Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

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.

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Fumihiko Takayama directed Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket in 1989. See Fumihiko Takayama's full filmography, where to start with Fumihiko Takayama, or where to go after you've seen everything by Fumihiko Takayama.

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket was released in 1989 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 180 minutes.