Sorry, cannot be bothered to use anonymous image hosting. YOU NEVER WOULD HAVE KNOWN THE DIFFERENCE IF I HADN'T BEEN ARBITRARILY MARKED DOWN FOR NON-SECRETNESS.
Alas, you have missed my point as well. Popularity may not equal quality, but that by logic it's no indicator of anything beyond availability. Long shounen series are very likely to be picked up by American distributors. Some of them are good, some of them are bad. The exact same thing is true of obscure stuff.
Sometimes things are popular because they are good. Stranger things have happened.
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Alas, you have missed my point as well. Popularity may not equal quality, but that by logic it's no indicator of anything beyond availability. Long shounen series are very likely to be picked up by American distributors. Some of them are good, some of them are bad. The exact same thing is true of obscure stuff.
Sometimes things are popular because they are good. Stranger things have happened.