Mobile Suit Gundam: Boy Meets Girl

"The red thread of destiny binds these two hearts still..."

Mobile Suit Gundam: Boy Meets Girl is a short series consisting of 13 episodes of Original Video Animations, and is the direct sequel to Mobile Suit Gundam: Light of the Earth, as well as the prequel to Mobile Suit Gundam: Believe in the Stars, taking place three years after the events of Light of the Earth and several months before the beginning of Believe in the Stars. The OVA shifts its focus onto Elise Groavel as the main protagonist, and revolves around her days as the newly-appointed Mobile Suit Squadron Commander of the UNO Emblem-class cruiser, the Insignia. The story places more emphasis on the emotional points, and explores the relationships she finds herself in with the other crew of the Insignia, and her developments past the events of RC 211, her meeting with the alleged "Murray Kaido" and a second Gundam "Gaia", up until her reunion with the mentally and physically crippled real Murray Kaido, and eventually leading to the events of RC 215, the events surrounding Believe in the Stars.

Story
Two years after the event of Downfall, the impact of Blaine Vermont's artificial asteroid onto Earth at the end of Operation Eclipse, Elise Groavel now ranks as a Squadron Commander for the United Nationalities of Oceania. Due to the devastating damages to a majority of SEA territory, the UNO is considering to reap the chance of the time to conquer its adversary for the final time, though the act is being greatly opposed by many parties and sides, most from within UNO itself. Thus, as most of UNO forces are being deployed at the request of their captains and superiors to lend support for the rebuilding of SEA, central operations send out orders for the deploying of their newest ship, the Insignia, to delve into SEA territory for extraction of a certain object which was reported to have fallen into the Pacific Ocean. Elise joins the ship as its Squadron Commander, and finds out that the object is the purported Gundam "Gaia", but upon finding the mobile suit, she was forced into engaging in battle with it due to the pilot's resistance. Despite believing that it was Murray within, she was taken aback by the pilot's declining of knowing who she was.

Unexpectedly, she defeats the "Gaia" with her Rouge unit. It was only after the "Gaia" was taken aboard that she realizes, that even though the young man that piloted the Gundam sounded just like Murray, even claiming that he is the Murray Kaido, his appearance was not of the man she loved. As Elise struggles with herself, trying to decide what is the truth and what isn't, troubles start to surface on the other side of the Earth.

Ace Santiago, whom once allied himself with UNO and the Equilibrium, is suddenly attacking UNO territory and SEA territory altogether. And as both sides retaliate, unknowing of the threat the colonies deep in space would soon bring forth in their plans of claiming the planet for their own, Elise discovers that more forces are at work, and that the Gundam "Gaia" before her was not the true one...

The Insignia

 * Elise Groavel
 * Mark Asvelle
 * Drayden Groupe
 * Kaylee Wray
 * Chojo Danborough
 * Quess Linden

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 * "Murray Kaido"