Mobile Suit Gundam:
08th MS Team #1
Bandai
75 minutes
English/Japanese
English Subtitles
07/03/2001
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Mobile Suit Gundam:
Bandai
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Mechanic : You want those fags in the 07th team to beat us?! Here's my impression of the people on 'certain' message boards regarding the derogative used in the previous line of text. Whiney People : Waaaaaaaaah! Waaaaaah! I'm so oversensitive and nitpicky! Waaaah! I'm pretty offensive, often just plain mean. Still, I'm all for equal rights. I hate people because they're stupid not because they're black or would enjoy playing a good game of 'hide the sausage' with their same-sex coworker's colon. However, being stupid about your minority is the same thing as being stupid. The debate raised the tempers unnamed message board until the TRANSLATOR OF THE ANIME came in and said that indeed the word used in the original language is the equivalent of 'fag' and yes it is 100% correct. Can't really fault the guy for doing his job. Oh wait, what subculture group am I talking about here? That's right. Anime fans. |
| Gundam in any form has always been a thorn in my side. Do I put it in "M" for "Mobile Suit" or "G" for "Gundam"? Do I make it have it's own page now like Dragon Ball and Pokemon or do I wait until there's more than ten dvds out? Do I separate them by categories like putting "Wing" in "W" and "Mobile Suit" in "M" and "08th Team" in the number page? I'm sure 3x3 Eyes is awful lonely sitting there by itself. But let's leave philosophy to the philosophizers and concentrate on The 08th Mobile Suit Team. A group of OVAs put out before you were born**, they've got love, they've got style, they've got giant fighting robots and naked redheads. What do you do with the series that has everything besides revereSunrise as your unholy god? Well, watching it would be a good start. I came into this kinda turned off, my previous experience was limited to Gundam Wing. Despite the fact that it made so fan girls are swooning over Shounen Ai content it wasn't a show I could come to love. I like my guns big, my fights suspenseful, my character conflicts conflicty, and my men to actively go after the women, not push them away because the bulge in their crotch isn't big enough. Two things made my day brighten when I decided to watch this show. The cool ass cover of a Zeon Zaku standing over a fallen Federation Space Wing Gundam Eternal Blizzard Of Rising Fire***, the other reason was the disc had a cool camo thing on it. I was definitely excited. |  |
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And oh those crazy ass Bandai menus. Why don't we NOT tell them what the buttons do? You'll be able to figure out that "camera" means "play", "spyglass" means "scene selection", and "megaphone" means "audio features" as long as you have a degree in advanced particle inversion and have taken two semesters of "Pants Wearing 301". Hey! Did you know this thing has a reversible cover too? 'cause I sure didn't! Admittedly it's not as cool as the Zaku/Space Blizzard Rising cover, it's still a neat idea that should be taken advantage of way more often. Once you settle into the show be prepared for a bumpy ride. That is, if you're lucky enough not to have the DVD freeze when you try and play it for the first time. If you're anything like me you'll go straight for your cross and holy water, sprinkling your player while shouting "Out! Out!". If your breath suddenly starts becoming visible on ninety degree days I suggest you say fuck it to your beautiful Panasonic deck and run like a bitch who needs their diaper changed, especially if you're black. Black people always die in horror movies. |
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Ensign Shiro Amada and a couple of his buddies are on their way to earth to help out the fighting of the war against the Side 3 Colony, or Zeon. Those damn "Zeeks" as they call them, are killing off the "Feddies" right quick and so they're importing people like crazy. None of the soldiers seem at all scared that they might die in the harsh jungles somewhere in South America. I attribute this to the fact that they're all sixteen year old boys. Everything's going fine until they see a fire fight between to lonely mecha in space, and the Federation pilot is getting the royal crap schooled out of him. Shiro, being the ornery bugger he is decides that it's his time to shine and goes out in The Ball, which looks remarkably like the "Little Geek" from top Hollywood movie The Abyss. The Ball isn't really equipped for fighting a three legged puppy, let alone a super advanced giant robot, but with a reassuring line of something like "Don't worry, I'm the main character." Shiro jets out into space and manages to blow some serious stuff up, including The Ball (which must always be capitalized). So while the Federation pilot is saved, Shiro is lost. Most of the crew seems content to just let the bastard float around to his death out there, but the rescued pilot, "Team Killer" (not in the good way) Saunders isn't about to let that happen. After all Shiro saved his ass big time and what kind of large semi-black man would he be if he didn't repay the favor? Unfortunately time's running out as those spacesuits have a limited air supply. But the rescue is made and everyone is escorted safely to earth, where they're all introduced to Shiro and informed of his new position as commander of the 08th Mobile Suit Squad. People are a bit wary of the new commander, especially considering he gets lost EVERY EPISODE on the disc. But this is leagues ahead of Wu-Fei and Troma making out with each other on Cartoon Network at 5:30 and Midnight EST. |
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**Assumedly. Probably assumedly wrong, it was made in 1995.
If you're watching any Gundam that isn't Gundam Wing
at six years old I applaud you for being ten times the man that I'll ever be.
***Okay, so I don't know the names of all the robots. I bet that one's a hell of a lot closer to the truth than you'd expect.