Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast

Show Notes This week in the first of our Season 10 extra research episodes, Nina explores the long history of diapers around the world and in Japan to better understand the subtext and significance of Karlmann's cloth diapers. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Bef...

Show Notes A quick update on our work behind the scenes as we prepare for Season 11. 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, and Connecti...

Show Notes Thank you all for your patience and your kind words of sympathy. We're ready to talk about Gundam once again, and this week a question from a listener prompts us to look back at the whole Tomino Era of Gundam, and on that perfect note we end Season 10. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaw...

Show Notes This week we answer most of the outstanding listener questions, ranging from Haro to Hilda Bidan, missed opportunities, Family Guy, Tomino's improvisational writing style, and more! Please listen to it! 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...

Show Notes Part one?? That's right, on this week's episode of MSB we start to answer your many thought-provoking questions about Victory Gundam. From the show's position on the role of women in society to its music to its relationship to Japan's New Religions, this episode has everything! And if everything isn't enough for you, then just wait for next week when we'll be back with even more. Please...

Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 51. After a wild road-to-air-to-space trip that took us from Kasarelia all the way to Kasarelia, we've reached the final stop and we're ready to type up our TripAdvisor reviews. Opinions on Victory's ending seem to vary quite a big, and ours certainly did! Please listen to it! As usual, this week we're focusing on the final episode itself and res...

Show Notes This week, Victory Gundam's penultimate 50th episode! This one has it all: Tragedy! Heroism! Gender! There are shocking twists, heel turns, face turns! And the true audience surrogate is revealed at last! Please listen to it. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before Europea...

Show Notes This week: Victory Episode 49! Nothing says Epic Space War like bikinis! Plus we ask the important questions, like is Haro a misogynist? What does Katejina keep in the trunk of her mobile suit? Is Uso finally over the girl from Uwig? Is the Universal Century actually overpopulated? And who is the League Militaire's highest ranking fujoshi? Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is w...

Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory episode 48, plus... Maria makes things right by making everything worse, Warren gives Elisha exactly the kind of pep talk we'd expect from a thirteen year old boy, Thom is forced to acknowledge thinking some Kagatie-like thoughts, and we break out our cork boards and our red string to tie it all together. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, r...

Show Notes This week on MSB: we're covering Victory episode 47. The Gender of it all is overwhelming, Cronicle underwhelms in truly impressive fashion, Maria has a funny idea of compassion, and Marbet discovers a cool new power up with no sinister implications whatsoever. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded ho...

Show Notes This week on MSB, we're joined by new consultant, and Bible scholar in training, Vivian 'Wheels' Wheeler to talk about the Ophanim, the famous 'wheels within wheels' from the Book of Ezekiel. You can also find Wheels on Bluesky (@singularwheels) or on the podcast Very Random Encounters (www.vre.show)! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ance...

Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 46. Kagatie's sinister plan is finally revealed (It's babies. Of course it's babies) and two characters surprise us by winning our (grudging) support. Plus Marbet's fighting for two, Fuala's fighting for the fun of it, and Uso is fighting for his life. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoki...

Show Notes This week we're talking about Thompson v. White, 149 So.2d 797 (1963). Be sure to read along with us! 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, Pennsylv...

Show Notes This week: Victory Gundam episode 45. It's another(!) recap episode... kind of? We test out some new podcasting technology, the Angel Halo gets its first field test, Queen Maria tells all the kids to pick up their rooms, and Nina researches the healing powers of royal touch. Plus, Voltaire says a very funny thing. That's right, we got Voltaire to come guest on the podcast. Please listen...

Show Notes This week on MSB - it's the research from 10.44: Hope Springs Eternal! This is part four of our series on Yugoslavia and its influence on Victory Gundam, and the second of three research pieces covering World War II in Yugoslavia. This week we follow the Partisans, who led the resistance against the fascist occupation, from the beginning of the uprising through to what may have been the...

Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory episode 44. We've GOT to talk about Shahkti, plus the hard line between children and adults, the Desperation of Maria Pure Armonia, whether we like Victory or not, Gundam relationship any% speedrun, wheels (within wheels) and much more. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded h...

Show Notes Victory Gundam ep. 43 This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 43. We meet a new BESPA character who will surely be around for a long time, talk about comets and their characteristics, wonder whether Fuala Griffon is a Char or some other legacy character back for revenge, and find that our opinions of Uso's after school special dilemma diverge pretty widely. The research this week retur...

Show Notes This week on MSB we're talking about the Victory Gundam episode with a truly goth title: #42 'A Shining Vortex of Fresh Blood.' We discuss Sigmund Freud, weird facts, name and design references, the sour end to Lupe Cineau's improbably long career, what not having kids does to a woman (and how to fix it according to Dr. Uso), and a whole lot about the Zanneck's origins. Plus, Nina and T...

Show Notes This week on MSB, it's Victory Gundam episode 41 and we have so much to say about it. We cover comrades and commanders, Uso's ten dads, Shahkti's burgeoning feelings, the price of pink paint, Karlmann's contribution to the family, the secret nobility of Jinn Jahannam, Zanscarist Dualism, and a conspiracy theory that will turn the whole Universal Century on its head. Please listen to it!...

Show Notes This week on MSB, we're talking about Victory Gundam episode 40. It's got the full Victory package: a cool robot, a bad war, grief, comedy, vertically oriented death, continuity errors, Flanders doing something implausible, and a late night wikipedia binge! Plus, we finally figure out where Newtype powers come from. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and pr...

Show Notes This week on MSB: Uso and the League Militaire crew discover that to BESPA 'ceasefire' means the opposite of what you'd think, as the soldiers of Largaine Base resolve to use up all their ammunition, and every Zolo they've got, in one last desperate attack on the White Ark. Uso deploys a pro-gamer strat using the V2's nigh-miraculous Wings of Light, fish rain from the sky, and friend of...

Show Notes This week on MSB, we're talking about motorcycles, bikes, biking, riding on motorbikes, traveling by bike, touring, voyages conducted primarily via gasoline-powered two-wheeled vehicles and looooooooove. Plus, part 2 of our miniseries on Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav wars that may or may not have inspired this dang show. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and...

Show Notes This week on MSB, it's Victory Gundam episode 37. We talk a lot about life, death, fluids, and another anime you might have heard of before that came out around the same time as Victory. Please listen to it! 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...

Show Notes This week on MSB we're talking about Victory Episode 36. Tune in for tragedy! Comedy! Bullying! Robots! More Cronicle Asher discourse than you'd expect, and a gosh dang wonder of the natural world. Plus, should we cancel beavers? The slideshow we used on this episode is here . Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestra...

Show Notes This week on MSB, we cover Victory Gundam episode 35 'Mother or Shahkti'. We can't even begin to guess what kind of impossible choice will be forced upon Uso! Plus - Flanders is there when you need him (somehow), Karlmann is so inured to weapons he doesn't mind becoming one, and Myra's impossibly good while Shahkti's just impossible. Then in the research, Thom thinks he knows precisely...