Darling in the Franxx (Japanese: ダーリン・イン・ザ・フランキス Hepburn: Dārin In Za Furankisu), abbreviated as DarliFra (ダリフラ), is a 2018 Japanese science fiction animated television series co-produced by Trigger and CloverWorks that premiered on January 13, 2018. The series was announced at Trigger's Anime Expo 2017 panel in July 2017. A manga adaptation by Kentaro Yabuki and another four-panel comic strip manga began serialization on January 14, 2018.