[Den-O]

ZZ I'll give you isn't as great, but I still really enjoyed it. Where's DaiRiderRX when you need him? He's my Zeta Bro.

The thing with Zeta is Tomino was suffering from the worst depression of his career. So he poured a lot of his raw emotion into the show. He used his pain to craft the story. Now by the time ZZ was commissioned he was on stronger anti-depressants and felt that he'd gone "too far" and been too dark with Zeta. So he tried to course correct so to speak with ZZ. Which result in the very mixed and light hearted tone of the first half of the series.

That was until fans outraged by the huge tonal shift from Zeta to the first half of ZZ got the message to Sunrise that they were displeased. Sales numbers falling also helped communicate this. This message in turn got to Tomino and Sunrise tried to get him to shift focus back to how Zeta had been crafted. Resulting in the even more mixed signals from the series.

I enjoy it, but I know it isn't for everyone.