Darling in the Franxx Coloring Pages
Darling in the Franxx Coloring Pages brings one of the most emotionally charged mecha anime of its era to life through color, and this collection at ColoringPagesOnly.com covers 30+ free pages featuring the full cast of Squad 13, from Zero Two and Hiro to Ichigo, Kokoro, Mitsuru, Ikuno, Zorome, and Futoshi, alongside the Franxx mechas that define the series’ stunning visual identity.
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What Is Darling in the Franxx?
Darling in the Franxx is a 2018 original anime series produced by Trigger and A-1 Pictures – two studios whose collaboration produced something that neither had made before and hasn’t quite made since. It is a mecha anime and a coming-of-age story simultaneously, set in a post-apocalyptic future where humanity has retreated into mobile fortress-cities called Plantation, and children are bred and raised in isolated facilities called Garden for a single purpose: to pilot giant mechas called Franxx in combat against monstrous creatures known as Klaxosaurs.
The children are designated by code numbers rather than names – a detail the series treats with growing weight as the story progresses. They are organized into pairs: a male pilot called a Stamen who serves as the operator, and a female pilot called a Pistil who serves as the primary control unit. The Franxx cannot operate without this paired connection, and the intimacy required to pilot together becomes one of the series’ central emotional and thematic concerns.
The story follows Code:016, known as Hiro, a former prodigy who lost his ability to synchronize with a Pistil and faces reassignment. His life changes when he encounters Code:002, known as Zero Two – a part-human, part-Klaxosaur pilot with crimson horns and a reputation so fearsome that the pilots she partners with rarely survive a third sortie. She calls everyone “darling.” Hiro is able to synchronize with her when no one else can. What follows over 24 episodes is the complete story of Squad 13 – nine children fighting, growing, falling in love, discovering the truth about the world they were created to protect, and learning what it means to be human.
Meet Squad 13 – Character and Code Guide
Understanding the code numbers used in the series is essential context for this collection, because many of the gallery pages use codes rather than personal names.
Zero Two – Code:002 is the most iconic character in the series, and the one most people come looking for first. She has long pink hair, crimson horns, and turquoise eyes – one of the most immediately recognizable anime character designs of 2018. Her pilot suit is a deep red-and-white combination that matches the color identity of Strelizia, the Franxx she pilots. Zero Two carries an emotional intensity in every page she appears on: whether smiling with dangerous warmth or standing in a battle pose, she never reads as neutral. Her pages are the most requested in the entire collection and among the most visually rewarding to color carefully.
Hiro – Code:016 is the male protagonist – dark-haired, thoughtful, and defined by the blue diamond marking under his left eye that appears as his connection to Zero Two deepens. His standard pilot suit runs in the white-and-teal palette of the Plantation uniform. The Code016 pages in the collection range from his quieter character portraits to his more dynamic combat appearances.
Ichigo – Code:015 is the leader of Squad 13 – short dark hair, a serious expression that carries the weight of responsibility she feels for everyone under her command, and a pilot suit in the green-and-white color palette of Delphinium, the Franxx she pilots with Goro. Ichigo is one of the most complex characters in the series and one of the most emotionally layered to color – her expressions tell the whole story of what she’s carrying.
Goro – Code:056 is Ichigo’s Stamen partner – calm, observant, quietly perceptive in ways that make him the emotional anchor of the squad. His pages tend toward composed expressions and steady poses that reflect his personality.
Kokoro – Code:556 is the most gentle member of Squad 13 – soft blonde hair, wide, wondering eyes, and a warmth in her expressions that sets her apart from the more combat-focused members. Her pilot suit follows the yellow-and-white color palette of Genista. The Cute Kokoro and Pretty Kokoro pages in the collection capture both her sweetness and her quiet depth.
Mitsuru – Code:326 is Kokoro’s Stamen partner – cool, guarded, and carrying emotional wounds from his past that shape how he interacts with everyone. His dark blue hair and pale complexion contrast sharply with Kokoro’s warmth. The pages featuring Mitsuru alone and alongside Kokoro show the distance and eventually the closeness of their relationship.
Ikuno – Code:196 is the most introverted member of Squad 13 – long silver-lavender hair, often seen with a book or alone, carrying feelings she is not yet able to express. Her pilot suit palette runs in purples and muted tones that reflect her reserved visual identity.
Zorome – Code:666 is the squad’s most outwardly confident and provocative member – loud, sharp-tongued, and deeply attached to the world of the Adults in ways the series eventually interrogates. His sandy-blonde hair and angular expressions make him immediately identifiable.
Futoshi – Code:214 is the largest and most openly emotional member of Squad 13 – round face, light brown hair, and an expressiveness that makes him both funny and surprisingly moving in the series’s more tender moments.
Miku – Code:390 is Zorome’s Pistil partner – spirited, quick to argue, and one of the more visually energetic members of the squad with twin-tail reddish-orange hair and a directness that matches Zorome’s energy.
Naomi – Code:703 appears in the collection in her early series role – Hiro’s original partner before he lost the ability to sync, whose fate at the start of the story sets the emotional stakes for everything that follows.
The Franxx – Mecha Guide
The Franxx mechas in Darling in the Franxx are as distinctive as the characters who pilot them, and understanding them adds a layer of meaning to the collection’s mecha pages.
Strelizia is Zero Two and Hiro’s Franxx – the most powerful and visually dramatic of the squad’s machines. Named after the bird-of-paradise flower (Strelitzia), it has a vivid red-and-white color scheme with dramatic blade-like protrusions and a silhouette that reads as both beautiful and dangerous. Its Stampede Mode transformation, in which it takes a more bestial form, is one of the series’ most memorable visual moments.
Delphinium is Ichigo and Goro’s Franxx – named after the delphinium flower – with a green-and-white palette and a more defensive design philosophy that reflects Ichigo’s protective leadership style.
Genista is Kokoro and Mitsuru’s Franxx – with a yellow-and-white palette and a softer, more rounded design compared to the combat-forward aesthetic of Strelizia.
Argentea is Zorome and Miku’s Franxx – with a pink-and-silver palette and a design that captures the energetic, confrontational dynamic of its pilots.
The combat pages in the collection – including “Wars in Darling and the Franxx” and the Poster page – show the Franxx in full battle context, with the scale and drama that define the series’ action sequences.
Coloring Tips for Darling in the Franxx Pages
DITF has one of the most deliberate and emotionally resonant color palettes in mecha anime. Each character’s pilot suit echoes their Franxx’s color identity, creating a visual system where color tells you something true about who each person is.
Zero Two’s palette is the most striking in the collection: deep rose-pink hair (warm and saturated, not pastel), crimson horns (a true red that reads as distinctly inhuman against her very human face), and the red-and-white of her combat suit. The key to getting Zero Two right is the contrast between the warmth of her pink and the coolness of her turquoise eyes – these two colors in tension with each other are what make her design feel alive rather than simply pretty.
For the pilot suits, the color-coding system is your guide: each squad member’s suit has a white base modified by their individual color accent. Ichigo’s is green, Kokoro’s is yellow, Mitsuru’s is blue, Ikuno’s is purple-grey, Zorome’s is orange-red. Keeping these consistent across all the pages you color creates a coherent visual identity for the squad that mirrors the series itself.
For the Franxx mecha pages, the most important decision is how to handle the mechanical surfaces. Mecha coloring rewards hard-edge shading rather than blended gradients – flat color fields with clear shadow planes, exactly the way cell shading works in animation. For Strelizia’s red, use a pure bright red as the base with a deeper crimson for the shadow faces, and save pure white only for the highest specular highlights on the most prominent surfaces.
For the emotional and relationship pages – Zero Two and Hiro, the squad group shots, the quieter character portraits – the temptation is always to rush through the backgrounds. The backgrounds in DITF’s visual language are almost always either stark and institutional (the white corridors of the Garden) or hauntingly beautiful (the outside world the children discover). Giving these backgrounds real attention transforms the coloring page from a character exercise into something that captures the series’ particular bittersweet emotional quality.
5 Activities to Do With Your Darling in the Franxx Pages
Color the squad in their color-coded pilot suits. Print one portrait page for each of the nine Squad 13 members and color them all with their canonical pilot suit colors before you color anything else. This single exercise teaches you the series’ entire visual grammar: why Zero Two’s red stands out, why Ichigo’s green reads as leadership, and why Ikuno’s muted palette communicates her interiority. By the time you’ve finished all nine, you’ll never mix up who belongs to which Franxx.
Create a paired character diptych. Choose one of the canonical pilot pairs – Hiro and Zero Two, Ichigo and Goro, Kokoro and Mitsuru – and color one portrait page for each of them using coordinated but distinct palettes that reflect their relationship. Hiro’s blue-white alongside Zero Two’s red-pink shows their complementary opposition. Kokoro’s soft yellow beside Mitsuru’s cool blue shows the warmth that thaws the distance. Display the two finished pages together as a matched set.
Color the series’s most famous scene. The pages in this collection that capture key emotional moments – “The Best Darling and the Franxx Scene,” the Poster page, the various Zero Two portraits – are the pages that have the most meaning for fans who know the series. Choose the moment that matters most to you, research what the original color palette looked like in that scene, and try to recreate it as accurately as possible. This kind of reference-based coloring develops your eye for color accuracy more than any other exercise.
Build a Plantation display. Color the Franxx mecha pages and the battle scene pages, then arrange them against a large neutral background to create a sense of scale – the Franxx at the bottom of the page fighting upward, the sky or darkness above them. This is the composition the series uses repeatedly in its most dramatic moments, and recreating it with your colored pages captures something real about how DITF uses visual space.
Make a character memory card game. Color two copies of each character portrait page (printing the same page twice), cut them down to playing-card size, and use them as a matching memory game. On one card, write the character’s personal name; on the other, write their code number. Turn them all face down and play a matching game where you pair the name with the code. This is a genuinely fun way to learn the series’s unusual naming system while spending time with the artwork.
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