and this is a good and a bad thing
it worked very well for tomino because it meant he go to make gundam 79, a show about child soldiers murdering people constantly with no glossing over it
zeta is just 79 turned up to 11, i havent finished it yet but it's far more pessimistic than 79 ever was
a tomino show i havent seen yet but im aware of has the premise of some people finding a big robot in space and some way along the line this devolved into the robot committing omnicide
but like i said, he could get away with all of this because his toys sold well so nobody was willing to tell him to stop