As a generalization, critics tend to prefer titles that do something different, when it comes to genres. That could be trying to mix two or more genres in a way that hasn’t been done before, subvert commonly used tropes or start out with an unconventional premise. Suzumiya Haruhi is one of the more prominent recent examples of a simply bizarre genre mix that (many) critics went wild for… although, this genre mix is the exact same reason why it divided audiences. But there’s value to a really well executed genre piece. An overt sense of ambition is always good, but it’s certainly not impossible to make a compelling anime series that doesn’t really do anything that’s genuinely new, let alone something that hasn’t been seen time and again before. In this post I’ll be presenting a short list of anime that play well within the boundaries of their respective genres, and probably have a list of tropes as long as my sister’s Christmas wishlist (zing), but still turned out to be (to varying extents) better than the average anime in their respective genres. Feel free to add your own titles to this list.

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