機動戦士ガンダム第08MS小隊

KIDOU SENSHI GUNDAM: DAI 08 MS SHOTAI

OVA

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
12
RELEASE
July 25, 1999
LENGTH
24 min

DESCRIPTION

UC 0079 - After the success of Operation Odessa, more and more Earth Federation soldiers are sent to earth to free it from the hands of the Principality of Zeon. As Zeonic troops retreat to unknown parts of the world, it's up to the Earth Federation Ground Force to find them and exterminate them.

Ensign Shiro Amada is made leader of the 08th MS Team, leading a team of Ground Type Gundams into battle. His mission: to distract the enemy and find a mysterious new Zeon weapon. But can he complete it when he falls in love with a Zeon pilot, named Aina Sahalin?

(Source: Otakufreakmk2, copyedited by Kolokotronis)

CAST

Shiro Amada
Nobuyuki Hiyama
Aina Sahalin
Kikuko Inoue
Karen Joshua
Mami Koyama
Kiki Rosita
Chinami Nishimura
Norris Packard
Osamu Ichikawa
Michel Ninorich
Hiro Yuuki
Eledore Massis
Keiji Fujiwara
Terry Sanders Jr.
Tesshou Genda
Topp
Yoshiko Sakakibara
Sally
Naoko Matsui
Ginias Sahalin
Shou Hayami
Cynthia
Chieko Honda
Barry
Toshihiko Nakajima
Noppo
Junichi Sugawara
Yuri Kellarny
Kyounosuke Kami
Arth
Hideyuki Umezu
Nieba
Masaki Aizawa
Bjorn Abust
Kenyuu Horiuchi
Jidan Nickard
Ichirou Nagai
Lunen
Isshin Chiba
Baresto Rosita
Masashi Hirose
Mike
Isshin Chiba
Dell
Toshihiko Nakajima
Rob
Junichi Sugawara
Chibi
Isshin Chiba

EPISODES

Dubbed

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REVIEWS

Shellshock
60/100
Somewhat underwhelming considering the popularity of Gundam.
This series contains some spoilers till Episode 6 (Roughly). Because thats how long it takes for the main plot to start back up again.

MS Team is about a group of soldiers and there commander Shiro (The MMC) and the enemy's commander's younger sister Aina (The FMC). They originally meet in the first episode and are nice to each other despite being on the opposite ends and trying to kill each other just moments earlier. Surprised at the humanity from each other they promise to meet again and stuff. Now with that interesting start out of the way we are now going to sharp left turn and develop characters no one is going to give a shit about. This series starts decently enough but we get this development on characters I don't like for like 4 episodes and this is a very downwards in quality. The rest of the series is quite good. but the 4 episodes bring it down a notch.

The romance is passable. I'm honestly pretty disappointed you have the main characters confessing there love for each other. But they met once. They didn't even like fall in love at first sight. They Just met and boom they wanna start a family. What the fuck, even shoujo romance isn't this lazy come on. I did like some of there intimacy but you would expect more. This does not pass the bar for minimum romance. Regardless I accept it.

The action in this series is a hit or miss. I don't like how slow the characters move sometimes. They use guns and its not as enjoyable to watch just these big mecha army just shooting machine guns. What is fun is when they are punching each other. Steel smashing Steel. This is why you watch a mecha series. Some of the gun fights were also good. There are some inconsistencies as well but thats not really an issue as long as it looks cool. Sometimes the can move fast but if that is the case why don't they do it all the time.

The series also starts in space so why does the rest of the anime set on earth. Really got upset over that. Feel like I got blue balled.

But the strongest part of this series is still the Music. The Music always hypes me up. Every time I'm like, I wanna do something else BABABABA. It just grabs me back in. The music just kills and its so entertaining when the music perfectly aligns up with the action on screen Emotional or otherwise.

Post episode 6 we also say the effects of war, death and Obessession and again this is the part where the series became enjoyable It just kinda sucks that it takes so long to get there. In a series that only has 12 episodes 3 episodes of bullshit is a lot.

Character wise, It has a red head tomboy because other type of Tomboy's don't exist in Japan. It has this pervert who is unlikable as many series do. It has a Naive dude who i'm not actually sure did anything in the series. Also I completely forget there was like an attempt of a love triangle that didn't go anywhere. Guess when that happened. The Boring episodes that when.

I do hope this isn't the best that Gundam has to offer. But I have seen many people refer to this as one of there favourite Gundam series which is more than a tad disappointing. In the end I like the series. The characters were actually the weakest part of a series I liked which is rare.

Overall Its nothing special but it is an enjoyable time Killer nonetheless. 6/10
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