The problem with anime is that there is a regressive age dynamic going on.

In the eighties, kids watched young adult characters take on the challenges of adulthood. In the late nineties and onward, the ever older anime audience is watching ever younger characters deal with adult situations, resulting in a 'refusal-to-grow-up' influence.

Anime is brain rot in its current form. Rage-crying adolescent humps need to be stamped into a bloody mess by young adult characters (who actually look grown up and aren't ersatz adolescent place holders.)