Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower

 Time for some hardcore mecha action this time, with the Bandit Flower movie of the solid Gundam Thunderbolt series.

A compilation film of the second season of the series, it also adds various fresh scenes to the series.

Taking place during the One Year War, this series focussed on the "back fighters" in the conflict, the unsung heroes amongst the Char's and Amuro's of the franchise, like the force made up of injured Zeon fighters desperatly fighting against the Alliance's testpilot of the new Gundam technology.

The movie features extended fight scenes, and the animation even seems to have an extra step up in my opinion, while it was already top notch to begin with.  Gritty and at times even gruesome, the underlying ego duel between Daryl Lorenz, the Zeon sniper who willingly gives up his remaining limbs to pilot a pre-psycho frame and Io Flemming, a test pilot who had hoped to be higher in the ranks of the Alliance, is joined as in the series with an zwesome jazz music track.

While this movie doesn`t add supermuch to the series, it does give that bit of an extra layer that makes it worth checking out!