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Originally Posted by Suzu

*cough* Yeah.



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).

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.