I’m making this to be called out if I’m just wrong in a bad way. But I feel like a lot of anime style lately is starting to look very samey? I don’t know if its because of gotcha games but I’ll see a anime character and go "hmm have I seen this character before?’ When in the past I would know a anime character even if I didn’t watch the show. Maybe it’s just the type of anime that is popular now? Honestly no idea.
If anything I feel like the problem’s gotten less pronounced over the years, compared to like 20 years ago. The style has become more homogenized, but characters seem to have more clearly distinguished features than they did, even when they’re being slotted into generic archetypes where their clothes and color palettes make them reminiscent of another character with that same archetype. I think it’s probably that that makes them seem more samey, because of how much derivative LN genre-writing slop there is being adapted where characters are literally just a more famous character with the serial numbers filed off and a different jawline or something.