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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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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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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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I'm watching all the U.C. Gundam shows by emission order, and I think this right here is the very definition of "ok show". 0079 was not very good in my opinion, Zeta was amazing, ZZ is a crime against everything good in this world. CCA is horrible, but not as horrible as ZZ. War In The Pocket is the best Gundam show so far and my personal favorite, and F91 Is very bland with few redeeming qualities beside good animation.
0083: Stardust Memory is just ok.
The story is fairly average, nothing noteworthy but also not insulting like ZZ or CCA.
Most of the characters are very bland or undeveloped, but besides something Nina does in the ending they never do anything as nonsensical and stupid as the characters from...ZZ and CCA would do.
Hey, this is an OVA, so…
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The 90s were a great time in a lot of respects. The zeitgeist was different than it is now. People were more carefree and happy. It made sense for Gundam to reflect the spirit of those times. Stardust Memory is the younger, Asian brother of Top Gun, a popular Tom Cruise film which capitalized on booze, babes, planes and Val Kilmer. Stardust Memory tried emulate the best qualities of Top Gun and was relatively successful at first. But due to a change in directors, the story falls apart during the second half.
We are introduced to a young Kou Uraki and his friend, Keith Chuck. Both are pilots in training who laze their days away as the one year war comes to close. Gundams are starting to be produced in mass thanks to Amuro Ray’s success in battles during the One Year War. Two prototype Gund…
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While most Gundam shows released before ~1995 are around 50 episodes long, 0083 leaves you wondering why so many episodes are needed when this 13 episode OVA packs a much more cohesive, interesting, and powerful story than any other full length Gundam series released before it. 0083 holds up incredibly well in 2017. The animation quality, while dated today, was ahead of it's time. Victory Gundam, released 3 years later than 0083, is definitely put to shame by how great this show looks.
Despite the plot once again being a recycle of the same Gundam trope of an inexperienced pilot being thrust into the cockpit of responsibility without preparation, and going on to be all-powerful by the end of the show, 0083 does enough things different to keep things fresh. Episodes 6 and 7 stick out as re…
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Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory is one of the many small OVAs (and movies) released between ZZ Gundam and the next TV series, Victory Gundam. It's also by far the most substantial installment, consisting of the highest number of episodes at 13 with each running a half hour. That's still less than half the total time of your usual Gundam series, but considering how damn long most of them are, often without a good reason to be, should anyone complain? All of the three OVAs released during this period focus on the events of the One Year War, with The 8th MS Team and War in the Pocket focusing on the war's impact on smaller parts of civilization and the army. 0083 is its own side story an…
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Taking place storyline-wise between the original Gundam series and Zeta Gundam, Gundam 0083's purpose in the Universal Century continuity is to reveal how the Titans would come to be when they become the antagonist faction for Zeta. The events seen throughout 0083 mostly serve to feature the buildup of these events through the perspectives of Federation Ensign Kou Uraki and influential Zeon soldier Anavel Gato. For the most part, Gundam 0083 is solid in its plot buildup as more details concerning the motives of Gato and the Zeons come to light and Kou's skills as a mobile suit pilot improve throughout the course of the series as he pilots a Gundam. A number of prominent characters among both sides, besides Kou, also get their focus and depth to show that those affiliated with both Federati…
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The peace between the Earth Federation and the Zeon Space Forces have come to an abrupt halt. Rogue zeon forces have stolen one of two top secret mobile suit and intend to use it as part of a milatary operation called stardust.Kou Uraki an enthusiastic rookie becomes the pilot of the remaining gundam called 'unit one', and along with the crew of the Albion federation battle ship persue the rogue's in order to retrieve the mobile suit and uncover the plans behind operation stardust.
Firstly may I start by saying the animation in this ova puts ninety percent of the animation that we get in todays anime to shame.The detail by which each character is drawn is simply phenominal.You dont see eyes that cover three quarters of the face , ears that are crudely drawn or triangular pointed chins.The…
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Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 is a highly underrated work in the Gundam series.
I feel this is because people have the wrong sorts of expectations going into the show, but since I watched this with no preconceived notions, I feel like I was able to enjoy it for what it was.
The story is set in 0083, just four years after the One Year War and the events of the original trilogy. While some of the events are related to bridging a gap in the UC timeline between Zeta Gundam and the original, the story is its own self-contained entity with a lot to offer.
The romance angle may not have anything on MS 08th Gundam team, but it is still solid. Moreover, its rather ordinary, when put up against the canvas of a major civil disturbance and War. This creates a sense of the people and situations being real.…
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As I fall more and more in love with the UC universe, 0083 sits well with the whole timeline - it serves as a real link between 0079 and Zeta and tells its own story at the same time. It does however fall short of perfection for one very silly reason.
The 8th MS team is the best UC OVA in my opinion but 0083 had a real chance of sitting on that throne if only the director hadn't switched half way through, the second half of the show (as enjoyable as it is) is told clumsily, the plot twists come across weakly and you can't help but feel something integral is missing from the show. The first half episodes 1-7 are perfect and deserve a 10 rating on their own.
The Characters are all fairly typical but they work well together, gato the nightmare of solomon especially, who I find to be cooler…
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I only watched "Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory" because someone gave the bootleg DVD's to me for free. And since those DVD's only had Chinese subtitles, I had to watch it in dub as my Chinese reading skills kinda suck these days due to lack of use. This may have resulted in lessening my enjoyment of the show, as it doesn't exactly have the best dubs I've heard... but at least they're not the worst either.
From what I can gather, "Gundam 0083" is a continuation of a chain of earlier Gundam series which eventually can be traced back to the original Gundam series, "Mobile Suit Gundam: 0079". The original Gundam series is supposed to be pretty good, but it needs to be a lot better than "Gundam 0083" in order to live up to that kind of praise, because "Gundam 0083" is a bit lame. I m…
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WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!
Overall 0083 is a pretty descent. It acts as a bridge for Zeta and the original series. In 0083 a team of ragtag Zeon fleets that honestly act more like terrorists than soldiers to try and topple the Federation. They do use many Gundam cliches though, i.e. a colony drop. However, it is still terrifying and the way Operation Stardust unfolds is brilliant.
The art is everything you've come to expect from Sunrise, in the last two decades anyway. The mechanical designs will blow you away and their fluent movement is positively gorgeous. Takashi Imanishi really knew what he was doing.
The characters really aren't anything different, except the protagonist Kou. He is considerably less emo than Amuro or Kamille. All the other Gundam stereotypes fit. Gato is the ace Zeon p…
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Stardust Memory is mecha pornography, and I am a total mecha pervert. If you ever got a little hot when you watched Gurren Lagann's combination, aroused by the scent of a Gundam model, or felt flushed after watching Macross Zero's THRUST VECTORING, then you know what I'm talking about. If you don't, you'll probably be able to enjoy it, albeit on a different level. The best thing about Stardust is that the creators know that there is a segment of the human population that are raving mechaphiles (why else would their cheaply made plastic models sell so well...and be so damned enticing...), and the brunt of the episodes (or at least the most that you'll take out of it) are composed of well-animated fight sequences in space, and a clever land battle. The OVA has all of the charm of old-school…
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This is the story that sets out to bridge the gap between the original Gundam series, and Zeta Gundam. Does it do a great job of that? Personally, yes and no. Yes, because you learn about what happened to the Federation to where it become in Zeta Gundam, and no, because you don’t really get to see what happens to the majority of the original cast from the series such as Amuro and Char, and mostly concentrates on the cast created exclusively for this saga. There are some other previous Gundam characters that will have brief cameos, but if you want to know, watch and find out. But I say for what it does in an overall sense, it works out pretty well.
Kou and Anavel do have good chemistry as rivals, but isn’t really that epic in comparison to that of Char and Amuro. Not saying it&…
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Set three years after the events of the One Year War, Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory is a mixed bag. While it boasts strong visuals and action, its mediocre plot and the lackluster characters ultimately prevents 0083 from the full extent of its potential.
The premise 0083's story is very promising at first glance. The valiant and desperate attempt of the Zeon remnants to pave a road for the future of its beliefs and its people makes them commendable antagonists, and the thus viewers are able to sympathize with both sides in the struggle between Federation and Zeon. However, upon closer inspection, one finds the story riddled with the juvenile rivalry between Uraki and Monsha, as well as the thoroughly uninteresting romance between Uraki and Nina, which derails the focus from the…
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Ah another mediocre Gundam series.
It started off great with a good story, interesting characters, good music, and mobile suit design, and amazing animation. Sadly it spiraled out of control quickly. I think they tried to do to much in just 13 episodes. They should have expanded it to 24 or 26. First off they add to many characters, which made the story get convoluted, and the end revelations meant nothing since there was no back story leading to it. The ending seemed hurried and boring. The only really good think about this seres is the animation. The series was made nearly 20 years ago in 1990, and they animation is better than some anime that come out today. I'm not sure who did the animation, but they did a great job. The music was done really well, but that's it.
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With its masterful balance of action-packed battles, intense drama and a touch of romance, Gundam 0083 is required viewing for any anime fan.
Story
Gundam 0083 gets started with a bang in the very first episode and the momentum carries through all the way to its dramatic end. There are plenty of twists and turns to keep you hooked and waiting for what's to come. Both drama and action are given equal screen time and presented with equal intensity.
Art
For an OVA from 1991, the animation quality in this series is simply amazing. In fact, Gundam 0083 still shines by today's standards. The design of the artwork itself is also a highlight with great detail being put into backgrounds and things such as uniforms.
Sound
There is quite a bit of the typical background music you'd expect to hea…
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