Lord Inquisitor was good, especially since it leaned into Inquisitors are often no more than crooked cops. So I figured Requiem might have a similar tone. LOL nope.

But yeah. Zeon is so on-the-nose Imperial Japan: a country fighting off European colonizers only to become colonizers themselves that carried out some of the worst atrocities in human history. Like you say, though, this has attracted otaku and wehrbs. Bandai isn't going to chase them away because they buy merch.