The first few seasons were good, but I really don't like shows (anime or not) that drag on for too long. The reason I think anime tends to suffer worse from this though is because its often filler that is out of tone with the source material. This happened in Bleach and it turned me off from the show.peppermint wrote: Out of all the anime I've seen, I really like Bleach.
My list for ones I recommend to people easily are
[*]FMA (Both)
[*]Evangelion
[*]Cowboy Bebop
[*]Monster
I would probably add Ghost in the Shell to that, but I haven't seen it all yet. I personally like a lot more than that, but that's those are the ones that have great stories and less of the tropes that tend to turn some people off of Anime generally.