Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Well done series that put forth an interesting variation of the magical girl genre. Featured well written characters and scenarios/questions/conflicts not normally seen in the magical girl genre. Soundtrack was good, visuals were memorable, and it tugged at your heartstrings, thanks to a very strong cast. We had to wait quite a bit for the finale, but it was worth it.

Infinite Stratos - The lead was awful and a complete moron, the mech designs were often strange (got tired of looking at guy midriff), the plot was...somewhere. Yet, I found myself looking forward to this series nearly as much as I did Madoka each week. I think that I loved to hate this show. While the lead was below idiot intelligence, the girls of the series were fantastic. Some shined a great deal more than others, but most of them ended up with surprisingly well developed personalities by the end of the series' short run. The animation itself was rather good, even if the CGI stood out of place from time to time. The cast was strong as well.

Kore wa Zombie Desuka? - I picked this one up later, but it stood out strongly as a great comedy series. A lot of the stuff going on was beyond "wtf," but any comedy series that gets an audible laugh out of me every episode is stronger than most. Strong cast with excellent cameos, good animation (censorship notwithstanding, though often creatively done), and good character designs. The occasional serious episodes were woven into the series very nicely and executed perfectly due to many of them still retaining a thin veneer of ridiculousness. I really had no complaints I could make about this series.

Honorable Mention: Kimi ni Todoke season 2. This series was more of a continuation, and while it was wonderful, it wasn't as stand-out as it's predecessor. Great cast again, excellent animation, but the plot was more of the same paired with a rather foregone conclusion.