Its a fairly narrative driven game, and all you need is a couple of d6 to play-- and to be absolutely crazy, like me! And because it came out in the 80s and 90s (three revisions), it features all the insane humor from the anime of the time, like Ranma 1/2, Tenchi Muyo!, and even Sailor Moon. The book is a fun read, packed with sarcastic humor and talks about ancient relics like VCRs and [cassette] tapes. And at only 130 pages, written in a fairly large Comic Sans font, I would expect anybody with at least two brain cells can finish reading this gem within a day or so. (I'm up to page 46 already and have noticed some random generation tables too, if you're into quick generation, that's a bonus!)Humans are people just like you. (Sure, we're making a heck of an assumption here, but work with us, okay?) They don't have flying saucers, weird alien powers, or even look all that strange. So why play a human when you can do that right now, and you don't even need a COPY of this book?
Simple. As a human, you belong to the coolest race in the Galaxy.
See, before the aliens discovered Earth, there was absolutely no teen culture anywhere in the Galaxy. You were born (hatched, extruded or whatever), grew to adulthood, and ended up doing useful, productive things like blowing up solar systems and taking people to Meet Your Leader.
There was no fast food. There were no shopping malls. Nobody drag-raced spacecruisers. There was no Rock and Roll. There was only a Vast Whirling Nebula of Infinite Stars Spinning in Cosmic Emptiness , occasionally punctuated with a dull "boom!" as somebody somewhere accidentally detonated a planet.
It was a Dark Time in the Galaxy.
Now, I'm going to make sure that nobody's accidentally tie-dyed my cat, and continue reading as I take a nostalgic walk down memory lane while plotting the destruction of my local Taco Bell-- just because.
As someone who loves 80's and 90's culture I'm sure I'll enjoy this game. I just looked it up on Wikipedia and got a kick out of the basic alien types lol.