How exactly did this show get as popular as it did? There have plenty of shows like it since that haven't even come close to it
They did it first
Cute girls
>>155788292
Yes
>>155788226
Moeshit sells
>>155788226
Femdom and gaijin girls.
>>155788226
Damn, I just realized this show is 6yrs old already. 4 more years and it'd be a decade old.
>>155788292
There's really no other explanation. The girls are really cute, and each covered specific archetypes so you were bound to like at least one. The high tech scenario also helped though, and personally I liked some of the IS designs.
Everything else was garbage.
>>155788292
Pretty much this.
I guess it was kind of the predecessor for a bunch of similar stuff in retrospect
>>155788226
Mostly timing. It was one of the first modern battle harems.
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Also if certain anons are to be believed the early novels were pretty good, before the author started haring his work.