Mechanista in G

I think this is our first machine accessible exclusively through a super meter! Splatoon 3's Crab Tank hints at a larger scale than is accurate- this is a still a game of squid kids with super soakers, not Battlefield 1942. Given at least one piece of concept art we saw today, I wonder if there was an intention for Splatoon 3 to be more ambitious, and have a larger scale of conflict than its prede...

I love the spectrum of ace customs. So you have your Gundam, your absolute ace machine. Then you have your GM, a rank and file grunt machine. What about an officer? Give them a GM Command. A veteran sergeant? Consider a GM Striker. Hotshot with potential fresh out of the academy, maybe a GM Sniper. A proven ace, but not a phenomenon like Amuro? Enter the G-Line. You always need the right tool for...

This isn't the first time we've covered a mobile suit created for a fighting game, but it never ceases to be fascinating! The Dolmel is a friend that was locked in obscurity for ages, a pet favorite of many who know more about Gundam than a human should. Then it was very recently added to GBO2, and its popularity is surging. Don't accuse the listener who requested it of being a bandwagoner, though...

If I were you I wouldn't look at the Units Discussed. Though I suppose if you click the Google Drive folder you'll see the Plot Twist in this ep anyway. Well regardless, I make Dylan distressed and it's very fun for me. Here is a Google Drive folder of images we reference that cannot be found on the Gundam Wiki. For some reason. Falling down on the job if you ask me. If you want to find us on Twit...

I guess that just leaves the Astraea as our only remaining Cursed Episode! The (short-lived) red and blue oni of Oz are here, some of the most underappreciated designs in a chronically underappreciated show. Also an episode on a kit in my backlog! Those ones always make me feel a bit guilty. Here is a link to a folder with the images we reference on this episode that can't be easily found on the G...

Mobile Workers doin mobile WORK. Actually why don't we get more examples of Mobile Workers getting converted or modified into combat machines? I guess why do that when you can just have your top of the line ace custom fine tuned psycho frame minovsky craft artisinal fuggin machine hand delivered by Anaheim Electronics. these rich kids.... If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot a...

Yarrrr! It's time to sail the sea of stars! Partially! In truth, there are like a billion Crossbone Gundams, and we're taking only a small subsection of them on today. But also I value my sanity, and these machines are like... mostly cool with mega cringe elements! So let's just get started. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar . Our opening theme is the...

I am guessing most of you are here saying "what's Metatron?" Or if you're a pedant like me, "what's Metatron in this context, because this probably isn't LITERALLY a Hebrew myth thing?" Well, sit down for a spell, and let me tell you about Gaia Gear, the Gundam story that time forgot. Here is a link to a folder of images we reference, some of which aren't on the Gundam Wiki. Some are, but to be ho...

A classic tuner, a street superstar. The Honda Civic. The car that put Honda on the map, a spark that became a raging inferno. A dope lil car. Also? Kei cars. Kei trucks! Kei vans. Dylan mispronouncing "Acura" endlessly. Boy, we got it all this week. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar . Our opening theme is the Hangar Theme from Gundam Breaker 3, and o...

After redoing a lot of FFXIV content with my UI turned off, I am proud to present this episode we've had on ice until I was able to present all the reference material I wanted to. The Sorrow of Werlyt questline in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers features a bunch of designs and fights inspired by the Weapons of Final Fantasy VII, the mobile suits of Gundam, and more mecha anime besides. Please en...

Sometimes, you don't wanna be reasonable. You just want... more beams. More guns. Mittens, that are also beams. Chest vents that haha gotcha, those aren't chest vents they're beaaaaaams ! The Geymalk don't give a dang, and neither should you. Friend. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar . Our opening theme is the Hangar Theme from Gundam Breaker 3, and o...

So the Gundam Wiki- hey yeah complaining about the Gundam Wiki again, welcome- the Gundam Wiki says that the Virgo zodiac sign means "Virgin." Wait, I mean that part's just factually true. I placed the emphasis wrong. That's a fact. But then the wiki goes on to say that the Virgo is PROBABLY named such because "it doesn't need a human pilot in order to function." Which is virginal I guess??? No da...

If I have one nice thing to say about the Seed sequel movie they keep threatening us with, it's that I wouldn't mind seeing a successor to the Destiny Gundam. Jobbed in its own show, its pilot mistreated and its purpose abused, like much of the Seed duology the Destiny Gundam is better on paper than in its own work. But you know, paper? Pretty dope. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @low...

Man, do these guys ever Virtual-OFF?! With another Monophonic request, we're now firmly in Segata Sanshiro's grasp as we head into the arena-fighting world of Virtual-On with its Ryu, its Grandpa, its Master Chief (how many people can I make annoyed with these comparisons...), it's the Temjin! This guy? Ok. Not my fav of the Virtuaroids, but it's alright. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan i...

The Planet has had it up to here with your GARBAGE. It has made weapons to destroy you. We'll call them Weapons, just to be creative. We definitely bit off more than we could chew with this one, so we'll have to revisit this in a second part- we finish the FFVII ones, but Final Fantasy just loves to reference itself, doesn't it.... Since there is a lack of reference material out there, here is a f...

Truly, the Turn X belongs in that tier of endgame rival suit that just can't be further improved. The Sazabi, the Sinanju, the... dang, there are fewer of these than I thought! Like, no way am I calling the Epyon this, or the Ribbons Gundam, or something. A cool design that I don't think you could make look cooler without fundamentally changing it, and that has every tool it could need? It's those...

I haven't seen the new Top Gun movie, but I imagine it's basically like the Instructor Noin plotline in early Wing. Jet fighter design and mobile suit design unite in the Aries, a fragile friend that never does anything but get jobbed. Even the Leo gets a better showing. Well, that's just fine- I'm going to play G Generation Cross Rays and put Trowa in the Aries Custom and- wait WHAT, NOOOOO! japa...

So, your coworker comes to you. Her idiot boyfriend wants to borrow your project. You know, the one you've been working on for years? The one that makes HER projects look kinda shitty in comparison? Her primary machine can't even operate in space without further modification, what's up with that?! Anyway this overgrown child has some stupid feud to settle, and he wants to use your magnum opus to d...

The bright spot in talking about Gundam Seed is that at least the robots are cool. EXCEPT TODAY! Today there is no bright spot, no silver lining, no upside. We're here to talk about a machine that sucks with weapons that suck piloted by a character that sucks during a part of the show that sucks! I hate it here!!! Here is that Deus Ex video , and here is a folder of fake Vampire The Masquerade Blo...

Sometimes, size is a virtue. We've seen our Full Armor Gundams, our Super Gundams, Chobham Armor and our Igelstellung packs. Virtue ain't need none of that. Virtue bigh. And when they get around to doing a Gundam Devise Virtue? You're gonna see some series s... stuff. Sorry I just remembered we have younger listeners. So I shouldn't write that other word. also the Devise Virtue might be underwhelm...

No no, not the Devil Gundam... though there's evil hidden in this thing's interior. We don't get a lot of variants because it's Reconguista in G, but this Ippei Gyoubu friend still has plenty to discuss. I do this on the ep, but I'll urge you again to look at Ippei Gyoubu's art for the G-Lucifer instead of the production art- the details he adds make such a huge difference! If you want to find us...

You may get the impression from the first episode of Turn A that the FLAT is a non-military mobile suit. This is... incorrect! This Syd Mead friend is ready to fight, and at least to me feels the most Syd Mead of all his Turn A designs. Plus, we get to talk about futurism in mobile suit design, and Destiny armor! A little. We do reference a handful of images during our futurism discussion that are...

The dice can sit this one out- it's time to talk about the F91, whether my purple d10 and d4 want us to or not. The chest vents. The VSBRs. The after-images. And the legacy it left, as marking a new era of design for Gundam's most prolific mecha design, Kunio Okawara. It may not be a racing mecha, but it's a winning Formula all the same. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot an...

Do you have any idea how many pages back I had to tab to find the last Mechanista episode on Iron-Blooded Orphans? It's been a WHILE! But then, it's also been a while since listener spongeycloud requested this friend! What starts out as a pretty meh design then goes quadrupedal, and that's only the start of the party. Comin' at you with another Gundam Frame, let's talk about the Kimaris. If you wa...

A Hizack for a new generation, a Zaku with Federation design elements! I mean, not really. It's a Sazabi with some Geara Doga, a surprising but small dash of Sinanju, maybe some Powered GM in there, a lil Kampfer. But still! Like a lot of Titans suits, it's Zeon Minus Zeon. And that is a triumph. Not because I dislike Zeon, just, I like some Federation design elements being added, i like what it d...