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Nichijou didn't have any real plot... at least haganai had something.
Nichijou's humour is scattered and dumb... Haganai's humour was cute and more understandable to the general audience.
Nichijou's character designs were not outstanding in the slightest... Haganai had a big-chested brat, had lolis (one of which runs around naked), and a cute smarty-pants who was extremely perverted....
No need for a facepalm (Note, I still haven't seen the show, so I truly wouldn't know why.).
You could give all the explanations in the world, fact is, nobody truly knows why it didn't sell well in Japan/appeal to the Japanese otaku. Even many of the most informed people over here thought Nichijou would sell, but nope, it didn't sell.
If you really know the answer (as you seem to know the japanese otaku as the palm of your hand) why would you ask such a thing? Indeed, Nichijou's humor isn't for everyone, but for some of us, it's awesome. It's the only kind of comedy I can stand in anime, period.
Where were you getting that assumption? I don't know Japanese otaku tastes
that well, and if certain shows will sell well or not over there. Some are flat out obviously going to sell (Like Fate/Zero which is
ranked 4th under DVD for Amazon Japan's top-selling list. It's been in the top-seller list since the thing was solicited months ago. It will become one of the most successful anime Blu-ray releases in Japan's history.), others it's more of a guessing game (Lucky*Star, K-On!, Nichijou, Infinite Stratos, Manyuu Hikenchou (A show all about breasts,
sold this well on BD (Less than I expected it to. I expected it to sell like 5,000 for volume 1 on BD
because of the disastrous broadcast.). The Seikon no Qwaser II Volume 4 Blu-ray nudity and all sold terribly.).
I asked as he gave an explanation saying "Moe and humor=Instant sales" practically for why Haganai's BD sold 7,500+ in it's first week. I've heard Nichijou has quite a bit of humor from reviews I've read for it, and also, it has moe, so it had that in common with Haganai (Which I've seen all of.).
4kids is a side company that edits out Shows for kids.
Horrible translation, editing and what not of Japanese shows. Their biggest example was One Piece.
They hardly license anything these days however. This is all they ever dealt with. Mostly Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon (Before Pokemon USA came to be.).
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=303
GC is a Thursday show, dummy.
For us...not those in Japan.
Started on Ga-Rei: Zero...Is there a series before this one? Seems like I'm coming on in the middle of a story.
No IIRC.