Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team | |
Cover of the Blu-ray re-release of Miller's Report (limited edition)
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機動戦士ガンダム 第08MS小隊 (Kidō Senshi Gandamu Dai Zerohachi Emu Esu Shōtai) |
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Genre | Military science fiction |
Original video animation | |
Directed by |
Takeyuki Kanda (Eps. 1-6) Umanosuke Iida (Eps. 7-12) |
Written by | Akira Okeya (Eps. 1-9) Hiroaki Kitajima (Eps. 10-12) |
Music by | Kohei Tanaka |
Studio | Sunrise |
Licensed by | |
Released | January 25, 1996 – July 25, 1999 |
Runtime | 25 minutes |
Episodes | 12 |
Anime film | |
The 08th MS Team: Miller's Report | |
Directed by | Mitsuko Kase, Takeyuki Kanda, Umanosuke Iida |
Music by | Kohei Tanaka |
Studio | Sunrise |
Licensed by | |
Released | August 1, 1998 |
Runtime | 51 minutes |
Light novel | |
The 08th MS Team Side Story: Trivial Operation | |
Written by | Ichirou Ookouchi |
Illustrated by | Kouji Sugiura |
Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
Demographic | Male |
Magazine | Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko |
Original run | January 1999 – July 2001 |
Volumes | 3 |
Manga | |
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team U.C.0079+α | |
Written by | Umanosuke Iida |
Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | Gundam Ace |
Original run | March 2007 – June 2011 |
Volumes | 4 |
Original video animation | |
The 08th MS Team: Battle in Three Dimensions | |
Directed by | Shinya Watada |
Written by | Ichiro Okouchi |
Music by | Kohei Tanaka |
Studio | Sunrise |
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Released | February 22, 2013 |
Runtime | 9 minutes |
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダム 第08MS小隊 Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu Dai Zerohachi Emu Esu Shōtai) is an original video animation (OVA) anime series in the Gundam franchise. Released from January 25, 1996, to July 25, 1999, the 12-episode series details the exploits of an Earth Federation ground unit during the One Year War - specifically a month after the beginning of original 1979 Gundam series and into the final weeks of the war.
The series is set in Universal Century 0079 in the jungles of Southeast Asia. The Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon are fighting a brutal guerrilla war for control of the area and its resources. Zeon’s best hope for victory in the region rests with an experimental mobile armor and its pilot, Aina Sahalin. Meanwhile, the Earth Federal Army, receive reinforcements in the form of Ensign Shiro Amada, newly named commander of the 08th MS Team. Aina and Shiro know each other from a mutual rescue in space, but when Shiro discovers that Aina is in fact the pilot of the Zeon mobile armor he is arrested for treason. The Federation offers Shiro one chance at redemption: He must take the 08th MS Team deep into Zeon held territory to find Zeon’s hidden base. With the Zeon backed into a corner, and the Federation dependent on Shiro and his team for victory, the star crossed lovers must decide where their true allegiances lie: with each other, or with their respective sides.
The series first took shape in 1995 with the first episode released on January 25, 1996. Production went well until director Takeyuki Kanda died in July 1996. GONZO's Umanosuke Iida took over production for the rest of the series.
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Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team Miller's Report is a compilation movie. Released in 1998, the movie largely focuses on Shiro Amada's court martial over his concern towards the enemy. The movie mixes footage from the first eight episodes along with new footage. It also introduces the titular character, Alice Miller, an Earth Federation investigator assigned to gather additional evidence against Shiro.