I had no idea how much percentage of western people of 1990's watched this anime, but in China, most people born in that period had a memory of watching this anime. As a result, the opening music "Butterfly" is now regarded as one of the most famous (maybe "one of" could even be deleted here) in ACG circle in China. Even till now, once listening to this music, I would probably get fired up easily. Not confined to the opening music, the ending as well as other interlude musics are also great.
Back to talk about this anime, the character design is great for me. You cannot require this anime to depict a complex and obscure character since it aims to build simple and inspiring people with certain merits. For me, all the protagonists are so innocent and they overcame their weakness to become maturer, which is so inspiring.(Though I know it's rather simple) And it is parallel to its story, simple but excited.
One important thing which I want to emphasize is that though the target people of the anime is for children, some episodes and scenes are pretty artful. Some people might figure it out when they were young. Especially, the style of the episode "Koromon, the Great Clash in Tokyo!" is quite different including the music and background. And after a few years, I got to know that this episode is from Hosoda Mamoru.
The development of the whole story is not complex but the pace is good. And I fully enjoyed for almost every episodes, though it has been a long time. I am sure that I wont feel boring if I picked it up and watched through is again. The whole anime is so pure, pure excitement, pure lose and win, which I could regard as the best anime for a child to watch.
(PS: again, my English expression is not that good, hope what I've written is clear)
