I've been getting nostalgic lately and I've want to find this old anime I watched when I was a little kid( around 8 or 9 maybe). I don't remember the name or any of the characters but I can remember the general story and some scenes( hope that helps).

The intro had a scene of tanks on a highway fighting this huge bug( think ultralisk from SC) and then the highways collapsing.

The general story was that an alien had come and destroyed human civilization leaving only a few survivors here and there. The leader of the aliens had his base in orbit around Earth and wore a black robotic suit. Somehow, the survivors had robotic suits( not mecha, just robotic suits) that gave the wearer super strength and the whole deal, they used these suits to fight the aliens( not sure if they fought bugs or other suits). But I do know that the alien leader would capture humans and enslave them to fight. He would stick them in suits just like the resistance( he enslaved them on his space hq and put em on earth).

I only remember 2 scenes, so I'll try to be as specific as I can be.

Humans are fighting the aliens with no hope of winning in the ruins of a city, so one fighter( in a pink suit) tells her friends to get away and she self-destructs killing everything around her.

Another scene is where the humans get their hands on a nuke and plan on using on the alien hq( in space) but the fighters urge them not to because some humans are being held there. They somehow manage to get into the space base and find there comrades who are in the process of being brainwashed and put into suits. They encounter the leader which wears an all black suit( once again, robotic suits which are human size).

I think this anime came out in the 80s but the animation was really good for it's time. I hope someone can give me some clues T_T, thanks,

It's the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, no doubt .

Well nor was it a cartoon/anime. It just sounds a lot like MMPR Robotech maybe? I dunno I didn't watch a lot of anime in the 80's.

Well now that you mention it ... No... but they did fight giant lobsters and the henchmen/women always liped japanese while they spoke english

Blue Gender?

http://www.asylum-anime.com/posterscrolls/ws_bluegender_1665.jpg

(Nah, can't be it. Much, much too recent.)

Not blue gender, it came out around the same time as robotech.

Not Space Battleship Yamato a.k.a. Starblazers, was it? The plot is nowhere near what you described from what I know, but it's from about the same era...

Edit: Gundam Seed is from 2002. Back in the 1980s, all we had was the original Mobile Suit Gundam... And Neon Genesis Evangelion is vastly different from what SSC described.

The synopsis reminds me of an early 90's cartoon called ExoSquad. Not anime, but it sort of fits the description from what I remember.

The Guyver?

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Hey I found a list of anime shows. Not sure if that's what your looking for but maybe it's on this list. If not then try searching google for 'anime +alien bug robot' or something along those lines.

My last guess: Tekkaman Blade a.k.a Teknoman? (Addendum: Exhaustive research found me this. Didn't see the above post. )

http://www.bobbergen.com/images/Teknoman05.jpg
http://www.icefall.org/Teknoman/images/darkon03.gif
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(More research makes me almost certain this is it. Hard work pays off!)

Thundercats! It's got to be...

power puff girls!

Sounds like he is talking about Gunbuster to me. But the only problem is that Gunbuster was only a 6 episode thing and spans 3 dvds now. But the storyline sounds identical to what you said. These are the only 80s animes I could find: