the true secret behind Zero Two has been revealed!So what's up guys Foxen here
oh my god what a juicy Darling in the Franxx episode this week. I got some
massive chills with that Zero Two at the end. We'll get to that
let's go ahead and get this breakdown started the star of this episode begins
with the lovely APE group. So about Mitsuru and Kokoro's Mindwipe apparently dr.
Franxx was never informed about it not until after was already done of course.
Here the doctor makes an interesting comment about the APE group something
that I was always thinking and perhaps you were too about how the APE group is
gonna use force without a second thought. I also just love that dr. Franxx
acknowledges that doing this to two members of squad 13 is gonna make the
whole group rebel and then perhaps the most interesting part from dr. Franxx
it's him admitting how he's pretty similar to the ape group but just
honestly the whole setup of this info-dump of an episode. Alright so let's
talk about the past the first thing you see is 2025. When I saw this I was just
thinking didn't this take place way later in the future but one thing to
keep in mind is that they did mention fighting the Klaxosaurs for about a
hundred years. Anyway at this point you do see a very young dr. Franxx at this
point in time it seems that the world seems more or less like our world and
really quite the difference with dr. Franxx. Anyway here now everything is
revealed. How did the earth turn into this wasteland? Along with how dr.
Franxx and this ape group are at the center of it from the very beginning. So
first thing I should bring up is cloning. This was something that definitely was
gonna come up sooner or later some sort of artificial life creation which turned
out to be one of dr. Franxx's specialty here. Not only did it get
confirmed but it turns out that dr. Franxx was dabbling in some illegal
cloning back in his day. Literally this was anime dr. Frankenstein. Next up
besides dr. Franxx finally we're actually getting some sort of
information about the ape group which honestly makes more questions than it
actually answers but I'll get to that. So supposedly this ape group was a group of
scientists without any known origins or nationalities so pretty much the Hydra
of this universe. Although it does seem a lot more drastic. It turns out that their
main project included some sort of revolutionary
mining technology. So come on even in this anime world they gotta get that
oil which in their case is as precious magma energy!
Unfortunately the downfall on this earth all started with this ape group getting
more influence and eventually getting themselves involved in politics. So great
I mean sure there's slimy people when it comes to politics,
however right here you're dealing with a group that won't even show you any of
their faces massive huge red flag right there! And just a little bit of a side
note here I do hope they actually expand on their origins. Who are the people under
these masks? Where did they come from? Fortunately at least we do get a
confirmation on their ultimate goal which I still am kind of questioning
supposedly the group's ultimate goal and endgame is really only immortality and
perhaps that's enough. So far seems like whatever they were doing with his magma
energy was them really just building this road path just to reach it a real
objective which was immortality. One of the main questions to wonder about here
is whether this indefinite life is only for themselves and whether it is or
isn't what is the main plan for Humanity as a whole.
Humans are supposedly immortal or at least able to live for longer than
expected. On the flip side the safe group does not give a damn at all about
sacrificing them so why keep them alive in the first place? At this point I was
just wondering how exactly magma energy was supposed to give people with
immortality. Unlimited energy for robots? Although this quickly got answered. Bext
date 2030 so here is the answer to my previous question at least right here it
showed that human bodies were literally just being recharged with this magma
energy so the ape group basically created some sort of human battery
chargers. Watch that's what's gonna come after Tesla!
Interestingly it seems like this was around the time that dr. Franxx started
having different thoughts. I was actually a little surprised about his problems
with this whole thing. dr. Franxx took issue in the loss of reproduction
capabilities for humans and also the loss of humanity's beauty his idea of
beauty anyway. To be honest I'm not really sure what to make out of this.
From what was shown about dr. Franxx he gave off this vibe of mad scientist's
that really wouldn't care about this stuff. Whether humans can actually be
immortal is a question but I'm really just
wondering what exactly would happen in stand to the human mind if you can
live without limit or at least much much longer. Naturally some sort of extension
in life would drastically affect the whole world and as expected the ones
who will benefit the most would be the ultra-rich. Yeah the ones that could
afford it anyway. Unsurprisingly more and more issues started to pop up. The top
one you might expect is overpopulation issues but anyway the bigger problem was
actually the side effect on earth. Draining this magma energy really seemed
to be like sucking the life out of the planet.
Specifically parts of Earth were becoming this wasteland so there you
have it this is how Mad Max started or any of these other post-apocalyptic
worlds! It is a little different but the basic idea is training earth of its
resources. Next up six years later 2036 at this point earth is drastically
different over 70% of humanity is now immortal and don't worry the other 30%
would be joining them within two years. Once again dr. Franxx surprised me here
dr. Franxx himself took issue with the whole immortality process. His excuse was
or at least the reason he gave was something about his body being messed
with and hell isn't this at least a little ironic coming from the guy that
helped develop the whole process. I guess dr. Franxx was always more interested
in having this Cylon robot body. As for some personal matters regarding dr.
Franxx alright so I do have to bring up this scene.
I'm glad the lady here mrs. dr. Franxx even brought it up herself my god I was
thinking how dense can you be? It'd be one thing if you were like 10 but come
on you're a freakin adult! Come on dr. Frank's you were even
dressed for this special occasion. Anyway just a quick side note on mrs. Franxx
she mentioned how she didn't want to go through the immortality process so she
could have a kid. I'm just wondering did that kid ever actually happen? I got a
feeling this is gonna come into play later!
Next up about the ape group's whole plantation project idea. Honestly I kind of
have to hand it to them. For one they ended up destroying the whole world and
then what do they do later in the process? They gain control of all
humanity then convince them to voluntarily go into
their plantation domes which honestly these plantations were basically a
band-aid for all the issues that this magma mining issues were causing.
Although is anyone else watching here of just a little shocked? It is just really
interesting how it seems to have gone really smoothly for them. The world
literally handed themselves over on this silver platter to them.
Next up year 2037 the day those massive monsters suddenly appeared one day which
really just seemed to me like Earth's way of fighting back literally nature
rebelling and just watching this I was just wondering how big was the first one!
They mentioned needing several nukes to kill one so how does this compare to the
ones that Zero Two and Hiro have killed in the past. What type of size Klaxosaurs
were they? As for this whole concept of the earth fighting back I know this type of
deal has been used before in the past but I was really getting some Pacific
Rim vibes from all of this and no I'm not even a huge fan of that movie! As
for mrs. Franxx unfortunately this lady made a huge mistake choosing dr. Franxx
dr. Franxx was already married with someone else
specifically his work and research. Did dr. Franxx ever genuinely loved her
perhaps not. All right so you got information about dr. Franxx, the ape
group, time for something about the Klaxosaurs. Here something I've been
thinking for a while got confirmed these things are this organic mechanical
creatures and then on top of this something I'll revealed about them
having female x chromosomes so back to that idea about earth fighting back it
seeming like it's literally mother nature and for a moment just suppose
these things are female I'm thinking these things are similar to like a bee
colony or perhaps an ant colony. Next up year 2042 which turns out to be
the early creation of the Franxx by dr. Franxx. Alright so I do have to mention
it I'm not sure why they have this whole pilot needing reproductive functions in
order to pilot these. I mean why the hell? Is this related to that magma
energy that they use if not just change your freakin software. I know they might
further explain it later right now I just might be well hate to over thinking
about this. As for mrs. Franxx whole situation unfortunately it was pretty
obvious what was gonna happen at this moment. It seemed like mrs. Franxx was
so trying to get her husband attention so why not volunteer herself? I
really got a feeling that it was only after dr. Franxx lost her that he
genuinely realized what she meant for him. Either way her sacrifice didn't
matter too much so many other lives were lost in the process of developing these
Franxx. All right so this end brings us to the other explanation about the
Franxx the whole female-male politic system supposedly these guys were
writing into female male pairs to alleviate some of the stress from the
Franks piloting function. There was also something mentioned about the yellow
blood cells which I am still totally confused about. As you know eventually
this whole Franxx project succeeded unfortunately resulted was kids being
developed just to live their whole lives fighting Klaxosaurs. At the same
time you have all these immortals so-called humans they just completely
forgot about the threat outside of the domes. I'm sure you can see a lot of
parallels between this and our world today.
Next up the queen bee got discovered the Klaxosaurs princess. Alright so here
they didn't fully explain how the ape group found the Loli princess. Here it
was really no surprise to see her fight back although interestingly she did let
dr. Franxx live so did dr. Franxx live only by chance and by extension he
became the princess messenger? Also just a quick side note I thought dr. Franxx
was already part by this point but it turns out to be not the case at all.
Anyway ultimately from this encounter dr. Franxx seems to have found his true
love. He really is a mad scientist. Next up let me quickly touch on Kokoro and
Mitsuru's current situation so going forward
it seems that Kokoro got her memories reset to the point that now she still
thinks Futoshi is her partner and right here I do have to give Futoshi a
lot of credit. He could have easily taken advantage of this whole mess and got it
back with her. Overall I think the most depressing scene from all of this was
this one. Hopefully they remember in time before the ape group makes him do a
protocol 32. Apeaking about the ape group their little confrontation with
them. So that whole scene didn't really go as I expected. At first you have
Futoshi snapping at them. Then you got Zorome questioning them about whether
they were just born to fight and die and then going in for the finishing blow was
Hiro's denouncement of them as their Papa + him
ultimately asking for their freedom. So yeah this whole scene I did not see it
ending well. Instead I saw all of them being ordered to get mine wiped and
by the way I'm not even sure where this group would go. Would they perhaps start
from zero in that Klaxosaurs wasteland? Anyway
surprisingly the ape group agreed under one condition
easy enough just survive one final mission of theirs. You could of course
expect that this is gonna be one where they expect everyone to be wiped out so
how many protocol 32 s will be issued? All right so back to dr. Franxx the
ultimate reveal this episode and I got a ton of chills from this. It turns out the
Zero Two has always been this clone of the princess so does this mean she's some
loosely defined daughter of dr. Franxx and furthermore the doctor definitely
used a DNA of the Klaxosaurs princess. Did dr. Franxx also thinks some of his
own juices in there too? If we recall back to the very beginning they
mentioned about zero two being only part Klaxosaurs so could this be the
answer? I guess there's also the possibility the
crazy doctor mixing some of his dead wife's essence into the loli princess!
Definitely let me know your own thoughts about this process!
What exactly is Zero Two the combination of? Either way I definitely smell a
rebellion coming soon. Unfortunately next week there will be another special for
darling in the franxx so there are break right now. I'm still trying to get
caught up on video content here but I'm still planning on doing some extra
darling in the franxx videos on top of these reviews. Definitely let me know any
topics you want me to touch on! Perhaps on who won't and who will die but anyway
more important let me know your thoughts on this! Question of the day what do you
think about the history that dr. Franxx revealed this episode about dr. Franxx
the ape group, Klaxosaurs, and Zero Two? Did some of your theories get proven
correct here? Did anyone out there call Zero Two being a clone of the Klaxosaurs
princess? I definitely didn't I always thought she was part royal blood perhaps
kidnapped. And what exactly are these Klaxosaurs? And don't forget zero two
Hiro and the rest of the cast now have a chance at freedom finally! The question
is how many of them will actually make it out of this alive! Anyway definitely
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