Thread:Arrias99/@comment-26452496-20150601004648/@comment-25555436-20150602005616

Surana, you realize that Sailor Moon by itself wasn't really good, right? Sailor Moon is extremely formulaic, too repetitive, to the point that by watching just 3 episodes you already know how things will go in each episode.

The characters also get a lot of flanderization as seasons go on. Sailor Moon only gets good and creative by the time the finales arrive. You probably remember it as good only because it was part of one's childhood, and in one's childhood everything seems good. The same could be said for many other animes present decades ago, like Pokemon or YuGiOh.

And the dubs just make it worse.

@Arrias: Yeah, I feel ya. That's the reason I quitted the manga and the anime, by the time the first arc ended. It could be great, even excellent, if it wasn't for the MC being such a fucking Gary Stu. When you can read the motherfucking code of the spells with no problem or dificulty at all, when you can insta-pwn anyone through sheer punches and kicks, when you are an almost-literal know-it-all, who gives 2 fucks about you not being great at magic? Any person with half a brain would see him as a more valuable asset.

It's like being offered a sword that can cut the heaven in half, destroy people just by touching it's blade, and slice through any single surface solid, liquid, whatever, and can launch huge lasers faster than one can spit. And refusing it because "it's not of a color I like".

That, and the anime made it worse. The manga at least explained in very greay detail pretty much everything. Characters, spells, how spells worked, examples, everything. The anime skipped all that, so one has no idea how X works, only that it does (for example, did you know that Ice spells don't create ice, but rather just severely drop the temperature in the target area's water molecules?). That, and it made everything feel pretty boring overall.