Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1996)★ 7.9/10
- Action
- Animation
- Drama
- Romance
- War
- Sci-Fi
Directed by: Umanosuke Iida, Takeyuki Kanda, Kunihiro Mori, Atsuko Kase, Akira Nishimori
Written by: Hiroaki Kitajima, Akira Okeya, Yoshiyuki Tomino
During a one-year war, a young lieutenant leads a mobile suit team against a secret Zeon weapon, meeting its pilot who questions the morality of the war.
- Original title
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
- Storyline
- During the One Year War of UC 0079, A young Earth Federation Lieutenant named Shiro Amada is sent to Earth to lead a squadron of Gundam mobile suits in Southeast Asia to fight the Duchy of Zeon's forces. Along the way, he and his rag-tag 08th Mobile Suit Team discover that Zeon has been testing a new secret weapon capable enough to destroy the Federation's headquarters in South America and possibly give the Zeons an edge in the war. Shiro unknowingly meets the pilot of the Zeon secret weapon, Aina Sahalin. Together they discover that both sides fighting the war are not any better or any worse than the other.
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 2,304
- Companies
- Bandai Visual Company, Sotsu Agency, Sunrise, Bandai Channel, Bandai Entertainment, Cartoon Network, Madman Entertainment, Pop & In Entertainment
- Release dates
- JP January 25, 1996
- US July 23, 2001
- TH April 10, 2021