The majority of anime and manga writers and production teams have stuck to this winning formula, where now the common anime traits have large saucer eyes, different hair colours, are noticably evident. This has apparently epitomised, if not the aesthically pleasing look of anime and manga. But along with uninspiring and boring plots this has made the majority of anime very bland and shocking nowadays. Finally to muse over, artists of manga and anime have been able to combine hybrid models of man and robots. No surprise that the Japanese, besides being a homogeneous culture, have especially been able to make hybrid models of many objects for multitasking purposes, most for relaxation, to life's easement.
Reality seems to home in the success artists have had in the recent spate of decades.
Astroboy, Voltron, Robotech, and not lately Neon Genesis Evangelion and Princess Mononoke. When the Japanese know how to churn out good anime series, they turn out so majestically well. No point in continuing to blabber about it. Watch it and see for yourself to understand why fans absolutely love anime and what they have already have experienced.