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It was Bandai, not Tomino's decision. He's fucking lying.

https://www.gundamunofficial.com/production/gundamzz.html
>Here, Katsumi Kawaguchi of the Bandai Hobby Products Department recalls:

>Nowadays, Mobile Suit Z Gundam is highly regarded as a work, and the merchandise is also popular. But during the broadcast, we started seeing a merchandising decline around autumn. Nonetheless, it had been decided that Z Gundam would run for four cours, and to Bandai the Gundam brand was too valuable to abandon. So we told the Sunrise side, "We want you to do another sequel and continue the Gundam title." At that point we began discussing what we should do after Z Gundam was over. From then on, there was also talk within the company that "the story of Z Gundam is too difficult" and "the story is too dark." Based on those opinions, we talked with Sunrise about how we should proceed in the next year after Z Gundam.

>Thanks to the success of the movies, Gundam had already transformed into a character that even children recognized. In that respect, our expectations may have been too optimistic. As a result, with Z Gundam we began to see a decline in a brand that had previously boasted steadfast popularity, and there was confusion within the company, as people said "It wasn't supposed to be like this." Thus there was talk that, to some extent, the upcoming new Gundam also had to consider children as part of the target demographic. So we said to Gundam's producer, Mr. (Kenji) Uchida, "How about a light Gundam that will be easier for kids to understand?"

>With the formal approval of the project in November 1985 came a new mantra: "A light Gundam, an enjoyable Gundam, a Gundam for everyone," as Tomino phrased it in a B-Club interview. The idea of making the new series lighter and more accessible, while bringing back popular elements of the original Mobile Suit Gundam that Z Gundam had discarded, would drive many of the creative decisions as the production continued.

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