Whenever I take a trip to the video shop just round the corner I always feel awkward and weird whenever I even glance over at the anime section.
The only two anime I've ever seen an entire series of were Chobits (My sister had the box set) and that thing with the girl and the depressed boy (on the internet)
Everything else I just couldn't finish because of internet limitations, awkwardness and feeling embarrassed.
"UEAAAGGHHH IM FIGHTING THIS DUDE IT TAKES 2-5 EPISODES TO BEAT YEAH YOU'RE TOTALLY GOING TO WAIT TWO WEEKS UPWARDS TO SEE ME OBVIOUSLY WIN THIS POINTLESS FIGHT YEAH!"
Some way through making it (they did this with Pokemon too) they'd decide to have them sorta lose. They basically thought, "our mildly not-stupid audience is predicting the outcome of most of our episodes. We'd better make it so... Uuuh... I don't know"
Also, what's up with bleach? like, they have hundreds of episodes, it's crazy.