Thread: Licensed + Crunchyroll Darling in the Franxx
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Old 2018-01-21, 04:21   Link #219
Obelisk ze Tormentor
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Originally Posted by Kazu-kun View Post
First episode clearly suggests those who can't pilot are disposed off. We need confirmation but we can't ignore those hints. And the kids are not properly educated and not given any choices either. They're actually indoctrinated into believing piloting the robots is their whole meaning in life.
So, we need to know what this so-called "disposed off" actually means. Do they use those orphans for labor, or kill them and use as food?

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Originally Posted by Kazu-kun View Post
I never got the feeling that they felt ashamed about it. They seemed perfectly fine with it.
Yes, because they can only use their witch machines with full potential that way. And the world already (long?) accepted that the witches wear such outfits, just like how the piloting positions in Franxx is already established in its world and the kid-pilots are fine with it.

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Originally Posted by Kazu-kun View Post
The position they're forced into is sexual in and of itself.
It is established in-universe (like SW's panty-machines) and nobody made a fuss about it (like SW's panty-machines).

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Originally Posted by Kazu-kun View Post
Yes, but Hiro pretty much said it was necessary for him to be able to pilot, and they know they have to produce results or they run the risk of being disposed off. Don't forget last episode Hiro himself was almost taken away.
Hiro seem to be overly obsessed with piloting. Even his friends thought that Hiro's initial decision of leaving the Plantation once he deemed unable to pilot as something extreme. He was given the right to stay and (what seemed to be) accommodated living with no outside pressure to leave the Plantation. Still, I wanna see what other career options the non-pilot orphan kids can get in this setting. Considering the post-apocalyptic setting, maybe not much, but they're still something.
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