On my first rewatch and just got to episode with Zero Two's flashback.
Why don't they make more like it. 
The soundtrack, the pacing. End was r-slurred but that's par for course for gaynime anyway.
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Darling in the Franxx is so good
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Because it was dogshit? The ending ruined it for most people, but the cracks existed way early. Tons of dangling plot threads: stampede mode showed up twice, and didn't matter, Klaxx princess was pointless and existed to just be jerkoff fodder, relationships where a mess and not convincing.
MC is blanker than Kirito. Character development would advance and regress between episodes with nothing driving it. 02 literally goes from being a psychotic murder to a domesticated house wife in one episode. The weird society of adults with the creepy routines? Pretty much didn't matter.
Manic Dream pixie girl's murderous rampage where she nearly kills someone? Irrelevant, they all forgive her 20 minute later.
Most of the world building was dropped at the end by a character giving a lecture in the 3rd to last episode.
Klax where just a merging of Antispiral with the beastmen. Stampede mode was Evas going berserk, suddenly aliens are the threat is literally from TTGL which at least set them up and then showed them off. I'll forgive the Star Driver mechs, as it was the same designer. Tokyo-3, strange white uniformed adults, even the launch sequence was straight out of Evangelion. It was an unholy mess of popular mecha shows with literally original thought to it outside doggy style mecha.
Mecha with faceless enemies tends to struggle even to in genre fans. The kalx could be beaten left and right without real regard to developing a good antagonistic relationship, they were there to just get beaten or drive back the protagonists once or twice. It fails to provide a foil to the characters, there is no antagonistic force that you really measure the characters by, which would be fine if there was any character driven development instead of the slop we got. Evangelion the enemies were faceless but focuses heavily on the interpersonal relationships of the characters in the context of the overall themes. Darling in the Franxx fails to do the same, which makes the faceless enemies stand out as boring.
The themes of the show were ok, but were explored in a surface level. Which is my same complaint about 86.
Fights weren't even good.
I think this show is up there with G-Witch for how much it causes most anime fans to discount and disregard the mecha genre.
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Side charas and arcs were underdeveloped true, I think it'd have been better if they didn't try introducing random arcs with the team when they were so underdeveloped(and honestly mostly cringe) but I guess its kind of blunder that's common with studio created scripts, too many cooks and so on.
Zero Two is widely billed as psychotic and part monster(they see klaxosaurs as entirely monsters right till the end) her cracking is pretty par for the course and part of her appeal.
The whole team felt guilty about keeping them separate when both wanted to meet and again, its a bit like say a sperg flying into a rage. You'll be more cautious in the future but you don't really hold it against the sperg its just his nature. Hiro still calls her a monster and they're separated for some weeks I think?
Ultimately it doesn't really try to be a mecha show its a romcom with mecha setting. Fights etc weren't even that much of actual air time, and yeah there wasn't really any challenge to the fights.
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Main characters were underdeveloped, shonen has more development of an MC.
If someone chokes you out and nearly kills you being 'cautious' is r-slurred.
What you have described is how nearly every well respected Mecha show works. They have mechs and fights as the setting the story takes place in and the catalyst for the characters. Usually in a war or fighting to survive causes the growth.
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True but that lets him be literally me
Zero two was all that mattered.
Just don't come between her darling and her again
Simple.
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