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The Best Episodes of Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1

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It is the Universal Century, year 0153. The Zanscare Empire, which rules almost all of Side 2, has declared its independence from the old government, the hollow and corrupt Earth Federation. Under the justification of

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 1 - The White Mobile Suit
    7.0/10(20 votes)

    #1 - The White Mobile Suit

    S1:E1

    Uso steals the Shokew Mobile Suit from BESPA (The Ballistic Equipment and Space patrol Amory). However it is destroyed by Lieutenant Chronicle Asher piloting a Zolo type mobile suit. Uso narrowly escapes by ejecting and is left for dead in the middle of a forest.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 2 - The Day I Meet the Machine
    7.2/10(19 votes)

    #2 - The Day I Meet the Machine

    S1:E2

    The episode is a flash back to Kassarelia, Uso’s and Shakti’s homeland, with a fight between Ms. Marbet in the Core Fighter and Lieutenant Chronicle Asher in the Shokew. During the battle Ms. Marbet is shot in the leg. Uso, who is skydiving at the time, accidentally lands on the Shokew and begins fighting with Lieutenant Chronicle Asher in the cockpit, causing the Shokew to crash into a river. Uso pilots the Shokew and after some mishaps manages to land it.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 3 - Uso's Fight
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    #3 - Uso's Fight

    S1:E3

    The episode is a continuation of the flashback. Uso arrives at the city of Woowig, which is burning. He immediately becomes under attack from the League Militaire in Woowig because they believe him to be a BESPA mobile suit. Uso is protected by the BESPA Zolos. Uso begins to engage them. Uso succeeds in destroying one Zolo before he is taken by the League Militaire. Uso and Ms. Katejina Loos manage to escape through an old subway. Lieutenant Chronicle Asher and his comrade Lieutenant Gary Tan are rescued by BESPA Zolos. A search party of two Zolos is sent to search for the Shokew. Uso engages them but is overwhelmed. He is saved by Ms. Marbet disabling one with the beam rifle of the Victory Gundam. The remaining Zolo escapes. Shakti is then tasked with caring for a child rescued from Woowig. Shakti, Uso, Ms. Katejina Loos, and the other immigrants join the convoy.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 4 - Who Are We Fighting for...
    7.5/10(16 votes)

    #4 - Who Are We Fighting for...

    S1:E4

    The group prepares for a possible attack as they attempt to repair the Core Fighter. Meanwhile, back at a BESPA Base, Lieutenant Chronicle Asher and Lieutenant Sabat, promoted to Captain, prepare for a mission in order to take back of destroy the Shokew. Uso shows the members of the convoy part of the area where he lives. As they search for chips to be used to help repair the Core Fighter, the group is surprised to see an entire underground room filled with computers and an early training simulator for piloting mobile suits.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 5 - Godzorla's Counterattack
    7.1/10(17 votes)

    #5 - Godzorla's Counterattack

    S1:E5

    Uso disassembles the Victory Gundam into its three parts. The workers at the factory are surprised to learn that Uso, who is just a kid to them, is piloting the mobile suit. Shakti wanders off with the child Karlmann. Lieutenant Gary Tan steals the newly completed Godzorla mobile suit in order to find Lieutenant Chronicle Asher and get revenge for Captain Sabat by destroying the Victory Gundam. The mobile armor Recarl is activated in order to monitor Lieutenant Gary in the Godzorla. Lieutenant Chronicle Asher infiltrates the factory and signals to the Godzorla its location. Uso sorties in the Core Fighter and forms the Victory Gundam with the Top Fighter and Boots. In the ensuing battle the Godzorla is disabled and Lieutenant Gary Tan is captured.

    Director:Hiroshi Tamada
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 6 - A Fighter's Glory
    7.7/10(17 votes)

    #6 - A Fighter's Glory

    S1:E6

    Uso battles 3 Zolos. The convoy attempts to give him cover as they flee, but they take heavy losses. The convoy launches the Top Fighter and the Boots. Uso successfully attaches the Top Fighter but the Boots are destroyed in the process. Uso then transforms the machine into half a Gundam and disables a Zolo. As the convoy coordinates the launching of the second pair of Boots, Lieutenant Chronicle Asher arrives and shoots Hakashaku Oi Nyung, the leader of the group, in the shoulder. Stryker is killed in the ensuing fire fight.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 7 - The Sound of the Guillotine
    8.2/10(16 votes)

    #7 - The Sound of the Guillotine

    S1:E7

    The Gattarl Team is ordered to search for and destroy the League Militaire convoy. Uso leaves the convoy to return to Kassarelia in order to search for Shakti. Odelo, Warren, and Suzy, the three immigrants that Uso found in his house, decide to follow him to Kassarelia. Lieutenant Chronicle Asher and his two hostages are recovered by the Recarl Mobile Armor. On board, Fuala Griffon, the commander of the Lagrane Base begins to interrogate the hostages. The Gattarl Team encounters both Shakti and Uso’s group in search for the convoy but lets them go thinking that they are innocent children.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 8 - Fierce Fight! Wave Attack
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #8 - Fierce Fight! Wave Attack

    S1:E8

    Uso has nightmares of Hakashaku's execution. He and Shakti decide to leave the convoy and return home to Kassarelia. Back at Largane, Lieutenant Chronicle Asher is given orders to escort Commander Fuala Griffon and all damaged mobile suits to Arti Gibraltar, where they will be launched into space and Commander Fuala Griffon will face court martial for her recent failures and quick execution of Hakashaku.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 9 - Departure
    7.8/10(15 votes)

    #9 - Departure

    S1:E9

    As Uso is returning to Kassarelia in the Victory, he spots Lieutenant Chronicle Asher and a dozen Zolos escorting Commander Fuala Griffon to Arti Gibraltar. Lieutenant Chronicle Asher leaves the group to go inspect a local house; Ms. Katejina Loos is riding along in his Zolo. Lieutenant Chronicle Asher and Ms. Katejina Loos enter the house and find Shakti inside. Uso is scouting Lieutenant Chronicle Asher’s Zolo when he is discovered and attacked by two Zolos. Uso and the Victory Gundam are captured and taken before Lieutenant Chronicle Asher. Uso is surprised to see Ms. Katejina Loos and learn that she has defected to the Zanscare Empire, the enemy of the League Militaire.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 10 - Behold! The Shrike Team
    7.6/10(15 votes)

    #10 - Behold! The Shrike Team

    S1:E10

    The convoy continues to move and Ms. Marbet and Uso are repairing the Victory. Oliver leaves in order to return to his squadron called the Shrike Team. The convoy receives order from Jinn Gehennam, the leader of the League Militaire. The League Militaire is a European resistance against the Zanscare invasion trying to get the Earth Federation to act against the Zanscare Empire. The convoy has been ordered to meet at point “DD”.

    Director:Hiroshi Tamada
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 11 - Defense of the Shrike Team
    7.7/10(15 votes)

    #11 - Defense of the Shrike Team

    S1:E11

    The convey reaches point DD, a warehouse controlled by the Federation, and meet Lt. Gomez, who mentions Uso's father. Uso begins asking everyone there if they know about his father before Odelo stops him. Gomez plans on shipping the Victory Gundams to Ireland, but the warehouse is attacked by BESPA. As one of the shuttles is about to take off it is spotted by Lupe Cineau and her Tomilat. Helen, one of the Shrike Team members, sacrifices herself so the shuttle can launch.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 12 - Let's Get Rid of the Guillotine
    7.9/10(16 votes)

    #12 - Let's Get Rid of the Guillotine

    S1:E12

    The PCST planes carrying Uso and the other members of the Camion transport continue on their course for Arti Gibraltar.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 13 - Arti Gibraltar: An Empty City
    8.1/10(15 votes)

    #13 - Arti Gibraltar: An Empty City

    S1:E13

    The Recarl and a Tomliat fly over Arti Gibraltar, where Uso, Marbet and Oliver hide their Core Fighters. Cronicle speaks with airport director Mandela Sune director about stationing troops at Arti Gibraltar.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 14 - Attack and Defense at Gibraltar
    8.5/10(17 votes)

    #14 - Attack and Defense at Gibraltar

    S1:E14

    In space, the EFF's Bagley Team attacks a Zanscare fleet. Fuala receives a call from Pippiniden, and he tells her that the EFF is moving towards the satellite Keilas Guilie. Pippiniden says that if Fuala can stop the League Militaire at Arti Gibraltar that it will have an effect on her punishment.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 15 - Space Dust
    7.4/10(15 votes)

    #15 - Space Dust

    S1:E15

    Uso's shuttle prepares to launch from Arti Gibraltar. He asks Shahkti to come with him, but she says she's going back to Kasarelia with Odelo, Warren and Suzy to wait for her parents.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 16 - Reinforce, Take-Off!
    7.8/10(15 votes)

    #16 - Reinforce, Take-Off!

    S1:E16

    The Reinforce takes off for space in order to destroy the Kelias Guilie, a BESPA battleship that has the ability to devastate the Earth, even from Space.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 17 - The Queen of the Empire
    6.2/10(16 votes)

    #17 - The Queen of the Empire

    S1:E17

    Duker recaps the previous encounters between BESPA and the League Mililtaire to Zanscare's leaders, Queen Maria Pure Armonia and Fonse Kagatie. He tells them about the bombing of Woowig, Uso capturing Cronicle's Shokew, and the appearance of the Victory Gundam.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 18 - Battle of the Space Fleets
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #18 - Battle of the Space Fleets

    S1:E18

    The League Milataire's Reinforce engages in a space battle with a Zanscare Amalthea-class battleship. The Zanscare forces are pushed back when reinforcements from the Earth Federation ship Guanland arrive. During the battle, Shatki, Suzy, Karlmann, and Flanders are ejected into space.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 19 - The Search for Shakti
    7.2/10(15 votes)

    #19 - The Search for Shakti

    S1:E19

    Shakti, Suzy, Karlmann, and Flanders are rescued by the Zanscare battleship Kelias Guilie. Cronicle conducts a DNA test on Shakti and it is revealed that she is his niece and the daughter of Zanscare's leader, Queen Maria. Meanwhile, Uso, with help from Odelo, Warren, and the kids from the Hiland, sneak out of the Reinforce with a Victory Gundam and Marbet's Zoloat, piloted by Tomache, to find Shakti and the others. The search party is intercepted by two BESPA mobile suits and a battle breaks out after Odelo fires on one of the suits. The search party is saved when the Shrike Team arrives and drives back the enemy mobile suits.

    Director:Hiroshi Tamada
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 20 - The Eve Before Battle
    7.8/10(15 votes)

    #20 - The Eve Before Battle

    S1:E20

    The League Militaire and Earth Federation forces prepare the Hiland's microwave system in the hope of taking down the Kelias Guilie and its fleet.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 21 - The Strategic Satellite
    7.7/10(15 votes)

    #21 - The Strategic Satellite

    S1:E21

    Having recovered from the effects of the microwave system, BESPA starts to fight back against the League Militaire.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 22 - The Tiger of Space
    8.1/10(15 votes)

    #22 - The Tiger of Space

    S1:E22

    The Reinforce, Squid, and the Fishbone (the ship from Hiland) dock at the La Vie En Rose 4. Uso, Marbet, Oliver, and Junko are sent out to search the debris field for any survivors. During the search, Uso finds Haro and comes across Godwald Hein, the BESPA soldier he met before. The two engage in a mobile suit battle, with Uso being saved by Junko and Oliver.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 23 - Infiltrate Zanscare
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #23 - Infiltrate Zanscare

    S1:E23

    Martina, one of the children from the Hiland becomes ill and needs immediate medical treatment. The closest doctor is at the Side 2 colony of Amelia, the home territory of the Zanscare Empire. While infiltrating the colony, Uso spots an unknown mobile suit, the Sandhoge. He engages it in battle while the others make their way into the colony.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 24 - Attack the Capital!
    7.8/10(14 votes)

    #24 - Attack the Capital!

    S1:E24

    Suzy tells Uso, Odelo, and Warren that Shakti is the biological daughter of Queen Maria. Across the street from the doctor, Shakti is meeting with her mother. She attempts to escape but is stopped when Cronicle asks her if she really wants to return to the battlefield.

    Director:Hiroshi Tamada
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Season 1 Episode 25 - Infiltrate the Enemy's Fleet & Land
    7.5/10(14 votes)

    #25 - Infiltrate the Enemy's Fleet & Land

    S1:E25

    BESPA's forces pursue the Reinforce Junior as it tries to escape from Side 2. The enemy fleet is pushed back with the use of unorthodox tactics, such as Oliver un-docking segments of his Victory Gundam and launching them into enemy ships and due to the inexperience of the Zanscare pilots.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The White Mobile Suit" is the best rated episode of "Mobile Suit Victory Gundam" season 1. It scored 7/10 based on 20 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/2/1993. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Day I Meet the Machine".