>>22330Only reason it got as much as it did was because it aired on Toonami before the flavor scene took a hold of anime fans.
>how well it lends itself to expansion (Usagi being a heavy eater/lover of sweets, Makoto loving to cook)That's literally every Japanese team based series, in and outside of Magical Girl and some animes dump far more useful material into peoples laps and still get squat.
>compared to even single popular charactersLike I said before, it's a niche genre but it also has a team of interesting characters where as flavor of the months only have one or two characters if you're lucky so Sailor Moon has a more spread out focus than those.
>Then you sparse what is quality and what is downright trashAt least you're not into Cardcaptors, Magical DoReMi, or Pretty Cure. The only three series aired in the West and Cardcaptors even has a new series that continues where it left off and they all only have two or three pictures at best made by American/European artists over the span of a decade.