Audience reviews
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Frousties
Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory is another one of "those" Gundam UC shows that are basically just small stories set during the periods of skipped time between Gundam 0079 and Zeta, and as expected it doesn't introduce anything of real importance
The pacing is the usual very slow Gundam progression, which makes such a barebones plot as this one somehow take 13 full episodes. This is twice as 0080: War in the Pocket, and yet there is even less stuff happening every episode.
It also spends too much time on flashy fight scenes where I feel like most people are interested in the character conflict in Gundam at this point.
The characters are alright but not super compelling. I applaud the writers for finally writing a half decent romance in a Gundam plot for once though.
There's really not a lot…
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I’ve been working my way through Gundam in chronological order, The Origin, the original Mobile Suit Gundam, MS Igloo, 08th MS Team, Requiem for Vengeance, War in the Pocket, and Thunderbolt, and now 0083: Stardust Memory. It has gorgeous animation, ridiculously cool mobile suits designs, and a soundtrack that slaps all the way through. The visuals and music are easily the best of what I’ve seen so far in the UC timeline. Stardust looks like a love letter to serious anime production values, and the themes of military hardware and space combat actually feel grounded in a way earlier entries don’t.
But here’s the problem, it’s also one of the most boring Gundam entries I’ve sat through. There’s a difference between deliberate pacing and just slogging. The 13 episodes feel padded because the…
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For all the (unjustified) denigration it has received over the years, Stardust Memory is much more closely aligned to Char’s Counterattack than it is typically given credit for. As in that film, the characters are gripped by a psychological weakness, whereby the process of rational thought operates in a secondary manner to that of impulse or desire, an aspect of human design articulated by Thomas Hobbes:
“Thoughts are to the desires, as scouts and spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things desired: all steadiness of the mind’s motion, and all quickness of the same, proceeding from thence: for as to have no desire, is to be dead […] and to have stronger and more vehement passions for anything, than is ordinarily seen in others, is that which men call MADNESS.”
If there is one…
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I recently caught the Gundam itch again after playing SD Gundam Battle Alliance and I thought I'd take a look at the Gundam show that's been on my backlog for a while, Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory. This 1991 OVA aims to bridge the gap between the original Gundam and Zeta Gundam as it takes place shortly after the One Year War and prior to the Titans' rise in Zeta. Does it deliver a thrilling narrative filled with great mecha action? Let's find out.
STORY - U.C. 0083- Three years after the Principaltiy of Zeon's defeat in the One Year War, a rogue squadron attempting to revive Zeon's glory infiltrates an Earth Federation base and steals the Gundam Unit 2, a prototype mobile suit that's equipped with a nuclear warhead. Headed by Zeon war legends Aguille Delaz and Anavel Gato, they aim to s…
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A must for those who want to watch Gundam series in chronological order. In this world which still coincides within the Gundam Universal Century timeline, this is is an instant classic. Since it was made so long ago, the writing for the story is excellently polished and pulls at the heart strings- unlike more modern Gundam offerings.
Depicted is a story about a novice officer- tasked with defending Federation military strongholds despite his rather lack of experience. Uraki would be facing many obstacles to his personal greatness- competition within his own faction, the enemy Zion faction, his own lack of skills and courage and of course, his love interest.
Whenever someone mentions being interested in space opera or Gundam in particular, I would first recommend for them to watch this. P…
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Better than I was expecting in some ways, but like a 5/10 overall. Stunning animation. Like, truly stunning, from start to finish. The mecha moves like waves on water, and the explosions were particularly beautiful. I love the interior cockpit designs as well, because of all of their bits and bobbles. Character design is also on point, in at least making designs that are pleasing to the eye.
Plotwise, I was not very invested. I just couldn't get into it, mostly because of the characters, which I'll elab slightly in a bit. I was so not invested in the plot + characters that my friend (who I was watching this with) and I made up Kou x Kei secret dating BL to keep us somewhat invested. That is, until our dreams were crushed in episode 6. We made a whole idea doc and everything.
The characte…
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(LAZAROTH REVIEW - MEDIUM LENGTH - SPOILER FREE)
"MSG: Stardust Memory" is an anime that sets up the events for "MSG: Zeta" and it follows a unit as they attempt to recover a stolen Gundam and discover and prevent its use in a mysterious "Operation: Stardust". Disclaimer: I am watching Gundam chronologically, so I am unsure if this is an adequate set up for that storyline, so I am not going to be addressing that aspect. But I feel like it's a good set up as I am excited for things to come!
Story/Characters/Action:
This anime has themes that connect directly to the original Gundam anime from 1979, such as guilt from failure, the pressure to succeed, mirroring Amuro Ray not just in those themes, but quite literally as well. The main character of this anime, Kou, dives into a Gundam witho…
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the fights were alright and animated well enough and the episodic episodes fit the show.
most of the episodes follow the depressed npc mc screwing up getting to a gundam then either fixing it and making it worse. And then the side characters who throw him a pity party and are slowly drained from their personalities they had at the start of the show because of him.
The ending was anticlimactic and was even more boring than the show as a whole which is not to undersell how boring this show is.
BUT
my main point on why this is not a negative but a mixed feeling review is because "magic" the first ed is amazing and a great listen even if you don't watch this show.
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Imagine being served a beautiful birthday cake, your favorite kind, whatever that might be, but it's topped with regurgitated pickles instead of a cherry. It would almost be exactly what you want, but that ONE detail would render it inedible.
That sums up how this show makes me feel.
The synopsis sounds absolutely thrilling, if fairly expected of a UC Gundam show: "After the One Year War, an Anaheim Electronics-designed Suit with nuclear capabilities is stolen by Zeon soldiers trying to revive the regime. Our Feddie protagonist has to get it, tragedy ensues".
It also looks and sounds amazing, my eyes were never bored from start to finish. The animation is as fluid and detailed as you'd expect a late 80's-early 90's OVA to be, and every Mobile Suit battle is a delightful spectacle of mec…
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Story: Main plot is great, side plots are real dumb. For an OVA there are to many under developed moments.
Art: Phenomenal mecha designs, attention to detail is excellent.
Sound: Classic Gundam sound, good music.
Characters: Boring, barely one dimensional, outshined by some side characters.
Overall: 6.8
This OVA is so close to being good but what holds it back really holds it back. The more you watch the other shows around this one the more things can make sense, which I guess it a bit obvious, it's a side story in itself to explain some events between main arcs. A bit more focus on the main plot and the flat out dropping of some of the side stuff would have done wonders.
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This is one of my most favourite Gundam series. I really enjoyed how nicely the Gundam models were depicted, with many technical details and a clear attempt to make the movements and mechanics somewhat realistic, supported by a great Top-Gun inspired soundtrack and stunning visual art.
When it comes to the plot, it also stays on the usual Gundam style, by depicting the various characters with a serious tone far from the usual heroes/villains approach, while also giving emphasis on the struggle of the war and how it impacts people relationships in order to pursue their ideals, without never exceeding in giving evidence about which faction is wrong or right.
That’s why I always loved Gundam, cause since the beginning it always attempted to be an adult show, not a kid-oriented one and Sta…
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Gundam 0083 is the absolute pinnacle of cel-shaded animation, rivaled only by Gunbuster. It also has a great 80s-era soundtrack, certainly one of the better ones among Gundam series.
The only problem is it uses that animation & soundtrack to tell one of the most dogshit Gundam stories I've ever seen.
One half of the show is every character making the worst, most nonsensical decisions possible. Like the equivalent of your mortal enemy dropping their gun and you picking it up and handing it to them and saying you're sorry that happened to them.
The other half is every male character being over-the-top horny (but not enough to be funny) for the blonde white lady character, and the other female characters acting like giddy middle schoolers about it. There is no perceptible depth to anyone…
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For now the weakest series of gundam. The truth is I like the romance they put in but in the last chapters it is how it gets distorted and there is no more. In other words, the protagonist gives more importance to the old relationship than to the new one, the truth is shit. The main character is very flat, he has nothing to highlight this there to see his null evolution, he is always the same idiot. I was very disappointed in this anime hopefully they haven't done other trash like this. Be careful, this is comparing it with its own series, compared to a series of generic mecha has its own thing, the universe where it takes place is very well built as always in gundam.
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Por ahora la serie mas floja de gundam. La verdad me gusta el romance que meten pero en los últimos capítulos…
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Man , the end to this show was one of the most frustrating endings I have ever seen.
Like WTF were all those random plot twists supposed to mean, all the important character arcs were just abandoned, for no appearend reason. Like why?
Garahau is set up to be the biggest snitch, I know, but suddenly she was an ally of the feddies all along? ...And Uraki kills her anyways..
Nina has a story arc were she needs to decide what she wants in life and choose her real priorities. She is undecisive and when she is finally about to choose... Well fuck that idea , she was Gatos exgirlfriend all along. Then she turns into the greatest BITCH and sides with Gato, for no appearend reason, the murderer of millions of people who is about to drop a gigantic collony onto earth. Well of course her reoson is…
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You're looking at my number ten of all time favorites.
The 90s were a wild ride for Gundam. The first alternate universes, it's big break stateside, and a series of OVAs that did the biggest favor for the franchise; they ignored the Newtypes completely. Yeah, I said it.
0083: Stardust Memory focuses on regular human characters, putting them all through hell for character development. In this case we have vengeful Zeon ace Anavel Gato and rookie Fed pilot Kou Uraki. Gato aims to reignite the One Year War and take the Federation down with their own nuclear fire, and Kou follows him from Australia back to Solomon in space, proving he has what it takes to challenge the Nightmare himself.
To this day I'll get urges to watch 0083 and that'll be my weekend right there. In fact I may just be d…
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Before getting into details, I'll summarize: this anime could have been more objective.
There are too many long sequences that get lost from the main story, making the experience tiring until the events really start to unfold.
The story is acceptable, but nothing memorable, and it hurts to say that, considering the huge potential this anime had, specially having its storyline between Gundam 0079 and Zeta Gundam.
By the first episodes, things are quite clear, the goals are comprehensible and the events are justifiable by the plot, however, as the episodes advance, things start to unfold in unclear ways, with turn of events that weren't well built and that didn't affect the main plot in any relevant way, with characters that weren't developed at all showing up as possible antagonists or vi…
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Ok, so like a lot of people have mixed feelings about 0083. But personally I enjoyed it up to the ending really. Now there will be some spoilers so skip the bracket. [[I wasn’t a fan about the ending when Nina straight up leaves Kou for Gato. Maybe if there was more writing about there past that explained why she had strong feelings for him, I think the story overall would be more enjoyable. And in the last episode she doesn’t even try to apologize for the stuff the made Kou go through. If there was some sort of apology in the ending then it might have been more enjoyably for me.]] other than the fact the story gets a Bit choppy at the end, I still think this is a good gundam series. If u wanted to get into gundam, personally I started with unicorn so I’d recommend that, but this one isn’t…
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Stardust Memory is evidence that a Gundam anime can actually endure terrible main characters and a story that craps its pants and collapses right before the finish line. Functionally it operates as a prequel to Zeta and a sequel to the original Mobile Suit Gundam, helping bridge the transition from here to there. It does suffer like most prequels from you being one step ahead of it because you know how things end up and characters who don't make an appearance later in the timeline lack importance.
First off the story is serviceable for the most part, a ticking clock element with the race to find the stolen Gundam and find out what Operation Stardust is and how to stop it. Though the scale of time isn't properly conveyed so if you dwell on it you start to wonder why the Albion seems to be…
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Preface:
This OVA disappointed me. It had started off fairly well, it was good enough and a solid 7/10, but halfway through it took a complete nosedive. Apparently, folks are saying that this is due to a change in director. You can really tell. It was as if someone beat every character upside the head with a mental pipe halfway through the show, and they had to continue with severe brain damage.
The Good:
It's fairly easy to get the good parts out of the way first. The sound design was nice, and the art was fairly good as well. The premise itself was also quite intriguing. Also, in all fairness, i believe the show started off enjoyable enough.
The Bad:
1-The mobile suit designs are...either boring or ugly. The unit 1 is fairly bland and vanilla, the unit 2 looks stupid, and the worst abo…
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Gundam Stardust Memory has some good aspects of it, and others not so good. It has some great plot elements, others couldn`t be more cliche for the UC. It has some interesting characters and some amazingly lame. As someone who has watched everything Gundam-related, for me, Stardust Memory is the only series of the franchise that I can`t properly classify. More bellow.
Story: This is story happens before Zeta Gundam. As this series progresses its dark tone gets darker and darker, which totally fits it since this is basically a prelude to Zeta Gundam. I enjoyed the atmosphere of this series, as well for its dark tone and the final acts, which are good, and truly provides you with a genuine plot-twist, that will set the events of Zeta. However, some things are very cliche, and they steal awa…
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