I began to watch anime productions not too long ago. I am also not the biggest fan of this genre but let me tell you something, there are some anime masterpieces that are just amazing. The movie Your Name is one of the best scifi/romance stories I have watched in my life, and it is an anime film. Ghost in the Shell is probably the main classic in the anime scifi category.

I don't think I would watch a series with so many episodes though, but I have also watched shorter series like Parasyte, Another (great suspense btw), and more recently Serial Experiments Lain, and I loved them all.