Are you the only one here that...?

[Kreekakon]

Most of it (emphasis on this) is just cancer and is killing the creativity and talent in young minds. It pains me to see that a seemingly talented kid is drawing the same boring anime girls instead of developing their own, original style. Anime pictures are pretty uninspired, with very few exceptions.

Do you realize what this sounds like to me? I'll elaborate in an example of mine.

It's like someone who has created a nifty style which fastly becomes popular. Then everyone slowly starts hoping onto the wagon, and mimicking the style. And then, the original creators of the nifty style are now shunned, because everyone points to them, and said that their invention of the creative style has doomed everyone...despite it having been good in the first place, and simply just having been adopted.

In a nutshell what I'm trying to say is that you're directing your distaste in the wrong direction. Don't blame anime for killing creativity, and producing generic art. Blame the artists who choose to squander their talent by doing so instead of working towards more unique stuff.

It's like hating a show for its fandom rather than hating the fandom itself. The show is completely innocent, and it's the fans who decide what to do with it.

Why can't we have both? There have many animated features with an amazing story and amazing visuals. I don't see why we have to sacrifice one for the other.
Yes, like said, I know there are really interesting styles, there are really original stories too. I have a few favorites, some of them have the most boring design imaginable and I enjoyed them a lot (Natsume's book of friends, i.e.), but on average? I can't say that the stories are something really that special. Not -bad-, just I wouldn't watch even if they were live action., CGI, etc. Maybe that's because I'm extremely picky..

We can have both certainly! Keep in mind that anime is just another style (Maybe even genre) of animation much like how action films are a genre of movies in general.

There are goods, and bads coming from every genre, and each one has their own of share of "generic stereotypes" that the more lackluster productions seem to always be based off of. It is a bit silly imo to proclaim that you hate the whole style when there are definitely ups, and downs in the entire thing.

What would people say to me if I said I hated action films? I'm sure they would give me many examples of what good action films there are forcing me to re-adjust my statement into I hate "generic action films" which is something much more reasonable to say than hating an entire style.