Shows Like DARLING in the FRANXX

If you liked DARLING in the FRANXX (2018), a animation and drama series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Eureka Seven (2005)
★ 7.4/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and animation
Renton Thurston desires to leave his home behind and join the mercenary group known as Gekkostate, hoping to find some adventure. When a robot crashes through Renton's garage the meeting sparks the beginning of…
2
ATRI -My Dear Moments- (2024)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and drama
In the near future, a sudden and unexplained sea rise has left much of human civilization underwater. Ikaruga Natsuki, a boy who lost his mother and one of his legs in an accident some years earlier, returns…
3
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Cosmic Era 71. Mankind has developed into two subspecies: Naturals, who reside on Earth, and Coordinators, genetically enhanced humans capable of withstanding the rigors of space who inhabit orbital colonies known as…
4
Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)
★ 8.6/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and animation
At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back…
5
Plastic Memories (2015)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and drama
After failing his college entrance exams, 18 year-old Tsukasa Mizugaki is offered a position at the renowned SAI Corporation, known for its production and management of Giftia, androids that possess human emotions…
6
Gurren Lagann (2007)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
When a young laborer escapes to the world aboveground, he discovers a violent land in which humans battle robots controlled by a power-hungry noble.
7
Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song- (2021)
★ 8/10Also animation and drama
In the near future, Vivy, a diva-type A.I., went up on stage each day with hopes of putting her heart into her song. One day, the A.I. Matsumoto, who claims to have arrived from 100 years in the future, appears before…
8
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and drama
The year is 2307 A.D. Although fossil fuels have been depleted, humanity has obtained a new source of energy to replace them, in the form of a large-scale solar power generation system based on three huge orbital…
9
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
A. S. (Ad Stella) 122 ― An era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system. Suletta Mercury, a lone girl from the remote planet Mercury, transfers to the Asticassia School of…
10
Made in Abyss (2017)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and drama
Located in the center of a remote island, the Abyss is the last unexplored region, a huge and treacherous fathomless hole inhabited by strange creatures where only the bravest adventurers descend in search of ancient…
11
Casshern Sins (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and drama
After the murder of Luna, the robot society that rules the planet starts to rust and decay. Death and despair spread through the land like wildfire. The only one unaffected by the affliction that becomes known as "The…
12
Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and drama
What would you do if you suddenly found yourself in the middle of a war? Teenager Amuro Ray sees his life shattered when war comes to his home. During the chaos, Amuro finds himself inside the mobile suit Gundam, the…
13
PLUTO (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
When the world's seven most advanced robots and their human allies are murdered one by one, Inspector Gesicht soon discovers that he's also in danger.
14
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
After Colony (A.C.) 195. Mankind has moved into space. Thousands of people live on giant orbiting space colonies called "Sides." However, the Earth Government, which rules the colonies, is unjust and cruel. A group of…
15
Kanokon (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and drama
Kouta has girl troubles of the supernatural sort. For some reason, he keeps attracting the attention (and affections) of animal spirits! Having spent most of his life in the country, Kouta is understandably nervous…
16
Full Metal Panic! (2002)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Kaname Chidori’s one of the most popular girls at her high school – unfortunately, it’s her growing popularity off campus she should be worrying about. Unbeknownst to Kaname, terrorists are plotting her abduction…
17
Date A Live (2013)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Thirty years ago a strange phenomenon called a "spacequake" devastated the center of Eurasia, claiming the lives of at least 150 million people. Since then, smaller spacequakes plague the world on an irregular basis…
18
The Big O (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and drama
Forty years ago, the minds of Paradigm City's inhabitants were wiped clean of all recollections of the past. Now, ruled by a powerful corporation and cut off from the rest of the world by desolate wastelands, Paradigm…
19
Dimension W (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and drama
Humanity has found a way to achieve infinite energy by using coils to draw it from the fourth plane: dimension "W". With the production of coils having been monopolized by the New Tesla energy company, freelance…
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Dusk Beyond the End of the World (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
When tensions around AI spark civil unrest, Akira is caught in the crossfire when he protects his girlfriend from an assassin. Hundreds of years later, he awakens from cryogenic sleep to an unfamiliar world and bonds…