Long-standing romance-anime

[Carnivus]

Well,long animes like Naruto,Pokemon,Bleach have all lost their initial purpose,and spinning off continously into fillers.The only thing that could make a long-lasting anime interesting over 300-400-500 episodes are countless romance sub-plots.Of course,no such anime truly exists,but what comes near it?

[Tatsujin]

One Piece, if I am correct. There is a bunch of other ones like Nana (47 episodes). Anyways, if its long then it needs to be a very interesting series. Nana fell into that category. Really great series, you should give it a shot. Clannad is another one with season 1, 2 and a movie! I would also recommend Hayate no Gotoku as it stands on 52+ episodes (season 1) and season 2 is currently airing as of now! Da Capo is really big as well, with seasons 1 and 2 around 50+ episodes, Da Capo II around 26 episodes (S1+2) and the new OVA that was just released. Da Capo is making big cash so the series will keep going, to what I hear.

I like short series to keep things flowing. But if the series is "really really good" and I felt it was too short, then I'd get somewhat depressed ... An example would be Toradora! For a 25 episode series, ... I dunno, I wanted more. I'd love to see some sort of spin-off or a continuation of the character's life (focusing on Ryuji and Taiga mostly) like Clannad to Clannad ~AfterStory~. I also felt Lucky Star was short as well, and Kannagi (2nd season will resume, tho we don't know when). There's too many to list.

For a 300+ episode ... I wouldn't know what to recommend. You pretty much named some good and bad ones. I don't watch kids stuff (Pokemon). Naruto and Bleach and One Piece are on my list. I'm waiting till they finish. I got a bunch of seasons from them.

I know D.Gray Man is over 100+ episodes and it finished! You can either purchase it (Funimation, blah) or you can grab a torrent from some websites. I got mine from a private tracker, hehe!

Enjoy.

[dbml]

Urusei Yatsura comes to mind. 190-something episodes. Haven't seen it personally, but I've only heard good things about it.

[Lupin]

maison ikkoku - 96 episodes.
urusei yatsura - 193 episodes (?)
ranma 1/2 - 167 (?)

[kureshii]

Touch, ~100eps. I'd recommend Ranma, if I didn't start getting bored of Rumiko Takahashi's penchant for repetition by Season 3.

[Carnivus]

I have Ranma complete,didn't know it has romance.
How is that Urusei Yatsura?What's the plot?
And One Piece is too long and searching for a treasure is kind of boring...kind like Pokemon(which gets interesting in AS)

[Tatsujin]

I have Ranma complete,didn't know it has romance.
How is that Urusei Yatsura?What's the plot?
And One Piece is too long and searching for a treasure is kind of boring...kind like Pokemon(which gets interesting in AS)

......... Yea. >_>;; ...........

[ett]

I have Ranma complete,didn't know it has romance.
How is that Urusei Yatsura?What's the plot?
And One Piece is too long and searching for a treasure is kind of boring...kind like Pokemon(which gets interesting in AS)

*Ett slaps Carnivus

[Sosseres]

http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?type.web=1&type.unknown=1&type.tvspecial=1&type.tvseries=1&type.ova=1&type.other=1&type.musicvideo=1&type.movie=1&show=animelist&orderby.name=1.1&orderby.eps=0.2&noalias=1&do.update=update&catid.198=100

Touch is probably the best one.

[Tatsujin]

http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?type.web=1&type.unknown=1&type.tvspecial=1&type.tvseries=1&type.ova=1&type.other=1&type.musicvideo=1&type.movie=1&show=animelist&orderby.name=1.1&orderby.eps=0.2&noalias=1&do.update=update&catid.198=100

Touch is probably the best one.

Ah! I forgot about that one. I did not see it, I heard about it.

[Nethirel]

I don't think you necessarily need too many romance sub-plots to keep the anime interesting. As long as the plot remains unique and engaging, it won't matter if there isn't a grain of romance in it.

Like One Piece, as Tatsujin mentioned. It doesn't actually contain many obvious love-plots, yet it's been running for nearly 400 episodes and is still standing strong (well... sort of). xD
Moreover, I think they're doing a pretty good job of not going too fast and balancing each episode in accordance with the manga. That way, it eliminates the need for too many pointless filler arcs while they wait for the manga to catch up.

[ett]

I don't think you necessarily need too many romance sub-plots to keep the anime interesting. As long as the plot remains unique and engaging, it won't matter if there isn't a grain of romance in it.

Like One Piece, as Tatsujin mentioned. It doesn't actually contain many obvious love-plots, yet it's been running for nearly 400 episodes and is still standing strong (well... sort of). xD
Moreover, I think they're doing a pretty good job of not going too fast and balancing each episode in accordance with the manga. That way, it eliminates the need for too many pointless filler arcs while they wait for the manga to catch up.

One piece only gets better. The arc the manga is at now is the most epic arc ever. The plot thickens.