I am saying he should accept that he likes it instead of trying to find odd reasons to explain the fandom when the truth is simple: Show is interesting.
I don't think he doesn't accept his enjoyment of the show.
In the opening post he explains that he thinks reasons like "show is interesting" and "the animation is excellent" are not enough to explain the immense popularity, and gives the additional reason of "people like it way more than they expected they would, which adds to their enjoyment of the show." Given that I've seen plenty of people here going "I thought this would suck but after watching a couple of episodes I think it's awesome," I don't think this is necessarily an odd reason.
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