User blog comment:Monkey.D.Me/Fairly Abridged - ԅ(≖‿≖ԅ) It all Starts when She says No/@comment-24442815-20140301012729/@comment-7418318-20140301123652

While sale numbers are good markers for the popularity, they are not good for judging quality. There's too much marketing going into that today to just say "good quality sells good" and be done with it.

There are plenty of series (anime or not) that got lauded into the high heavens, but due to lousy marketing were still axed by the publisher.

One of the most glaring exampled was probably Firefly (one of the greatest Sci-Fi series of all time IMO), which practically everyone who ever saw it loved, but due to the worst possible time-slot they could get for broadcasting and shit from the money givers, was never able to take off the ground and had to give up after just 13 episodes, despite loads of petitions for it to continue.