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Originally Posted by Yellow Ranger

What do you guys think of the Stardust Memory series?

Thinking of buying it cause it's cheap and I like Kou and the GP series in the video games I've played with them in it.

...But I have the feeling Nina's gonna really piss me off.

Without going on a multi-page evisceration of the OVA:

- The mobile suit designs are some of the best the franchise has ever offered in my opinion. The only two I don't really find that great are the GP02 and the GP03. Everything else though I think is a well executed evolution of the designs and on a personal level the GP01 Zeph ranks within my top favorite designs of actual Gundams.

- The soundtrack is honestly the single greatest thing about the show. I'd go as far as to call it the greatest soundtrack of any Gundam project.

- The story starts of pretty mediocre. Typical fare with a decent little arc about an ex Zeon pilot. However it shortly afterwards sinks into being utter garbage and the ending left my utterly angry, something which I never really am when it comes to television or films.

- The characters are just as mediocre to bad. Kou and the remaining crew are bland and the Zeon side suffers the same fate. Again the only good character is that ex pilot. As for Nina...she's the worst character I have ever seen in Gundam and ranks second on my list of characters I hate and would love to see get killed.

Overall while the OVA has an amazing soundtrack and some great designs, the mediocre plot and characters drag it down and eventually sinks it with the ending and with Nina. I've compared it to being as bad as Wing and I have a hard time saying which is worse. On a critical level I would say Wing. But on a personal basis no show has ever left me as angered as Stardust Memory.

Watch it if you want but take my warning that it really, really, really isn't that good and is a product I think you'd be better off just buying the kits for because they look cool rather than spending your time and money on watching the show and walking away in a bad spot.