Yeah, I can agree with every one of your reasons. Plus, I enjoy the anime style more than most western animation, TV-wise, at least.. 

Let me counter-argument those statements. I have nothing against any of them. In fact, I do enjoy some anime, but I just want to:

1. I have no argument against this.

2. The writers of anime are lame. Similar story lines, Mary Sue characters, redundant, etc. They take two hundreds pages to tell a story that could have been told in thirty. For the sake of continuity they add new villains when the story almost reaches a satisfying conclusion. Train, fight, train, fight, train, fight. The Chosen One, or True Power storyline? I'm a grown man now. Sorry.

3. Indeed. Some of them are done right. Watamote was funny, but I found that sometimes they put dirty jokes and hope that the watchers think that's funny. Turned awkward, of course. In all honesty, vulgarity is a serious thing in Asia. We used to be a cultured people. I have no idea what happened to those honourable and noble Japanese.

4. You take Shingeki no Kyojin as an example, which is indeed a good series and well-written. The grimdark atmosphere is thick and reasonable, even though there are some lame attributes like the scientist missing father thingy. Memorable characters? Unless they overreact at everything, I guess they won't be. The first time I watched anime after six months, I winced whenever I heard the characters talked and shouted at his father's face for trivial reasons. Characters are supposed to be cared by the readers. It's not a big thing.

Many American shows are lame indeed, but I won't praise anime for no reason.

Now if you excuse me, I want to go to my bunker. I can feel it already. Shitstorm is coming.

I enjoy most western shows and a bit of anime, I only recently got into Shingeki No Kyojin, and I'm loving it so far, however, I feel as if many western TV shows, particularly American ones, are just the same thing over and over again, and yes, Japan does have reality TV shows, game shows, and all of that stuff, because tbh, anime is basically a cartoon, so saying anime is better than western stuff is kinda like saying that cartoons are better than the rest of the TV shows on. 

But then again, I don't really watch television outside of The Walking Dead, History/military channel, and Cartoon Network (for Regular Show and Adventure Time). The rest of the stuff I watch is on the internet.

I agree with you for the most part.

I pretty much watch nothing on american T.V. because most cartoons and live actions shows just suck to be honest.

Anime, despite having some cliched story lines and the usual character personalities, is indeed for the more intelligent audience who is looking for something more of their style.

I gotta watch more anime to get used to it, as MLP, Regular Show, and Wander over Yonder are only doing so much....