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Just finished Murderbot. It's pretty good. I heard the books have way more stuff happening, but as a non-reader, the show was good as it was - a fun, quirky series that had just the right amount of run time.
This one is anime, but I'm currently watching Samurai Champloo, a 2004 animated series. It's great, and the soundtrack is amazing (Nujabes). Check out the ending credits song.
The overall amount of runtime might have been ok, but imo the short episode duration paired with a weekly release schedule imo was terrible.
Besides that (as a book reader) i felt a bit underwhelmed. Somehow i just didn't click with the cast. Although i wasn't as irritated as expected by the fact that murderbot was depicted as male. In the books the gender and appearance is never specified and i somehow had a female mental image, a bit more in the sarcastic direction like glados from the portal games.
Ah yeah I can imagine it being a pain to watch a 30-minute episode week by week. I binged episodes 1 to 8, then waited for 9 and 10 before watching them together, so it didn't feel too bad for me.
The episodes aren't even 30-minutes. Take a look at the episode length on TMDB, only the last episode is 34min long. Others are as short as 23min and i think you still need to substract the intro from that. And factor in that you waste additional time since you want to ease in and out of each episode, which you wouldn't with less episodes or if the whole thing was a movie.