Perhaps try a few films first, 2 hours and you don't have to feel like you wasted time on 12+ episodes.
I can highly recommend:
Redline
Summer Wars
5cm A second
Paprika
The ending. SUCKED MAJOR BALLS. Period. It was ploy to get people to continue to read the manga. Granted I do say it was well executed and kept you coming back every week to watch, I just felt that they really murdered it with that ending.
2013 did not have much to offer most of it was drama/slice of life, Unbreakable Machine-Doll and Coppelion were probably one of the better ones that was out last year.
Ah... TTGL, where tossing galaxies was completely possible yet saving one man was not. Character progression, you sly bastard. Another great anime I somewhat felt they didn't know what they were doing in the middle of it and it found it's footing towards the end.
Apologies I am feeling slightly pessimistic tonight.
Let me just toss a recommendation in here: PSYCHO PASS, got a bit of everything, gore, drama, public execution, romance, death, betrayal - you know the usual Future cop drama genre.
Even better...
Jormungand - You have to watching this.






