If I were capable of being rational about it, I'd tell people the same thing, but I am the world's one-stop shop for Vizard fangirling and aside from a major early bird cameo by Shinji in the first chapter splash page, they don't show up until the SS arc is over, and so I can't tell people these things because then I'd be telling them to deliberately avoid my favorite characters. ;o;

But from a non-soul-destroying standpoint, stopping after the end of the SS arc is probably for the best.