I enjoy anime, however, I feel anime has been on a quality decline over the past few years. They are hollow shells of new seasons, clones of other popular anime, generic and uninspired stories, etc.
Anyone else feel this way?
P.s. I'm TIRED of highschool themed anime omg go away
Sturgeon's Law has always applied, and when the industry has gotten a lot bigger to crank out more shows, the amount of shit feels more noticeable. And I think there's definitely some memory bias here where we only remember the best shows from the past and forget the slop, but trash has always been there.
IMO, the best hits of the modern era are really damn good, my list of all-time favorites has become dominated by mostly shows from just the last few years. The Apothecary Diaries, Bocchi the Rock, CITY: The Animation, Dungeon Meshi, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Spy x Family, Takopi's Original Sin, all bangers.
I'm not tired because there are too many good shows coming out to waste my time watching the bad ones.
Yeah except I feel the shows you named aren't that good but I have different taste to be fair. I need some more darker toned anime like Garden of Sinners
Takopi wasn't dark enough for you?
and theres a PunPun adaptation in the works too, that's going to be pretty dark, even if they heavily censor it.
I'll check it out and see