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Originally Posted by relentlessflame
I don't think it's "because" it's not a fad. I think the collector's market on the whole just has different tastes than you do in this case. I think that is also something that I can easily say is common to everyone I know who collects -- sometimes your tastes align with majority, but other times they don't. I've bought my share of shows that never ranked, and pretty much everyone I know who is in any way serious has had the same experience. The market is just formed of tens of thousands of individual purchasers who have to make individual purchasing decisions about what (generally few) shows they want to have on their shelves. This show apparently wasn't chosen by many. But as was said, maybe other merchandise is benefiting. Or maybe it'll just have a really, really long tail. Who knows...
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I think the fact that otaku consumers (People who somehow can shell out that kind of money for anime) have different tastes is obvious and I am not confused about this. I am simply lamenting the current state of an industry that has become so insular that only these kinds of people are going to determine what gets made. I can hardly think of another entertainment industry which has chosen to become more insular instead of trying to appeal more to the general population.