I go way back on anime...
I used to watch those Bubble Gum crisis, City Hunter, Gundam F91(it
was that far back), Kujaku
there was more kiddy ones like Saint Seiya, Maddox, Doreamon,
Creamy Mammy.
There was adult ones as well.... 
I missed the succulent and elegant way the story was told. the
closest to what I used to watch was Inuyasha. Nowadays the stories
are rather "deep" where they seek about the meaning of life. Like
Ghost in the shell. I tot it was too serious.
The gundam series is like the Shun Yi Chao or the Meteor Garden
where there is such a long long conversation. The longest cartoon
series I watched back then was the Robotech series but i didn't
like the spin off which was Maccross.
Maybe like out TCS channel 8, the script writers are all dried up
and don't have good stories to tell anymore. The only nice one I
saw was the Spirited Away. With computer graphics, sometimes the
art of animation lost the human touch...