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Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team

8.20Score #743Rank
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Sci-Fi
  • Mecha
  • Military

Synopsis

In year 0079 of the Universal Century, the Earth Federation initiates Operation Odessa—a full-scale assault to retake a major Ukrainian city from the Principality of Zeon. It is a success, and the remaining Zeon forces scatter across the globe. The Earth Federation gains the upper hand in the One Year War and deploys its ground troops around the planet to hunt down the stragglers.

As part of the deployments, Ensign Shiro Amada is transferred to Southeast Asia to take command of the 08th MS Team—a special squadron of RX-79[G] Gundam Ground Type pilots. In their first guerilla operation, Shiro's team is tasked with distracting the Zeon forces while Federation ground troops locate a mysterious new Zeon weapon. Everything goes according to plan until Shiro runs into Aina Sahalin, an ace Zeon pilot he met in an earlier battle, during a skirmish. Their reunion weakens his resolve to continue fighting, and now the young commander Shiro must prove his loyalty to the Federation—or be branded a traitor.

(Source: MAL)

Background

After the death of Director Takeyuki Kanda on July 27, 1996, the release of the remaining six episodes was delayed. Nearly one year later in 1997, Umanosuke Iida took over the project and completed the series on July 25, 1999.

Characters

Shiro Amada Main
Karen Joshua Main
Eledore Massis Main
Michel Ninorich Main
Aina Sahalin Main
Terry Sanders Jr. Main
Bjorn Abust Supporting
Arth Supporting
Barry Supporting
Chibi Supporting

Staff

Yutaka Maseba Producer
Masuo Ueda Producer
Hajime Yatate Producer
Umanosuke Iida Director
Takeyuki Kanda Director
Kunihiro Mori Director, Episode director, Storyboard
Yasuo Urakami Sound director
Mitsuko Kase Episode director
Akira Nishimori Storyboard
Chihiro Yonekura Theme song performance