I myself was taken into anime by seeing the shows on TV but nowadays they don’t even show anything worth watching in my opinion. But I believe that more and more people are starting to get into anime. Anime is a huge part of Japan and it’s starting to take its effect here in the states with people.

What people need to do is be more open to new things. They only start to watch and they think it’s going to be stupid. That’s the problem with people these days. They can’t take in new things, all they want is the old and won’t try the new. There are so many great anime series out there today, that I know most ‘casual’ anime watchers as you say would love but they just don’t try to watch them. You can’t say you don’t like it until you watch more than two episodes. I will admit that some people won’t like some series types but there are many types of anime series for people to watch. And all of them have their own perks.

Now for the part where people think your a pervert or pedophile, I can’t agree more with you. Just because you like Loli’s doesn’t make you a pervert or anything of the sorts. These people that say that are just people who take life way to serious and don’t know reality from fantasy. I myself am a Loli fan and I don’t see what the problem is. I won’t get into anymore than this because it’s just to annoying but I think people need to see that anime isn’t real life, it’s fantasy.

~Daniel~

P.S. I’m also sorry for any wrong spelling or any grammar errors. I was doing other things at the time.

What my point with that is, is that its not “are anime series STARTING to lose originality?” its that they had little to begin with.

Also your examples are pretty bad choices in two ways; 1. they are obvious shows that are MEANT to be the same, or 2. they arnt all that alike but you point out small things and say that makes them unoriginal. Saying something is unoriginal simply because it shares some points with another really isnt correct by any means, or accurate for that matter.

And one last ‘also’, your saying things are unoriginal simply because they share the same ‘feel/theme’ - guess what, you cant just keep making those up forever. In actuality, every anime, manga, movie, tv show, etc from any country in the world has the same exact themes/feelings/atmospheres. That has no bearing on whether something is ‘original’ or not, because things like that are small in number, and thus within hell even only 10 shows you’d probably see the same theme/feeling/atmosphere in at least 2 to 4 of them.

As for galge being made into anime being the same, im not following you. Da Capo is horrid crap, the story sucks, the characters are fail, etc. But even if you like it, you cant make any sort of claim that its story, characters, or the way it goes about making things happen are the same at all.

And guess what makes something original? The way its done - not the feel/atmosphere/theme, but the way its laid out and portrayed, is what makes something original or not. This is because its the ONLY thing that one can truly be ‘original’ with. Stories, feelings, atmospheres, motives, themes, etc - they’ve all been done before, every single thing you can think of especially in the medium of anime. But the difference is how it occurs.

Say with ef and Wind, hell both are even based on games from the same exact company - yet neither are alike at all. Both are bishoujo games, romance, and with fairly cheesy and done-before stories. Yet the delivery of ef is amazing and completely original.

tl;dr - you’re wrong, but meh, not like i give a shit or like ill even remember posting this 20 minutes from now.