I mean, I don’t broadly say ‘all anime is bad, i hate all anime’.

I very much like a lot of anime, some of my favorite characters and plot lines in all of fiction are from animes and mangas.

It… just seems that a lot if anime has largely stylistically homogenized lately.

And a lot of that is because most anime is produced by a well oiled, unforgiving capitalist machine that optimizes for profit, not what I would call real creativity.

The exceptions where that is not the case… animes with more distinctive visual styles… tend to be a pretty decent indicator the overall show is better, in aspects beyond just art style.

Oh, and, I am always going to, on at least one level, judge people based on their taste in art, and also judge art based on itself.

Its fine, broadly speaking, for people to like things I don’t.

Its also fine, broadly speaking, for me to think that people who enjoy art that I find boring, uninteresting, … to themselves be boring and uninteresting, to having boring and uninteresting taste.

Its not really that hard to walk the line between objective critique and analysis, and subjective preference… if you are honest with yourself, and take care to deliniate these things when talking about them.

You are more than your consumer preferences.