>Anyone else surprised by the mainstream popularity Pop Team Epic has gotten?
Well the manga had already blown up and was being used for reaction images everywhere so no, not really.
Aside from the first and last episode, it was pretty fun. It even gave me a bit of hope for the future of seasonal anime which are mostly just rehases of already existing gimmicks and tropes. It showed a sort of creativity that I had not seen in anime for a long time. I wish the episodes would have been longer though.