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I'd like to say "I like anime because its unpredictable". I found out through
searching online that ありきたり translates to predictable, however I'm not sure if
this is correct.

My entire sentence:

> いっぱんにアニメとまんがのものがたりはたのしいですとおもいます。なぜなら、いつもありきたりでわありません。

My second question would be, does いっぱんに translate to generally in the way I've
used it above.
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How to say unpredictable in Japanese
I can't really tell you on the nuances and stuff of your sentence, but what I
can say for certain is that you should cut the です in front of the とおもいます.  
When です is used with i-Adjectives, its purpose is to make the expression
polite (you can think of it as a replacement for the ~ます-form). Unlike in
English, the "is"-part of the adjective is pretty much already included in the
plain form (i.e. how they appear in the dictionary) of i-Adjectives. So you
can think of たのしい as "is funny". And since quotative と most of the time uses
the plain form in front of it, たのしいとおもいます is better in this case.
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One common way that people phrase this is by saying "don't know what will
happen next". Using the most basic vocab, I will say something like

> アニメと[漫画]{まんが}は、次｛つぎ｝に何｛なに｝が起｛お｝こるか分｛わ｝かりませんから、楽｛たの｝しいと思｛おも｝います。

次 means next, and 起こる/起こります means to occur (not to be confused with 起｛お｝きます).

Edit: to clarify, both 起きる and 起こる are acceptable usages. In fact, [upon
further research](https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E8%B5%B7%E3%81%8D%E3%82%8B),
起きる is a more common way to say it.
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