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When it comes to making a series, pandering and unoriginality are unavoidable complaints. However, that doesn't change the fact that if your series doesn't do anything to stand out from other series, even within its genre, then it's not considered a good series. For me, entertaining or stand-out characters is what I mostly look for in fiction, let alone anime. If a series doesn't have anything to make it different from other series, then what's the point in seeing it?
Concerning the issue of otaku-pandering shows outseliing the exotic fare, it's true that the audience and the timing is very important. However, I still stand by the saying that a show shouldn't just give the audience what it wants, but what the audience doesn't know it wants. That's why there were huge gaps in DVD sales between Madoka Magica and other generic series. Hourou Musuko...yeah, I don't know why it didn't sell, but then again, I never watched it.
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