[quote=@ClocktowerEchos]
Unfortunately, that didn't sell all to well when HOTD was coming out. Even though it was on the tail end of the "Ecchi Era", it wasn't until animes like Fate/Stay Night, Steins; Gate, Madoka Magika and Psycho-Pass came out that people started deviating away from ecchis and towards action with deeper meanings.
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Incidentally, Urobutcher wrote 2/4 of those. 2.5 if you count Fate/Zero as being part of /Stay Night