When I say this I speak of series with more then 50 or so episodes. One thing I've noticed is that the plot and script runs dry around the 25th episode. No anime I've encountered has had good longevity. Lets look at Bleach for one example. It might just be horrid translation, but how many times can EVERY character mutter out the word "You bastard!" I mean the characters dry out after the first major plot line and all they do now is blurt out generic lines that could come out of any character and still have the same effect. To be honest, the ONLY thing I kept watching this show was for when Ichigo would nearly die and the Hollow half-demon thing would take him over, causing him to completely rape everything in sight. The reason for this is because he appears very infrequently and as such is the only FRESH character in the show. I mean even the Bounts(SP I'm sure) feel stale within two episodes. I just think an Anime shouldn't last so long, do about fifty episodes TOPS and go onto a new series. That way you can introduce new interesting characters, different plot, and some various other semi-original ideas.
Another victim to this is the Dragon Ball series, which I think lost its flare after the Freezer battles. I mean the show never, EVER, EVER changes. I can describe the whole plot-line for every single different season. Normal moment, enemy appears, good guys get pwned, good guys train, they get pwned again, one finds special ability, five episode battle occurs, something happens, MIGHT end, might continue, if continues good guys still get pwned and have to train again. It's just fighting OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER. YuYu did the same thing, but I admit I didn't stick with that series long enough to see how it turned out, but it was a victim to the three or more episode battles.
I never have and probably never will understand why people enjoy this, all of these prolonged series tend to become the same recipe of drawn out characters, horrid script, and mundane plots. Bleach being the worst of these offenders.
Another victim to this is the Dragon Ball series, which I think lost its flare after the Freezer battles. I mean the show never, EVER, EVER changes. I can describe the whole plot-line for every single different season. Normal moment, enemy appears, good guys get pwned, good guys train, they get pwned again, one finds special ability, five episode battle occurs, something happens, MIGHT end, might continue, if continues good guys still get pwned and have to train again. It's just fighting OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER. YuYu did the same thing, but I admit I didn't stick with that series long enough to see how it turned out, but it was a victim to the three or more episode battles.
I never have and probably never will understand why people enjoy this, all of these prolonged series tend to become the same recipe of drawn out characters, horrid script, and mundane plots. Bleach being the worst of these offenders.
