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Made by a small studio and good quality. That's the biggest reason. I just like supporting indie creators. I also like seeing things that are made with foreign (or I suppose for them, domestic) audiences in mind. It gives things more of a charm than when a show is stripped entirely of its cultural identity to have wider international appeal. Might be why anime and East Asian media in general has been growing in popularity. It's uniquely Japanese/Asian and the culture is rarely stripped away. Even if it's not your thing, there's a novelty to that. 

Characters were OK. I want more development. I'm curious how Mymy's character will develop. Does she embrace being a Dutch National, but ethnically Japanese? Does she go back to Japan? Can she even speak Japanese well enough to blend in? What causes her to despise being Japanese so much? Do Japanese people reject her as being "not truly Japanese" because she was adopted? (Very likely.) Did her biological parents hate her? Assuming nothing gets sanitized, Massa can take this in many interesting directions that would never happen in a "proper" network TV show. Mymy interests me to no end because it's an angle I've never seen taken seriously. Mymy's character is kind of caught in that limbo that mixed race kids like me are in, where we'll never be "White" or "Japanese." God forbid if you take it to Mymy's levels of coping, but she's a type of character I haven't really seen before and a type of person that definitely exists IRL. Just look at how common double-eyelid surgery is in Asian countries.