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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epametheus" data-source="post: 591088" data-attributes="member: 719">Dragonball has 500 episodes simply because it drags on forever.  Seriously.  The show will spend 15 minutes on something that was 2 panels in the manga.Dragonball is basically the slowest paced action show ever.Something comparable is Sailor Moon -- Sailor Moon is 5 seasons, and about 140 eps.  Only about 50 of these eps are actual plot; the rest are just filler.Most shows are 26 eps; Gundam Wing was 49 eps (basically 2 seasons).  Most shows have a story that they tell, and then they're done.  Saikano's only 13 eps; it gets to the point, and then it's over.DBZ takes bloody forever to get the point.  That's part of my own beef with it -- world-shaking battles shouldn't have a pace that can be described as glacial.</blockquote>