The other weird thing is that people who only watch a handful of animes in a season tend to watch the shitty ones. I mean if you only watch that few you should concentrate on the creme de la creme instead of random harem #52340. I can do this since I'm watching all interesting and good animes anyway but people are seriously missing out if they don't pick carefully.

This season has so much variety on shows that it's simply not necessary to watch the mediocre ones.

Is this dragon ball ?

I'd say I do a fair bit of research before I jump into a new show, usually through looking into the studios involved, or more frequently into how the source material progresses. For example, if I see two harem or rom-com shows with a fun looking premise based on completed light novels, though one ends with a canon couple I enjoy, and another with a pairing I don't care about (or worse-a Trix cereal ending), I'll most definitely choose the former. When romance isn't a focus, then I'll just read up on general opinons on the manga/LN. If there is no source material, it's more of a gamble, so I'll trust the studio's past work, or wait to see the general consensus on it and watch it later on.

I'm rarely dissapointed in what I choose, so apparently my method works for me anyway.

I see news about Tokyo Ghoul season three a couple pages back, but after the shit train that was season two, I have no hype. If any studio can recover the mess that was season two, I will be very impressed.

whoever is adapting Rakudai is making stella more tsun than she should be with their anime only material. Oh well, i'll read the LN after this is done anyway. I already know most of the story.

Hmm... not too much I guess http://myanimelist.net/mangalist/uran10

Its good, I'd like them to animate more. I haven't read it for a while though which means I caught up and I'm waiting for new translations/releases.

I saw the HD version of dubbed DBZ Resurrection of F was finally out in the wild, so I went ahead and gave it a watch. Seeing a throwback to Frieza was nice, since he was kind of the major DBZ villain of my childhood with how often the Frieza saga ended up being used for repeats. Seeing the direct relation to the last movie was fairly interesting too.

The good:
- Fighting was cool
- Goku and Vegeta's friendship was accurate and showed nice progression during the Frieza fight from where they were at the end of the Kid Buu fight
- The Galactic Patrolman character was kind of fun
- Animation quality was solid, as is usually expected with movies
- Frieza's Hell was some great stuff

The meh:
- I really didn't need to see Master Roshi fight as if he had any relevant power
- Same as above but in regard to Tien
- "Oh, Android 18, I know you're stronger, but how about you stay with the kid and I'll go fight?" says the perpetually too weak Krillin
- Vegeta fought for all of 30 seconds maybe

The bad:
- What in the hell happened to Gohan? He went from being someone could fight Majin Buu before to not being able to handle Frieza in his weakest form. Huge step back in power relevancy.
- Frieza's "weakness" was forced for the sake of being able to conclude the movie without Goku having to find some new level to ascend to.
- The end of the fight, the whole time reversal thing, was probably the cheapest thing ever. "Oh, the planet blew up. But it's okay. This son of a bitch here can reverse all of time up to three minutes back because why the fuck not when the godly pair is already so OP."
- Purposefully not calling in Trunks or Goten because...reasons. Just one of them would have been stronger than Tien, Krillin, and Roshi combined, but sure, let's ignore that because animation budget.

Overall, the movie wasn't bad. I understand parts of the bad because they probably wanted to give members of the cast who had largely been ignored practically since Dragon Ball some time to shine. I get they needed some excuse for Frieza to be defeated, and that having Goku ascend yet again after he just did one movie previously would have been a little bit off. I understand that whether or not Goku or Vegeta fights, it's basically the same deal at this point. I still would have liked to see Vegeta get some revenge and not get sidelined for basically the entire fight though.

Resurrection of F basically just has the weaknesses that most DBZ movies have since they don't have 20 episodes to draw things out, on top of weakening the overall experience by calling in Earth's least impressive mighty warriors.

I give it a 7/10 as a DBZ movie, and more like a 6/10 as a general anime movie experience.

Hands off research is absolutely useless. Just watch the first episode and decide then. That way you have the actual broad picture and don't mistaken the mediocre ones for "good enough" when they're below 10 other animes in quality.
Theme isn't everything. A good anime can make any theme good, no matter if you're interested in it or not.

I can't even count all the great animes I would've missed if I judged them by shallow information.

Oh yeah, and they gimped the shit out of Piccolo too. The fact that they basically put Piccolo and Krillin on the same level should be considered a crime against humanity. Still not a bad movie, but seriously guys wtf