Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

But despite that dictate, Uchida would actually get to work with a couple of those original guys.

In September 1984, Yasuhiko Yoshikazu, the character designer and animation director for first Gundam, was brought onto the project and has the character design credit in the finished show.

He explained in the Zeta Gundam Memorial Box how he came to work on the series.

"I'd begun the work of directing and animating the theatrical anime, Aurelion, released in March 1986, for which I'd, uh, drawn the original story.

Yes

... um, [laughs] in tone and outlook.

So while Yasuhiko and Tomino had gotten along once upon a time, those days were really fucking over [laughs] by the time of-

Yeah