Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

[lagore]

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
(a.k.a. Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket)

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I think it had a few good parts. What do you think?

[lagore]

Really? No posts whatsoever?

Sheesh...

Well, I just made a really cool animated gif if anyone's interested:

[valondar]

Nice. It's my favourite Gundam of those I've seen, actually.

[VivisQueen]

Hahaha. The hardest hardware an army could buy, and it fights using an axe.

I love Gundam.

[valondar]

What, no axes in the new Gundams?

They keep the gigantic lightsabers though, right?

[lagore]

Haha, good point Vivie. You think they would put a bit more thought into these sorts of things...

I have more awesome moments in anime I want to gif-ify, but there seems to be a lot of luck involved...

[Funkgun]

Nice gif. =)

One of the best ones,

with a sad ending, and ironic too on who kills our Zeonic pilot

Mikimoto's character designs were well crafted. Animation was top notch for it's day, and still holds it's own.

It fought with an Axe because it had lost it's gun after it fell in the colony if I remember correctly. (in fact was that after he gets his Zaku Running again? It has been ten or so years since I saw it)






This was the real hey day of the UC storylines.
For such a short series it really does not revolve around mecha combat. There is much more story devoted to the kid, the enemy pilot and the pretty Gundam WOMAN! pilot ;) That is right a capible Gundam test pilot who is cute to boot.

If anyone was to give Gundam a try, just for a short series, and was not a real huge Mecha fan, they might just like it. It has mecha in it, and when the fights happen they are great, but they are few and far, and the story id much more engrossing)

[lagore]

True, it's really about the characters, not the action. It's a shame more people haven't seen it.

[Ninjapirate101]

WOW! im in the middle towards episode 4, it i LOVE it already!!! Are all the gundams like this, this is my first time seeing anything gundam related! Does any of the other gundams have bernie in them?? hahaha i might get into this hahaha! THANK YOU for making it one of the choices, i probably wouldnt have watched it without this event! so THANKS hahahaha!

**no worries, i know what happens, my friend is a big mouth haha**

[Funkgun]

Originally Posted by Ninjapirate101

WOW! im in the middle towards episode 4, it i LOVE it already!!! Are all the gundams like this, this is my first time seeing anything gundam related! Does any of the other gundams have bernie in them?? hahaha i might get into this hahaha! THANK YOU for making it one of the choices, i probably wouldnt have watched it without this event! so THANKS hahahaha!

**no worries, i know what happens, my friend is a big mouth haha**

I have some good and bad news.
Yes there are other good gundams that are short and have some great human involvement.
Personally, I would suggest Stardust 0083, F91 or Gundam 08th MS team, if you like them short. (Stardust 0083 might be a bit harder to follow without the series)
Or Mobile Suit Gundam, and then Gundam Zeta if you don't mind them long.

Sadly you are not going to find these characters in the later installments of Gundam.