Darling in the Franxx

Darling in the Franxx
Key visual featuring squad 13
ダーリン・イン・ザ・フランキス
(Dārin In Za Furankisu)
Genre
Created byCode:000
Anime television series
Directed byAtsushi Nishigori
Produced by
  • Yōsuke Toba
  • Mikio Uetsuki
  • Eiichi Kamagata
Written by
  • Atsushi Nishigori
  • Naotaka Hayashi
Music byAsami Tachibana
Studio
Licensed by
Original networkTokyo MX, GYT, GTV, BS11, ABC, Mētele, HOME, BSS, BBC, AT-X
English network
Original run January 13, 2018 July 7, 2018
Episodes24
Manga
Written byCode:000
Illustrated byKentaro Yabuki
Published byShueisha
English publisher
ImprintJump Comics+
MagazineShōnen Jump+
DemographicShōnen
Original runJanuary 14, 2018January 26, 2020
Volumes8
Manga
Darling in the Franxx!
Written byMato
Published byShueisha
MagazineShōnen Jump+
DemographicShōnen
Original runJanuary 14, 2018July 11, 2018
Volumes1

Darling in the Franxx (Japanese: ダーリン・イン・ザ・フランキス, Hepburn: Dārin In Za Furankisu; stylized as DARLING in the FRANXX), abbreviated as DarliFra (ダリフラ, DariFura), is a Japanese science fiction mecha romance anime television series co-produced by A-1 Pictures and Trigger and animated by Trigger and CloverWorks that premiered in January 2018. The series was announced at Trigger's Anime Expo 2017 panel in July 2017. A manga adaptation by Kentaro Yabuki and another four-panel comic strip manga began serialization in January 2018.

Darling in the Franxx is set in a dystopian future where children are artificially created and indoctrinated solely to defend the remnants of civilization. The story follows a squad of ten pilots, particularly focusing on the partnership between Hiro, a former prodigy, and Zero Two, a hybrid human and elite pilot who aspires to become entirely human.