There are anime...animes? Anyway, I like some of them. But broadly speaking I still dislike anime and enjoy shitting on it, because there are many tropes (outside of obvious stuff like pedo shit) common to anime that I just don't enjoy, and there are seemingly so damn many that take place in high-school.

It's common for me to hear an anime premise and be really on-board, and then I hear it focuses on high-schoolers and I check out and stop caring. The way the genre/ medium focuses so much on high school and youth straight-up depresses me more and more as I get older.

And for some reason, whenever I see people say similar shit, the shows people reccommend swing hard in the opposite direction and they're really fucking weirdly heavy and depressing. like the two main modes of anime are dumb and horny teenagers (with whatever gimmick or twist) or excessively sad and weird shit.