Yeah, I could imagine if you were following along month-by-month releases the past year or two things would have become a little frustrating with Skip Beat. It feels like it might be winding up to a conclusion though with this latest chapter release.

I tried to get into Free!, did it improve much after the first episode? It seemed like it was decently executed with nice animation, but it wasn't quite enough to hook me into watching the rest.

Heard good things about Psycho Pass, let me know how that goes! I couldn't for the life of me stomach Mirage of Blaze though, watched it about six or seven years ago and only managed to finish it because it was so short. I think it's just reincarnation stories that bother me, I can think of a couple of exceptions (Sailor Moon, Jubei-Chan) but they seem to fall far outside of my taste normally. Then again, that was the OAV version, maybe the TV version is better! I hope you're enjoying it.

Chihayafuru, huh? By the summary sounds like a more eclectic shoujo version of Hikaru no Go, accurate?