I had decided to watch this after seeing the director was Shinichiro Watanabe, and loving his other directed anime I had a feeling this would be good as well and I was not disappointed. While I've not watched any Macross anime before I already feel like this is one of the best. Due to its heavily character driven plot and because of those well written characters it maintained its quality throughout its short 4 episode run. With the three main characters semi love triangle, the competition between Isamu and Guld is very well written and each story beat hit perfectly, minus the main final twistI felt was a little underdeveloped. The sound track mixes in beautifully with the story beats and leaves a memorable impact, continuing to improve into Watanabe's later works. Overall this is a great OVA and you can really see the genius in this piece of work.