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That's why I pick my anime so carefully. I generally stay away from things with generic characters or lots of cliches...which, sadly, encompass the majority of anime. Don't you hate it when you find an anime with a unique concept but a poor execution?
Though really, I feel that if the average anime fan were more discriminating with what they watched, anime as a whole would get better and there'd be less of it. After all, a lot of otaku just watch anime to watch it, regardless of whether they think the shows are good are not, and this happens ALOT. Heck, if it didn't, shows like Ikki Tousen wouldn't be around for so long, and the fact that there are so many anime and that so many cliches and generic characters (often carbon copies of each other) exist and end without cancellation is proof of that...and that's not a good thing.