>>3865280The show hits a similar nerve with me as those pachinko ikemen things like Twisted Wonderland or Genshin with its very ornate character design, so it likely fit into Japanese niche tastes pretty naturally. Like Carly Rae Jepsen
>>3865332Very specific Western media.
It's so interesting seeing what Western media gets popular in other discourse spheres.
The Slavs are nuts about Ranfren, for instance, and the Koreans seem to go Westaboo for cartoons more often than the Japanese do