Ah, this last work hitch was a good one...managed to finish 3 series and get a start on a 4th:
First up, taking the recommendation of a few Head-fiers on the boards, I went and tried Now And Then, Here, And There. WOW, that anime starts out running and just doesn't end. A bit on the darker side, but very intelligently done, and I love how none of the characters is really ignored: Even someone as relatively one dimensional as one of soldiers from the first couple of episodes who had a grand total of maybe 30 seconds worth of screen time, came back to the end and became a more fleshed out character. Solid 5/5
Second, and I am going to get hit hard for this one: Serial Experiments Lain. Now, to be fair, I started this series 2 years ago when I borrowed my friend's two disc set and burned them both. The problem was, I was moving through the series slow, and when I moved out of my apartment, I lost track of my second disc and kind of lost the series, until a few weeks back, when I dug it out again. Watched it from start to finish and all I can say is I love that the series didn't slow at the end. It stayed the same series through and through and stayed strong over all 13 episodes. 5/5
Third was a series my sister demanded I watch: Ayashi No Ceres (Ceres Celestial Legend). I wasn't expecting a whole lot from this series, so I went in with a low bar. Basically, for those who don't know, The series focuses on 2 twins Aya Mikage and her brother Aki. Apparently, the Mikage family is born from the forced union between the first Mikage and a Tenshi from angel who he forced to remain on earth by hiding her celestial robe. The spirit of the angel continues to come back to haunt and destroy the family using the girls borne to the family as a medium. Girls found to be the medium for the Tenshi are killed on their 16th birthday. Apparently, she comes back her strongest ever in Aya and Aki becomes the medium for the original Mikage, and the story follows in how Aya escapes being killed and Aki is separated from her in an attempt to bring out the spirit of the Mikage. I don't know what it really was about the series, but I found myself not really caring about any of the characters, and when I finally did find a character I liked (Chidori Kuruma), I was disappointed by her lack of time on the screen. I certainly don't feel like I wasted my time watching this, but I probably won't be coming back to it again. 3/5
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles: I started this series a couple of days ago and was rather looking forward to it as I was a somewhat big fan of CardCaptor Sakura. I was looking forward to seeing more of those characters even though I knew that the background for the story was entirely different. I've only gotten through the first 8 eps. but, I'm already mildly bored. I'm sticking with it and hoping it gets interesting soon.
It came off as a bit more serious and a little dry at times, but overall it was enjoyable. The setting is a catholic girls school, where upperclassmen select "little sisters" (underclassmen) that they train into more sophisticated girls before they graduate, which is a situation that cycles indefinitely. Intimate feelings are shared between sisters, and drama ensues. 
