If Neon Genesis Evangelion didn't meet your lifetime quota for shows about wimpy boys deciding to pilot mechs because they're horny, let me introduce you to a show with an equally bizarre name: Darling in the Franxx. This show has everything: sizeism, public sexual assault without consequences, tragic romance, epic fights, post-apocalyptic dome cities, a seriously kinky demon girl with an aroma fetish, mecha designs straight out of Star Driver, and heaps and heaps of fanservice for the ephebophile demographic. What it has most of, though, is sex essentialism.
Check it: the mechs need two pilots, you know, left hemisphere, right hemisphere, except they need to be male and female, and they're referred to as stamen and pistil. There's some metaphorical myth retold twice about a binary-sexed, one-winged bird species that can only fly when a male and female partner up. It's kind of like someone in some board room in Japan was like, "how do we make our kids have more kids?" And the only idea at the table was to produce a TV show with ham-fisted messaging about how heterosexual romantic pair-bonding is the most valuable thing in the world. On top of this, the pilots are all children, but they're really sexy children, and there's no obvious need for them to wear those form-fitting plug suits, since main buddy Hiro seems to do just fine in his school uniform with zero training.
All that said, the visuals are good and the monster design is on point. Also, if you like sexy teenagers, and it's not bad for you to like sexy teenagers, you might enjoy this show's sexy teenagers.
Recommend: No.