Heh, fifty-two feels long to me - I am spoiled by all of these twenty-six episode series! The idea of hundreds of episodes terrifies me a little. (For the record, Brotherhood didn't pick up for me at all until I think the fourth episode, but since then I have found it pretty awesome.)

. . . @_@ that is a lot of chapters to request from the library . . . .

I remember seeing internet rumors that it is due to end soon though! If it actually does, perhaps that will be the time when I will start it. Since a guarantee of an actual ending is kind of a nice thing to have.