There was a time when this was the go-to anime movie standard. Those days have long-since passed, but it's interesting to think of all the IRL anime fan stereotypes who watched this and saw themselves reflected back in the aliens who can't comprehend culture or women. Who see the depiction of either as immoral. Who see displays of affection as unthinkable as they do titillating. I'm sure someone has hit this angle harder than I care to.
But, yeah, our heroes are, broadly speaking, men directly out of the 70s and they don't want to let you forget it for even a second. There's a scene where they ambush the main character to congratulate him for having sex with Minmay while they were isolated because that's manly and turn around to scold him because he didn't actually do that manly thing. It belongs at the start of a curriculum on the masculine desire of femininity, unironically. The scenes like that, which are front-loaded, feel nasty, but since the ending is literally destroying The Patriarchy(TM) and choosing a partner based on personality instead of idol worship (however underdeveloped that was)... It earns its pass.
Also, y'know. In any hobby, you spend most of your time on the hum-drum. "That's cool." "That's shit." "How neat." "Why do I even do this?" And then you encounter something like the chorus drop in "Do You Remember Love?" and it makes every second of it feel worth it all at once. That first "Oboeteimasuka" as the battle rages on brought a tear to my eye, it was so good. Of course, they also decided to immortalize that guy getting his head cut off with that sequence, but The Realities of War or something. Anyway, wow. Anime. Movies. Anime movies.
Good times.
