Oh, thematically and all it’s very up tumblr’s alley, that’s what I meant by Correct when I called it “Correct but surprising”. The surprising is that for a long time it was kind of obscure - there was an official English release (with atrocious voice acting) for the first 13 episodes (the “Student Council Saga”) but it didn’t catch on. And for maybe a decade you could only get the rest of it on fansubbed VHS (this is when I saw it, at the anime club that had originally subbed it). Even when the other arcs got an official licensed release it wasn’t treated as a big thing (iirc the “big thing” then was… KareKano? Maybe Excel Saga.)

So to see it treated now as one of the pillars of ’90s anime, up there with Evangelion and maybe above Cowboy Bebop, not even to mention Trigun or Escaflowne or Nadesico (which were much bigger at the time), comes as a bit of a shock.