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(Entry originally written by Rob Kelk for [http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/primer/ The Anime Primer], and used with permission of the author.)
 
Just for the record, this series was the one that gave Hideaki Anno his first Animage Grand Prix before penning out his biggest masterpiece, ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''... or rather, the reason NGE is such a mindscrew. It has been purported that the stress of working on a tight schedule, on a series over which he had almost no creative control was a key factor in precipitating Anno into a [[Creator Breakdown|four-year-long bout of depression]] from which he emerged just before (some say while) doing ''Eva''.
 
A remastered version was released on Blu-Ray in Japan in 2011. [[ADV Films|Sentai Filmworks]] has re-licensed the series, and will be re-releasing it on Blu-ray and DVD in March 2014. (It is unknown if this will be the remastered version or the original, though.)
 
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: While [[Gadgeteer Genius|Jean]] is, at heart, a [[The Pollyana|very optimistic and cheerful character]], there are at least two moments where he becomes completely depressed: first, in Episode 15, when he traumatically overhears a sailor he's friends with gassed to death (he is surprisingly melancholy after that), and then, in episode 16, when he learns that {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Gargoyle]] killed his father}}. This latter revelation crushes [[Gadgeteer Genius|Jean]] so much that he considers giving up inventing until Nadia, who doesn't like seeing him so gloomy, tries to cheer him up and succeeds by suggesting him to build another aircraft so that they can go on another airflight.
* [[Hidden Eyes]]
* [[Human Aliens]]: So much so that {{spoiler|they appear to intermarry and reproduce just fine. Apparently, humans were ''designed'' by the alien to this aim. In the end of the anime, it's revealed that Nemo and Nadia are the only "true" aliens left, all enemies including the [[Big Bad]] wherewere, unknown to even themselves, in fact humans.}}
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: Most anything Nadia wears.
* [[Incredibly Obvious Bug]]
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* [[Jerkass]]: Nadia comes across like this several times in the show when she takes her rage out on [[Gadgeteer Genius|Jean]] and Nemo, saying rather undeservedly cruel things to both. (She gets even worse in both the Island and Africa arcs.)
** In episode 20 she becomes extremely jealous of Jean's friendship with Electra, irrationally believing that the latter is going to take Jean away from her (when, in fact, nothing romantic is happening between Jean OR Electra). Her inability to express her concern of losing Jean nearly ruins her own relationship with him. (All that Jean is doing is just trying to learn more from Electra so that he can help mankind and Nadia herself; despite being stuck in the books at times, he is obviously very dedicated to helping her, to the point where you feel sorry for the boy every time Nadia takes out her anger on him.)
**** As a matter of fact Nadia even lays into Jean when he offers her manmade flowers (that Ensign Fait generously gives the boy) or attempts to compliment her in the abovementioned episode (as Electra advised him to). Naturally, this only succeeds in confusing poor Jean—to the point where he is surprised when she finally plucks the courage to ask him directly for a compliment for an (awkwardly fashioned out of canvas) dress in episode 26. (Fourteen episodes earlier, she doesn't succeed in getting a compliment from Jean about a dress she's wearing since the latter is busy reading a book, but in that case she was sort of expecting him to read her mind and not knowing how else to act.)
*** In that same episode, Nadia furiously declares to Nemo that she hates him and the Nautilus crew; he slaps her for saying that, adding in a stern tone, "Please don't say sad things like that" ("You have made me very sad." in the dub).
** On the flipside, she ''does'' apologize to Jean numerous times for her misdirected anger, even going out of her way to bring him something to eat, go on walks with him, or anything else reconciliatory (in the [[Canon|canonical]] episodes), {{spoiler|but she never gets to do so to Nemo, even though she realizes too late that she could have been nicer.}}
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* [[Submarine Pirates]]
* [[Tank Goodness]]: The Gratan.
* [[Teen Genius]]: Jean. The kid actually beat the Wright Brothers by twenty-four years! He also invented a helicopter. And a rocket. And a music recorder. Which, if you take it at face value, means he invented the speaker, the microphone, the amplifier, and vinyl records. Which means he may well have invented the vacuum tube. And plastic. He also seems to have invented the Ukulele.<br /><br />In a dream sequence, he goes on to invent the television, the computer, and the ''a-bomb''. He also invented an Ice Cream machine.
* [[Terrible Trio]]: Grandis and crew are an [[Expy]] of the [[Time Bokan]] gang, with the twist that this time the fat guy is the genius engineer and the skinny guy is the strongman.
** [[True Companions]]: They bicker and quarrel and are inseperable.
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