Well, the only real "link" I have in trying new and unfamiliar series are as follows:
1) Series starring Voice Actors I really love (If Toyosaki "Yui-chan" Aki, Tomatsu "Asuna" Haruka or ESPECIALLY the venerable Nozawa "Son Goku" Masako is in the cast, I will jump right into it raw without caring to know what it is about first.
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2) I will on
principle watch anything and EVERYTHING that has Ms Kajiura Yuki as it's musical composer: She the uncanny gift to inject Classiness to the crass (Mai Hime), Substance into Beauty (Sword Art Online) and elevate to Magnificence to Divinity (Fist of the North Star, Madoka) with her Angelic Orchestral Majesty.