It’s a major departure from old school Gundam, the greatest criticisms of which were about insufferable children being thrown into war (looking at you, Camille).

However, the overarching themes and the world building were incredible, on par with the best of science fiction. It was formative for me in learning about Lagrangian points, mechanics and life support requirements of massive space colonies, and, of course, theorizing of the mechanics of war in space.

Very few of those themes are front and center, but they are omnipresent, and expanded on in supplementary materials, which I ate up as a youth.