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Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team is a Japanese OVA anime series in the Gundam franchise produced by Sunrise. Released from 1996 to 1999, the series follows an Earth Federation ground unit fighting in U.C. 0079 during the One Year War, presented as a ground-level side story contemporaneous with the 1979 television series Mobile Suit Gundam; its first video volume was issued on 25 January 1996, with a separate epilogue special, Last Resort, released on 25 July 1999 outside the original eleven-episode count. Directed initially by Takeyuki Kanda and subsequently by Umanosuke Iida, the project also spawned the compilation film Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team – Miller’s Report (1998) for Japanese theaters.