I usually find most anime titles are pretty descriptive in their titles like Kino's Journey or New Mobile Suit War
Chronicle Gundam Wing or New Legend of Snow White Pretear. So you can get an idea of what you are gonna watch.
Other times you get titles like Cowboy Bebop which in itself will make you think...plain western anime ~_~ not some
awesome scifi action series at all. CB was a very entertaining anime to watch for me, though if I had just seen the
title, it may not have caught my eye.
Another is My Neighbor Totoro. Doesn't sound very exciting of a title and the title suggests something like a story
about a neighbor next door to your home...something sedate. But MNT is a fantasy fairy tale anime with giant Totoro!.
Very fun to watch.
So I will generally watch the first few eps or read the synops and find some screen shots/images before I dismiss a
title.
But if say a series has a name like...Sexy Commando...I'll just stay away. ^_^