Honestly right now, I've no interest in discovering new series. I'm currently more interested in western-produced shows, both animation and live action. It's not just character types; deep down, japanese content-producers make characters and stories that are aimed at japanese audiences. Those audiences can identify with what's going on, with certain character traits, societal issues, and story or design elements, because it is not only designed to, but because that's what the creators know. The same way western content is aimed at western audiences.
I can identify more with a show like Futurama, or Venture Bros., or even, say, 30 Rock or Battlestar Galactica, because they are largely created with my demographic in mind. A Japanese viewer might not care for those as much as I do (though American and other western content, particularly British, is often fairly popular in other markets. From what I understand, Harry Potter is HUGE in Japan.)
I'm sure you understand this better than I do, since I live in America where it's standard for pretty much only American shows to be on tv, while in Europe besides home-grown content, there's a lot that is either imported and dubbed, or remade natively. Here, almost nothing is imported with dubbing or subtitles, while only a few things get remade for american audiences, and then almost none of those things succeed. If 'The Office' had been shown on our national broadcast networks as the original UK version, it wouldn't have done nearly as well as it has with american audiences. It wouldn't have gotten to the point it is at now (over-staying its welcome, tired, uninspired writing and comedy, etc.). It has been shown, but doesn't reach nearly the same audience. On the otherhand, the US version of 'The IT Crowd' didn't make it past pilot, which is fortunate because it is fairly awful.
Anyway, I don't want to clog this board with all this talk. I shouldn't have written all this out either.