YMMV / Dancougar Nova

• Anvilicious: One episode makes oblique references to the The War on Terror being fought solely over oil, and featuring a nearly rabid, transparently American commander crushing the titular robot while declaring that because his nation is strong, it gets to decide what justice is.
• Awesome Music: The theme song, Tori no Uta (Birdsong), is a surprisingly mellow and sensual love song that is very catchy with solid instrumentation and throaty vocals.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: It's a Masami Obari show so this was to be expected. However many on 4chan have a very soft spot for Aoi, who's still considered to be one of the hottest female mecha pilots in all of anime. It's almost blasphemy to say she isn't smoking hot there.
• Crossover Ship: Aoi used to be heavily shipped with Ryouma Nagare around the time of release of SRW Z2, in which Dancouga Nova debuted. From around that time period, a Crack Ship of her and Shinji Ikari was also really popular thanks to a particular doujinshi in which Shinji has a really... intimate relationship with her and Kallen Kouzuki.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Based on What Could Have Been in the Trivia page, had Aoi been made into a descendant of Sara Yuki, she might end up having to adopt her surname... which would make her same-named with a famed seiyuu that rose in the next decade after the show's decade.
• Strangled by the Red String: The romance between Johnny and Eida, while arguably cute, is a little rushed.
• The Woobie: Aoi is quite a Woobie under her Badass Driver Fiery Redhead exterior. Heavily implied to be a test tube baby with no parents, she has believed herself to be alone and unwanted for all of her life. Her fellow Dancouga Nova pilots (Johnny, Sakuya and Kurara) were the first true friends she ever had, after getting past their differences. And just when she has finally found a place where she can feel accepted, Moon Will totals the Dragon's Hive, apparently killing everyone. Luckily, it later turns out to be a Disney Death, and she gets an Happy Ending after literally punching out Cthulhu.