[Cannibal Clown]

Actually, just about every anime series is 26 epoisodes long. Evangelion, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop(Not including Session 0 and 27), Tenchi Universe, Outlaw Star, Record of Lodoss War, Big O, Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Bubble Gum Crisis(All Versions) and many MANY others which I can think of right now.

Oh, and I could've sworn that Trigun was a 26 episode series as well. In case you were wondering why so many shows only have 26 episodes, I read up that it's because 26 is the axact number of on television season.

But some very cool series were longer than 26 episodes, like Gundam Wing, Ranma 1/2, and a few others. But I think that DBZ has a cool story. It does get VEEEEEERRRRRRRRYYYY repetitive though, but if you just go along with the show, you will see that it has great character development, the bad guys are very well done and in depth, and from begining to end you can see tremendous transformations of characters personality as the series goes on.

But DBZ gets too much credit. Considering that the reason they have such an in depth story line and such deep characters is because they have SOOOOO many episodes to cram it all in with.

But I agree that the best ones are the classics like Bbop, Eva and Escaflowne. Short, to the point, and always high quality. But i still love Gundam Wing, and it only gets up to 49 episodes so it doesn't reach the fifty mark, so it's in the clear according to Rei. If you don't count the movie of coarse.