• tigeruppercut
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    It’s a similar problem with any of the “endless” anime. It’s virtually impossible to sustain an interesting and coherent story over hundreds of episodes, so they almost inevitably have those annoying tropes they fall back on.

    I know they’re popular but I pretty much die on the hill that there hasn’t been a good anime that has more than about 150 episodes (yes, that includes Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, DragonBall, etc).

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      I used to love Detective Conan. The anime came out in 1997 (the manga began in 1994) and it’s still running. At first I watched everything, but after a few years and still hundreds of episodes I’d never seen, I gave up trying to watch each one. I switched to only watching plot-relevant episodes, skipping the many filler episodes. Eventually, I simply gave up and lost interest.

      There are over 1000 episodes now.

      Poor Shinichi has been trapped in the body of a 7 year old for 30 years. Dude deserves to go back to his old life already.

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      It’s because the anime needs to avoid reaching same story as manga, so there’s a lot of filler or extended scenes. Just read the manga for the series you list above and you’ll see bug difference

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        There’s definitely a difference, but even so there’s a reason most stories aren’t thousands of pages. The Japanese manga publishing cycle isn’t conducive to promoting good art.