Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast

Show Notes This week on MSB, I've got a funny feeling like I've seen all this before... Ready? Go! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware...

Show Notes In this week's Yugoslav History Interlude: the race for Trieste! Yugoslav and British Empire troops converge on the contested city from two directions, existing alliances give way to new contests, and international diplomacy gets uncomfortably close to a game of Finders Keepers / Losers Weepers. Show notes to come, thank you for your patience. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded,...

Show Notes This week on MSB, the final battle between Domon and Master Asia begins at last! Plus: What's love got to do with it? Will Domon make it to the finals on time? Why does the tiara need a V-fin? Was that a horse? Did anyone realize what a good pun they were making? And how do you make a God? Answers to all these questions and many more await you. Ready? Go! Mobile Suit Breakdown is writte...

Show Notes This week on MSB, the greatest trick the Devil Gundam ever pulled was convincing Domon to get mad, get mad, get so mad that it drove him mad. It didn't last long though, thanks to a little help from his buddy Bruder and the memory of rain. Meanwhile, Thom's got a product to sell and Nina is the one talking about fingers for a change. Ready? Go! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded...

Show Notes This week on MSB, it's the final battle between Domon and Master Asia (for real this time we swear, no foolin')! Everyone shows off their skills, Chibodee can't handle his emotions, Nastasha knows how to motivate the boys, Rain and Domon share the childcare, Thom still thinks it's going to be a short episode, and Nina gets cracking on a long overdue research project. Ready? Go! Mobile S...

Show Notes Hello again, welcome back to Mobile Suit Breakdown! This week I have another treat for you, from the MSB vault, this one from the long distant past of Twenty-Twenty-Two. Ever since the Witch from Mercury first aired, Nina and I have been ever-so-gradually producing a Patron-only bonus series about it called The Witching Hour. The first Witching Hour, covering Witch from Mercury's Prolog...

Show Notes This week: we're exhausted from Anime NYC so please enjoy this first episode from our Patron-exclusive bonus series Nina's Revenge! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portio...

Show Notes This week on MSB, could this feeling I'm feeling be the feeling... of friendship? As their support crews head to Neo Hong Kong for the Gundam Fight finals, the boys of the shuffle alliance hang around a little while longer hoping to reconnect with their best bro, inspiring Nina to think deep thoughts about the philosophical side of them martial arts and giving Thom a great idea to save...

Show Notes This week on MSB, in an episode thick with subtext, Domon is the belle of the ball and everyone wants to be on his dance card, George realizes that it's hard to find good help these days, and Raymond faces the greatest foe of all: time. Isn't male friendship nice? Plus stick around after the talkback for a rapid fire reference research rundown as Thom breaks down the new Neo French mobi...

Show Notes This week on MSB, Domon takes a seat on the sidelines while Argo and Sai Saici answer the eternal question: can big guys and little guys be friends? Meanwhile, Schwarz Bruder takes a weird approach to coaching, Rain is feeling inspired, the monks fall from grace, Thom thinks Nastasha should take matters into her own hands, and Nina wants to know what we're doing here of all places. Mobi...

Show Notes On this week's Yugoslav History Interlude, they say that if you want to understand any political event in Europe you have to start with the Romans... and that may well be true for the split between Tito and Stalin. After going through a few of the theories competing to explain the sudden rupture in the apparently cozy relationship between two of Europe's most prominent Communists, we ze...

Show Notes This week on MSB, Rain's bored out of her mind, Domon still can't beat a tree, and Chibodee's struggling to cope with the trauma of DG Cell infection. Meanwhile his team gets back to their roots by indulging in a little software piracy... 90s style. You wouldn't download a Shining Finger, would you? Ready? Go! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking,...

Show Notes This week on MSB: Domon takes our Gundam Boy Evaluation Test and scores off the charts in one metric, Schwarz Bruder remembers the old ways, the Death Army displays unexpected potential, Master Asia finds some new students, Nina has theories, and Thom finds himself on desperate ground. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and uncede...

Show Notes This week on MSB, can Shinjuku survive yet another climactic showdown? Could Domon have ended things right here if hejust had the right attitude? Who is behind the (goofy) mask of Neo German Gundam Fighter Schwarz Bruder? And how might that cloaking device of his actually work? Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homela...

Show Notes In the Interlude this week, does Yugoslavia still matter? Does it still matter for Gundam in 1994? Plus, back in Yugoslavia: Stalin pulls a top ten anime betrayal (which might even be a Top Ten Stalin Betrayal, a much more competitive field), Yugoslavia proves itself a strange kind of beast, Ante Pavelić is more the slippery kind, and this podcast still isn't about Prince Paul. Mobile S...

Show Notes This week on MSB, G Gundam sets an unprecedented pace that would put the Shrikes to shame, Nina raises some interesting questions about the timeline, Thom dishes of scientific facts, and Domon takes a leap of faith. Ready? Go! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before Europe...

Show Notes This week on MSB: your hosts are shocked, dismayed, horrified by a sudden and entirely unexpected betrayal, a beloved Victory Gundam character makes a cameo, Rain reminds us that she's always got the right tool for every scenario, and Domon keeps one eye on the clock. Ready? Go! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homel...

Read transcript Show Notes This week on MSB, Domon walks into the most obvious trap in history and suffers a series of betrayals that will leave you shocked to your core... or they might have if the opening narration hadn't given the whole thing away! What evil lurks behind the mysterious new Mobile Fighter and its Darkness Finger? Nina and Thom are on the case, but first they have to decide wheth...

Show Notes This week on MSB: monarchs hate him! This former locksmith has ten weird tricks to win a crushing landslide election. Number five will amaze you! The fourth of our Yugoslav Interlude episodes sees the Communist Party of Yugoslavia enjoying two impressive electoral achievements separated by 20 years in the political wilderness. Meanwhile, King Peter discovers the limits of royal influenc...

Show Notes This week on MSB, Tokyo is threatened by a menace from the sea! No, not Godzilla. No, not the lost undersea Empire of Mu or a stolen high tech submarine. And no, it's not angels either. It's cyber zombie skeleton horses! But it's not all doom and gloom. Domon finds something he's been missing, Rain gets through a whole episode without being kidnapped, Urube and Dr. Mikamura get what the...

Show Notes This week on MSB, falling rain is like the tears of the gods, bringing blessings to the thirsty earth... but no amount of water can wash away the pain of the past. When a fallen umbrella brings about an unexpected reunion in Istanbul, Rain Mikamura's resolve is tested. Tune in to this very special episode of Mobile Suit Breakdown to hear all about it. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, r...

Show Notes This week on MSB, a specter is haunting Neo Egypt: the specter of com-mummy-nism! Hang on, that doesn't sound right... As the specter of Dahal Muhammad hunts Sai Saichi and memories of the Devil Gundam continue to haunt Domon Kasshu, Thom takes solace in the coolness of the robots while Nina takes the show to task for its clumsy attempts to vary the tone. Then in the research, Nina trac...

Show Notes This week on MSB: the third of our dedicated Yugoslavia episodes! In this installment, we look at two Croatian members of Peter II's royal government, Vladko Maček and Ivan Šubašić, who spent their careers struggling in vain to find a compromise between Serbian ambition and Croatian independence. The war would catapult one to a position of power he never expected and cast the other into...

Show Notes This week on MSB, Gundam Fighters never die they just fade away (in the arms of a beautiful woman). A new Ramba Ral shows Domon the fate of a Fighter (or maybe he's a new Duker Iq trying to revive the lost art of shooting and the guns of the middle ages? It's hard to keep track), a new Hamon Crowley proves Rain isn't the only gadgeteer on the sidelines of the Gundam Fight, Thom sees a r...

Show Notes This week on MSB, we're celebrating 8 episode of G Gundam with a romantic trip to Niagara Falls followed by an extended stay in a cozy log cabin in the Rockies. I just hope we don't run into any scary Canadian bears in woods... Plus stick around for Nina's profile of Seki Tomokazu (関 智一), the newbie Japanese voice actor who got his big break playing Domon Kasshu. Mobile Suit Breakdow...