b) I loved the first episode and I have been downloading it, but I much rather marathon it in one go by the end of the year than agonizing forever. I find that monthly manga is good periodicity (still not perfect, but good), yet monthly audiovisual is not. I have no idea why, maybe I'm not used to anime being other than weekly/biweekly.

Plus, being so short (in episode count), it can't really fill any void if it's gone before 2011. So yeah.