Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast
A Companion Podcast for All 42 Years of Gundam
Nina & Thom
Show overview
Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast has been publishing since 2018, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 321 episodes, alongside 15 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 320 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence, with the show now in its 11th season.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 54 min and 1h 19m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Leisure show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 32 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2019, with 53 episodes published. Published by Nina & Thom.
From the publisher
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 podcast.
Latest Episodes
View all 321 episodes[Bonus Episode] The Witching Hour: The Witch and the Bride
Bonus Episode: Nina's Revenge - His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
11.21: The Death Army Strikes Back
11.20: His Man Raymond
11.19: Dragons in the Mist
Yugoslav Interlude 6: The Adriatic Question
11.18: Cowardly Tiger, Headstrong Dragon
11.17: The Fist and the Furious: Tokyo Adrift
11.16: The Invisible Fighter
Yugoslav Interlude 5: The Music Stops
11.15: A History of Anti-Violence
11.14: The Darkness Rises
11.13: Big Gundams in Little Shinjuku
Yugoslav Interlude 4: What Rough Beast Slouches Toward the Ballot Box to be Elected?
11.12: Night of the Living Death Army
11.11: Rain's Man
11.10: The Mummy Gundam Returns
Yugoslav Interlude 3: the Questionable Croatians
11.9: London Falling
S11 Ep 811.8: Bon Gundam, Bad Gundam
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 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 Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment. You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to [email protected]. Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, the recap music Window by 1000 Handz, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, all licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it. Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to [email protected]