They cut all the filler out and rejigged it around so it followed the manga a lot more closely. I've not read the manga myself but I'm sure there must have still been minor diversions here and there but all in all its a lot closer.

Not quite it took the old anime of Z cut the filler out in the show and in filler episode and spliced the cannon stuff in to 3 chapter of the manga episode. Only new animation in Kai is just the opening and end credits

I wish they would just do an entirely brand new adaptation of DB in anime form. I bet they could do all 42 volumes of the manga within 150-200 episodes.

Oh, and there are a lot of things different from the manga. Pilaf does not appear until like Chapter 19 of the manga. For Z, most of the training during the year before Vegeta and Nappa arrive is filler in the anime. Goku does not fall off Snake Way. He does not meet the snake princess. In fact, the manga just really jumps to when he gets there after six months. Gregory is an anime only character. Nappa does not attack the news or military. Bulma never gets her body switched with Frog Ginyu. In fact, you could say that they ere doing one episode per manga chapter in the show, so five minutes of an episode was actually the manga material while the remaining 17 minutes was filler.

Yeah the villians are not the strongest aspect of the manga :lol

What I enjoyed most about the manga was the whole world building spect. I found the whole Sailor Moon universe extremely intresting and there was alot of cool stuff that I could latch onto. Naoko had great ideas but often had trouble executing them or give them enough time to develop. Like the whole Black Moon rebellion. I love the whole idea behind the black moon clan and them refusing to live by the rules of the silver millenium and there forced immortality.

I really would love to see them digging much deeper into that idea once they get around to that story arc in crystal.

The thing with Naoko's villains is: She sure isn't good at writing them, but luckily, her ideas can be executed very well if someone else writes the scripts. I loved the way the toku presented the manga-villains and as for Beryl herself and most of the villains who followed, the musicals also did a great job on them. I think Sailor Moon is the most fun and interesting if you deal with as many variations of the story as possible, because it sure gives you a very round perspective of the characters. I still wonder how far from the manga crystal will go, but I'm sure the changes they make will be positive as Naoko can finally add the things she couldn't do in the manga (Shitennou/Senshi-relationships, Endymion/Pluto, maybe more about Galaxy Cauldron...).
And hey, it can't be as bad as the old anime... xD

The old anime was fantastic though. It really was much,much better then the manga. Sure, it had it's huge share of filler and wasn't perfect at all, but the result was a far more memorable experience with more fleshed out characters, heroes, side characters and villains included.

I gotta agree with this guy.

The old anime has not aged well. Maybe this new dub and remaster will make it better, but honestly, the first two seasons were decent back then, and SuperS was just beyond subpar. S and Stars were by far the best seasons of the show and the strongest at story telling.

Well I have to agree with kain. And in S and stars more he k I even preferred the german dub over the original English dub cause that german was what I saw first and german dub for me was only place that I remembered stars from.

How has it not aged well? The animation isn't even particularly low quality and the sound quality isn't fantastic compared to today's standard, but if you're watching subs that's mostly a non-issue.

Super S was definitely the dark days of Sailor Moon, but I can forgive one out of 5/6 seasons.