User blog comment:PolisKanin/New Oreimo/@comment-24721676-20160310011215/@comment-24721676-20160310201502

Oh, there's no denying that good anime is extinct and that bad anime is a new thing (which I actually never even said in the first place B^. It just seems that, in general, the anime industry is taking a downturn.

What's frustrating to me is that, while most anime still doesn't interest me as much as other things, I've always been kind of drawn to it. When I was really young, I'd stay up just to watch anime on Adult Swim, and usually that was the stuff I like. Now, with most anime being less good/interesting to me, there's basically a void I can't fill. Even as the American animation industry is going up, the Japanese one is going down, and it's just disappointing.

Even anime-inspired American cartoons like Steven Universe, while really great (and IMO better than most anime), can't make up for what's lost. Japanese animation, when done well, is usually very unique and different.