User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 390: The Story of a Boy, Review./@comment-24546844-20140627150654/@comment-7418318-20140627160110

Episodes 4,5 and 6 were never meant for kids.

Though the prequels were stuffed full of so many contradictory things for all age, gender and social groups so they would get the highest possible viewer ratings and be able to sell the highest amount of toys and other merchandise they could.

God I could rage about those abominations for hours... or I could just link plinkett's reviews of the prequels, since he says it all and in a more amusing way than I would.