Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team U.C.0079 + α is a manga based on the OVA Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team written and illustrated by 08th MS Team animation director Umanosuke Iida. It was published by Kadokawa Shoten and serialized in Gundam Ace magazine between March, 2007 and January, 2009.
Following the sudden death of Umanosuke Iida in November 2010, Kadokawa Shoten announced they were accepting applications for a compilation of all four volumes in one, titled Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team U.C.0079 + α Tribute. The α Tribute released June 18, 2011 and included four additional short stories that were not in the original run.
Plot[]
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 Apsaras Project 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.
Chapters[]
Volume 01[]
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
Volume 02[]
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
Volume 03[]
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
Volume 04[]
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
Characters[]
- Shiro Amada
- Aina Sahalin
- Michel Ninorich
- Karen Joshua
- Kiki Rosita
- Terry Sanders Jr.
- Eledore Massis
- Sally
- Kojima
- Jidan Nickard
- Isan Ryer
- Kiki Rosita
- Ginias Sahalin
- Norris Packard
- Yuri Kellerne
- Gihren Zabi
- Military Woman (Kergerenko)
Mechanics[]
Earth Federation Forces[]
Mobile Weapons[]
- RB-79K Ball Type K
- RGM-79[E] GM Early Type
- RGM-79[G] GM Ground Type
- RGM-79[G] GM Sniper
- RX-75 Guntank Mass Production Type
- RX-75 Berge Guntank
- RX-77[G] Guncannon Ground Type
- RX-79[G] Gundam Ground Type
- RX-79[G]Ez-8 Gundam Ez8
Vehicles and Support Units[]
- Big Tray-class
- FFB-7Bst Jet Core Booster
- Gunperry
- Medea
- Hover Truck
- Magellan-class
- Salamis-class
- Columbus-class
Principality of Zeon[]
Mobile Weapons[]
- Apsaras 0
- Apsaras I
- Apsaras II
- Apsaras III
- MS-05B Zaku I
- MS-06F Zaku II
- MS-06JC Zaku II
- MS-06K Zaku Cannon
- MS-07B-3 Gouf Custom
- MSM-04 Acguy
Vehicles and Support Units[]
- H.L.V.
- Armored Vehicle
- Dodai II
- Dopp
- Dora
- Gaw
- Fat Uncle
- Battle Heli
- Jukon-class
- Komusai
- Luggun
- Mad Angler-class
- Zanzibar-class
Gallery[]
Editions[]
- Vol.1 ISBN 978-4-04-713944-2-C0979
- Vol 2 ISBN 978-4-04-715001-0-C0979
- Vol.3 ISBN 978-4-04-715086-7-C0979
- Vol.4 ISBN 978-4-04-715222-9-C0979
- Tribute ISBN 978-4-04-715720-0-C0979
External links[]
- http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/comic/bk_detail.php?pcd=200710000072
- http://allthatgundam.web.fc2.com/comic/08msteam.htm