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I knew who Matsumoto Leiji was, but I don't think I had seen anything by him directly. "The Cocpit" might have been the first one. Before "Interstella-5555" and "Captain Harlock."
In "Captain Harlock" the Queen of the Mazone leads her people into a mass exodus to save them from peril, coming into conflict with the one man who was ready to stand up to them, to save the Humans who scorn him. Later, it's revealed that the Queen herself is a human, which is never explained. But goes to show that it's one's kin versus another.
Common in all three works is the employment of goofy-looking characters alongside more traditionally drawn (in anime) ones. The Americans in "The Cockpit" do not have them, neither do the Mazone, or the antagonists of "5555". The Germans in the first episode also don't have them. In fact, they appear more sinister, as if degraded compared to the hero and his love interest, than the enemy whom we never actually see, just their fighter planes.
When people talk about "There's only one race (literally "people") the Human race" they're talking about our shared common ancestry, invoking the need to be loyal to one another, to be fair amongst ourselves, so that we don't have anymore bloodshed. But our common lineage is just the byproduct of evolution, and no other animal species avoids conflict and destruction within its ranks entirely, either. It's a bizarre truism that calls to cease our selfish notions of kinship, but neglects to acknowledge the establishment of sub-groups of "people" who have families and bonds and who will want to protect those families in order for the gens to survive.
I guess that's why DINKS (Dual income no kids) or a new wave of anti-natalists have emerged, to say "it's cool to just consume products, you don't need a family".
To bring this back to anime - the creator of Gundam saw the need to show the two sides of a conflict in his story. It's worth noting that the main character let goes of his biological family and gets taken in by his foster one - the crew of the White base. But him and they are still part of a greater family, the Earth Federation. So, rather like a primitive aboriginal, he just leaves one gens (clan) for another, but they're still related in a sense. Through memetics, ideas, values, norms, beliefs, etc;