Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (Novel)

Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team Novelization(Kidou Senshi Gundam: Dai 08 MS Shoutai,機動戦士ガンダム第０８ＭＳ小隊中) is a novel adaptation for OVA Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team,Written by Lou Ookouti Hazime and Illustrated by Sugiura Kouzi,publisher by Kadokawa Shoten and serialized in Hobby japan magazine between January 1999 – July 2001.

Story
Universal Century 0079: The Jungles of Southeast Asia. During the One Year War, the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon are fighting a brutal guerrilla war for control of the area and its resources. Zeon’s best hope for victory in the region rests with an experimental mobile armor, the Apsalus and its pilot, Aina Sahalin. Meanwhile the Earth Federal Army, which has been fighting the Zeon in the region, receive reinforcements in the form of Ensign Shiro Amada, newly named commander of the 08th MS Team. Aina and Shiro have met each other from a mutual rescue in space, but when Shiro discovers that Aina is in fact the pilot of the Zeon mobile armor he is arrested for treason. The Federation offers Shiro one chance at redemption: He must take the 08th MS Team deep into Zeon held territory to find Zeon’s hidden base. With the Zeon backed into a corner, and the Federation dependent on Shiro and his team for victory, the star crossed lovers must decide where their true allegiances lie: with each other, or with their respective sides.

Characters

 * Shiro Amada
 * Aina Saharin
 * Michel Ninorich
 * Karen Joshua
 * Kiki Rosita
 * Terry Sanders Jr.
 * Eledore Massis
 * Ginias Saharin
 * Norris Packard
 * Yuri Kellerne

Triva

 * Most anime is the same story, and changes in and around the end, there are differences in detail. Middle and lower throughout the three volumes, and growth has drawn the main character Shiro Amada's change of heart.

Editions

 * ISBN 978-4-04-422102-7