KIDOU SENSHI GUNDAM 0083: STARDUST MEMORY

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CAST

ANIME DramaKidou Senshi Zeta Gundam
SPECIAL ActionKidou Senshi Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Uchuu no Kagerou
SPECIAL ActionKidou Senshi Gundam 0083: STARDUST MEMORY - Uchuu no Kagerou 2
MOVIE ActionKidou Senshi Gundam 0083: Zeon no Zankou
SPECIAL Mecha30th GUNDAM PERFECT MISSION
ANIME DramaKidou Senshi Gundam
MOVIE DramaKidou Senshi Z Gundam: A New Translation - Hoshi wo Tsugu Mono
MOVIE ActionKidou Senshi Gundam III: Meguriai Sora-hen
MANGA ActionMobile Suit Gundam 0083: Hero of Stardust
MANGA ActionKidou Senshi Gundam 0083: Rebellion
ONE SHOT ActionSolomon no Akumu
ONE SHOT ActionGundam 0079 - Solomon no Akumu

REVIEWS

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  biogundam

  51/100
  very pointless gundam series

  arning that this review may contain spoilers

  First impressions, so stardust memory’s aka the prequel to zeta gundam which is one of my favourite in the uc time line so far.
  In till I watch thunderbolt or origins because I have heard there really good
  So I kind of went into this except something that’s somewhat decent,
  It was going to explain some of the details that we didn’t see between the first gundam and zeta.
  Which I was very happy to find out about,
  Because zeta didn’t really go into that much depth of how the titans came into power. It was very vaguely explained. So hoping to get some questions I had answered.
  Sadly it didn’t really deliver on it.

  Story, 5/10
  3 years after the one year between the earth and Zeon forces had ended and peace has been maintained.
  A darkness from the past is starting to come forth, as a rouge Zeon group named delaz fleet has risen from the shadows in order to finish an old score with the earth forces and to have Zeon rise again.
  Meanwhile In a military base in Australia a top secret project is under way.
  The creation of two new prototype gundam units, The zephyranthes and the physalis are under way.
  The delaz fleet finds out about this and plans a attack in order to get the new gundam units.
  But during their attack they only mange to take the physalis gundam which is now being piloted by the a man known as the nightmare of Solomon.
  The only man standing in his way is main character kou who is a training pilot. who while in the attack manged to keep the zephyranthes gundam out of Zeon hands. But to make matters worse the physalis gundam contains nukes.
  So join kou and his crew as there race ageist the clock begins to stop major war from braking out.

  So the basic story line or plot is pretty much main character and crew mates involved in a game of cat and mouse between military factions. Trying to get this gundam unit back.
  Which as a standalone story for a gundam show is all right, Because it takes itself serious enough and it’s still sticks to the theme of war is hell, And the other themes that gundam is well known for. And they have the main charter getting used to active military service and all the things that come with it.
  There also a nice little romance as well, Between the main character this engineer chick That I felt was alright handed alright.
  So its above average.
  (Even though I still question the logic behind putting top secret project and nukes in all honesty Isn’t exactly the most well defended base they could have picked, and of course it was the Australians the dropped the ball)
  So any way as a standalone story it all good but sadly that also where its biggest weakness is and my biggest gripe with this show is.
  Because this is supposed to be a bridge between the first gundam and zeta gundam. A prequel / sequel and in that context this show is horrible at that aspects if one looks at it through the lens of this is a prequel / sequel.

  Because let’s just say that continuity isn’t exactly this show strong suit. In fact the events that take place in this show don’t really have much to connection to what happens in zeta or any relationship to first gundam wants so ever. Most of the things that happen in this show don’t even come into play.
  In fact the only thing connecting this to zeta is that though the events of the story at the end.
  we find out what trigged the titans forming and we see a few characters from zeta showing up for a quick scene or two. It’s almost like the story came alive and a punched you in the face just for watching and completing it
  So while I on the negative train I might as well mention that this story is kind of forgettable and isn’t bringing anything new to the table.
  What I mean by that is that this story as a whole is like a copy and paste of ever theme that the uc time line gundam has ever had.
  Like the war is hell, freedom for the spacenoids and etc.
  Which on the basic level is ok,
  but when I think about it isn’t doing much with those ideas and themes. It mostly being used as basic favouring because.
  These ideas aren’t really being explored or a new point of view being brought to the table.
  Which is sad because they could have come up with something new or fresh but they didn’t.
  Now you can argue and say that because this is a prequel / sequel they didn’t exactly have to do anything with those ideas or that those themes and ideas are not the main focus of the show and at the end of the day This is side story. Which just takes place in the same universe.
  But this was made quite a few years after zeta came out.
  I would think that they could come up with better ideas with the time they had or even a better plot for that matter
  But they just gave us the same shit in different rapper.

  Characters 5/10

  The main character kou was ok.
  He this kind of chill dude who has a thing for tech.
  who thought out the course of the series becomes more hardened the more he experiences real combat.
  Which I thought was nice because it added some depth to his character.
  Because in the beginning of the series I really couldn’t put heads or tails on what his personality is . He felt very hollow to me.
  Which is a problem for me, Because most gundam main characters usually have a more notable personality or some sort of back story.
  Like for example Domon kasshu or kamille bidan,
  Who have a more memorable personality.

  Side characters are all right,
  They did the roles they had well.
  They had nice banter I guess that I enjoyed watching

  It’s just personality wise, But aren’t really memorable.
  They just feel like carboard cut-outs to me.
  Which is a thing I am sick of saying but it’s very true.

  The only thing that stood out for me character wise was the romance between kyo and Nina.
  Which far as anime romances wasn’t bad because I have a bit of chemistry together
  Which was nice, but I guess my only nick pick is that there relationship feels a little dry and forced to me.
  Because there relationship together progress at quite the fast rate. Like one ep she slightly has the desire to see what type of person kyo is and then the next ep talking about feeling and shit.
  Its feels unnatural to me.
  Although it could just be that this series only had a 13 ep so they didn’t have time to pad out there relationship.

  Art 6/10

  The animation looked alright. It could have been better though.
  Because there are a few parts where the animation takes a bit of a dip down wards in quality.

  The backgrounds look all right and add a bit of grit to it.

  The battles are alright in animation wise because I have a very naturel flow about them.
  But on the bad side there not exactly the most fun to watch.

  Art style is fine was well.

  The charter designs are fine.
  Just the standard shit that we have all seen before

  I really do like the more up dated mech designs for the older models,
  Because they don’t feel that clunky anymore and feel more like well-oiled war machines.

  Sound 6/10

  I really like the first opening song and the other opening song and there ending themes are very boring to me and don’t really stand out that much. I would have gotten more enjoyment if I listened to paint dry.

  But at the same time I see why people might like these,
  But for me there just crap.

  Ost was quite nice,
  Better than I thought it would be.

  Some very good tracks in there.
  They fitted very well and was on point
  But nothing I would gone out of my way to listen to by its self.

  The ost was done by Urakami, Yasuo,
  Who has worked on shows like,
  Project arms and gundam seed.

  The dub was alright and so was the sub.

  I liked both.

  Enjoyment 5/10

  As far was enjoyment goes.
  I enjoyed this show for what it was,
  But my enjoyment doesn’t go beyond that point.
  For me was one of those one timer experiences. Because this is something I would not watch again.

  Overall 5/10
  If you like gundam or basic Mecha shows and just want a quick one timer then check this out.
  Because its aright as a whole, But it doesn’t really go beyond that point.
  But at the same You could just was easily skip this series because it doesn’t really add much to gundam as a whole.

  if you want something that stands out more or in fact isn’t so basic and done to death.
  Watch something else.

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  ChillLaChill

  60/100
  Stardust Memory combines intriguing ideas with poorly execute, cringe-worthy moments, falling short of its potential

  From the first opening minutes of Stardust Memory I was greeted to an all-to-familiar riff on the Top Gun Theme, and a great training sequence of Mobile Suit Pilots. I was looking forward to watching Stardust Memory, it has a fantastic soundtrack, great animation and some pule-pounding action sequences. It's old Gundam without any of the New Types, and a focus on the every day soldiers in the Federation Forces. Then we're finally introduce to our main protagonist Kou, a timid, shy, and frankly terrible pilot. On top of that the cast that we get acquainted with is, how do I put this? Horribly unlikable. Ho boy. The plot is the least of the show's concerns, but it is amongst one of them.

  The series takes place between Gundam Zeta and the original as we get to know where the world is after the One-Year War, what the Zeon remnants are up to, and more importantly how the Titans were formed. Stardust Memory boasts interesting ideas that are never really lived up to. The directorial choices of characters and dramatic scenes are outright terrible. I don't often use this word lightly but cringe-inducing is how I would describe some of the scenes. For an anime that's actually newer than Gundam Zeta, it's odd for me to see such blatantly obnoxious cheeseball scenes that overshadow a lot of Stardust Memory's redeeming traits as a maturely thematic series. Anytime Kou screws up there are often these long scenes where it takes him a few minutes to even react to the most obvious things (including the whole try-hard romance with Nina), and it's not just because of his character. The director actually made decisions that weaken or portray Kou as this guy who's just slow on the uptake where there are huge pauses in between him thinking and him realizing what's literally in FRONT of him. Next we have Nina Purpleton, who at first I was fine with when she didn't have a thing for Kou. As the series progresses, or "degresses", Nina becomes one of the most infuriatingly annoying characters that never feels like she gets her comeuppance. A lot of the terrible decisions characters make are because of Nina. There are many moments of awkward conversations that had me scratching my head asking what Nina even sees in Kou, and vice versa. At least Top Gun had Tom Cruise as an ace pilot with some legitimately attractive qualities (no homo). The romance between Kou and Nina feels so contrived that you begin to even ask why it's went on as long as it has. Then we're hit with another plot revelation about Nina's past that is beyond disbelief and this is due to the directorial switch. Our antagonist/rival Gato is one of the more familiar Gundam characters, although there just isn't enough time with him to really establish him beyond the basic level of being an ace pilot for the bad guys. Monsha's blatant sexism that's played up for comedic relief wears out immediately after his introduction when it just becomes annoyingly obnoxious devolving into borderline sexual harassment. It could have been a critique on toxic masculinity in military culture but I don't think the series really ever dives deep into it's themes let alone it's story. What's even more baffling is that it's cast isn't entirely bad, we get people like Burning, Keith, Synapse and a few others that had me sticking around a little bit to see if things got any better. Their only problem is that they never go through any kind of character progression themselves, and have some fairly static personalities that are only there to push the plot forward. Kou fails a lot and barely deserves to be the protagonist, in fact I'd he's the Homer Simpson of Gundam pilots who keeps screwing up but somehow gets rewarded for it even when it costs people their lives.

  Episode 6 was one of the most clunkily directed episodes that I had seen, and it was ever more apparent by the really weird placement of the ending song with a sequence that just did not fit the visuals, and it was the vocal version of the track (MAGIC). I noticed the audio mixing interfering with the dialogue that had me wondering what was even going on because I could not pay attention to the characters over the music blasted over top. The entire episode was meant to be dramatic, but ends up coming across as one of the corniest sequences I've ever seen in Gundam show, it reminded me of Take Your Breathe Away from Top Gun but with even more sexually confused vibes. Of course this isn't including the fact that Kou makes some questionable decisions that have me rolling my eyes as he tries to find his way in life. I hadn't even got to episode 7 yet which again seemingly ends on such a weird note where Nina is yelling out Kou's name after being saved in the most awkward manner possible. Every time I think of the end of episode 7 I facepalm knowing how overly melodramatic it was, t it felt like a pointless attempt at conflict. In fact the episodes when the crew finally get to Luna is one of the biggest slogs to get through, and you have to wonder how this is even possible for a series that spans only 13 episodes. There is just barely a shade of character progression as it just seems like the minor cast stays the same, while our main protagonist seemingly gets more schizophrenic as the series goes on with plenty of penance. Kou never feels like he gets a redemption of his character in the same vein as Camille who actually becomes a character you begin to actively root for. Stardust Memory barely has the sense to make me not wince at a few scenes that are handled with the least nuance possible rivaled only by the likes of its equivalent Top Gun.

  Then the show completely switches gears when its director changes after the 7 episode mark, and it's a noticeable change of efforts spent on certain plot elements. But those who argue that it "got bad" after this point need to take a look at the Luna episodes because it shows that the bad seeds were planted moments before the switching of directors. To be honest I don't know how I continued with Stardust Memory at all, but I needed to get through it at least once to add some constructive criticisms amongst the love it seems to get. It wasn't the characters that kept me around that's for damn sure, and the plot kind of fizzled out of urgency halfway through before the end. In reality, I just wanted to see what happened by the end when the Titans from Zeta were formed. I kind of got satisfaction from that. Kind of. On second thought no. The whole reason for the Titans existence was handled terribly because it never felt like a natural focus, instead it was overshadowed mainly by the pointless love triangle and Nina's horrible decisions that put her in the same league as Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars. If you think about it hard enough you'll realize that Nina was indirectly responsible for why the Titans were formed...good lord. Having Nina be the catalyst was an awful way to fill in the backstory for the Titans because it meant that Zeon was actually less of a threat than her somehow. I'm going to spoil this right now because it's worth bringing up. Nina (almost) gets away with a colony drop in the finale because of a last minute backstory addition with our antagonist Gato where supposedly (off-screen) they used to date. At the very end of the series Kou is just somehow ok with all this? There's so much wrong with the writing of the main cast it hurts because its a show I so desperately wanted to love. Apparently they had room for last minute plot decisions, but can't find ways to show them on screen or just spend time fleshing out necessary story bits that go unanswered or exploring anything meaningful.

  As for the rest of the show, I never found myself rewarded with much else for its self contained plot and characters. What's even more disheartening is we're never treated to moments that are as epic as its openings. Stardust Memory limps, trips, falls and stumbles as it tries to get to it's best story bits out there within it's small timeframe, yet it gets stuck pursuing the wrong ideas for most of the series. Stardust Memory misses the mark in it's potential that's squandered by it's directorial choices in episodes that become groan inducing and laughably bad at dialogue between characters that can't be patched with the sub or dub versions.

  I get that this is supposed to fill in the gap between Zeta, and I know that many Gundam shows suffer from exposition dumps. It does offer insight in why the Titans were founded, but beyond that it never actively shows their ruthless rise to power as a militant force. I'm super disappointed with Stardust Memory, but maybe I set my expectations unbelievably high for something that's set within the UC timeline. I hyped myself up to watch it with some YouTube clips, and the soundtrack, but there's not much saving this one for me. It's actually quite heartbreaking to me as I had thought this series would become a favourite alongside the 08th MS Team, when in reality it's become one of my least favourite UC shows that makes me hesitant to give it a positive recommendation. I'm not saying that it's completely unwatchable because there are some scenes that are worth checking out, however I'd say that there are moments that become completely irrelevant by the end especially for our main cast that more or less remain static throughout the shows entirety. When you have a Gundam series that has you asking yourself "why am I still watching this" then maybe it's worth reconsidering its importance on the UC timeline. I can safely say that the show ranges from mediocre to bad territory because of the way the plot is executed and the little time it spends on developing meaningful relationships. It's fun as an homage to Top Gun, but if it's any constellation neither were really revered for their storytelling rather it was the action and music that people love to fondly look back on. Stardust Memory is loud, frankly quite dumb, and a semi-entertaining 90s anime schlock that I'm not keen on revisiting any time soon, if at all. 0083 is a one and done series that solely aims to fill in some of the stones that might've been left unturned by Zeta, and yet it never feels like it turns over the right stones for me to get a sense of fulfillment. In fact the epilogue to the show is so disconnected from the entire series that you could watch it separately without gaining or losing anything.

  Much like Top Gun, this Stardust Memory's best parts are the action and soundtrack and not a whole lot else (let's be real here, they're both pieces of media that think they're too cool for school). The shoddy writing of 0083 never improved, and we never actually get to see Kou redeem himself as a character, and Nina Purpleton makes this show unbearable and cringe-inducing. Although the show itself isn't outright atrocious, the entire experience just gets held down by its piss-poor writing of characters, and heaps of undercooked plot development where you never get a reasonable explanation for a lot of it. Stardust Memory was extremely hard to enjoy because all of its bad parts were actively working against any of its redeeming traits. But, to its credit 0083 is exactly the kind of filler most long-running anime are treated to in their lifetimes, and should be treated as such.

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  ohohohohohoho

  85/100
  Haunted by Ghosts of the One Year War

  Stardust Memory is a Gundam OVA that takes place between the One Year War of Mobile Suit Gundam and the events of Zeta, taking place 3 years after War in the Pocket.

  Operation Stardust is a plan spearheaded by Anavel Gato, a notorious spectre of the One Year War known as The Nightmare of Solomon, alongside the head of the Delaz fleet, Aiguille Delaz. These are ostensibly the antagonists of the series, but they are also the reason that there's a series at all, the engineers behind the events unfolding, and the necromancers behind the resurrection of warfare in Universal Century 0083.

  Resurrection, rebirth, memory. The meaning of these words is probed throughout this series as they echo in the vacuum of space. Other than the protagonist Kou and his closest friend Keith, essentially every other character in the series is a veteran of the One Year War, or at least has experienced the repercussions of it firsthand. Whereas Kou and Keith are only indirectly familiar with the nature of war, which one could say is as good as not being familiar at all. Their fear is palpable as they're first thrown into combat. When Anavel Gato attacks the Albion and seizes a Gundam and a nuke at the beginning of the series, there's a shot of Nina Purpleton shaking as missiles rain down on the base. Mora Boscht asks if its her first time seeing a battle firsthand, and Nina continues to shake in silence, her eyes wide, as we get a great cut to Kou shaking in fear in his cockpit. With this wordless exposition we realize, though he may be a mobile suit pilot, this is his first overwhelming taste of battle. All Kou and Keith know of the One Year War are the spectres and legends that continue to haunt, like that of the Nightmare of Solomon, whom they initially conceive of as a foe whose legendary powers they couldn't possibly contend with.

  So far on my journey across the Universal Century, I've seen Mobile Suit Gundam, 08th MS Team, and War in the pocket. Stardust Memory is the series that takes us back into space, and it's got a bit more action up its sleeve than those other two OVAs. While I preferred the look and feel of War in the Pocket, where the style and direction all feels a bit more purposeful, Stardust Memory certainly looks great, and takes the combat up a notch.

  Scars and spectres are everywhere in Stardust Memory. Yet rebirth and resurrection are as much about rewriting history, trying to ignore the parts we'd rather forget, as they are reestablishing its continuity with the future. Kelly Layzner sees the resurrection of the war as a chance to redeem himself, and he intends to fight as if he never lost his arm in the first place, ignoring the scars wrought by battle. It costs him his life, when he could've taken the opportunity to live a peaceful life with Lateura. Dazel is bent on making up for Zeon's humiliating loss at A Baoa Qu. On the Feddie side, Monsha can't accept that he's not the hero who wins the war and gets the girl in his narrative as he may have been during the One Year War, and relentlessly takes out his insecurity and frustration on Kou.

  Stardust Memory is an inspection of the ways the past haunts the present, the way our scars, legends and memories linger, and even seem to control our fates as we struggle against them. Gato harps on the value of his/Zeon's ideals, and the fight for independence for all Spacenoids; Delaz delivers a televised speech about the totalitarian rule of the Federation, echoing some of the Zabi propaganda from 0079, and the need for Zeon's fight to carry on; but are they not blatantly overlooking the self interest, racism, greed, and internal rot which caused the collapse of Zeon in the first place? How easy it is for one's ideals to get lost and drift by the wayside in the heat of war, as others within your own faction vie to seize control of the armed forces and the narrative. As one character says in Gasaraki (another amazing mech anime), it's much easier to start a war than to stop one. Will the ills of Zeon's past not haunt its rebirth, once the plot is set in motion and it's too late to turn back? Does success in the present ever pay for the past sacrifices and missteps? Does it transform a failure into an act of heroism?

  The other side of this, the haunting of the past, is the far more trying task of learning from experience. The older characters in Stardust Memory, for the most part, live in, or try to reenact the events of their past, perhaps trying to get them right the second time. Yet inevitably, they fail again. Rather than learning from one's own experience, experience is something passed on to the next generation, as with Lieutenant Burning and Kou. Burning is a sort of mentor and father figure for Kou as Kou acclimates himself to becoming a soldier, and a man.

  (Spoilers to follow)

  The event that the series is leading up to is a return to the Sea of Solomon, a sector of space drenched with history, for another battle. This is where the blood was shed and metal was rent and torn that earned Gato his nickname, the Nightmare of Solomon, and the legendary status that looms over him along with it. The Nightmare of Solomon is more than just his nickname though, it's a nightmare which continues to pervade the lives of all the characters involved in the series. It's Gato's nightmare as well. In the episode where the combatants rush back into the sea, we see Gato staring out the window of his spacecraft, second guessing whether he should really return, anticipating the potential repeat of history, and the loss of more of his Zeon comrades' lives. A Sea of stars washes over his reflection in the window. Elsewhere, gazing out the window of another ship into oblivion, Haman Karn asks herself how long they'll be trapped in the cold of space fighting for the sake of "ideals."

  Shortly after, Kou returns from a sortie, having just lost Lieutenant Burning, and says to himself "The sea [of Solomon] is hell" through gritted teeth. He doesn't even have time to mourn before the combat picks back up. There's a feeling that the continuation of war is compulsive, inevitable, unstoppable. Once the Gundam is stolen, there's no turning back. Once the nuke is deployed, there's no turning back. Because people died for what they believed in years ago, because people continue to die, the surviving characters must put their lives on the line and fight, too. Gato must continue to test the righteousness of his beliefs until he's stopped, and Kou must stop him. That's the only way, Kou tells himself, for the hell to end. It's time to put everything Lieutenant Burning taught him on the line. And yet, does it ever really end? How will the memory of operation Stardust haunt the future?

  As they prepare to battle, the lingering debris and bodies, zombified mechs and soldiers from the first battle in the Sea of Solomon, obscure the Zeon troops. The scars, spectres and memories of a past clash; yet even beyond the grave they are in a sense involved in the combat. Perhaps Lieutenant Burning has become a piece of floating debris just the same. With no burial, no memorial, he's become a fact of the terrain of space. Anonymous but material. The man forgotten, his corpse and mobile suit preserved frozen in place. What threshold separates the dead and destroyed from the living? "We'll use them for cover, and that's why we'll win" Gato explains.

  Gato's nuking of the Federation's Naval Review is, it turns out, just the beginning of operation Stardust, and more of a symbolic victory. The reenactment of the One Year War doesn't end here, as after smashing two space colonies into each other, Cima and Dezal intend to smash a third colony into Earth itself, repeating the "most terrible tragedy of the One Year War." This isn't a mere matter of history repeating itself, it's an almost pathological compulsion to repeat history on purpose. As this war disease starts to take hold of Nina and Kou, Nina warns Kou that she wants them both to back out while they have the chance, now that the two Gundam units have been destroyed. But it's too late, there's a third unit, and Kou is the only one who can use it, with Nina's technical support, to stop the colony from barreling into Earth.

  And this is where the series really tips its hand.

  Up until now we've seen Kou go through a typical coming of age arc, embroiled in this world haunted by its past, full of soldiers with codes of honor, allegiance to ideals, thirsts for vengeance and glory. Unfortunately, while Kou does become a man, everything he learns about being a man comes from these haunted soldiers, so he's trapped in the same exact mindset as them. By the end of the anime, Kou doesn't accomplish anything. He doesn't retrieve Unit 02. He doesn't kill Gato. He doesn't stop the colony from crashing into Earth. If everything he's learned isn't enough to save the day, to protect humanity, to stop the endless war, then how DO we get out of this mess?

  Well, the answer WOULD be Cima and Nina.

  At this point in the story, Cima reveals that she's been colluding with the Federation to stop Dezal. Nina reveals she had a romance with Gato between the One Year War and operation Stardust. These women have no sense of allegiance, and that's the key that allows them to step outside of the narrow viewpoint shared by the soldiers and see that the bloodshed is leading nowhere. Just like Haman Karn and Lateura, Nina and Cima are skeptical of the male soldiers' obsessions with their ideals. At what point does the violence bring their vision into reality? Will it be when the colony strikes Earth? Is that when the Spacenoids will be free? Kou is utterly unable to grasp why Nina won't let him kill Gato, and thinks it is simply a matter of her having stronger feelings for Gato than for him. But she simply is brave enough to ask: what is actually gained by killing Gato, if the mission is already over?

  However, Nina fails to protect Gato because he won't allow himself to be protected. He sacrifices himself by ramming his mobile suit into a Federation Ship. Like Kelley, he insists on dying an "honorable" death in combat, while trying to reach Earth to pass on the legend of their battle to the future generation. Cima is similarly foiled by Gato and Delaz, and she's brutally murdered by Kou, right after she asks him "Who's side are you really on?" Ironic, coming from her, but it goes to show that this battle is not really between Zeon and the Federation, it's between those in allegiance to senseless murder in the guise of heroism, and those in allegiance to protecting innocent lives. The tragedy is that the few individuals (all women, mind you) who are capable of examining things from outside the soldier's perspective, are incapable of doing anything about it because they're horrendously outnumbered by haunted soldiers on all sides.

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