For a lesson in warped perceptions:

[..] the first half of the show bored me. It’s becoming steadily more difficult to hold an audience’s attention with nothing but weird characters in this day and age – we’ve seen so much of em, so seeing yet another three grade school kids with exaggerated personality tropes isn’t quite so entertaining anymore. How many eccentric grade-school/kindergarten trios have we had so far now? Hanamaru, Kojikan, Zettai Karen Children – the novelty is long lost. That said, the second half did go some way towards redeeming the show’s potential appeal. When the focus shifted from introducing and pimping the Marui sisters’ weirdness onto an actual plot point – a hamster named “Nipples”, the ball got rolling, and things actually got fun – hilarious even. [Emphasis mine — Author]

I am speechless. Actually, I suppose it's possible to say that ZKC was about an eccentric grade school trio, and Evangelion was about angsty high-schoolers. But still, what's the benefit of such focus?

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