What was best for me was watching the video and noticing all the little hints the director drops that he's obviously played various Star Wars video games. Like, the 'incoming missile' buzzer, utility tug, and some of the TIE's control panels are from 'TIE Fighter', the Interdictor's anti-missile systems and the icons used for various TIE squadrons (the latter only visible for a fraction of a second!) are straight out of Empire At War, the strafing runs on the Corellian Corvettes all fairly popular approach methods from Battlefront II...
It's an homage to a whole bunch of things, not just 80's anime. And I loved it.
THEN I discovered the PDF linked in the video description. He's got backgrounds written out for all those characters; if he wanted to write a series basted on them, I'd totally watch it.