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Since: Dec, 1969
2011-05-18 11:45:59
That sounds like The 08th MS Team https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitled636c0z1
:)

I'm looking for a certain show within the Gundam franchise, and wading through the trope pages, calendars, and wikis is only getting me more and more confused.
This one aired on Cartoon Network, late nineties to early 2000s. I remember that of the main cast they had one character, the token kid, who spent half the season writing home to his girlfriend before she broke up with him because it was a long-distance relationship. Another was an older guy, and an early plotline revolved around how on every third mission he had with his team, everybody but him died. There was one guy on the team who didn't want to be fighting (and for some reason could not file Conscientious Technical Pacifist), spent a fair amount of time Wangsting about that, and then eventually got over it. This one also featured some Guerrilla fighters, and I swear this show was the first place I heard that term. The character I remember from them most was this redhead teenage chick who got a few scenes of Digital Bikini (actually green instead of black, and made hilarious by the fact that she immediately began beating the main character for peeping at her while she was bathing—oh, Cartoon Network...). One of my main problems is that I can't differentiate exactly which of the heroes was in that series.
So far I can say that it is not Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, SD Gundam Force, or any show within the Robotech or Macross franchises.