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4 Panel Comic
Panel 1: an Apple Tree saying “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”
Panel 2: an Apple saying “Anime is trash”
Panel 3: the tree winds up…
Panel 4: …and throws the apple as far as possible with a FWOoOSH
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2026
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A lot of it is unfortunately, you can only tolerate the repetitive cringey trope filled teenage focused shows for so long, and it seems those are most of the ones getting made, seinen and Josie anime seem to be much fewer, I’m kind done watching teen characters getting objectified and getting into battles that they win through the power of friendship.
You know, power of friendship is boring when it's done stupidly and it becomes the only answer to every problem...
but to me the worst kind of shounen degeneracy is when they stop caring about the human aspects at all. And instead they just do endless power level fights where heroes keep winning by ass-pulling new strength from nowhere.
I've abandoned several series that I thought started well over that.
IMO the only show that does "the power of friendship" well is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and that's because friendship is a literal magical superweapon being developed by the State in order to achieve geopolitical domination.
Yup just endless slide shows of character XYZ screams and does power blast repeated 10 times and then the episode is over
Miyazaki was right when he complained that the only people getting in to the anime industry were people who only consumed anime/manga. The tropes got out of control.
You know, I've been trying to put a finger on why I grew out of anime for a long time and I feel like what you said here makes a lot of sense to me. The tropes really are out of control. When I think about animes I like, it's generally because they dialed them waaaay back (or I have really powerful nostalgia glasses for them from when I was young).
A lot of all entertainment media is garbage. Maybe anime has a lower barrier to entry, so the signal to noise ratio is worse, but then again, the big movie studios are so risk averse that they mostly pump out boring, focus-group-tested sequels and reboots. Wait maybe there's a barrier-to-entry vs financial-risk sweet spot that produces the greatest share of good stuff? Hmmm...
What makes you think animation has low barrier to entry lol, it takes a large team of skilled artists to make, most of whom are underpaid and overworked, and it takes time to hone these skills. The reason most media is garbage is that studios want to make low cost low risk content, and they want to make lots off it in the hopes that if even one or two become viral hits then they can coast on the profit from that while taking losses on the others, instead of taking big bets on an anime that is beyond the cliched norms and that might cost more time and money to make.
A lot of the traditional anime tropes exist explicitly to lower the cost of production. The artists may be skilled, but there's a reason you see a lot of still frames where only the character's mouth moves and stuff like that. It was necessary in the 90's. Now it's what you expect from the genre.
When I say tropes I mean storytelling tropes not animation techniques, which I know a bunch of them are for cost and time saving purposes
Exactly; the issue is that writing and animating are separate concerns.
So if an anime studio wants to pump out 30 Isekai, they NEED 30 animators working 24/7. But a genius writer? Meh, that’s optional.
So he’s right that writing is low barrier - and then it sucks when I see fantastic indie animation work on YouTube and think “I almost think I could’ve written and VA’d this better by myself”.
You might like berserk, it is very wholesome anime about friendships. Happy Ending. Another wholesome one is Monster, was even considered for an HBO adaptation.
https://www.imdb.com/news/ni52109213/
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written!