Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160213154456/@comment-5808856-20160214072149

SpiritedDreaming wrote: I find it really amusing that you like the original anime the best...considering the author herself really doesn't like it that much. That was the whole reason Crystal was made; so the author could get the anime she wanted instead of the made up storylines the original anime had because they had to fill time between chapter releases. Filler which meant that certain parts of the manga had to be switched around in the translation betwene book and show.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the old anime. All three anime iterations have their good points (though they are...hard to find in the English dub), but I wouldn't call it the best show of all time.

You want funny/serious in a good mix? Watch Trigun. That anime knew how to have fun and yet have a serious plotline overarching everything. The main reason I find the classic anime the best is because the characters are actually likable. Heck, Weiss is actually the only thing stoping RWBY from being as good as Sailor Moon for me. Rei was a jerk, but still a loyal friend, and came off more like Vegeta. Weiss, just reminds me of a certain mermaid from what I consider Disney's worst film. On top of that is how well written the characters were. They actually came of as real people to me. ESPECILLY Usagi, Ami, Rei, and Mako. All 4 felt like they were full charcters. While Usagi recieved a huge power nerf in the anime, and was around solar system level instead of the universal reality warping time-space controling goddess she became at the end of the manga, that power was traded off to give and the entire cast MUCH more personality. Plus...I HATE love at first sight. So the whole development between usagi and Mamoru in the classic was right up my ally!. In Crystal however, I just can not care about them. It is much more serious, but the characters are all much more bland, and the humor is gone. It is just forgettable.