Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th
MS Team (機動戦士ガンダム 第08MS小隊 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. The 08th MS Team is the first Gundam series to show
the war from the viewpoint of the average soldier.
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.
Main characters
Lt. Shiro Amada
Shiro is the new
commander of the Earth Federation's 08th Mobile Suit Team stationed in
Southeast Asia. Before he assumes this position, however, he befriends a Zeon
pilot named Aina Sahalin up in space and unbeknownst to both of them their
fates become intertwined. Shiro Amada is voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama in Japanese
and Steve Cannon in English.
Aina Sahalin
A member of a
noble family back in the Zeon homeland, Aina is the senior test pilot of a new
mobile armor program led by her brother Ginias. While piloting her prototype
Zaku amidst a debris field in space, she meets Shiro Amada and forms a bond
with him even if they are on opposite sides of the war. Circumstances result in
the two of them meeting again later in the series. Aina Sahalin is voiced by Kikuko
Inoue in Japanese and Emilie Brown in English.
Supporting characters
PO3 Eledore Massis
Massis is a
veteran member of the 08th MS Team and drives the team's support hovertruck.
He's not very brave and openly admits he's not cut out to be a soldier, but
puts himself in danger when he has to, especially when Karen is involved.
Eledore Massis is voiced by Keiji Fujiwara in Japanese and Eddie Frierson in
English.
Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Ginias
Sahalin
Aina Sahalin's
elder brother, Ginias is a Zeon officer assigned by the Zeon leadership to
build a mobile weapon powerful enough to destroy the Earth Federation Forces
military headquarters of Jaburo. Although Ginias is quite brilliant and a kind
military superior, he also suffers from an unknown illness. Ginias Sahalin is
voiced by Sho Hayami in Japanese and Lex Lang in English.
MCPO Karen Joshua
The team's
longest-serving mobile suit pilot, Karen is initially underwhelmed when Shiro
takes over the team with her as second-in-command. As a former medical student
and the widow of a military doctor, Karen can double as a field medic in cases
of emergency. Karen Joshua is voiced by Mami Koyama in Japanese and Debra Jean
Rogers in English.
Kiki Rosita
Kiki is the
daughter of an anti-Zeon guerrilla resistance leader. She encounters Shiro just
before he is taken captive by the guerrillas and is infatuated with him.\. When
Shiro finally convinces them to assist the 08th MS Team, Kiki follows him,
coordinating support and providing communication between the MS unit and the
resistance. Kiki Rosita is voiced by Chinami Nishimura in Japanese and Michelle
Ruff in English.
Cpl. Michel Ninorich
Joining the 08th
MS Team at the same time as Shiro, Michel is Eledore's partner in the support
hovertruck, serving as navigator and gunner. Between battles, he writes letters
to his girlfriend BB, who still lives in the space colonies. Michel Ninorich is
voiced by Hiro Yuuki in Japanese and Tony Ricci in English.
Capt. Norris Packard
An ace pilot
assigned to Zeon forces in Southeast Asia as an observer, Norris is later
stationed at Ginias Sahalin's secret base and sees Aina Sahalin work on the
Apsalus mobile armor program. He dies in Episode 11 fighting Federation troops
laying siege to the base after suffering a fatal blow from Shiro Amada. Norris
Packard is voiced by Osamu Ichikawa in Japanese and Michael McConnohie in
English.
CPO Terry Sanders Jr.
The other veteran
member of the 08th MS Team at the start of the series, Sanders has had a mean
streak of bad luck: every team he would be assigned to is destroyed during
their third mission together. Since he is the sole survivor, this earns him the
unfortunate nickname of "Shinigami Sanders", "Sanders the
Reaper" in the English version. Terry Sanders Jr. is voiced by Tesshō
Genda in Japanese and Steve Kramer in English.
Real Adm. Yuri Kellarny
A family friend
of the Sahalins, Kellarny leads a Zeon military division in Europe. Although he
acts gruff and ill-mannered around the Sahalins, he is depicted as an honorable
soldier who always looks after his men. After the Odessa base falls to the
Federation, Yuri leads the survivors of his division towards Ginias' base,
hoping to find any launch vehicles. Ginias kills him as he tries to get in.
Yuri Kellarny is voiced by Kyonosuke Kami in Japanese and Daran Norris in
English.
Kojima
The commander of
the 08th MS Team's parent unit, the Kojima Battalion, Kojima is a typical
by-the-book officer who does whatever he is told by his superiors. Towards the
end, however, he is visibly shaken by the brutal tactics of Captain Isan Ryer
and defies him, thinking that enough good people have already died. Yuri Kojima
is voiced by Yuzuru Fujimoto in Japanese and Alfred Thor in English.
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