Seeing these birthday posts for Zero Two both here and on the hellbird reminds me that it has now been roughly 56 months since DARLING IN THE FRANXX aired and how it's strange the way that such a reactionary trainwreck of a series lingers in the imagination purely on the basis of a particularly charismatic anime waifu. Like, Zero Two has amazing force of personality during that first coup before the writers strip out everything that made her so compelling in the first place. It's just a shame about the series that she's stuck starring in.