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This is a retelling of Mobile Suit Gundam's missing episode number 15. I did watch the original episode when I watched 0079 and was really curious of what I would get out of this.

Voice acting is amazing, I'm surprised Toru Furuya still can portray young Amuro with no issue, and was really happy to hear Toshio Furukawa as Kai again. Some seiyuus were already here since Origin and Ken Narita has been Bright since Unicorn, but obviously long time fans like me are still gonna miss those who are gone. That said I'm happy to say everyone did a good job and lived up to ... expectations.

The animation's good, even though I know there will be some mixed opinions about the use of CGI for the Mobile Suits and rightfully so, but I was pleased with it. I can say the animation did add way more expressions than that derp smile Doan had in episode 15, everyone was full of emotions and it was nice to see. I have some issues with how Amuro looks like in Yasuhiko's current style (and that I still don't know why he gave him blue eyes now) but the other characters look good.

The characters feel... Like home. It was like coming back home to the White Base after a long time. All of them felt like they used to back in 0079, and Sleggar did add some funny moments despite being an odd change to replace Ryu with him so soon.

The story was well delivered, let me tell you I hated Doan's kids in 0079, but somehow they made them actually endearing and I grew to care about them, and Doan himself... He was always meant to be a Zeon desertor who took care of the kids who's parents he killed, but I felt him more fleshed out here, I feel his story really needed more than 22 minutes and seeing his struggles upclose is something I wasn't expecting since I didn't read the Doan manga.

I'm actually from Spain and seeing the Canary Islands and that they gave most of the kids spanish names was nice to see, but I already knew they would do a great job with the locations since they did the same in Hathaway.

And once again Hiroko Moriguchi delivered, she has always been a nice fit for Gundam songs since Zeta on her debut, and you can tell she enjoys working for the franchise at any chance she gets.

I can say with confidence that I liked this movie way more than episode 15, and if it wasn't for the few inconsistencies with 0079's plot I would replace the original take with this one in the canon.

To anyone who has seen 0079, regardless if you have seen the Doan episode or not, I highly recommend this. If you haven't seen 0079 I would recommend to watch it first or otherwise you won't care about the White Base crew that much. I was really satisfied with what I got at least.