Oh I have another thing to bring up!

An increasingly high number of anime these days are based off of Japanese romance games (visual novel, bishoujo games, hgames, etc). This is a recent trend.

The anime based off of these seem to be really generic and perhaps only popular to fans of the original games (which most are Japanese only so there are no fans in the US for it).

Perhaps if more romance games get translated then we can enjoy these series better. There are a lot of series like this though! A ton now!