While I can honestly say that for the first time in years I'm really enjoying my job (Interesting work, working from home four days a week, no more 2 hour-long commutes up and down the A12), I've barely managed managed to think about much in the way of anime lately.  The series' I want to watch are piling up and I just can't seem to find the time to give them as much as I would like.  When I do, I only get to watch a couple of episodes max and I need them to satisfy or else I'll likely lose interest.  This is a problem I know, because some of the best series are the slow burners...

Fruits Basket is a prime example.  I'm about 7 episodes in and desperately trying to give it the time I know it deserves but lets be honest, it's no Death Note.  Planetes is next.  Bought off the back of several good recommendations, I have no real idea what it's about.  Weird you say?  Well maybe yes, but occasionally I like to buy something on impulse, with no clue on what it's about and see what it does to me.  I live in hope of that one... when I get round to it.  What I really need is another Death Note; something that delivers on every level and in every episode, either that, or some kind of discipline to force myself to take a full lunch break and get cracking on my backlog.

Looking at what's incoming for the summer, there's so much on there I want to give a go (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Haruhi Suzumiya Season 2, Canaan, Bakemonogatari, Spice & Wolf II), I just hope I can get through what I have in time.