I don't get it...
Why does anime often forget that Freya is also a warrior goddess?
Then again... all media seems to forget this.
Ohh well... Hades will always be Satan... and Freya will always be a damsel.
Because apparently the idea of a warrior goddess is incomprehensible, and people would rather simplify Gods and Goddesses down to the roles they WANT them to fill, rather than adapt the story to fit the roles they DO fill.
Yup, I guess Knights of Sidonia is a more glaring example, since it's often labeled "Attack on Titan in Space" derogatorily. Which has little basis in any actual commonality. Plus, Sidonia was published before SnK, hence labeling it as an SnK rip-off is doubly misleading. Maybe the Titan guy was reading the Sidonia manga when he started writing
Knights of Sidonia is more like a good version of Macross Frontier than anything, honestly; The general plotline follows it almost exactly.
This current Kyoto Animation show about brass instruments, I was reading that it's just K-On with different instruments.
That made me chuckle because of how often people try and describe other shows in terms of a handful of the best known shows even if it doesn't really fit. Sora no Woto? - just K-On in the army. Aria? That's just K-On with boats. Free? Gender-flipped K-On set at the pool.
It doesn't help that a lot of shows starting using the K-On! style of character designs after that one came out, making them also look the same.
The difference between stuff like K-On! and stuff like Lucky Star, is that Lucky Star is over the top wacky sometimes while K-On! is just... girls doing nothing.
So of course it would become a "sub-genre type", because before that there was few "girls doing nothing" shows that didn't display over the top animations or reactions.