Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
**This is an older review I wrote a few years ago as an experiment. It's a little long, and I don't know that I'll be returning to this exact format in the future, but I hope you find it interesting! -R In January of 1996, Sunrise began releasing the first episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team on home video. Helmed by veteran anime director Kanda Takeyuki, the show took the long-running space franchise into more grounded territory with its Vietnam War-inspired take on the Gundam universe. Yet that July, halfway through the production, tragedy struck when Takeyuki was suddenly killed in a traffic accident. The 08th MS Team stayed incomplete for several years until Takeyuki's former collaborator Iida Umanosuke came on board to finish the remaining episodes under Takeyuki's original plan.