RCBH928 wrote:I know most people into "anime" but I favour the western adult oriented stuff which is rare. Adult oriented anime like Ghost in a Shell is ok with me, but I can't stand the more childish ones like Naruto and One Piece. The never ending series does not help either. I will not watch 964 episodes of One Piece. I see the comic side of anime but it grows mundane too soon.
The perpetual anime shows like that tend to be the exception rather than the rule. Like with western shows, anime tends to come out seasonally in blocks of 10-13 or so episodes. Many series run for one or two of those seasons, and that's it. Even some of the longer ones still come out over the course of a year or two and finish up.
To be fair, you do sometimes have spinoff series, or shows where full "seasons" are broken up more and labeled differently (especially if there's a gap in the releases), but quite a lot of shows are ~10-26 episodes (skim the first few hundred on the list here for instance).
A lot of the well known series do tend to be those shounen style ones you mentioned, which are in turn often the long running shows.
There's plenty there that skews a little older, and isn't as much of an investment to watch. It just may take a little more searching, since it would have been a big thing people were following for a year before moving on to the next set of shows.
