You want hopeful heroes, clear good vs. evil, or a happy ending.

: A Zeon sniper in the Living Dead Division, a unit comprised of amputee soldiers. To master the experimental Psycho Zaku

The Zeon ace, Daryl Lorenz, listens to soulful, melancholic jazz. The Federation pilot, Io Fleming, listens to manic, chaotic bebop. The entire movie is edited . During dogfights, the saxophones screech as beam rifles fire. When a mobile suit’s limbs get blown off, the hi-hat cymbal ticks.

Io’s Gundam ignited its four sub-arms, each wielding a massive beam cannon, and charged into the debris field. Zeon’s Living Dead Division—a unit of amputee pilots like Daryl—scrambled to intercept. The Thunderbolt’s lightning storm crackled, frying standard radar. Pilots fought blind, by instinct, by the ghosts of their own traumas.