Finally watched the latter half over the last few days, and after seeing so many Gundam series desperately trying to recapture what they had in 1979, the one time they really let the franchise try to reinvent itself from scratch and take real risks still feels fresh as hell despite being decades old. Like I don't know how Tomino convinced Bandai that people would buy model kits for a show about an effeminate black man from the moon more interested in how his Gundam can move livestock and do the laundry than using it for combat, but I'm glad for whatever black magic he had access to. This is a must watch.