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>>80725 As someone explained to me, TTGL is an homage to every form of giant robots ever made. It takes the concept of 'super robot' backwards in time, from the modern age through the post-Evangelion ghetto, through the era of real robots and space opera, through pretty much every sub-genre and series that's ever been made, all the way back to the heyday of the superhero robots. And then, in typical Gainax fashion, it takes that concept FURTHER and does Super Robots in its most classical form in the most over-the-top super-exaggerated way it possibly can. Because the genre really isn't dead yet, and you don't have to have depressing shit in your anime to make good TV. Because things can turn out AWESOME and the good guys can still win.
And then right at the end, the show admits that, yeah, when all's said and done you have to come back to reality. As much as it can suck sometimes, not everything can be like it was. The spirit of those early days may live on, but the world today is a different place no matter how much we'd rather it weren't.
It's a love letter to the past and all the history of the genre, but ultimately, they HAD to end it with a "thank you and goodbye".
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