At this point, I'd chalk up Jman's claims that "OP is a flop in the States" to hyperbole. Sure, it has a modicum of popularity here, between FUNi dubbing it for a decade straight and four years on Toonami before the costs outweighed the benefits too much for Demarco's liking. It's just never gonna be the long-lasting juggernaut that it is in Japan, and certainly not the universally loved critical darling Moose was praying to every heavenly body of worship in the book it would be.