It has been a couple of calendar year given that i started off viewing anime on a regular basis and that is a thing I've but to regret. I generally appreciate small anime with less than 50 episodes which have good plot and properly built characters, anime like cowboy bebop(my favored), mushishi, ergo proxy, code geass etcetera. I knew about anime like OP, Naruto, Bleach even ahead of I started viewing anime but retained avoiding them even if I'd found about 50 (I will need to have viewed over 100 now XD) other anime mostly mainly because I assumed to myself 'how can they be any great after they have a large number of episodes?

2021 update: more info I have been about the fence about deleting this because it's so poorly penned, I used to be 17 at the time of crafting rather than a native speaker, and my opinion on a person piece and anime usually has modified significantly with the even worse.