User blog comment:Genista882/Mitsuru and Kokoro 2/@comment-33162708-20190505145405

ooh i didn't realise the last page of the picture book before >:3

honestly, seeing 02 being so nice in episode 16 freaked me out. she was much more interesting with the "wild" vibe in the first half. she's surrounded in mystery and there's no way of telling what she's gonna do next. then in the second half, she took on the role of a traditional wifey figure. anyone who's consumed a little romance media can guess what's gonna happen next. so the show gets cheesy and boring. gr8.

02 was all wild and independent in the first half, all the things she did in the second half seemed so out of character. sure. she'd promised her childhood darling she'll marry him, but with her first half personality, the closest 02's gonna get is joking that she'll marry hiro. she's flighty and probably doesn't want to be pinned down by commitment. she seemed to be the type that would run around the world playing a huge game of chase with hiro.

the jian thing for hir02 is weird to start with. apparently, hiro needs 02 to pilot franxx but 02? she can pilot strelizia by herself in stampede mode and though it's not the most effective and doesn't unlock strelizia's full power, it works! the jian thing has never ever fitted hir02, not even from the start. name another franxx pairing and it'd be more fitting, ichigoro, zoromiku, mitsukoko... these pairs depend on each other to pilot the franxx. the pistils can't pilot in stampede mode in actual battle like 02 can. it's like 02 has 2 wings and hiro has 0. zero two's been a fascinating character even without hiro she's lovely to watch. hiro just had to end up in a lovey-dovey relationship so 02 carries him. it works for hiro, but for 02 her character development is slaughtered.

gosh this is more hir02 than mitsukoko on a mitsukoko blogpost. oh the irony.