Will only watching anime will make your taste in anime worse?

Yes. You yourself already proved it recently by acting like a common trope is something super special to point out in a review as if you've never seen that trope before. This is a common thing I've noticed with anime-only fans: they are so ignorant of the wider world that they think some of the most basic storytelling devices are what makes anime unique and amazing compared to everything else. And think that names that essentially translate to "Light guy" or "Sad girl" like your typical on-the-nose comic book name are super deep and meaningful.

It's funny because back when I started getting into anime fandom in the early 00's, the appeal was that anime had more interesting themes and somewhat deeper characters than the stock archetypes in American cartoons. Now look where we are: people getting overly excited over bog-standard escapism plots and stock anime character types and rating anime based on how well they conform to those stereotypes.

@MelodyOfMemory
...do you have any examples or are you just hallucinating over nothing?

@thewiru Do you have short-term memory loss? I'm referring to this gem from your reviews, which you already had a long argument about:



This is barely even a synopsis. This is a vague, generalized description of something that applies to countless stories and says nothing about Girls Band Cry specifically.

In fact, I'm going to repost what I said about the purpose of a review:

@MelodyOfMemory
No idea as to why you're obsessing so much over my wording, rather than what I was saying with it.
That part was about how, in GBC, the further we go in the story, the further in the past the flashbacks are, in a way that re-contextualizes both the previous flashback and the present situation.
At some point I even had he thought that you could watch GBC's episodes in reverse order and the anime would still somewhat work.

Why the fuck would I write a synopsis in a review?

I thought about this from a previous comment of yours, but this one confirms it: This is cynical nihilistic hogwash.

A bad movie isn't bad because of "tropes".
Every movie, good or bad, uses tropes.
A bad movie is bad because of either structural issues or problems with execution.

What I was talking about in my review was about "experience", and referred to Rock wa Lady's musical scenes (That review was posted on episode 3, and episode 4 had a fairly spectacular one which I would've had more to say), which posses a fair bit amount of "energy" to them, mixing the rock music playing with dynamic camera movement (In virtue of using 3DCG) and very interesting character expressions and exaggerated analogies.
Saying this, however, is like explaining optics, wavelengths, the human eye and the meaning of purple throughout history to someone who has never seen purple: This isn't showing purple to that person, "purple" is something that has to be experienced, just like those scenes I was referring to.

I just used that as an example because people love picking apart bad movies like they were a frog in biology class. A review of a good movie does the same: reveals the inner mechanisms of the work, but in an admiring way that enhances one's appreciation for the detail that went into it, how they convey the work's message, and how that message positively impacts the world. Like a scientist would talk about a cool robot or intricate ecosystem. Heck, some of the best reviews come from people who share the same interest as what is being depicted on screen.

But if you don't have much life experience, or said experience only comes from watching other shows instead of the real world, then one's reviews will be limited and surface level. Because art is human. Good artists derive their inspiration from their life experiences, and without that, you don't have much of a basis to compare these things to. And it leaves you more susceptible to the most basic storytelling methods, which producers exploit to keep making the same story over and over again.