Hard mode: the show must have sold or averaged less than 1k sales in Japan.
Here's a prominent recent example of hard mode.
Why did it flop again?
>>153818546
I wouldn't call it exactly popular in the west, a lot of people here happened to like it but not much outside
>>153819703
Japs have bad taste
>>153819703
No marketing, anime original, uninteresting and hard to sell premise, no big names behind it, small demographic it panders to, slow start with unlcear direction where the story goes.
>>153818546
Fortunately sex=!mature themes in Japan.
>>153818546
Fucking easy mode, lad. Kuzu.
Why would this ever be popular? dropped this shit at ep4 because I couldn't take it anymore.
>>153819825
Then why did that somekindofthing love it so much?
>>153820665
>Then why did that somekindofthing love it so much?
>>153820665
Because it's gay.
>>153819703
Because it's objectively shit and we are hipsters.
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