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Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
Cover of the Blu-ray re-release of Miller's Report (limited edition)
機動戦士ガンダム 第08MS小隊
(Kidō Senshi Gandamu Dai Zerohachi Emu Esu Shōtai)
GenreMilitary science fiction
Original video animation
Directed byTakeyuki Kanda (Eps. 1-6)
Umanosuke Iida (Eps. 7-12)
Written byAkira Okeya (Eps. 1-9)
Hiroaki Kitajima (Eps. 10-12)
Music byKohei Tanaka
StudioSunrise
Licensed by
Released January 25, 1996 – July 25, 1999
Runtime25 minutes
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Anime film
The 08th MS Team: Miller's Report
Directed byMitsuko Kase, Takeyuki Kanda, Umanosuke Iida
Music byKohei Tanaka
StudioSunrise
Licensed by
ReleasedAugust 1, 1998
Runtime51 minutes
Light novel
The 08th MS Team Side Story: Trivial Operation
Written byIchirou Ookouchi
Illustrated byKouji Sugiura
Published byKadokawa Shoten
Original runJanuary 1999 – July 2001
Volumes3
Manga
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team U.C.0079+α
Written byUmanosuke Iida
Published byKadokawa Shoten
MagazineGundam Ace
DemographicShōnen
Original runMarch 2007 – June 2011
Volumes4
Original video animation
The 08th MS Team: Battle in Three Dimensions
Directed byShinya Watada
Written byIchiro Okouchi
Music byKohei Tanaka
StudioSunrise
Licensed by
ReleasedFebruary 22, 2013
Runtime9 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 April 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.

Plot

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.

Earth Federation

  1. RX-75 Mass Production Guntank (量産型ガンタンク) (Type: Soldier)
  2. RB-79K Ball K (先行量産型ボール) (Type: Soldier)
  3. RX-79G Ground Gundam (陸戦型ガンダム) (Type: Soldier)
  4. RX-79GEZ8 Gundam EZ8 (ガンダムEZ8) (Type: Commander)
  5. RGM-79E Prototype GM (初期型ジム) (Type: Soldier)
  6. RGM-79G Ground GM (陸戦型ジム) (Type: Soldier)
  7. RGM-79G GM Sniper (ジム・スナイパー) (Type: Soldier)

Zeon

  1. MSM-04 Acguy (アッガイ) (Type: Soldier)
  2. MS-05 Zaku I (ザクI) (Type: Soldier)
  3. MS-05 Topp's Zaku (トップ専用ザク) (Type: Commander)
  4. MS-06 Zaku II (ザクII) (Type: Soldier)
  5. MS-06J Dell's Zaku (デル専用ザク) (Type: Commander)
  6. MS-06J Ash's Zaku (アス専用ザク) (Type: Commander)
  7. MS-06JC Ground Zaku II (陸戦型ザクII) (Type: Soldier)
  8. MS-06K Zaku Cannon (ザクキャノン) (Type: Soldier)
  9. MS-06V Zaku Tank (ザクタンク) (Type: Soldier)
  10. MS-06RD-4 Prototype Zaku II (宇宙用高機動試験型ザク) (Type: Soldier)
  11. MS-07B-3 Gouf Custom (グフカスタム) (Type: Commander)
  12. MS-07H-8 Gouf Flight Type (グフフライトタイプ) (Type: Soldier)
  13. MS-09 Dom (ドム) (Type: Soldier)

Production and development

The series first took shape in 1995 with the first episode released on January 25, 1996.[citation needed] Production went well until director Takeyuki Kanda died in July 1996. GONZO's Umanosuke Iida took over production for the rest of the series.

Theme music

Opening:

  • Arashi no Naka de Kagayaite (嵐の中で輝いて, lit. Shine in the Storm) by Chihiro Yonekura

Endings:

  • 10 Years After by Chihiro Yonekura
  • Mirai no Futari ni (未来の二人に, lit. The Future for Both of Us) by Chihiro Yonekura (episode 11)
  • Arashi no Naka de Kagayaite (嵐の中で輝いて, lit. Shine in the Storm) by Chihiro Yonekura (episode 12)
  • Eien no Tobira (永遠の扉, lit. Gateway to Eternity) by Chihiro Yonekura (Miller's Report ending theme)

Episodes

No. Title Release date English airdate

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Miller's Report

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.

The movie explains the plot connection between episodes eight and nine by showing Eledore's return from leave and the team's issuance of new orders.

Release

Miller's Report was not fully shown on TV in America, although the new scenes were all spliced into the eighth episode for the Toonami broadcast. Miller's Report was released on DVD in America separately from the main series, but is included as a fifth disc with all 12 episodes (4 discs) in the Collector's Edition Box Set. Bandai Visual released the movie on Blu-ray in 2011.

References


Preceded by Gundam metaseries (production order)
1996 — 1999 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Gundam Universal Century timeline
U.C. 0079 		Succeeded by
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