dick1982: try mecha anime. but that genre has become extremely cliched lately and full of contrived braindead plots and characters. i'm a mecha fan, and i prefer harem these days.
Yeah. The industry seems to have run out of new ideas, or at least money to fund new ideas. For someone who remembers watching classic anime in the 90s on bootleg subbed VHS tapes, it's pretty depressing to see another batch of rehashes and knock-offs and underage smut (who designed that Gatchaman character
third from right?!) shoveled out every season. I liked Terror in Resonance and Ping-Pong a few seasons ago, admittedly, but even those were outliers. Hopefully there's a resurgence of interesting shows soon.