# Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (1989)

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**Original title**: *機動戦士ガンダム 0080 ポケットの中の戦争*
**Runtime**: 180 min
**Genres**: Action, Animation, Drama, Science Fiction, War
**Directed by**: Fumihiko Takayama
**Written by**: Hiroyuki Yamaga
**Starring**: Daisuke Namikawa, Koji Tsujitani, Megumi Hayashibara

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You live in a space colony during its last winter before war’s end. One night you spot a Zeon scout’s mobile suit crash outside your window. A boy in a school uniform introduces himself as Al and invites the injured pilot, Bernie, inside for soup while you all wait for the Federation to finish its sweep. Bernie and Al talk Gundam specs like schoolyard baseball.

A brief observation: 1989 anime was figuring out how to make war toys look less like toys.

The colony’s thin walls keep out the cold but can’t hide the coming thunder of another attack run.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, slow-burn, tender

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