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I watched it for the first time in the last year as someone who is largely anime naive. The mystery/mystical aspect of the narrative was the most intriguing part of the experience for me. I tend to enjoy genre-bending so the idea of using a battle mech anime as the vehicle to tell a character driven story appealed to me. However, I found many of the characters pretty difficult to accept.
Overall it was enjoyable but it's not as special to me as I feel it is to others. I'm sure it's because I am approaching it 30 years later and without an appreciation for the genre, but I don't regret it. I'll make the perhaps inappropriate comparison to Doki Doki Literature Club for someone who's not familiar with the dating sim games.
why? part of the appeal is that the characters are all going insane/damaged... as would anyone from the level of trauma would be.