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The difficulty with anime is that it’s become a highly derivative and imitative market- the high overhead bumociated with animation means that most studios prefer to produce safer, more conventional material that fits within previous conventions- this tendency is very strong in Japanese development systems in general. It’s thanks to this trend that we have most anime cliches, actually…

Generally speaking, though, it leads to a glut of very similar, very generic shows. You also end up with a lot of the same viewer-oriented material, such as the concepts of fanservice or merchandising-oriented writing.

But teh ting about that is, cop shows, if they suck, eventually get cancelled. Where as anime has all 26 episodes. That and it’s hard to find anime thats actually decent where as you have tons of magazines telling you what tv shows are good.