Lately I've been ignoring the anime element of my blog for the last little while. To be honest, I've been having trouble keeping track of it all. That, and all the holiday-rushing about has kept me from sitting around and absorbing whatever I'm watching.
It's like an avalanche. The backlog starts with just a handful of episodes that you need to find a chunk of time to watch. When the schedule doesn't clear, the backlog becomes larger and larger thus requiring even more time to chew through, and so on and so on… Soon, you'd need two or three full viewing days to catch up.
Here's a cursory look at what I'm attempting to get through…
Code Geass: The Lelouche Rebellion
Code Geass takes place in a future where the sun never set on the British Empire. Japan has been conquered by the Britannian forces and its people subjugated. Discrimination and abuse at the hands of the Britannians has spawned a violent insurgent movement. During this tumultuous time, a young nobleman named Lelouche Lamperouge, whose past is marked by tragedy and treachery, is given a unique and powerful gift through a chance encounter with a covert Britannian government experiment: a mysterious young woman named C.C.
With this newfound ability and his keen innate strategic and tactical abilities, Lelouche has the power to turn the war against the Britannian Empire and perhaps change the world.
D. Gray Man
If The Exorcist was done by the Japanese, D. Gray Man would be the result. 
Based on a manga by Katsura Hoshino, D. Gray Man is set in an alternate history 19th century Earth. The Vatican maintains a paramilitary organization called The Black Order, its ranks filled with warrior exorcists whose mission is to stop an ancient evil being anmed The Millenium Earl, who is bent on destroying all of humanity with a great biblical-style flood.
The story follows young Allen Walker, an up and coming Exorcist and recent Black Order inductee. There's more to Walk than meets the eye. With his past shrouded in mystery, Walker's destiny is unknown to even the young exorcist himself.
Walker's mission is to recover a divine substance called Innocence that can be harnessed and formed into powerful weapons to combat the evil forces of the Millenium Earl.
Freedom Project
The Freedom Project is a new 6-part OVA series that was created as part of Nissan Cup Noodles' 35th anniversary and is plugged by an extensive multimedia campaign. The series features cel-shaded computer animation, with heavy participation of Akira's Katsuhiro Otomo.
Set in the distant future, Earth has been rendered inhospitable through an environmental catastrophe. Humanity survives in lunar cities that house millions. In one such city, called Eden, lives Takeru; a rebellion teenager whose hobbies include delinquency and vehicle racing. Little does Takeru know that his passion for racing would put him on a collision course with a secret beyond his imagination, a secret that could shake Eden, and humanity to its very core.
009-1
009-1 is a retro-styled espionage actioner with a cast of cyborg spy girls who go around the world fighting evil organizations bent on taking over the world. Think of it as Astroboy meets James Bond meets Totally Spies. 
I wish I could say more about the series, but after seeing the first episode, I'd have to say that so far it appears that the series not much more than a shallow diversion that uses any excuse to sexually exploit its female cast.
Two words some up the attitude of the series: Breast machineguns.
The series is still in its infancy so it may still surprise viewers, but I'm not holding out much hope.
And The List Goes On…
There's still quite a few more series I'm attempting to follow: Pumpkin Scissors, Red Garden, Black Lagoon's second season. There's also the backlog of older series like Higurashi No Naka Koro Ni, Welcome to the NHK!, Utawarerumono and Zero No Tsukaima. But this post would be too lengthy to go into all of them.
Suffice to say, I've got a lot of hours of anime viewing fun ahead of me.
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well i am kinda glad i dont follow too many anime (just watch naruto etc) my gaming backlog is bad enough without having to share time for watching anime.
The trick is not to follow too many shows at once, which is what I’m doing.
Of course, not developing a backlog at all would be the best thing to do. 
I usually try to sample a variety of shows until I can find only a handful of titles that I think are worth watching. But unfortunately, sometimes you have to chew through a whole season first since some series only start to get really interesting in their second season.
And of course there are those buried gems; older shows one might have missed completely for some reason. Then you have to go back and try and get all the episodes. That’s what happened with me and Full Metal Alchemist. Took me over a week to get through it all.
I think once all the holiday craziness is over, I’ll be able to get my viewing schedule under control.
I find it takes me one or two hours just to blog and screen shot an episode, and when you’re following five or more different series, attempting to blog all of their episodes takes a huge chunk out of my day. So I have to hand it to those anime bloggers out there who seem to have the time and definitely the discipline to blog every episode of the series they follow.