If it comes from the Shounen genre of anime then usually it drags on. I would say that in terms of Hunter x Hunter the first season is a drag. It does some interesting things, and introduces some of the weird eccentric characters. Beyond the first season you get a lot of well told albeit troupe-y story arcs. With the world they've built it's sort of cool, and not overdeveloped. The action is really great, and the characters even beyond the main character are really interesting. If you ever had a plan to watch Naruto, don't. Don't ever watch a show in these categories (only exception would be Hunter x Hunter). Reason being they are filled with literally hundreds of episodes that are only there so that the anime never catches the manga. This is why I'm always very reserved to recommend the very poorly designed genre that is shounen. It's literally just filled with mainstream garbage. Some of the early Naruto was very interesting, but somewhere along the line it lost what made it cool.