Moving onto our next review, it's Magic Knight Rayearth.

Magic Knight Rayearth is one of the earliest works by CLAMP, a manga group consisting of four women who all specialize in doujinshi.
It's about a group of three school girls named Hikaru, Umi and Fuu, the one's with the obvious red, blue & green color schemes who get transported to the land of Cephiro where they are told be a sorcerer named Clef that they must save Cephiro from destruction by becoming the Magic Knights and defeating the evil Zagato.
Now lets get a few things straight, I'm not an overly big fan of CLAMP, I find some of their stuff okay, but my general opinion of them is that they are better artists than story writers, which I give similar criticism to Akira Toriyama.
I say this because Rayearth is a horrid mess of a story.
The first season passes for a reasonable story but every episode seems to have the same structure; there's a problem, some slapstick happens, some angst happens, then the problem is solved, rinse and repeat, the only differences is that they change villain every couple episodes to keep things fresh but the pacing is so predictable that nothing strikes you as shocking, even the big twists near the end of season 1 don't seem that shocking; the art styling is gorgeous, but I wouldn't expect anything less from CLAMP; transformation scenes and major plot points look to have stolen most of the budget as it looks vastly different to the rest of the series.
When we get to season 2, Umi & Fuu get excluded from the main cast and it becomes a show all about Hikaru and her angst along with Yaoi bait Lantis & Eagle's bonds which is quite possibly where the term second season downfall may have originated as season 2 becomes a self indulgent piece to satisfy the artists and not the viewers; Hikaru cannot hold this story on her own and needs the other knights for support and don't deserve to be pushed out of focus.
This anime also has some of the most dire dubbing work ever heard with some god awful dub singing.
If you want to see a decent version of Rayearth, either watch the OVA or play the excellent Snes RPG, both need a separate review page.
Final Verdict: Rayearth started out as a fairly decent fantasy series before making bad decisions for it's 2nd Season. It's a terrible mess of an anime, it hasn't aged well, the dub is terrible and the whole story is in shambles but hey the art looks pretty.