*cough* Yeah.
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The old anime is bad. Period. The writing is horrible, the characters are annoying and most of the animation is just... I don't even have words for it.
It sure did have some very good moments, but those were extremely rare. Out of every Sailor Moon adaption, the 90's anime is by far the weakest and also the one that goes furthest away from what Naoko Takeuchi actually wanted Sailor Moon to be. If that is how you want to see Sailor Moon and you can put up with the many flaws, that's great for you.
But I can't accept the 90's animes flaws. For me, Sailor Moon is the manga, the musicals, and the toku. And Crystal, of course (btw. episode 5 was wonderful, I totally loved it).

As for the dubbing thing: From what I heard, the new English dub is kinda good. Not perfect acting-wise, but much better than the old one and the voices fit the characters very well.
As for other dubs: I liked the Japanese dub the most, because the acting was amazing. The german dub had some major flaws, not only the translation (that is cheesy as hell), but also the choice of VAs (only a few of them sound right) and the acting- when the second studio took over and replaced some of the VAs, the acting quality went down the hill. Which is a pity because these days, most of the Sailor Moon VAs are pretty good.
And very nice people. Dominik Auer, the second voice of Tux, has already recorded some stuff to promote our page and next week, I'll finally get the chance to get to know Sabine Bohlmann (first Moon) and Ulrike Jenni (Neptune) better. From what I heard, they are really likeable. (Btw. R.I.P. Veronika Neugebauer, Jupiter's VA. She died a while ago... *sniff*)

was Veronika the german dub jupitar if so R.I.P cause she was one of my fave voice in the german dub

You're (badly) holding a 90's anime's animation to the same standard as today's. Sorry, but that's phenomenally stupid. Sailor Moon's anime was in no way lesser then the other weekly cartoon anime of its time. Every anime, especially ones with a weekly schedule, had animation mistakes and Sailor Moon's weren't anything more then the norm. Hell, Crystal has noticable animation mistakes and that has a far less good excuse then the original anime for that.

As for Naoko's "vision". Whatever. It managed to improve a lot of the stories Naoko wrote. Dark Kingdom was a badly written wreck. That's a fact. Naoko couldn't get her own story straight between chapters and everything was just rushed and awful. You claim the anime had bad writing? Reread any three chapters of the Dark Kingdom arc and ATTEMPT to defend Naoko's shitty writing. Wether it be huge continuity errors, incomprehensible or lazy plot-points, terribly done action scenes that make barely any sense, horribly misused and wasted characters, rushed or glossed over storylines or random powers that are left unexplained and never mentioned again or awful, selfish characters that were still celebrated as if they were saints by the other characters the Dark Kingdom arc had them all. R through to Super S was a marked improvement (ignoring some niggles) and then Stars was back to being a rushed, convoluted mess once again with an awful, awful rushed ending that had no conclusion or satisfaction whatsoever. Art-wise, Naoko was able to draw beautifully. Sometimes. She has to have some of the worst drawn hands I have ever seen and her action scenes, which in a super hero comic are pretty darn important, were just incomprehensible trash that never improved. And that's when she wasn't just writing "Sailor Moon shows up. Panel of her using her attack. Panel of villain exploding."

Sorry, but the manga had far more flaws then the anime. If you can put up with it, that's good for you. Naoko had some great ideas and should be respected for being the foundation of the franchise, but it took the better writers of the anime, musicals and eventually the LA to make those ideas work. Especially when in comes to the Dark Kingdom aka the plot lines that most people remember the most when it comes to Sailor Moon. Prior to R, Naoko was practically writing a skeleton for better writers to swoop in and flesh out. It is painfully obvious Sailor Moon was made specifically for the TV adaption during that first arc.

There were only five seasons. Anyway, the animation hasn't aged well due to the huge amount of stock footage, awkward drawings (there are times Usagi's head is too big and it isn't a comedy scene), static backgrounds, and the overall just slow pacing. The Jadeite arc is just a pain to sit through. It just feels like the first half of the overall Beryl arc was made on a very low budget. Thankfully, things do get better during the Nephrite arc, but then the Rainbow Crystal arc puts things back into a crawl.

The only thing here that's stupid is your jumping into conlcusions about me, would you please stop making stuff up? I can't compare Sailor Moon to today's standards, because I've only seen 2 series that were made the last few years- Sailor Moon Crystal and Madoka- not counting some Pretty Cure movies and clips.

The standard I'm comparing it to is the mid to late 90's/early 2000's standard because most of the series I've watched are from that exact time. So how is it wrong to compare animes around that age to another anime that's only slightly older?

I'm comparing the animation to something like Detective Conan- that show is just 4 years younger and looks waaay better than Sailor Moon. Even Dragonball Z, which is a tad older than Sailor Moon looks better overall.

Finally caught up with Sailor Moon Crystal!

...Ugh.

OK. The good: the animation is definitely better then the previous couple of episodes. There is still the stupid scene where Sailor V saves Mamoru and Usagi in which from behind she's in her Sailor V suit and from the front she's in her Sailor Venus suit, but while whoever did that is beyond stupid, its not massive. The animation is a lot prettier, although I'm not a huge fan of the "sets" they draw. Everything seems so vast and empty. Just look at the place where they fight Zoisite the second time. What kind of park is just a single tree and then cement tiles as far as the eyes can see? Its a bit bizarre. Everything looks beautiful, but sometimes I really think beauty is the only thing that Crystal has going for it so far.

The bad: Naoko's shitty writing is faithfully taken into Crystal. I'm just incredibly annoyed at this BS. I can't believe nobody was reading the Manga (including Naoko herselft) and thought "Hold the phone. This makes absolutely no fucking sense". So, in Episode 5, Tuxedo Mask appears in Usagi's bedroom. He wakes her up and takes her to where Nephrite is attacking Mako. We even have Luna see the entire thing. Hell, we have Luna and Usagi both comment on it. Now we have Episode 6 Tuxedo Mask and Usagi have a conversation about leadership and their responsibilities in which it is plain as fucking day that Tuxedo Mask knows Usagi is Sailor Moon and that Usagi is aware of that fact. But you know, she'd already know that because he woke her up and took her to the battle just last episode. So they have their conversation about whether or not Tuxedo Mask is a villain and whether or not Usagi can lead the other Soldiers and then Usagi is informed by Luna she's needed in which *sigh* Usagi is worried because she can't transform in front of Tuxedo Mask because that would reveal to him that she's Sailor Moon. You know, because apparently Usagi and the writers have short term memory loss or something. But then. WHAT A TWIST! Tuxedo Mask reveals, to Usagi's shock, that he already knows she's Sailor Moon! OMG!

No. Just fucking no. This awful, awful plot hole was not OK back when Naoko wrote it in the manga and its even less OK 20 Years Later. Its just unforgivably awful writing.

Then we have super brave dependable Sailor Moon against Zoisite. She arrives and within seconds Zoisite grabs her, in which she immediately defaults into praying for Tuxedo Mask to arrive and save her. Wait. What was that lyric in this show's opening theme song?

"Ah, even for girls, certain pride can't be given up--
the determination to not put their fates in princes' hands,
but to fight for themselves."

Hm. The opening implies much better characters then are actually in the series. At least Mars, Jupiter and Mercury had the sense to at least try and attack Zoisite (although Thank God Mars and Juptier's attacks failed because they would've killed Moon as well!) before, for the second episode in a row, being very quickly taken out.

I swear, the second Usagi commits suicide because she's selfish and useless and because Naoko is so ignorant that she thinks girls who literally won't live without their boyfriends is romantic I'm done with this series. I was so hoping they'd improve from the awful Manga Dark Kingdom, but its really becoming apparent they have zero intention to.

(Also, I was really bored by the fact that Zoisite used the exact same plan two episodes in a row. Come on, guys.)

Yeah that plot hole really was awful, I remember watching it and thinking "wait, wasn't all this established episodes ago?".

I agree on the general art direction too. It's certainly pretty, but it all feels so empty and hollow at the same time. Crystal in general is proving to be a really odd series because I'm not disliking it by any means but I just don't seem to be able to get fully into it.

If anything it's just making me want to check out the original more, because that just looks like it just has so much more life to it.

Coming from press conference after press conference where they kept on stating crystal would follow manga more. At the same time sailor moon fandom in Japan was more aimed at the females and it was them that got manga popular to get adapted in to anime in the first place.

I'm a bit confused as to what you're trying to say here. Yes, the target audience is girls but that has nothing to do with anything. Girls aren't less likely to pick up bad writing or anything. Also, when you say "got the manga to get adapted adapted into the anime" are you referring to Crystal or the Original Anime?

And, yes, they said it would be more faithful to the manga, but that shouldn't have been a bad thing. Massive plot holes and bad story-telling should not be adapted straight, especially not 20 years after its been written. All they had to do was cut Usagi's little "omg omg then he'll KNOW!" and her shock at him knowing despite it being clearly established that he knew. Nothing about the story would change except that the scene would make sense. And they have been changing things! Jadeite, Zoisite, Nephrite and Kunzite were never at the same place together, Beryl never appeared in front of the Sailor Soldiers until the very end of the arc and by this point in the manga Jadeite had been killed (by Mars), Nephrite had been killed (by Jupiter) and Zoisite had been killed (by Sailor V), so why, why couldn't this plot-hole have been cut?

And yeah, at the end of the Dark Kingdom Arc in the manga Mamoru dies so Usagi decides to plunge a sword through her stomach rather then save the world from Queen Metalia. Of course she gets better because the Crystal keeps her alive, but that was a side-effect that she didn't know about. Usagi herself fully intended to just commit suicide and let the world be destroyed while her friends howled for her to stop because her boyfriend was killed. I have been praying that this scene would be fixed in Crystal, especially with things like the opening claiming they "won't leave destiny to their prince" and the "Moon Pride" film clip featuring a Serenity obviously in mourning standing up in determination and fighting, but with every episode that awful, awful ending being fixed gets less and less likely.

I mean original got adapted. Due to the manga was so popular.