Anime technology
At first, I wanted to praise the anime because I've been binge-watching a bunch of different titles lately. But after a bit of reflection, all the events, characters, and mechanics turned into a collection of cliches, which is what I want to talk about.
I'll start with the most disgusting thing: the authors' endless embarrassment when it comes to erotica. The characters constantly, abruptly, and unequivocally reprimand themselves and each other. It's a rotten moralizing, teasing the audience, even though it's 18+ and the authors are perfectly capable of saying whatever they want. Well, considering their faces are disproportionately more beautiful than their bodies, you could chalk it up to them actually being incels and seeing the world that way. In other places, like books, the protagonist can have sex with everyone without describing the details, and it looks normal and appropriate. But even there, it's not a series of prodigal adventures; it turns into a silly harem novel, because even in fantasy, the writer has a hard time letting go of the fictional girls after they influence the main character.
Next up: plot twists, plot twists, and endings. In one anime, the main character repeatedly shows up at the last minute and saves everyone. It's tense when you haven't slept for 24 hours, but if you think about what I would do, I wouldn't do it. Essentially, rational fanfiction has become the most (or almost) popular among fanfiction only because the characters don't act stupid or freak out so much as to fit into the author's plot twist. The plot twists can be complex and original, like in Naruto, but the ending in all stories is essentially the same: all evil is defeated, everyone has gotten married and had children, and left their work behind. Often, a character levels up to godhood, and nothing much can be written beyond that.
In general, each episode features a bit of fighting, a bit of romance, a bit of communication and moralizing. The proportions vary depending on the genre, but the author doesn't create a cohesive work, simply throwing in ready-made characters like the tsundere, the tough experienced bureaucrat, and the young tough bureaucrat. Incidentally, almost all anime idolize the state, guild systems, ranks, and so on. It seems that even in clearly dystopian settings like Naruto, the authors themselves don't realize they're depicting evil. All social relationships seem to be taken from the template of a single video game and are also modified within the framework of its mechanics.
The impersonality carries over from title to title; it feels like all anime are beginner fanfictions with OOC, AU, and Mary Sue warnings.
At the same time, the impersonal production, justified by a ruthless economy, only exacerbates this. The secondary characters are simply designed to be impossible to fall in love with. My type (blondes of certain shades) is always secondary, which elicits a certain amount of pure hatred towards the authors. Also, the main character's loved ones, to whom the viewer has already become attached, never die, but are miraculously saved. Parents can die, but no one bothered to develop their character.
In the end, anime as a genre can be described as a saccharine, schematic copy of Western works. The most disturbing thing I wanted to bring out in the title of this post is that anime authors have no morals whatsoever. In the sense of a system of values and ideals they want to convey. They simply take standard (relative to the target audience) opinions on all issues and broadcast them. For me, morals (plus tastes) are the core of a work, determining all the initial parameters: who to show as evil, who as good, what to show, and what to leave behind.
About one title a year really sticks in your mind. The rest are either barely watchable copies of the first, or (almost always) nonsense and heresy that is impossible to watch. Recent highlights: Jobless Reincarnation, Castlevania Season 1, Solo Leveling (Action Only)