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The original TV series was quite popular and well-liked in its day (although a lot of people got ticked off when it ended with a therapy session for the MC rather than actually resolving the plot). You do have to remember that it was a lot more original then than it seems now—it was neither a kiddy-targeted giant robo story with an upbeat Standard Issue Shounen Protagonist nor a military-setting mecha series with a gifted pilot as MC, but centered around some loser whose robot suit needed to stay plugged in to keep working for more than a few minutes.
(Also, in my opinion, Cruel Angel’s Thesis remains a damned good OP.)
This is not at all synonymous with good.
While the show does have good visuals going for it, the writing is terrible and undeserving of the popularity it got
The word “consider” does do a certain amount of heavy lifting in this case.