Underrated shows you wished more people watched

Good point, these things do come in waves, and I always forget about the "slice of life/moe hate" train of the mid 00s into the 2010s (to also include school life shows, "cute girls doing cute things," harems, etc.) and then I could have easily said: "GOD yet another moe/harem/school show, is that ALL these people watch now??? What happened to GOOD anime being mainstream like Wolf's Rain??? Where's the merch for THAT???!!!!" 

And yeah, that's why I brought up the "pop culture store" example. Heck, even many big cons are DROWNING in the same excessive amount of shonen merch to the detriment of other shows. Since you bring up the Idolmaster, at one decent sized con last year, I think I saw 1-3 stalls with (solely) figures from the show, one stall with those little pin things/CDs/game or two. And that was basically it for Idolmaster merch in the the entire Dealer's Room floor. AND that sadly is how it is for a LOT of shows that again, aren't rage sweaty shounen. It's a shame! 

Heck, even if the show is ULTRA popular in Japan like Ojamajo Doremi, enjoy that one little "biscuit trading card package" or little music box thing because that is the ONLY piece of merch out of thousands (if not tens of thousands) of pieces of merch at the entire convention for it! Ugh.