Anime Abandon - Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
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Worth mentioning is that the character designer of MSG: 08th MS Team is the same guy behind Cowboy Bebop's character design.
Cool.
You can totally see that here.
It really shows. Good eye.
@@jasonjimerson7046 Seriously followed his work since his Golden Boy era. His designs in the Ghost in the Shell PS1 game, especially Motoko Kusanagi herself, was phenomenal.
Oh that explains an awful lot
Yes the Norris vs 08th MS team is arguably the greatest MS fight in the franchise and it is glorious. No newtypes and no super gundams/MS/Mobile Armors just a down and dirty fight between a true blue Zeon ace pilot against a team of talented Federation pilots.
Every fight with Norris is great. They did such a good job making him really feel like an ace fighter without any cheats.
I'm not putting any qualifiers on it.
Norris versus the 8th Ms team is my most favorite fight in the franchise.
Some of the Newtype fights are good too. Kshatriya versus Stark Jegan demonstrates the differences in philosophy and power of the Zekesand the Feddie’s.
I am sorry but your extra terrestrial cousin Kira Yamato aka "Space Jesus" is the worst Gary Stu in the entire franchise.
@Savage Jesus Heero Yuy is much more of a Gary Stu than Shiro.
I place the blame for Gundam Vietnom turning into Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor on the sad fact that the original director, Takeyuki Kanda, was killed in a car wreck midway through the series. Sunrise had to get a new one, and, unfortunately, they picked Umanosuke Iida, who wanted to focus more on the "starstruck lovers" angle than had been originally planned. It's tragic, really. :-(
I hate liking this post, as it seems inappropriate, but at the same time, thanks for sharing this bit of context.
I did not know the original director passed away during production, but I didn't mind the Romeo & Juliet story they were telling either. The action was still gritty and realistic.
We need more well choreographed mobile suit ground combat.
Shiro and Aina were the only things that kept me interested in the actual plot. I like the themes, setting and battles. But besides Sanders and Shiro the squad was a bunch of unlikeable dickheads. I also didn’t care about Kiki I wish her screen time was cut in half.
@@holyordersol2668 that would be a bit difficult considering that Gundams aren't made for a terrestrial environment, you would have to use other mechs for that which would be a welcome change of pace for me. That and dropping the whole opra part. There comes to a point where you have way too much drama in a series, I personally never cared about soap operas.
@@andresmarrero8666 "Gundams aren't made for terrestrial environment"
Except the existence of the RX-79[G] Ground Type Gundams proves that to be false. Gundams serve a multitude of roles, even if they need to be modified to do so (i.e. the GP01's transition from Earth to space).
Also, a mainline Gundam series doesn't exist without some serious drama.
Now, if you're using the word "drama" to refer specifically to "love story", then I can agree with you.
As for the "opra part" you mentioned, the only thing that would be lacking is the "space" part of "space opera".
Honestly, 08th MS Team is hardly unbearably gushy (imo). I feel 0083 is far more over-dramatic with its love story that I wish it just didn't exist (especially when the love triangle is revealed out of left field).
But to each their own.
Hands Down, the 08th MS team is the "fortunate Son" of the Gundam Franchise.
I see what you did there....But it ain't me.....
"[They'll] have to leave without me. I've found my place to die." is such a *BADASS* line that I'm gonna have to go look that fight scene up, even if I don't get around to seeing the full show. That resonates with fan of samurai, cowboy, and drifter tales in me super hard. And as you can tell my name, that's a pretty big part of me.
Every fight with him is really good. He shows why the mobile suits that most series treat as cannon fodder are feared in the lore.
Here you go. :D
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My dad is also a huge fan of those types of stories. To the point of always playing any cgaracter in a game who is either a samurai or a nomad
Norris's fight aginst the main characters is one of my favorite Gundam battles.
Drifter Carbon it’s a little late, but it’s on Hulu.
the original director of this anime, Takeyuki Kanda , died during the production , maybe that 's why the ending is so '' weird '' ...
The writer left the production as well, so yeah, it was troubled to say the least.
I love the ending. Last Resort.
Yeah but the test subject just there to fill up more time than finding Shiro and Aina whereabouts
Bruno Berserk it would also explain why it feels rather rushed as well.
Last Resort gave some explanation for the kids. There from the infamous Flanagan Institute. There zeon's first cyber newtypes who were landed to earth on that komusai with the research data.
Vietnam War meets Romeo and Juliet except no suicides..
But a lot more gruesome deaths.
geardog24 Thats debatable
@@LuckyBastard12345 The poor mountain range though...
@Kaidoku123 You mean the novel ending? That's just the Gundam novels being needlessly dark...
Also robots
Gundamcember. The time of the year where I peek in on a franchise that is responsible for a friend and my roommate drowning in model kits.
They are called gunpla, mom!
My ex had a ton of gundams lol. I still have my SD Gundam I built during those times. I'm surprised it came out OK with my dumb-ass motor skills
The PlasticCrack 😂
@@RexWort second only to Warhammer?
That "war face" bit was priceless. Thanks for covering one of my favorite Gundams.
Agreed! I want to get that in a separate video!
As a long time Battletech/MechWarrior fan, I actually loved this series for having so many battles being so grounded. It's rare to see a mecha anime where the giant walking tanks actually move and fight like giant walking tanks.
Just watch it and my god i enjoyed the journey.
Check out Dougram. It’s a little rough around the edges, but helped establish Battletech.
@@thomasffrench3639 oh I know about it, watched it and loved it, freaking great series.
Sage reviewing my favorite Gundam series? Hell yeah.
Google Kamille Bidan. You might like Kamille better than Shiro later on. Rent Zeta Gundam on netflix.
Ya, but when is he gonna review SD Gundam ?
@@supergoron1 SD Gundam is not real Gundam.
Sd gundam si just super deformed gundam. it's au as in alternte universe. Ben might review G Gundam. Ben needs to review Zeta Gundam.
@@supergoron1 if you like sd gundam you can rent it on netflix.
@@johnnyfountainS G gundam yes this needs to happen
I loved 8th MS team. One of my favorite anime ever.
5:57 in both Korea and Nam jungles hid large colloms of tanks and artillery I think hiding an 18 meter walking tank is not that much of a stretch( also including certain Gundam staples like Minovsky particle disruption to make it worse). And Sage I asked For SD Gundam Force you know the other Gundam show aired on toonami on the Saturday block after wing.
Barry Bend Actually a tall object like a fundamental would be far harder to hide. One of the more important aspects of tank design is their profile being as low as practical. All things being equal a taller tank will be easier to spot sooner and thus will lose the advantage of first engagement.
It was actually one of the major issues with the Bradley fighting vehicle, it started off as a transport then was up armed into a sort of light tank, the problem (or one of them anyway) was the thing was so tall that it became a target of fire before the tanks it may have been accompanying. Being a lightly armored troop carrier playing at a tank this was bad.
That’s one of the most realistic issues with fundamental type machines in reality.
@@DrewLSsix well I did say columns of tanks and artillery in the Korean and Vietnamese Jungles. I wasn't meaning the hight but the numbers.
From my millitary service, which was focused on jungle warfare I can 100% tell you that in a dense forest you can barely see past 50m, if that. Sound is really what gives you away.
When I bought the last 08th ms team dvd. I started crying when I saw Shiro Married to Aina. I looked like Kiki seeing him. I was all happy. Shiro is special as in cool special. Shiro got his left leg back when he stood up.
I always viewed episode 12 as a epilogue to the series, and wasn’t really mad at it. Sure, the main story is over by episode 11 with The Shuttering Mountain, and maybe most of Last Resort could be cutout to show Kiki & Mikhail finding Shiro & Ina as the happy-ish ending. I still enjoy the whole of 08th MS Team as one of my favorites in the Gundam franchise.
Just finished the series anf my god i fell in love with it. Its so good.
08th ms team and next 0083 stardust memory
Kevin DeLuna the most banger of a theme in the entire Gundam franchise.
SM is so complicated because if you're into mech porn or UC continuity it's just glorious and probably the best the franchise ever did (seeing the heroe who you got to love get into their space nazi uniforms at the end is such a punch in the gut). But a lot of people isn't into either and have the right to dislike and sure do.
Still waiting for a possible review of g Gundam if we get one this year
@@rossenator101 Yeah Me Too
@Fawlee Runlan I gotta (full) Burnern Love!!!
Sry
It's on Hulu, more 90s anime for me, thanks Bennet
Hulu needs more 80's anime for me
G-Wing had been the show got me in the Gundam series because it was the first show the franchise that got aired on Toonami as one of my first exposures to anime (the first being Sailor Moon) . But 08th MS Team is what made me truly love Gundam and appreciate anime in general.
12:15 Now I want to see an Apocalypse Now version of Gundam.
I think Gundam Narrative is the closest you'll get.
With singing and dancing Colonel Kurtz!
I love the sight of Mechs in the morning
watch mad max 2 instead. Apocalypse pow.
@@CornishCreamtea07 Just like napalm for coffee.
The Gouf fight in this series was amazing
if there was one thing, just one solitary thing that burned in my memory from this show's initial run on Toonami 17 yrs ago, it was that fight. Every single part of that fight was just a spectacle, Gouf #1 baby
It's no Zaku boy!!
No Zaku!!!
....
Oh wrong series 😅
They managed to make Gouf cool is achievement by itself.
And there goes all the big budget they had.
Here's some footnotes dealing with 8th MS Team: it was the longest running gundam series as each ova ( in Japan) took a year to produce 3 or so episodes. ( 3 years total for the whole series). The original creator of the spinoff died around episode 7 so the show took a different shift in direction. Lastly the character designer was also responsible for Cowboy Beebop, Wolfs Rain and GUNDAM 0083!
It also has one of the most incredibly real robot fight scenes ever holy shit this show is well animated.
08th is my favorite gundam. I really liked the concept that they were just regular soldiers
8th MS team was one of my favorite gundam series and I’m glad to see it reviewed on this show. The ending fell a bit flat for me but as a kid I never really knew why. As an adult looking back, I can see why. Still it hold a special place in my heart and I’ll probably go binge watch it on Hulu shortly after I write this.
The only Gundam series I could ever really get into, and I still love it.
It's miracle that 08th MS Team exists because of how different it is compared to typical entry in Gundam franchise. Bandai isn't known from wanting to take risks with they beloved cash cow franchise so that tends to limit what Sunrise can do with it. So Stardust Memory in next up eh? It's basically prequel to Zeta Gundam because it sets up Titans that are bad guys in Zeta Gundam.
My favorite Gundam series. It took me years, YEARS, to find the entire series.
Probably my favorite.
I remember how different and more grounded it was. Even to the fights.
You didn’t have your OP special Gundam and it’s pilot running around the battlefield clearing out the area, here you could feel the weight and the intensity and how every shot counted.
A straight up war story where every move had consequences, the fight with the ms Goud had to be my favorite, it was like if Jaws personified on how he ran around just taking down an entire team.
That and I won’t lie, loved the figures haha customizable weapons and storage, that’s as some top tier stuff for me.
That was awesome man! Thanks! This is my personal favorite Gundam franchise, (Right next to G Gundam), and ot was great to hear your take on it!
G Gundam was the first series I got to fully watch growing up in middle school as I didn't have cable at the time of Gundam Wing being aired, and for as hammy as it was at time I really loved it and its thanks to G Gundam that I even got into the moble suit series at all.
And Festivus...Don't forget Festivus XD
Its for the rest of us
One of my ALL TIME GUNDAM SERIES IM AAAAALLL OVER THIS
OMG, I was waiting for a long time for you to do look at this series! Super happy to be watching it. :]
My favorite's still G Gundam because of how gloriously campy it is, and the fact that piloting gundams directly like what Pacific Rim later did goes a very long way in helping to justify why the hell you'd even bother making a giant death robot a bipedal human.
it’s basiclly space robot wrestling which is why it’s the best. Yes there is melodrama but it’s not trying to preach to me some trite philosophic point about war. Bitch all I want is to see shining gundam and the other alliance gundam s best the shit out of devil gundam American history x style.
@@asher8754 G Gundam does have a brief moment where it covers the anti-war message, but it's more of an add-on and it has an environmental spin on it.
The 08th mobile suit core is using mass production G class Gundams. These were reserved for units that had advanced piloting skills.
I agree. THE best fight scene in Gundam, but a collection of the rest are amongst the most visceral and excellent in the franchise as a whole.
If you rewatch gundam 0079 they mention that the original federation mobile suits were only meant for land combat. The ability to fight in space was more of an afterthought. The zeon suits were meant for both since their territory was mostly in space
while 08th MS Team is one of my favorite Gundams, I can also see why someone would pick 0083 over it. it's definitely more streamlined and completely embraces the angle it's going for, aka, "Top Gun in space". it also has better overall animation and highly detailed designs.
After 00 I've had a hard time enjoying other Gundam as much. It's like a distillation of all the best parts of all the other shows, trimmed down to an extremely manageable length, with a really good soundtrack.
The fight Sage mentioned was actually #1 on a Watchmojo list of Mecha battles. It even topped the final battle of Gurenn Lagan!
*chanting*
Unicorn... unicorn. Unicorn! UNICORN! U N I C O R N !
Yeah, I noticed the whole "occasional awkward delivery" lines in some of the Gundam dubs. It's a shame they stick out so much because overall, the franchise has seemed pretty solid on dubbing. That said, I've only seen the original, Zeta and Wing so my opinion is a bit limited.
Yo, the female leads' name Aina was my grandmother's name. This episode was trippy for me just hearing her name peppered through out it; thank you for pouncing it right too - i have heard way too many variations of the name (some not too clean to say the least) . Had to check if it was spelled right too, and holy hell it was. Thanks for this episode and happy Holidays!
Not gonna lie, 8th MS Team is easily my favorite entry into the Gundam-franchise, next to the more recent "Iron-Blooded Orphans" you mentioned. I'm much more into the grounded scenario&warfare and relatable character interactions, compared to the mopey-kid-melodrama and superweapon-spacemagicks of many other Gundam-shows.
And I even liked the starcross'd-lovers aspect here well enough. Both characters were pretty likable and had good chemistry and I feel that it added a nice additional angle to the entire story. But the series definitely has a somewhat lackluster dub... I enjoyed it much more once I switched to the sub, which has some excellent VAs (funfact: Shiro shares his voice with Zelda's Adult Link... very obvious when he screams :D).
Would love to see an "Oldtaku, New Tricks"-episode on IBO.
The One year war took place on all fronts both in space and the earth! Which means both sides needed Mobile Suits on all fronts. The Mobile Suits you see in this series on the ground type which means the mobile suit aren't going to be built the same way.
Dude Stardust memory is your #1 Gundam pick. You sir, have great taste. Stardust is in my top 3, 8th MS team is #2, December Sky/ Thunderbolt #1. Great review man.
16:07
That has to be the best executed Saitama meme I've ever seen!
Watched a few episodes of this. One of my favorite Gundam series of all time
Gundams make every war fun.
If you think so, then sign up for new Gundam pilot training project. If you ask if we develop such, then it is unimportant. You brain will be ready to operate this amazing project if it will be ready! MK Ultra signing out 0_0
Unless it's War in the Pocket.
Too bad teenagers and children nearly ruin Gundam.
geardog24 Tell that to Usso, Judau, Amuro, or Domon
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Well kids and teenagers that act they don't belong in that situation
Real ones will break down or toughen up
Or died
18:17 He was so shock at how terrible a shot the Main protagonist was he just gives up on his life in search for a better isekai world. XD
I like that Sage can point out flaws of this OVA so much :D
08th MS Team is seriously my favorite Gundam series
One thing that always leaves me floored by Gundam is its use of music. Even the bad series can utilize music pretty well.
Platoon Gundam
one of the best soundtrack in any Gundam series!
Thanks for reviewing this-my favorite Gundam series that’s basically the best of the series, if not the best mecha series ever
Sage reviewing two of my favorite Gundam series back to back? Tis' certanly the season to be very joy. :)
This is the best time of year because of your series, Sage.
Thank you so much for making these.
Aww yeah, we're getting Stardust Memory this year! Thank you, Santa Sage!!!!
Oddly enough, this was my FIRST Gundam series. I had no idea what the war was about or the previous series, but the story alone kept me interested and got me into watching the rest and boy...there was so much to see
I saw this on Toonami and I really enjoyed this and sage is not kidding about that fight scene as well as the sequence leading up to it as there is palpable Palm sweat inducing suspense.
I thought this was a great Gundam series and hope to get my hands on the Blu-ray
Fun fact: The space colony Shiro was on was gassed by Cima from Stardust Memory, which is the start of her arc. Ironic how her actions leads to what was Shiro stopping Zeon's new prototype super weapon the Apsalus. Also, Aina is one of the best girls in the Gundam series along with Mora, Sayla, and Rain.
0083 and 8th MS Team were two of my favorite Gundam products. Really great OVAs.
watch Zeta Gundam and 0080 also.
One of my favorite things about this was the ED song which was cut on Toonami but it starts with Shiro reading a book and then when it ends, he turns towards the camera looking mad about you "spying" on him and throws the book at you. xD It's really funny because it's so random.
I've always liked the more grounded Gundam stories and that's probably the beginning parts of Gundam Seed and Iron-Blooded Orphans pulled me in. Almost no beam weapons, machine guns, melee weapons and all that. It really gives weight to the fights when you can see bullets ricochet off armor and shells hitting the ground.
Agreed. Beam weapons are great and all, but they're almost always one-hit-kill wonders, which really takes the meat & potatoes out of a fight.
#NotSpaceNazis thanks for that Sage, needed that chuckle.
Oh hey James didn’t know you stopped by here
By far my favorite Gundam series. I absolutely hate “the special” that crops up in most of these shows. And I love that these are just “weapons of war” and they have a huge support staff to keep these things up and running on the front lines. Really cool to see a “realistic” take of fantastic tech.
Thank you, Sage, for doing this OVA. It is, hands down, my favorite Gundam series of all time.
Seeing how vast and dense the jungles are in Vietnam I would say that it would be very hard to find a robot that large, more if it camouflage with the environment, if you look from the air you wouldn't known the difference.
I disagree with the little nit-picks and hang-ups Sage has with the series, but his description of the major strengths and weaknesses are spot on, with the exception of the final conclusion: War movie and space opera do not mix. It may not be easy, but I think they do mix, and the praise Sage himself espoused to the show demonstrates this. I think 0080 demonstrates this as well.
Gundam's aim is to show how close to fascism that space opera is, in that the genre is colonialist. I would suggest reading Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, which is similar in themes to gundam.
@@CosmoShidan I will have to check it out, you aren't the first to recommend it to me. As for the thematic criticism of Space Opera as a genre; I guess I can see it, considering many of the Tomino directed series specifically emphasize the misery rather than the triumph. As for Anti-Colonialist messaging, I guess Zeta would exemplify that the most, and that Char's near genocidal ideas in CCA are a direct result of the impact the major political forces had on his life; the Zabis, the Feds, the different factions of the Titans, etc.
@@Superhrnet Space opera is generally a western in space, as it uses a space setting and planets as a stand-in for the USA as an uninhabited frontier. This in turn is perpetuating the American frontier myth, that the US was uninhabited when it was already settled by Native Americans. And yes, aliens are a stand-in for Native Americans. The original series is anti-colonialist in how the Federation imposes its will over its colonial subjects that we see in the first 13 episodes much like the USA or Britain were doing in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Bennett: "not my personal favorite Gundam..."
Me: "yeeeessss..."
Bennett: "that title belongs to another OVA..."
Me: "YEEEEEEEESSSSS....."
*Bennett holds up 0083*
Me: "FUCK YEAH!!!!!!"
This is the best Gundam series of the whole Gundam franchise. The physics of the mobile suits are the most real and the story line is also too real.
i HOPE this goes well. MS Team is still my fav Gundam.
I prefer Zeta Gundam a little.
I love 8th Ms team....excluding the true ending. I remember Stardust Memory fondly but i forgot all of it aside from the mobile suit having a portable nuke attached. :)
18:39 No need to explain. Stardust Memory is my favorite too. The first MG 1/100th scale Gunpla I built was the GP-01fb. Ive since built the GP-02, GP-03, and GP-04. Which wasn't in the anime, but is till bad ass.
14:03 I LOVE THAT GUY!!!, he was actually one of my favorite voice actors to play venom, and im not gonna lie even in kiddy or tween crap, he can get a good laugh
very nice to see this as this was the gundam that got me into gundam after this I watched everything toonami aired and I couldn't get enough glad to hear it actually holds up even if it is wonky here and there and has a bad final episode that I've never seen
having not really watching much of the show, i kinda got the theme of the show just by seeing stuff and how the mobile suits operate, i was pretty much right that it was Gundam Vietnam
Aren't we all just scattered plastic pieces in the expensive model kit of time?
I remember really loving the ascetic of this show, the main Federation MS are cobbled together bullshit, all the gear has a palpable layer of rust and grime and dirt to it,
It just really sticks out when compared to other entries.
This is my favorite Gundam series. I loved how it was a more grounded look at the price of war especially, but OMG the action scenes are so good! Especially EZ-8 vs Gouf Custom.
The only thing that I remember about The O8th MS Team was the Vietnam war feel to it that I thought was so damn cool, in a strange way it reminds me of Full Metal Panic at least the dark war parts of that series.
You are right that mobile suits are design for space combat first in mind and that terrestrial combat hinders them. But they have addressed this issue in universe by making several models and variants better suited for the role of ground combat and able to get around without being THAT obvious.
Can you imagine gundam series combining bits of 8th ms team and operation stardust? Possibly the two best universal era side stories. I think stated this on one of your other videos but i do love gundam series more focused on the soldiers rather than some kid learning to pilot mobile suit for first time and is the main focus of series.
Am i also the only one odd that war only last a full year...you think with how big the earth is and how vast it is between earth, the moon, and colonies, you think that it would last longer too. I might be over thinking things and trying to apply logic to this.
When are you going to do an episode on great teacher onizuka
16:19 - 16:26 Why do I get vibes of Oblivion (2013) at the end of this series? Especially with that close up on Shiro smiling.
"I am Shiro Amada... And I am home."
I remember this playing and I remember watching it, but I remember nothing about it.
It wasn't even bad I don't think (watched it on Toonami lol), but it played during the years of my life I've purged 90% of from my memory
I remember being lukewarm to _08th MS Team_ since I thought the whole "fighting is wrong" message Shiro had halfway bugged me. The story of the Midnight Fenrir Corp. from the _Zeonic Front_ ps2 game would make a great OVA since they win every battle they fight and score some impressive victories (even getting one over Whitebase) but in the end, none of it matters since they weren't the "right" battles.
I'm surprised you didn't mention how the original director died halfway through the series. That definitely accounts for the change in tone and story in the latter half.
Couldn't agree more especially with his own declaration during his introduction to kill the Zeon soldiers and end the war, due to his colony being gassed. Somehow that's all negated because is infuated with a girl on the opposite side.
nothing like a good old fashioned Gundam series to get you loving anime again. Is that 0083 Stardust memory that's your favorite? Cause it happens to be my fave Gundam! :P
Nice to see that Sage views Stardust Memory as his favorite Gundam entry, since I feel the same way. It also has one of the best antagonists in all of Gundam: CIma Garahou,
No need to justify, Sage. Stardust Memory is my favorite of the Universal Century line too. ^u^
Only other one to be in my tops is a side story called "The Blue Destiny" and that's mainly for the technical aspect of the suits.
I remember liking 08th MS Team back when it aired. Surely based on these clips certain aspects haven't aged well, but I wouldn't mind rewatching it after so long.
It's interesting hearing your opinion as someone who didn't go through Gundam in production order and finds all the return of form in 008th MS Team as new. A lot of your analysis could be answered with 1/3th of the original or Z being on earth and focusing on ground troops, both small specialized teams and bigger operations.
Wait did you watch it in production order?
@@thomasffrench3639 why wouldn't you? If you're gonna watch stuff that spans decades it's better to start with the older stuff, and future works are made for an audience who recently saw the previous thing. Characters made as answers to previous ones, leaving something already explained, plots built on top of previous ones.
I did skip stuff from the 90's tho
@@canalsincontenido your comment was just unclear. Although production order is ideal, I don’t think it’s the only way to watch it.
Also Sage calls the shows without newtypes as “turn out to be the better shows,” when I think that he’s biased against newtypes because the Gundam shows with newtypes are actually the ones that turn out to be the better shows. I don’t know how some can say that 08th MS Team or 0083 is better than MSG, Z or Char’s Counterattack with a straight face.
Just watch 08 MS TEAM my god it was an amazing experience. Haven't watch anime for a good while and this one really really made me grateful. Also awesome review!!!
I feel like the final episode is the result of it being a kind of prequal series where they wanted to tie it into the rest of the series by implying the beginning of the cybernewtype experiments which really kicked off in Zeta (or Double Zeta). We’re seeing similar issues in western cinema with the trend to “franchise universes” where ham fisted references and cameo’s hinder movies forcing them to tie together rather then stand on their own strength.
Last Resort. I watched the 08th ms team when I was in college. Then I saw last resort in 2003.
Missed opportunity Bennett: you could have said joke "Ever had a Vietnam flashback."
I am genuinely surprised that 0083 is Sage's favorite of the Gundam franchise. I look forward to finding out why. Here's hoping he talks about the amazing music.
Yuri is amazing and he's probably my favorite character after Ghinius. Darren Norris has great range.
The battle with the enemy ace. That episode is the best of Gundam.