die, and how the story of the Prince and the Beast doesn’t seem to play into effect anymore because Hiro is no longer human. I could see an ending where the world needs to be free of APE/VIRM, aliens, magnamic energy, everything, and I hope that Hiro too plays into that future. I’m happy the shit is hitting the fan now, not in Episode 23/24/25/26 or where ever this series is set to end.
We’re watching the biggest love letter to a variety of things: Gun/Diebuster, Evangelion, Gurren Lagann and more. No matter what happens from here on out, remember this experience guys, honestly. We don’t get something like this often.Overall I’m supremely happy with this episode. It looks like the relationship/separation drama really is solved and we can focus on what Gainax (because that’s who we’re dealing with now) does best: mecha, space and AAAAAALIENS!
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