The films are known for their unusually high production values for amateur works and for including numerous references to otaku culture, as well as its unauthorized appropriations of the Playboy Bunny costume.

Usage of the songs "Runaway" by Bill Conti (from the soundtrack to the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only) as well as "Twilight" and "Hold On Tight" by English rock band Electric Light Orchestra were also unauthorized.

The Jet VTOL ship from Ultraman's Science Patrol descends out of the sky toward Earth, as a school girl, carrying her randoseru, observes from behind a tree.

The song "Runaway" by Bill Conti (from the soundtrack to the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only) emphasizes the action as King Ghidorah and Gamera chase the girl while she flies through the air with her jet-propelled backpack.

A Star Destroyer, a TIE fighter, and Martian fighting machines from the film The War of the Worlds (1953) cross the background.

Bathed in light, and now wearing a naval uniform, the girl boards the ship, where the film's producers, Toshio Okada and Yasuhiro Takeda, sit at the controls.

[1] After this, "Prologue" by Electric Light Orchestra is heard, while the lyrics appear against a starfield and an outline of the spaceship Daicon passes in the background.

A few scenes unconnected to the main plot are shown, such as Yoda as Yū Ida given a Japanese comedy routine with various characters in the audience.

[e] Once back on land, the girl jumps off the Stormbringer and it splits into seven parts, which fly through the sky spewing smoke in seven colors.

[4] Kazutaka Miyatake of Studio Nue originally designed the mecha that appears in the Daicon III clip chasing the little girl for a Japanese edition of the military science fiction novel Starship Troopers in the early 1980s.

[5] In 1981, at the 20th Nihon SF Taikai (nicknamed "Daicon III" because it was held for the third time in Osaka), an 8 mm animation was shown.

At the request of Okada and Takeda, the animation was actually produced by Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Yamaga and Takami Akai, all of whom were students at Osaka University of Arts at the time and would later become professionals.

"[4] The team behind the animation that gathered for the SF convention was supposed to disband and cease its activities at the end of Daicon III.

[8] Originally, Daicon IV was supposed to be fifteen minutes long, but the difficult production resulted in the cut time.

[6] Anno and Yamaga were invited to Tokyo by Studio Nue, a science fiction planning group that had taken notice of the quality of Daicon III's opening animation, and introduced them to Artland, which led them to join the staff of the TV animation Super Dimension Fortress Macross that was being produced by them.

The production facility for Daicon IV was in a dedicated studio in a building called the Hosei Kaikan that was owned by a textile union.

[7]: 80  Takeda defined it as a literal anime sweatshop, the building was shut down at 9:00 pm and a majority of the staff would be locked inside and working through the night without air conditioning.

At the end of 1984, with the project of Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, Daicon Film was dissolved and established as an animation production company Gainax.

The process from Daicon Film to the establishment of Gainax can be seen in detail in the Wings of Honnêamise production progress series that was exclusively serialized in the monthly magazine Model Graphix at the time.

This LaserDisc is considered rare and highly valuable among collectors, easily fetching prices over a thousand dollars on online auctions.

The opening sequence of the Train Man Japanese TV drama series from 2005 was inspired by and uses the Electric Light Orchestra theme and the lead character from the Daicon IV film.

[10] In episode 5 of Gainax's FLCL, titled "Brittle Bullet", Haruko, wearing a red bunny suit, flies in on a bass guitar and yells "Daicon V!"

[11] Since 2008, Otakon's AMV contest opened with a video inspired by and using clips from the Daicon IV film (with the sole exception of the 2017 iteration).

[15] In August 2023, Wonder Festival Summer convention featured a special exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Daicon IV.

A new illustration of the "Daicon Bunny Girl" has been drawn by Takami Akai, the original character designer of the opening animation films and one of the founders of Gainax.