Quote Originally Posted by Dererk View Post
Is this what's happening?
It isn't that there are "no" good shows, it's just that the average quality has dropped drastically since the major anime companies learned that really lazy moe anime literally prints money. All they need is a good character design that moe fans will pay $100+ for pillow covers of and it becomes much easier to make money, rather than spending money on expensive animation which may or may not even become popular enough to make a profit via DVD sales etc.

Also the magic formula for success these days is to get an anime show with a cellphone game tie-in (like Love Live) which has pretty much made a lot of anime just blatant commercials for cellphone games.