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Note that if you had given Star Wars to Yoshiyuki Tomino, boy oh boy he would have ZERO problems with following the prequels to their logical conclusions tonally https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1329913975576928258
Gundam (1979) and Star Wars (1977) are often compared a lot both for superficial reasons (space opera, helmeted villains, mixture of 'gritty' and 'space wizard') and deeper ones (huge myth-defining franchises)
that being said Tomino (who in his worst days emotionally was known as "Kill 'Em All Tomino" for his habit of massacring large numbers of characters) always was more pessimistic than Lucas
sometimes this made Gundam lack the sublime moments Star Wars achieved (I think the entire NewType thing is not as compelling as The Force, for example)
but Lucas is also incapable really of telling a story like the decline of the Republic but Tomino could do it in his sleep
To get a sense of how different Gundam is, imagine this instead of the SW sequels:
1) Imperial remnants, exploiting the New Republic's corruption and internal divisions, successfully carry out a massive terrorist attack that damages the Republic's food supply.
2) The only people in the Republic who tried to stop it are executed, sentenced to hard prison labor, or otherwise purged. The people who failed to stop it or colluded with the enemy are promoted.
3) A quasi-fascist autonomous counter-insurgency force emerges and is given a blank check to hunt down and destroy Imperial remnants. They rule with an iron fist and blatantly commit human rights violations
4) The original heroes of the Rebel Alliance defect from the New Republic (Luke, Leia, Hans, etc) and join a rebel group that fights the task force, allying with a disguised Darth Vader in the process.
5) A three way battle ensues between the COIN task force, the new rebels, and the imperial remnants -- who are in turn ostensibly led by a child member of the Palpatine family but actually controlled by a scheming regent.
6) At great cost, the rebels utterly annihilate the task force after the New Republic finally disavows them. By then, the imperial remnants launch an invasion of the Republic due to the task force being destroyed and the new rebels losing a lot of people in final battle.
7) The imperial remnants are destroyed after a vicious fight. Vader, who by now has abandoned his disguise, looks for a moment like he may be potentially a leader that could help the galaxy abandon its cycle of bloodshed.
8) But, alas, he cannot abandon his single-minded obsession with revenge and takes command of the imperial remnants to engage in a final doomed offensive. He and Luke both disappear after Luke invokes the Force to prevent Vader from a final act of destruction.
1-8 are a paraphrase of the timeline from Stardust Memory to Char's Counterattack, except "what if it were Star Wars" https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1329916217939914752
Its not that there aren't any heroes -- Amuro (who Luke is a stand-in for here) is clearly a hero and stands up for what is right, overcoming great doubt and trauma in the process.
It's just that Tomino and Lucas are so radically different in their attitude towards storytelling, themes, etc as to be utterly irreconcilable https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1329914849787342848
