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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast

MSB is a weekly Gundam podcast for new fans, old fans, and not yet fans. Nina (a Gundam first-timer) and Thom (a lifelong Gundam fan) analyze, review, and research all 40-years of the iconic sci-fi anime mega-franchise Mobile Suit Gundam in the order it was made. We research its influences, examine its themes, and discuss how each piece of the Gundam canon fits within the changing context in Japan and the world, from 1979 to today. Part history podcast, part discussion podcast, all Gundam

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00:53:32

2.53: A Noble Mind - Interview with Dr. Bayley Garbutt

Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast ·

2020/10/09

Show Notes This week, Nina and Thom interview Dr. Bayley Garbutt about Kamille Bidan's psychological development! "Bayley is a longtime fan of Gundam, having started watching it as many his age did when Gundam Wing first aired on Toonami in the US in the early 2000s. He was instantly hooked and sought out as much of Gundam as he could find. During that time he also got into building, customizing and painting the model kits (gunpla) as well. Zeta Gundam remains his favorite series, though he also

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00:14:04

What the heck is a Gundam, and why did they build a...

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2020/10/02

Show Notes When footage of the Walking Gundam went viral earlier this week, your loyal podcast hosts received a deluge of questions from friends and family about it. "Did you see this? What is this? Why did they build it? Is this one of those 'Transformers' you podcast about?" We knew what we had to do: it was our responsibility to make a public service announcement explaining Gundam and the Walking Gundam in a short, accessible mini-podcast. So, here's Mobile Suit Breakdown's first Public Service

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01:05:40

3.8: Drifting

Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast ·

2020/09/25

Show Notes This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 10 - "Sayonara, Fa"/さよならファ - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on what trends and subcultures could have inspired Chara Soon's iconic look. - Articles about Japan's youth-culture, Visual Kei, and Gyaru: Takada, A. (1992), Contemporary Youth and Youth Culture in Japan. International Journal of Japanese Sociology, 1: 99-114. Kawasaki, Ken'ichi. “Youth Culture in Japan.” Social

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00:56:55

3.7: A Bunch of Dummies

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2020/09/18

Show Notes This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 9 - “Judau in Space” (宇宙のジュドー) - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on home electronics in the 1980s, namely the Sony Walkman and the pocket calculator. - Wikipedia page for Sony Walkman. - Sony corporate website company-history pages about the Walkman and a timeline of personal audio products. - Mashable article about the “retirement” of the Sony Walkman in 2010. - A book on the

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01:30:28

3.6: Leaving Home

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2020/09/11

Show Notes This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episodes 7 and 8 - "Gaza Storm" (ガザの嵐) and "The Funeral Bell Tolls Twice" (鎮魂の鐘は二度鳴) - discuss our first impressions, and take a brief u-turn: we are joined by Dr. Shar, of Dr. Sharmander gaming, to discuss the last 3 episodes of Zeta Gundam. You can find Dr. Shar on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. - Two explanations of dichotic listening, on simplypsychology.com and sciencedirect.com - Social psychology definition of

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01:08:51

3.5: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

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2020/09/04

Show Notes This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 6 - "The Zssa Menace"/ズサの脅威 - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the possible influence of the novel Don Quixote on the characters of Mashymre and Gottn. - Wikipedia pages for the novel Don Quixote, the full list of characters from the novel, and character-specific pages for Dulcinea del Toboso and Sancho Panza. - A discussion of "early novels." - The definition of "quixotic." -

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01:04:30

3.4: Compulsory Education

Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast ·

2020/08/28

Show Notes This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 5 - "Judau's Decision"/ジュドーの決意 - discuss our first impressions, provide commentary, and present part 2 of our research on the origin of the term "Shangri-La," and how the book it comes from may have influenced the portrayal of Colony 1, aka Shangri La, in ZZ. The notes continue to be very short! Same source as last week: Hilton, James. Lost Horizon. Macmillan, 1933. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded,

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01:17:01

3.3: The Chevalier of Axis

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2020/08/21

Show Notes This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episodes 3 and 4 - "The Knight of the Endra"/エンドラの騎士 and "Hot-Blooded Mashymre"/熱血のマシュマー - discuss our first impressions, provide commentary, and review part 1 of our research on the origin of the term "Shangri-La." Plus, how the book it comes from may have influenced the portrayal of Colony 1, aka Shangri La, in ZZ. - The notes are very short this week! We reference only one source: Hilton, James. Lost Horizon

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01:02:16

3.2: In Over Their Heads

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2020/08/15

Show Notes This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 2 - "The Boy From Shangri La"/シャングリラの少年 - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on some aspects of the Japanese economy on 1986: laborforce participation by youth and women, educational attainment, tanshinfunin, migrant labor, and... orange imports. Plus - another Japanese poem. - Chart of youth unemployment rate in Japan, 1970-2020. - Youth employment rate in Japan, 1979-1986. -

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01:10:18

3.1: Zeta Gundam Part 2

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2020/08/07

Show Notes We're back! This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 1 - "Prelude of ZZ"/プレリュードZZ" - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on world events 1985-86, and anime industry luminaries contemporary opinions on the state of the anime industry at that time. - Wikipedia lists of significant world events in 1985 and 1986. - Pages on Japan's economy generally, the "economic miracle" of the post-war period (until the bubble burst in the

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01:26:39

2.52: We'll Meet Again

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2020/07/03

Show Notes This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) as a series, discuss our thoughts about the show as a whole, and provide commentary and research on the number four, as well as post-Zeta interviews with Yoshiyuki Tomino and Akinori Endo. - Wikipedia page for the number four, with a list of things that are in fours (many of them religious). - A paper about the number four, subitization in humans and animals (even bees!), and the number four's apparent significance to

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01:23:17

2.51: All Together Now

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2020/06/26

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and provide analysis of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 50 - "Riders in the Skies" (宇宙を駆ける), discuss our impressions, and provide commentary and research on Scirocco's name and the "The-O" mobile suit. - Japanese Wikipedia page for Paptimus Scirocco. - Wikipedia page for the Sirocco wind (aka scirocco, jugo, siroc, xaloc, sciroccu, Σορόκος, siroco, xlokk, shirok, siròc, eisseròc, ghibli, khamsin, شْلُوقْ or شْهِيلِي). - Forbes interview in which

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01:26:13

2.50: Awakening

Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast ·

2020/06/19

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and provide analysis of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 49 - "Casualties of War" (生命散って), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the "third eye." - Wikipedia page for third eye. - Wikipedia pages for chakra, Vajrayana (Tibentan/Tantric/Esoteric Buddhism) in Japan, and the ajna chakra. - About the parietal eye and pineal gland. - The pineal gland in Western philosophical traditions: pre-Cartesian, Descartes, and

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01:07:15

2.49: Tabula Rasa

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2020/06/13

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and provide analysis of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 48 - "The Mirror of Rosamia" (ロザミアの中で), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on voice actor Gouri Daisuke (郷里大輔), the voice actor for Bask Om. We also say goodbye to Rosamia Badam. - - Wikipedia pages for Gouri Daisuke/郷里大輔, born Nagahori Yoshio/長堀芳夫 (English, and Japanese). - Gouri Daisuke's IMDB page. - CNN retrospective on the firebombing of Tokyo, "Operation

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01:14:09

2.48: Goosebumps

Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast ·

2020/06/06

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and provide analysis of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 47 - "A Descent Into the Maelstrom" (宇宙の渦), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on what an Edgar Allen Poe short story has to do with Zeta. - - Japanese Wikipedia Pages for Edgar Allen Poe/エドガー・アラン・ポー and A Descent into the Maelstrom/メエルシュトレエムに呑まれて. - English Wikipedia pages for Edgar Allen Poe and A Descent into the Maelstrom. - Wikipedia pages for Wind from the

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01:15:59

2.47: Battle Among Gods

Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast ·

2020/05/30

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and provide analysis of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 46 - "Scirocco Rises" (シロッコ立つ), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the Bolinoak Samahn mobile suit. - - Japanese Wikipedia page for the Bolinoak Samahn (ボリノーク・サマーン). - Japanese Wikipedia page for Mori no kuma-san (森のくまさん). - Detailed (Japanese language) discussion of the song, although the author introduces some less-well-established theories about other folk

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01:18:32

2.46: The Hammer of Zeon

Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast ·

2020/05/22

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and provide analysis of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 45 - "Coming from the Heavens" (天から来るもの), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the French town of Sedan (and what connection it might have to the Gate of Zedan base!). - - Wikipedia pages for the town of Sedan and the castle (or “chateau”) there. - Webpage for the Castle of Sedan itself. - Famous personages connected to the town: Vauban (military engineer) and

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01:00:40

2.45: Stronger in the Broken Places

Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast ·

2020/05/16

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and provide analysis of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 44 - "The Gate of Zedan" (ゼダンの門), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the inspiration for Haman Karn's name. -*- - Japanese Wikipedia pages for Haman Karn and Herman Kahn. - English Wikipedia page for Herman Kahn. - A profile of Herman Kahn in the New Yorker, written as part of a review of a biography of the man: Louis Menand, Fat Man, for New Yorker. June 20,

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01:06:38

2.44: Strange Bedfellows

Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast ·

2020/05/09

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and provide analysis of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 43 - "Haman's Victory" (ハマーンの嘲笑), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the Qubeley (キュベレイ). - - How to pronounce Kybele in Greek (plus help from patron Serperoth). - Wikipedia pages for Cybele/Kybele and Phrygia. - Listings from other online encyclopedias and reference websites (page on theoi.com includes text of associated myths and

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01:01:42

Interlude: Nina Predicts the Future

Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast ·

2020/05/02

Show Notes A gallery with pictures of all the covers Nina reviewed is available for your reference at gundampodcast.com/patreon - and don't worry, the gallery is available to everyone. You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, follow us on twitter @gundampodcast, check us out at gundampodcast.com, email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com. Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our

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