Japan's response to UN regarding eroge and doujin hentai

If we're talking tropes as in common story telling practices, then it's hard to not ever use them, since they've been around since books started getting written. However, in terms of anime otaku tropes, those two have significantly less than a large amount of anime. 

While we're talking about Dimension W we might as well use that to compare. Slight spoilers to anyone who hasn't started it yet. It has a young girl robot who happens to have feelings, and a main character who happens to have a past the connects with a lot of the background elements in the current setting. It's filled with overdone plot devices that have been used commonly within the past 10 years within the very same genre, in the same form of media, from the same country, and likely from the same sources. I haven't finished it, though I plan to. I'm not trying to say that it's a bad anime, but when you compare it to something like AoT, AoT looks a lot more original. Sure AoT has some common plot devices in it, such as the young soldiers are put on the front lines due to the cowardice in their leaders and their people, and the main character having some hidden past connection some background elements, but beyond that it doesn't extend very far. What took everyone by storm was the permanence and shocking events of important character deaths from the very first episode. It continued to produce things that threw the audience for a loop.

One of my favorite things that threw everyone for a loop was Guillotine Gorilla in Samurai Flamenco. When it happened, so many people were talking about it, no one expected it, and in that respect it could have been called something truly original. I wish the rest of it had delivered the same amount of impact as that one scene, though I also wish more people had given it a chance at the time.