Didn't get that far. Dropped it around 10 or 11 (just after the bus journey). 5 hours is more than enough of a chance to give a series.

> 5 hours is more than enough of a chance to give a series.

Five hours is more than enough. Five hours is enough time for the writers to take a genre, deconstruct it, salt the earth, collect all the pieces in one place and build a bonfire, dance around the flames thrice widdershins while invoking ancient and mysterious rites, take off and nuke the site from orbit (just to be sure)... and finally, on the site of the wreck, rebuild it all again more beautiful than it had ever been, in the process winning every award in the book and forever altering the future of the genre.

But then, maybe I've just been utterly spoiled by Puella Magi Madoka Magica (12 episodes, 300m). :b

It depends on the subject matter to be frank. If you like concise anime with deep plots, check out Flowers of Evil.

I guess I'm a very impatient man. I gave up around the second episode.

... of Madoka? Makes sense. The first two-and-three-quarter episodes deliberately conformed to the banal clichés of the genre, as a trap to snare unwary tween girls into thinking there would be lots of happiness and sparkles, instead of death, angst, pain, death, and more death. :P

Madoka you should give three episodes; that's the point at which it starts to come together.