It was aired on 1988, but on the first time i saw, i didnt noted, i think it was proposital to have old look style, and only later after seeing the first episode that i got to know that was from 1988. It only has 6 chapters, and in the first chapter, it is kinda cliche-style of the stupid-girl-discover-that-is-very-good-and-bypass-all-difficulties. But when the aliens pop in, and the main characters go to space, everything changes. And based in REAL teories from Einstein and other famous physics, it explains everythings that happen in the episodes.
The battle sequences are overpowered, it has tension, emotion, you start thinking how a anime with a cute opening song and a lame 1st ep turns to be tense like this. Pure Gainax style, one of the firsts animes of the studio, pure masterpiece.
It is so inteligent in the end that makes you feel like stupid, thinking in time-space-travel teories.
I recommend this classic to anyone that love animes, it has all the elements of anime in one:
Pretty girls, nudity, fight, mechas, love, death, science, sadness and happiness.
