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That’s just the most popular ones frankly. There are exceptions, but the popular anime tend to follow tropes more closely than the less popular ones.
Anime is more of a medium than a genre, though there are certainly tropes that you’ll find in the vast majority of shows like over-acted dialogue and facial expressions, over-explaining, slow pace, etc.
I think Mickey just serves as a stand-in for Disney in general