A collaboration project between Trigger and A-1 Pictures, TV anime series DARLING in the FRANKXX (ダーリン・イン・ザ・フランキス) aired a commercial video this early morning. The teaser gives more details about the story background as well as the release date.
The story takes place in “Birdcage”, where it is completely shut off, bolted and monitored. To the young men and women who live there, the only meaning of life is to fight – for their “fathers”, for the world, for the day they can fly away; however, there is one girl who shares different visions. She is called 002.
All characters and their mecha can be seen here.
The show is scheduled for release in January 2018.
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. 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).