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Perhaps "popularized" would have been a better word to use.

Need Rei to perform perfect tea ceremony as well.

Don't tell me how to waifu my life.

Be nice. Do not hoard the bookworm waifu.

The anime the franchise is most well known for is quite silly yes. The manga its based on gets much darker. I just want her to read me mathematical theorems to my sleep like bedtime stories, is that too much to ask for? :<

No, it's one of the codifiers of the genre. But, the genre evolved so much over time, that if you've read the manga this day it would feel like a deconstruction of the genre. On that I can absolutely agree.

It did popularize it though, and that's what most people remember it for. Depends on the time it would have been published in. If we are speaking of deconstruction in the manga / anime world, let's not look any further than Sailor Moon. It basically pioneered the magical girl genre, it was...

Perhaps the issue lies with the presentation then. Evangelion, if released today, I think would be mostly overlooked and dismissed as just a quirky anime of little note that tried too hard. However, it managed to hit that sweet spot cultural zeitgeist that launched it's popularity and fame into...

Well they failed badly :V RahXephon was an incoherent mess. I'm sure a skilled fanfic writer could've made something decent out of it, but why would anyone bother I have no idea.