GUNDAM: THE 08TH MS TEAM - Is It Worth Your Time? 

THE SIMP HAS FALLEN IN LOVE WITH THE ZEON ARISTOCRAT

Honestly, I love that every machine has WEIGHT to it. There's not really any gundams jumping about and stopping on a dime. and thats my favorite bit.

The fact that they wear flak jackets and helmets in the GM when they fight is one of the coolest details in the show.

Best Gundam series/OVA ever.

I appreciate that everyone makes fun of Shiro and his little love speech when he's on trial.

You can bet your ass that GM Sniper pilot was playing "Fortunate Son" when he was sniping the ship and the Apsalus.

I would rank 08th MS Team as the best Gundam series. It's short enough not to lose focus, it has interesting characters and mech designs, and the battles were carefully crafted. Most Gundam series is just some level of mechs duking it out. While cool to watch, they don't really do anything. But Norris Packard with the Gouf Custom is a god in this series. Every fight scene he has shows how much of an Ace pilot he is. And not just Ace in terms of his piloting skills. He literally has the entire battlefield in the palm of his hand and never loses sight of the objective. He still makes the battle look cool, but he doesn't make any wasted movements, everything he does bring himself one step closer to victory. He's the exemplar but most of the pilots in the series are also thinking soldiers in the series, and show some level of competence at tactics.

Funny you'd mention someone getting crushed by a giant shell casing because that actually happens in F91.

The gouf custom is the most badass zeon ms.

One thing I loved about 08th is EVERY character has some weakness. And it's usually a good one. Like Karen afraid of airdropping. Also, seeing Dell talking to the little kid bringing him food in a kind voice with just a picture of what you presume to be his child next to him. Good visual storytelling without a damn word.

In Shiro's defense, he literally thought he was going to die and had about 2 seconds left to do something meaningful in his life. Up to this point, he'd been spending pretty much is entire time with a bunch of guys (and one really badass lady) in a jungle, with his curiosity and feelings about this woman and their unique life and death experience together, percolating. So it's not entirely surprising to me that he'd blurt out something simple and direct like "I love you".

Im about to give this gundam series a shot in my first since wing, looks like a more realistic portrayal of gundam to me

How do you not have more subs. Great vid, love the direction of the channel

1:55 This series introduces nineteen new vehicles that are not just repaints. I used the Gouf’s “extras on it” as a benchmark for what qualifies as original hence why I’m not including the MS-06JC Zaku II in this count despite having its cockpit in a different location because it is externally identical. Even if you aren’t an absolute turbo nerd you probably should’ve at least mentioned the Gundams used by the main cast here. Mobile Weapons: Apsalus I Apsalus II Apsalus III MS-06RD-4 Zaku High Mobility Test Type MS-07B-3 Gouf Custom MS-07H-8 Gouf Flight Type RB-79K Ball Type K RGM-79[E] GM Early Type RGM-79[G] GM Ground Type RGM-79[G] GM Sniper RX-75 Guntank Mass Production Type RX-79[G] Gundam Ground Type RX-79[G] Ez-8 Gundam Ez8 Aircraft: Dodai II Dora Gunship Heli Support Vehicles: Armored Vehicle (Yes, that’s the official name) M353A4 Bloodhound Hover Truck RX-75 Berge Guntank

The last episode is when I learned that asking for more isn't a good thing. The story was over.

nice video i just finished it today and it's really really good i like this more grounded approach better than the epic dumb space fights u got a new sub btw :)

08th ms team is in my top 5

I'm pretty sure the last episode was a special that was released later. I used to rent this from Hollywood and the entire series only ended at 11, with Aina and Shiro leaving the room. Had to search online for the last one much later, as well as the bridge battle short

08th MS Team is Robot 'Nam meets Romeo and Juliet.

the Best Gundam Series and the MOST REALISTIC GUNDAM WAR ever without Newtype Crap, Super Advanced Technology, Telepathy Sixth Sense Bullshit and Weaponry and just a Plain Good Old Tactical Warfare, Guerilla War in Jungle, Strategy of Overcoming the odds

If they run, they're Zekes. If they stay still, they're exceptionally well disciplined Zekes.

I actually liked the extra episode. It gave Michel some closure and when sunrise tried to be ghibli

How did I just see this video? This is good and I’m definitely watching this now

I love 08th MS Team! Agreed, the last ep is really odd and a little too much "tell" when you ended it perfectly the ep before with "show". I feel like it was some additional commentary on Nam and the next gen but still not sure. I actually thought this was one of the better romances in Gundam because it made it kind of clear from the beginning that something was going on. But I think the real purpose behind it all and why it was important to the story was because it helped break down their close-minded perceptions of the enemy, which was fostered by the propoganda their side had been putting on (as Shiro had shown to eat up prior, and then throughout the show he gains more humanity, while Aina was being fed everything by her bro). I watch the Norris fight at least once a year lol but also the bridge fight is super underrated and spectacular. I'd love to see y'all do Turn A one of these days! Among other things, I think that's one Gundam that really does a love story well.

Great chat! Really like the format.

While everyone else binges shows on other platforms, I find myself binging this channel...and Iron Blooded Orphans and Samurai Flamenco and Gundam Thunderbolt and Megalo Box...side note, love your pronunciations, even if they hurt my ears.

Basically it is Romeo & Juliet with Mobile Suits...I guess Shiro blurted out his confession because he was going to get killed??

The Norris Packard meme brought me to tears. Hilarious as all hell but still right tho

the long neck would have been the product of them wanting the foreground/background heads to be level with one another

Great video 👍

Norris best boy no doubt

So glad I found this

My favorite Gundam series!

"Bridge over the river kwai" is a Mecha anime if you really think about it. Midway through the coursework for my engineering degree I was obsessed with military ballistic weapons tech and I went about as deep as a person should go on it so now I want to correct a niggling microscopic detail about the military tech in this show: since these are mobile suits made for space or planetary combat they'd have such a degree of mobility that they would need to use cannons like the US 30mm GAU Vulcan cannon from the A10 warthog, in which there are never any ejected cases because ejected cases can foul intakes and control surfaces. So the spent cases just cycle back into the helical ammo drum. Mobile suits don't usually require engine intakes or control surfaces but if they were to eject cases in space or on the planet such cases would quickly become obstacles and dangers for support forces. So mother's getting killed by falling cases is probably too fantastical.

Lol she goes from like wanting to die to 5 minutes later casually flirting

It's literally the best thing Gundam has to offer.

Absolutely kino

the 1 year war was the best storyline, the gundams were fricking awesome too, everything about this show is amazing from the visuals to how the soundtrack adds that epic score to make it even more awesome

Shiro fights wildly for a booty call.

The series was so good....except that last episode. I like that they tried to settle things with the characters whose arcs weren't really finished, but they didn't give it enough time. If they wanted to do that plot they needed to give it >1 episode. Michel was my favorite character so i appreciated the final episode just for more of him despite how bad it was >_

I think 8th ms team is my all time favorite mecha anime

if i could change one thing about this series I would change who Norris fights and dies to. I would make it a 1v1 with Norris and Sanders. Just makes more sense imo.

I only knew about this show because I picked up the Gouf model kit at a hobby lobby and thought it was dope, so I looked it up, and then I found out about the awesome fight scene it was in. so THEN I looked up the series, which brought me here. And here is where I learned it was mecha Vietnam, that sounds dope, where can I watch this?

It absolutely 100% is!

The Ez8 is a new design that is 08th MST original

I like these guys

I watch it and I almost cried

yes

It was best anime. Even I have collections.

most things can be improved with giant robots

Yeah watch every episode except the last. You don't have to watch it. 10/10 until that episode

Do more gundam videos please.

I actually really enjoyed the very last episode

I really have to disagree with your take on the last episode. While it was entirely unrelated to the rest of the series story wise, I think it was still thematically significant, and I enjoyed the self contained story. They shouldn't have slapped on that end scene with Shiro and Aina

I think this format is a little bit too spoilery for 'is it worth your time' this sounded more like a review, not a should you watch

you didn't address the fact that shiro basically blind beat that Gouf custon down with his own FUCKIN ARM in the ez8 scene

it is

the rx-79 ground type isn't an original design?

I don't think episode 12 aired when originally I saw it. maybe they new better

Personally its worth watching but the 2 final episodes is kinda off but still worth it

Who was the best girl?

I really enjoyed this show, but I gotta agree that the romance is pretty boring. I love the setting and how it interacts with the robot fights. I will admit, the low episode run time did bother me a bit. I liked the characters, but I wish I had more time with them. Especially Norris who, while having the best character, could have gotten more screentime than just 2 episodes. His commitment to the Zeon girl (I don't remember her name) was really good but it would have been more emotional if we had seen more of it leading up to the best fight in the show. I knew coming in that it would be a short show, but I came out wanting more and feeling like there should have been more. Weirdly enough, I liked the ginger guy (damn I can't remember their names). I loved his dilemma with his girlfriend and the fear that she wouldn't be with him when he came back. It fit well with the show's theme of soldier's personal lives, especially in I believe ep 6 where he got into a fight with Shiro because he couldn't send a letter to his girlfriend. I really didn't like ep 12 because they confirmed his girlfriend left him. The way they portrayed him in that episode came across as the "use a character as a comedic punching bag" trope which I hate in anything. But yeah...ep 12 wasn't that great.

I am glad I fumbled on this video

Yes it’s worth your time skip this video .

I'm trying to get thru it right now and I usually do dubs... but I'm gonna have to go thru the subs on this the dub needs a redo. It's cringe and problematic to say the least.

The last epsoide of o8 ms team is meh

Why the homophobia? Jeez

Too many gay jokes

idk what you guys see in it. I love a lot of other gundam spin offs, and I like everything else this director worked on in the time period, but this one to me was kinda boring.