Produced by Trigger and A-1 Pictures, upcoming original TV anime series DARLING in the FRANKXX (ダーリン・イン・ザ・フランキス) finally finished introducing the 10 mains and their respective machines this week. The protagonists, 016 and 002, already made their debut two months ago.
More details including the cast and release date are yet to be released.
▍Character
Zero Two (Code: 002)
Hiro (Code: 016)
Machine of Hiro and Zero Two: Strelizia
Miku (Code: 390)
Zorome (Code: 666)
Machine of Miku and Zorome: Argentea
Ichigo (Code: 015)
Goro (Code: 056)
Machine of Ichigo and Gore: Delphinium
Kororo (Code: 556)
Futoshi (Code: 214)
Machine of Kokoro and Futoshi: Genista
Ikuno (Code: 196)
Mitsuru (Code: 326)
Machine of Ikuno and Mitsuru: Chlorophytum
▍Background
“To cater to your taste,
hey, why don’t you ride on me?
The nameless children,
inseparable lovebirds,
the life in a cage,
found you…my darling”
Gurren Lagann’s character designer Atsushi Nishigori is the director of this series while the former’s director Hiroyuki Imaishi will the supervising the animation. It is currently produced by TRIGGER, a studio consisting of many from the Gurren Lagann’s crew founded by Imaishi, and A-1 Pictures.
Other crew members include deputy director Akai Toshifumi (Gurren Lagann), screenwriter Naotaka Hayashi (Plastic Memories), Masayoshi Tanaka (Your Name) and mechanic designer Shigeto Koyama (Gurren Lagann).