You're all harsh on Long running shounen

Yuu_Kanzaki said:
Not really. They could've not made those shows, you know, long running back to back every week? Like the rest of seasonal for those animators to catch a break.

I did enjoy Naruto to the same extent. I just fucking hated to wait every week for another filler and next week for another filler. It's tiresome. I may have given it a 7 had it not been for the filler episodes. 

fyrflys said:
Imma play along with this for now...

The biggest flaw in your theory is that each episode gives the same enjoyment. If that were the case, then yes, more episodes watched would equal greater enjoyment and thus better show. But that is not the case. Episodes are not equal, both individually and when evaluated as a whole show. Lets compare a 50 episode series and say, a 12 episode one. If both series were of equivalent quality throughout, then, if we ignore the other issues with your theory, the 50 episode show would be better. However, if the viewer obtained more enjoyment from the 12 episode series than the 50 episode series, than the 12 episode series is better. Doesn't matter that the 50 episode show is longer, because its 50 episodes combined do not equal the quality and enjoyment of those 12 episodes combined. You could compare a 1000 episode show and a single ova, and if that ova brought more quality and enjoyment to the viewer than all 1000 episodes of the other show combined, then that single ova would be better.

And keep in mind, just because someone finishes a series doesn't mean they enjoyed it the same as other series. Excluding "hate watching" as you put it in another thread, I can watch a show, think its good, and decide to finish, while still thinking its not as good as another series I finished. It isn't as simple as enjoy or don't enjoy, there is a spectrum, hence why there is a rating system out of ten.

Also, the ideal length of a show itself is subjective. Some people prefer shorter shows. I am one of those people. I also prefer other genres over battle shounen, which makes up a great deal of the longer running shows. So watch time in itself is a stupid way to compare quality, when different genres tend to have different lengths of shows.

playgamewithme14 said:
I wonder how long it will take for this gimmick account to be milked dry for him to call it quits, feels like it's already reached that point.

alshu said:
"You're all harsh on Long running shounen"

OP is mixing up addiction with actually enjoying a show.

Yveltal1612 said:
"when your list is facts like mine and many mal users expect me to provide them with the best factual list" 

Excuse me but you gave Death Note a 10/10, that makes at east one entry where you are objectively wrong and that statement of yours invalid. 

Don't get me wrong it is a great show, but anyone who has seen the show knows that the second half is rushed, because it only got half as many episodes as the first half despite adapting nearly the same amount of content. 
This leads to characters who don't have all the necessary information coming up with hypotheses and declaring them as facts out of thin air. The viewer knows they are indeed correct since the viewer has seen the show and has all the information, but it doesn't make sense for a character in the show to act like they have seen the show... Not to mention the end which due to rushing comes of as kind of a deus-ex-machina (aka ass-pull).

If the second half would also have gotten ~24 episodes like the first half, those things would have had more time to breath and be developed properly. Then I could see Death Note as 10/10 but as it is now, it's objectively barely a 9/10.

EDIT:
Damn, you even gave SAO a 10/10. That confirms your list is in no way shape or form objective at all, because SAO has more flaws then there are stars in the universe (hyperbolically speaking). 

Yuu_Kanzaki said:
I literally mentioned I hated waiting for fillers. And what makes you think I actually watch every single episode lol? I skipped 100+ just to see how it ended, because I started this series and all. 

zombie_pegasus said:
Really long shounen are long because they're profitable. They get a lot of attention and are well loved. Anything really popular is going to get hate for "not deserving to be as popular as it is" because in a way nothing really deserves to be as popular as something like One Piece or Naruto and some people are salty that their favourite show isn't the one in the spotlight instead. Also, episode count definitely doesn't correlate directly to quality. There's a lot of really long shows like Sazae-san, Lan Mao, Chibi Maruko-chan, and Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirou that I'm sure you'd never touch. If episode count truly equates to quality then these shows should be masterpieces, but you know for a fact that they aren't.