I only ever saw a couple of episodes of this, so I have no idea if as a whole it was on a par with the original - once, of course, you get away from the obvious visual updates. I rather suspect that it may well have been a perfectly fine series, if it there hadn't already been a "Bublegum Crisis"; "Gunbuster 2" has the same problem - its actually pretty damn good, but there is one hell of a cast over it by its illustrious ancestor...
