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Every high school slice of life now has characters with wrinkles and 5 o'clock shadows. Just like when Hollywood gets a 35 year old to play a teenager.

I also wish fads died out like they used to. It used to be that something like isekai harem self-insert slop or certain art styles (moeblob comes to mind) would have their moment and then everyone would move on. It's been like 15 years, please fucking stop. It feels like the entire industry and most of the fandom suffers from arrested development. They are all literal coomer-brained children from the top down. I want more shit like Perfect Blue and Mushi-shi, not Help! I Woke Up in a World Where Everyone Is an Anthropomorphic Sexy Penguin Demon and I Always Thought Penguins Were Kind of Stupid Animals but Now I Want to Fuck the Penguin Girls!

Not the janitor. The pedo teacher (worst character and every character in-universe hates him, but whatever).

Azumanga is one of those shows like Tenchi Muyo (funnily, the Azumanga author started by creating basically Tenchi Muyo fanfiction) or Evangelion that are fine, even good by themselves, but contain aspects that would be picked up on and create bothersome trends.

Dungeon Meishi is seemingly devoid of any skeevy stuff, coincidentally the mangakas for both Frieren and Meishi are women.

frieren as a character especially has like a comically old-fashioned take on seduction

Frieren had Aura who is definitely right on the line of "But she's a 5000 year old demon!"

I've never heard of Orb but that sounds like a super interesting premise for an anime--I'l check it out!

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"Women exist solely to please men"

For me, it's foreign, even alien, that there's this widescale and persistent and aggressive "the younger, the sexier" fixation from increasingly older and disgusting Hollywood/anime industrial people. Even when I was a hormone-flooded teenager, I had the hots for people my age or older, and that stayed roughly the same as I got into my 20s, then my 30s. I started seeing younger people, especially teenagers, as what they are: children.

I can't help but assume that's typical and dare I say it healthy for a stable society. Old men shouldn't be creeping on children, and entertainment shouldn't emphasize old men creeping on children either.

I've said before that a lot of it does feel like Hollywood casting late-20s/early-30s actors for teenage characters, because you get characters that scan as like 20 something and act like adults, but then the narrative makes them like 14 for no reason. You also get characters that scan as 30-40 being assigned ages like 20, too. It's weird, like artists are compressing a multi-decade-wide range of adult character designs down into a range of six years and labeling all of them as teens for no story-related reason.

Someone else pointed out that at least some of it is adult writers basically writing a story with adult characters and then aging them all down to make them more relatable to an intended teen audience, but without actually changing their appearances or behavior.

The vibe's one thing, but what's worse about modern shows is that the seasonal format doesn't let the show take any time to develop the story.