Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 9 - "A New Bond" (新しい絆), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on autism - it's history in Japan and the world, the understanding and perception of autism in 1985, and what exactly Kamille and the writers mean when Kamille calls himself an "autistic child." PLUS - additional nuance to the word 絆 (kizuna) from the episode title. - - Jisho.org page on jiheishou/自閉症. - A very readable history of autism science. - Web page of the Autism Society Japan (Japanese). - Autism Society Japan forum thread discussing Kamille's autism / Tomino's use of autism generally (Japanese). - Bruno Bettelheim Wikipedia page. - "Refrigerator mother" theory. - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) page on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). - Entry from the Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders on "Japan and Autism": Kurita, Hiroshi. “Japan and Autism.” Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PU, 2019, pp. 1–6. - Excellent overview of the history of the autism diagnosis, and the development of the concept of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). - Article from the Tokyo Autism Society webpage on "What is Asperger's syndrome?"/「アスペルガー症候群を知っていますか？」 Addresses behaviors and common misconceptions. (webpage is mostly in Japanese but this article is in English) - Example of 1980's epidemiological autism research: “Epidemiology of infantile autism in southern Ibaraki, Japan: Differences in prevalence in birth cohorts” Tanoue, Y., Oda, S., Asano, F. et al. J Autism Dev Disord (1988) 18: 155. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02211943 - Japanese Wikipedia page about autism (specifically addresses common misconceptions and historical controversies in Japan ). - Spectrum News article about Lorna Wing, the autism researcher who proposed ASD (autism spectrum disorder) as a model. - Japanese Wikipedia page for 絆 (kizuna). - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 8 - "The Dark Side of the Moon" (月の裏側), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on a very important birthday: coming of age in Japan, answering services and the history of the answering machine, what’s a Lila to a Jerid? Master/disciple relationships, and McDonald’s in Japan. - - Wikipedia pages for Seijin no Hi and Genpuku. - VERY detailed Quora page about all the different categories of 'juvenile' in Japanese law. - List of all the Japan Times articles in English about Seijin no Hi. - A nice description of Seijin no Hi around Japan, with pictures. - Book covering samurai-class life during the late 1500s, including description of genpuku at that time: Anthony J. Bryant, Samurai: 1550-1600, Bloomsbury Pub. (2013) - Book about the practice of giving new names upon coming of age, which also explains that the genpuku practice was discouraged by the Meiji reformers in part because of efforts to westernize the Japanese name system: Herbert E. Plutschow, Japan's Name Culture: The Significance of Names in a Religious, Political and Social Context, Psychology Press (1995). - Wikipedia page about the answering machine. - Photos and information about the Phone-Mate answering machine, first released in 1971. - Article from The New York Times, 1973, discussing contemporary use of answering machines: Walker, Greta. “Machines That Answer the Telephone.” The New York Times, 10 June 1973, p. 294. - Source for adjusting dollar prices for inflation. - Jisho.org entry for shishou (師弟). - Japanese Wikipedia entry for master-disciple relationship. - Quora page on the difference between sensei and shishou. - Paper explaining the iemoto system, a larger structure for preserving and teaching traditional arts within which the master-disciple relationship functions. - Paper about the role of elders in traditional Japanese arts, including discussion of the master-disciple relationship. - Book discussing different methodologies for passing on knowledge in Japan in different fields, including master-disciple relationships: John Singleton, John Seely Brown, Roy Pea, Learning in Likely Places: Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan, Cambridge UP (1998) - Wikipedia page with a description of master-disciple relationships. - A book about Reiki which includes an excellent description of the master-disciple relationship. The author's mother was a disciple of Tadao Yamaguchi: Light on the Origins of Reiki: A Handbook for Practicing the Original Reiki of Usui and Hayashi, Lotus Press (2007). - Wikipedia Page for Den Fujita (藤田田) in English and in Japanese, and an article about him in the Japan Times from when he passed away. - Timeline of the history McDonald’s Holdings Japan. - Brief history of McDonald’s international expansion, from Time Magazine. - Article about Japan’s first McDonald’s, from a Ginza tourism website. - Analysis of McDonald’s in Japan as indicative of globalization/how American products are adapted to foreign markets but also change those markets. - Article about how McDonald's changed Japanese food-etiquette: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. 1997. “McDonald’s in Japan: Changing Manners and Etiquette”. Pp. 161-182 in Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia, edited by J.L. Watson. California: Stanford University Press. https://www.academia.edu/1188363/McDonalds_in_Japan_Changing_manners_and_etiquette - On Japanese fast-food. - What is a “family restaurant” and how do you eat at one? - History of family restaurants and discussion of recent market trends affecting them. - Hamburgers in Japan. - MOS Burger Wikipedia pages in English and in Japanese. - Art Institute of Chicago page about the painting in Char's apartment - Woman at the Piano, by Renoir. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. 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 Breakd

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 7 - “Escape From Side One" (サイド1の脱出), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on chemical weapons, sudden enlightenment, and the bosun's/boatswain's call. - - Article about Marvel Movies in Japan, and the prevalence of child and teen protagonists in popular Japanese media (even media targeted at adults). - Wikipedia pages on chemical warfare, nerve agents, and sulfur mustard. - Britannica page on nerve agents. - The Arms Control Association's FAQ page on chemical weapons. - Wikipedia pages on the Aum Shinrikyo subway sarin attack, and the Aim Shinrikyo leader - Shoko Asahara. - Article about Aum Shinrikyo as a New New Religion: SHIMAZONO Susumu, In the Wake of Aum, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 1995 22/3–4 http://enlight.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-MAG/mag52022.pdf - The Red Army's use of chemical weapons to suppress a populist peasant revolt. - Wikipedia pages on Iraq's use of chemical weapons, their chemical weapons program, and their chemical attacks against Iran. - Japanese use of chemical weapons in China, and specifically in the Battle of Changde. - International press reports about chemical weapons in the 1980s: U.S. AIDES SAY IRAQIS MADE USE OF A NERVE GAS By SEYMOUR M. HERSH and SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES MARCH 30, 1984, https://nyti.ms/2LXNHno THE WORLD; Evidence Mounts on Iraqi Use Of Gas Weapons By HENRY GINIGER and MILT FREUDENHEIM APRIL 1, 1984, https://nyti.ms/2M0fMKP Chemical Weapons Out Of the Bottle Once Again By A.O. SULZBERGER JR. SEPT. 21, 1980, https://nyti.ms/2M2IpHx - Wikipedia pages on subitism and the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism. - The English translation of Bhagavan recounting his death-experience and sudden self-realization, and his Wikipedia page. And, the Wiki for moksha. - English-translated text of the portion of the Lotus Sutra in which Longnü/Dragon Girl appears, as well as an explanation of Bodhisattva to whom Longnü was acolyte. - Wikipedia pages for Longnü and for Avalokiteśvara/Guanyin/Kannon. - PDF with history of the the boatswain’s call, and instructions of how to play (with common calls notated). - Wikipedia page on the boatswain’s call (with list of common calls and their meanings, and links to audio). - Sources for the story of Atalanta: Greek-Gods.org, Theoi Greek Mythology, Britannica, and Wikipedia. - The song in the Lila tribute is "The Vendetta" by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/58628 Ft: Apoxode. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 6 - “To Earth” (地球圏へ), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), the Naikan therapeutic practice and the Ajase Complex, and space-based solar power. - - From the Smithsonian Magazine, an article about Assyrian soldiers might have had PTSD. - The Wikipedia page for C-PTSD. - Articles from Medical News Today and the US Department of Veterans Affairs on C-PTSD. - Our main source, and one of the most important recent books on trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, (New York: Penguin, 2014). - Definition of Ajase Complex from Encyclopedia.com. - Wikipedia page on Naikan and the definition of Naikan from the North American Naikan Council. - Paper on the Ajase Complex and Naikan: Chikako Ozawa-de Silva. “Demystifying Japanese Therapy: An Analysis of Naikan and the Ajase Complex through Buddhist Thought.” Ethos, vol. 35, no. 4, 2007, pp. 411–446. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4497922. - Wikipedia page on space-based solar power, and a brief description of the technology involved from the US Department of Energy. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 5 “Father and Son” (父と子と), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on parenting in Japan in the 1970s and 80s, a Cat Stevens song, angry ghosts, and posessed crabs. - - Articles on parenting, that give some historical insight and analysis of more recent attitudes and trends: Holloway, Susan & Nagase, Ayumi. (2014). Child Rearing in Japan. 10.1007/978-94-007-7503-9_6. The Japanese Family, Anne E. lmamura For Video Letter from Japan II: A Young Family. Asia Society (1990): 7-17. - Youtube link for the Cat Stevens song "Father and Son" with original music video. - Wikipedia page for the Cat Stevens song "Father and Son," and for the Japan-exclusive live album "Saturnight," which came out in 1974. - Articles about ghosts in Japanese tradition generally: Yurei: Japanese Ghosts, Yūrei: the Ghosts of Japan, Ghosts on the shore, Ghosts, Demons and Spirits in Japanese Lore, and Ghosts in Ancient Japan. - Funerary practices in American communities of Japanese descent. - Modern changes to the funerary practices. - Wikipedia pages on Japanese funerals, Yūrei (ghosts), and Onryō (vengeful spirits). - Two stories about the crab ghosts, and a photograph of one of the crabs (see if you can spot the face-like markings!). - Two versions of the Story of Hoichi. - Other stories about the Taira ghosts that didn't make it into the podcast: Ghosts of the Taira: The Relationship Between The Wars of The Gempei and the Warrior Ghost Noh Dramas Haunted at Sea: The Tale of Yoshitsune and the Taira Ghosts - Stories of Kronos/Cronus/Saturn and Ouranous/Uranus/Caelus. - The music from the memorial is: Caribdis by @nop (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Brave New World by RavenWing (c) copyright 2014 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 4 “Emma's Decision” (エマの脱走), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on manly tears, masculinity and emotion, and defectors. - - Articles! "The Heike monogatari and The Japanese Warrior Ethic" Kenneth Dean Butler Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 29 (1969), pp. 93-108 Published by: Harvard-Yenching Institute https://www.jstor.org/stable/2718829 "The Return of Kū? Re-membering Hawaiian Masculinity, Warriorhood, and Nation" TY P. KĀWIKA TENGAN from "Performing Indigeneity" edited by: Laura R. Graham, H. Glenn Penny Published by: University of Nebraska Press. (2014) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1d9nmw6.12 "Recreating Japanese Men" SABINE FRÜHSTÜCK, ANNE WALTHALL Published by: University of California Press. (2011) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppdhr "Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II" T. Fujitani Published by: University of California Press. (2011) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnjtg.15 "The Gender of Nationalism: Competing Masculinities in Meiji Japan" Jason G. Karlin The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter, 2002), pp. 41-77 Published by: The Society for Japanese Studies https://www.jstor.org/stable/4126775 "The Function of Ritual Weeping Revisited: Affective Expression and Moral Discourse" Gary L. Ebersole History of Religions, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Feb., 2000), pp. 211-246 Published by: The University of Chicago Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/3176418 "Whatever happened to the noble art of the manly weep?" Samantha Newman - Wikipedia pages on toxic masculinity, sensibility (aka feelings), and the Ansei Treaties. - Dictionary.com definition of “defection.” - Olympics controversies, by year and Wikipedia page about András Törő, one of the 1964 Olympics defectors. - NY Times article about defectors at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. - Great article about Yuri Rastvorov and his CIA handler, Fred Kovaleski, written by Kovaleski’s son for the Washington Post. - FBI Monograph “Soviet Defectors” - discusses commonalities among 20 defectors, plus biographical information on each of them. - Wikipedia pages for Viktor Belenko and Stanislav Levchenko. The Belenko page links to some great primary sources (State Department and CIA documents). - From the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, a book on counterintelligence, from the 1950s through the 2000s. Lists information about specific defectors, including Yuri Rostvorov. - 1976 Article from the Glasgow Herald about soldier Gerard Burns’ court martial and sentencing. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 3 “Inside the Capsule” (カプセルの中), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on shihei (私兵) and private armies, the British East India Company, and Japanese composer Shigeaki Saegusa (三枝 成彰, formerly 三枝 成章). - - Jisho.org page for 私兵 (shihei). - Japanese Wikipedia page for 民兵 (minpei), usually translated as "militia" but actually broader than the English sense of that word. Includes shihei and 軍閥 (gunbatsu). - The early history of the British East India Company (BEIC) (brief). - Wikipedia page on the BEIC. - Wikipedia page on the BEIC's rule in India. - Wikipedia page on the BEIC's private army. *- Wikipedia page on the 1857 rebellion. *- Wikipedia page on Sepoys. - Articles regarding the BEIC's private army: Irfan Habib, The Coming of 1857, Social Scientist, Vol. 26, No. 1/4 (Jan. - Apr., 1998), pp. 6-15, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3517577 "Origins of the British East India Company Army" by Hamid Hussain Gilbert, A. (1975). Recruitment and Reform in the East India Company Army, 1760-1800. Journal of British Studies, 15(1), 89-111. https://doi.org/10.1086/385680 Innes, Percival Robert. The history of the Bengal European regiment : now the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and how it helped to win India (London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1885) https://archive.org/details/historyofbengale00innerich (this one is Imperialist hagiography of the standard Rah Rah Glory!! sort, but it's also quite detailed and available in full text from archive.org) Kiernan, V.G., Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960 (McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1998) - A breakdown of the regiments in each of the Presidency Armies. - Japanese Wikipedia page for composer Shigeaki Saegusa (三枝 成彰, formerly 三枝 成章). - Shigeaki Saegusa’s webpage (Japanese). - Business information for May Corporation. - Japanese TV site “Bangumi” page for Shigeaki Saegusa. - Japanese Wikipedia page for TV program NHK Nodo Jiman. - Blog post discussing Shigeaki Saegusa’s involvement with the Gundam franchise. - The 2006 Asahi Shinbun article I discuss, with Mariko Hayashi (novelist) interviewing Shigeaki Saegusa. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 2 “Departure” (旅立ち), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on bird lime, colonialism, Herculine Barbin, and the name Camille/Kamille. - - Wikipedia pages the Black Devils, high-explosive squash head (an explosive similar to the sticky bomb, with explanation of how it functions when used against tank armor), birdlime, and sticky bombs. - "BIRD LIMES AND RAT GLUES—STICKY SITUATIONS," by William D. Fitzwater (February 1982), presented at the Tenth Vertebrate Pest Conference. - Discussion of traditional birdlime preparations that supposedly used mistletoe. - Colonialism from a philosophical perspective: Kohn, Margaret and Reddy, Kavita, "Colonialism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/colonialism/. - List of types/motivations of colonialism: Shoemaker, Nancy. “A Typology of Colonialism.” Perspectives on History, 1 Oct. 2015. - Paper on the stages of colonialism in Africa, and my main source on colonialism as a source of contested reality and memory: Bulhan, Hussein A.. "Stages of Colonialism in Africa: From Occupation of Land to Occupation of Being." Journal of Social and Political Psychology [Online], 3.1 (2015): 239-256. Web. 15 Jun. 2019 *- Essay, "The Colonization of Africa," by Ehiedu E. G. Iweriebor of Hunter College. Part of the New York Public Library's project "Africana Age: African and African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century." - Some specifics about colonial policing: Robert T. Sigler & David J. King (1992) Colonial policing and control of movements for independence, Policing and Society, 3:1, 13-22, DOI: 10.1080/10439463.1992.9964654 - Wikipedia pages on Herculine Barbin and her memoir. - And Wikipedia pages on Prince's cancelled concept album, Camille, "A Mouthful of Birds" (a play that includes Herculine Barbin as a central character), and "The Mystery of Alexina" (1985 French movie about Herculine's life). - "In Honor of Herculine Barbin: November 8th, Intersex Day of Solidarity & Remembrance" by intersex rights activist and speaker Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez. - Michel Foucault's introduction to the memoirs of Herculine Barbin, published in 1980, by Pantheon. - Thom also referenced "Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite," Foucault and Barbin, trans. Richard McDougall, 1980 (New York: Pantheon). - You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! Become a Patron to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 1 “The Black Gundam” (黒いガンダム), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on animation history and technology in the early 80s, and Neil Sedaka and Zeta - transcending copyright. - - Fantastic, global history of animation: Bendazzi, Giannalberto. Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation. Indiana University Press, 2009. - Wikipedia timeline of computer animation in film and TV, and history of computer animation in the 1970s and 80s. - Wikipedia pages explaining the difference between computer-assisted animation and computer-generated animation, and the use of computers in traditional animation. - Description and history of Antics 2d animation software. - Explanation of vector graphics. - Paper describing what it was like to program with punchcards. - TV Tropes page on merchandise driven programs. - 1950s TV ads for Hasbro's Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head and Mattel's Burp Gun (cap gun). - How Stuff Works page on the first TV cartoon made for a pre-existing toy - Hot Wheels (this show contributed to later regulation on these kinds of programs). - Article about the regulation (and de-regulation) of children's TV programming, and an article from the NYTimes, 1988, about Reagan's veto of a congressional measure to re-introduce regulations. - NHK paper (in English) on history and trends in children's TV programming in Japan and a few international markets. - Copyright Research and Information Center (a Japanese organization)'s very readable English-language explanation of Japanese copyright. - COPYRIGHT SYSTEM IN JAPAN, by Japan Copyright Office (JCO), Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan - published by Copyright Research and Information Center. - JASRAC's own explanation of its services. - Explanation of the differences between JASRAC and US Performing Rights Organizations with regard to synchronization rights, written by a Japanese-born, US-based artist and music producer. - FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS in JAPANESE AND AMERICAN COPYRIGHT LAW by Dennis S. Karjala and Keiji Sugiyama. - Thom's law-school copyright textbook: Robert A. Gorman and Jane C. Ginsburg, Copyright, 7th Ed., Foundation Press (2006). - Wikipedia pages on copyright collectives, synchronization rights, and music licensing. - Wikipedia page for Neil Sedaka, and Gundam fandom-wiki pages for the songs "Z - Toki wo Koete" (Z・刻をこえて / Zeta - Transcending Times), "Hoshi e Ai wo Komete" (水の星へ愛をこめて / From the Aqueous Star with Love), and "Hoshizora no Believe" (星空のBelieve / Believe in the Starry Sky). - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we lay the groundwork for our upcoming review and analysis of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam! We also recap the first series, Mobile Suit Gundam, for any new listeners who need a refresher. We research the first half of the 1980s in Japan and the world - from politics and economics to technology and fashion, and look into why, several years after the success of the Mobile Suit Gundam compilation movies, the stars aligned to get Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam into production. - - 1980s timeline from National Geographic. - Wikipedia pages for the 1980s and the 1980s in Japan. - Wikipedia page on the Cold War - Photos and descriptions of trends in Japanese Fashion in the 1980s. - Description of photographs of "Yokohama Traditional" or "Ivy League" style. - A history of Daicon Films, including their ambition to make a series of MS-V OVAs. - A brief history of the Transformers toy brand and how it came to dominate the toy industry in the mid 80s. - A history of Takatoku toys and their incredible transforming Macross figures. - Timeline of gunpla in the early 80s, including MS-V. - Yasuhiko talks about how he didn't want to make Zeta Gundam. - Nagano Mamoru (Zeta mecha designer) talks about how frustrated Okawara and Yasuhiko were to be working on Zeta Gundam. - Tomino talks about his struggles in the years after First Gundam. - Tomino talks with Nagano about how his psychosomatic disorder caused difficulties for him while working on Zeta Gundam. - 2002-era Tomino talks about how he didn't want to make Zeta and still thinks he shouldn't have. - When Gundam Came to Hollywood. - The actual draft script for the could-have-been Hollywood Gundam movie. - Now-former Bandai president Yamashina Makoto's Japanese wikipedia page. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week we discuss the third and final Mobile Suit Gundam compilation movie, titled: Encounters in Space. We continue to ask: is it a good movie? Does it make sense if you haven't seen the show? Gundam noob and friend of the podcast, Angela, returns to help us to answer these questions! We also pick apart the differences in story, sound, and animation between the show and the movie, talk about the real actual battleship Yamato, and how Indian religions influenced New Age philosophy. - - Relative production of warships by the US and Japan during World War II. - Hiromi Mizuno's "When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desires in Anime" examines - among other things, the nationalist fantasy of Space Battleship Yamato and how the original Yamato contributes to it. From: Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire, edited by Frenchy Lunning. University of Minnesota Press, 2007. - Supposedly the most complete and readable history book about the fate of the Yamato, but we did not have time to review it in time for this episode: A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945, by Russell Spurr, Newmarket Press, 1981. - Wikipedia pages on the Second London Naval Treaty, the sinking of the ships Prince of Wales and Repulse, and Operation Ten-Go. - Wikipedia pages on the battleship Yamato, and aircraft carrier Shinano (the third of the Yamato class was converted into a not-very-good air craft carrier once it was clear how useless the first two ships were). - And the Wikipedia page on the Washington Naval Treaty. - Our main source on how Hinduism influenced the "New Age" movement in the 1970s was the following book: Goldberg, Philip. American Veda: from Emerson to the Beatles to Yoga to Meditation: How Indian Spirituality Changed the West. Harmony, 2010. - Wikipedia pages on the "New Age" movement, the Human Potential Movement, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Transcendental Meditation, the Beatles trip to India, and what is now called the Beatles Ashram. - Box office information for the Gundam compilation movies. - The poem is "The War in the Air" by Howard Nemerov. - The song played with the poem is "The Stars Look Different (Ziggy Stardust Mix)" by spinningmerkaba (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week we discuss the second Mobile Suit Gundam compilation movie, titled: Soldiers of Sorrow. We continue to ask: is it a good movie? Does it make sense if you haven't seen the show? Gundam noob and friend of the podcast, Angela, returns to help us to answer these questions! We also pick apart the differences in story, sound, and animation between the show and the movie, talk about calendars and the possible significance of the Universal Century year-counting system, and discuss possible sources for some of Gundam's odd character names. - - Resources on history and bases for major calendar systems: Calendars by L. E. Doggett, Reprinted from the Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, P. Kenneth Seidelmann, editor, with permission from University Science Books, Sausalito, CA 94965. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/calendars.html Richards, E G. “Calendars.” Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, by Sean E. Urban and P. Kenneth. Seidelmann, University Science Books, 2013, pp. 585–624. https://aa.usno.navy.mil/publications/docs/c15_usb_online.pdf - Wikipedia page on “Common Era.” - The origin of the Gregorian Calendar and the terms BC and AD. - Tomino confirms he only found out about Amuro island after Gundam aired. - Article on how to read the Roman alphabet in Japanese. - 羅馬字書方調査報告 (Rōmaji Kakikata Chōsa Hōkoku, Report on the Writing of Roman Letters) - an official 1900 publication on proper pronunciation of Roman alphabet in Japanese. - Monument dedicated to 30 pilots from one 'Ryusei' dive bomber squadron who died in kamikaze attacks in July and August 1945. - Article describing the 'Ryusei' as the largest and heaviest carrier plane deployed by Japan during the war. - Wikipedia page for pop-star Namie Amuro (no relation). - Wikipedia pages for the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, the Kawanishi N1k/Shiden and Shiden Kai, the Nakajima Ki-84/Hayate, the Aichi B7A/Ryusei, the Nakajima Kikka, and the Aichi M6A/Seiran. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week we discuss the first of the Mobile Suit Gundam compilation movies, titled: Mobile Suit Gundam. Is it a good movie? Does it make sense if you haven't seen the show? Gundam noob and friend of the podcast, Angela, joins us to answer these questions! We also pick apart the differences in story, sound, and animation between the show and the movie, research a possible influence/inspiration for Kikka, Katz, and Letz, summarize the Gundam 40th Anniversary documentary from NHK, and speculate about the "demon" Gouf. Special thanks to this week's guest: Angela - Cosplayer, and anime-fan. Instagram: @thegirlmadeofjade - - The English-language translation of the Gundam 40th-Anniversary documentary by NHK is from idango (Twitter: @wantstobeapanda), on their wordpress - [Cries in Newtype]. We are very grateful for their translation work! - Definition of "katzenjammer." - Wikipedia pages for Katzenjammer Kids and Max and Moritz. - Time Magazine's list of the 10 longest-running comic strips (of which Katzenjammer Kids is one). - Katzenjammer Kids pages on Toonpedia, Encyclopedia.com, and TV Tropes. - Max and Moritz in English with illustrations. - Digital copy of the Wampaku Monogatari (Japanese translation of Max and Moritz). - Wikipedia page on Kitazawa Rakuten (北澤 楽天), sometimes described as the founding father of modern manga. - Overview of the early origins of Japanese comics, with a section on Kitazawa Rakuten that mentions the influence of Katzenjammer Kids. - Book on traits of the Oni, historical depictions, and evolution from cannibal monsters to kawaii mascots: Noriko Reider, Japanese Demon Lore: Oni from Ancient Times to the Present, University Press of Colorado, Sep 30, 2010 (Reider's book is an expansion of her essay. - Story of the Red Oni and Blue Oni: Hamada Hirosuke, 泣いた赤鬼 Naita Akaoni (1933) - Kanamuchi's (鉄鞭) potential Chinese ancestry: Don Cunningham, Taiho-Jutsu: Law and Order in the Age of the Samurai, Tuttle Publishing, Feb 14, 2012. - Kanamuchi's design and role in non-lethal work: Don Cunningham, Samurai Weapons: Tools of the Warrior, Tuttle Publishing, Aug 21, 2012 - Forum thread on kanamuchi. - Historical photographs depicting kanamuchi: image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4, image 5. - Wikipedia pages on Oni, Edo Period police, kanabō (金棒), and kanamuchi. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week we discuss implications for the future of Gundam, special guest Edward Bauer reviews the original voice-work and the dub, listener Renato Ramonda helps us understand why Italy was the first foreign country to air Gundam, and flyinggrizzly digs deep on the art that inspired the Zaku. Special thanks to this week's guest voices: Edward Bauer: Actor, voice actor, and friend of the podcast. Web: http://www.edward-bauer.com, Twitter: @not_eddiebauer flying_grizzly (Sean DMR): Tabletop game person, Gundam fan, and friend of the podcast. Web: https://www.flyinggrizzly.net, Twitter: @flying_grizzly - - flying grizzly's full paper: "The Zaku's Design Origins." I won't re-list it here, but the article has an extensive bibliography that you should check out! - Relevant Wikipedia pages on o-yoroi (the early Japanese armor) and Thorvald Eiriksson (whom Thom mentions briefly, as an example of the deadliness of an arrow strike to the armpit). - Fantastic overview of the tate and te-date shields over time, with illustrations and sources. - Images of various designs of sode armor, including some o-sode plates. - Book covering the design and function of the o-yoroi armor: William E. Deal, Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan, Oxford UP, 2007 - Images demonstrating how a set of o-yoroi armor looked on a soldier. - Brief overview of the evolution of Japanese arms and armor from 300CE to the 1500s. - A brief overview from the BBC of how medieval-era Japanese warfare functioned. - A list of a few anime set in Italy. - The one article in English I found about anime in Italy: Pellitteri, M. (2014), ‘The Italian anime boom: The outstanding success of Japanese animation in Italy, 1978-1984’, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 2: 3, pp. 363–381, doi: 10.1386/jicms.2.3.363_1 - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we discuss the Mobile Suit Gundam series as a whole: what do we think of the ending? Do we think the story as a whole is well done? Did the shortened series hurt them? Who were our favorite characters? We bring in special guest Sean Michael Chin to break down the trajectory of the Amuro/Char rivalry, viewed through their fights. And we talk about "Yakeato Sedai" or "The Generation of Ashes," and how their artistic output and political activism likely influenced Gundam and its creators. - - Book of Academic Essays on Yakeato: Rosenbaum, Roman, and Yasuko Claremont. Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: the Yakeato Generation. Routledge, 2015. - Wikipedia pages on the three Yakeato I talk about in this episode: Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂 昭如), Kenzaburo Oe (大江 健三郎), and Makoto Oda (小田 実). - Wiki page on Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓 Hotaru no Haka) (the short story, not the film). - Nosaka’s obituary in the Independent (he passed away in 2016). - Kenzaburo Oe’s biography from when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. - Paris Review biography and interview with Kenzaburo Oe. - Wikipedia page for composer Hikari Oe. - Article from Time Asia about Makoto Oda. - Makoto Oda’s obituary in The Sunday Times (he died in 2007). - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 42/41 “Space Fortress A Baoa Qu” (宇宙要塞ア·バオア·クー) and 43/42 “Escape” (脱出), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: some Japanese vocab, what the heck is an A Bao A Qu?, the Kyūjō Incident, and how Kai made Thom think of the Illiad. - - Myou/みょう/妙 definition from Jisho. - Me/め/奴 definition from Jisho. - Two Tofugu articles explaining keigo (and Thom was right, both honorific language and humble language fall under the umbrella of keigo). - The specific translation of 1001 Arabian Nights that Borges cited: "A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled: The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights. Translated and edited by Richard Francis Burton." - Review of a new translation that mentions the debate around the A Bao A Qu citation. - The connection between Final Fantasy and Borges. - Japanese edition of 幻獣辞典 (Genjyuu Jiten). - Borges and Japan, article by Koichi Hagimoto, published in journal Chasqui, Vol. 44, No. 2, November 2015. - Wikipedia and Britannica articles about Jorge Luis Borges. - Citation for the book itself: The Book of Imaginary Beings, Jorge Luis Borges, 1957 (trans. 1969 by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, 2006 by Andrew Hurley) published by Dutton in 1969 and Penguin in 2006. - Wikipedia page on the Kyūjō incident. - Japan Times and Medium articles about the Kyūjō incident. - Wikipedia explanation of Kokutai and it's shifting definition through time. - Book that provides great detail on the politics of the end of WWII in Japan: Toland, John. Rising Sun. Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2005. - Section from Hyginus' Fabulae about Protesilaus. - Another section from the Fabulae, listing the suitors of Helen. - A chronicle of the Trojan war from Dictys of Crete and Dares of Phrygia, includes Protesilaus in the Chronicle of Ships. - From the Library by Apollodorus, a brief version of the Protesilaus story. - English summary of some sections from the Epic Cycle (the series of poems that cover the whole of the Trojan war, of which the Iliad and Odyssey are the main surviving texts). - Summary of Protesilaus' story. - Relevant Wikipedia pages: Protesilaus, Laodamia of Phylace, Suitors of Helen, Cypria. - The memorial poem: Alexander Posey's "The Conquerors." - Song that plays under the memorial poem: "Parisian" by Kevin MacLeod. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 42/41 “Space Fortress A Baoa Qu” (宇宙要塞ア·バオア·クー) and 43/42 “Escape” (脱出), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: some Japanese vocab, what the heck is an A Bao A Qu?, the Kyūjō Incident, and how Kai made Thom think of the Illiad. - - Myou/みょう/妙 definition from Jisho. - Me/め/奴 definition from Jisho. - Two Tofugu articles explaining keigo (and Thom was right, both honorific language and humble language fall under the umbrella of keigo). - The specific translation of 1001 Arabian Nights that Borges cited: "A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled: The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights. Translated and edited by Richard Francis Burton." - Review of a new translation that mentions the debate around the A Bao A Qu citation. - The connection between Final Fantasy and Borges. - Japanese edition of 幻獣辞典 (Genjyuu Jiten). - Borges and Japan, article by Koichi Hagimoto, published in journal Chasqui, Vol. 44, No. 2, November 2015. - Wikipedia and Britannica articles about Jorge Luis Borges. - Citation for the book itself: The Book of Imaginary Beings, Jorge Luis Borges, 1957 (trans. 1969 by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, 2006 by Andrew Hurley) published by Dutton in 1969 and Penguin in 2006. - Wikipedia page on the Kyūjō incident. - Japan Times and Medium articles about the Kyūjō incident. - Wikipedia explanation of Kokutai and it's shifting definition through time. - Book that provides great detail on the politics of the end of WWII in Japan: Toland, John. Rising Sun. Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2005. - Section from Hyginus' Fabulae about Protesilaus. - Another section from the Fabulae, listing the suitors of Helen. - A chronicle of the Trojan war from Dictys of Crete and Dares of Phrygia, includes Protesilaus in the Chronicle of Ships. - From the Library by Apollodorus, a brief version of the Protesilaus story. - English summary of some sections from the Epic Cycle (the series of poems that cover the whole of the Trojan war, of which the Iliad and Odyssey are the main surviving texts). - Summary of Protesilaus' story. - Relevant Wikipedia pages: Protesilaus, Laodamia of Phylace, Suitors of Helen, Cypria. - The memorial poem: Alexander Posey's "The Conquerors." - Song that plays under the memorial poem: "Parisian" by Kevin MacLeod. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 40/39 "Lalah's Dilemma" (エルメスのララ) and 41/40 "A Cosmic Glow" (光る宇宙), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: Hermes - why might Lalah’s mobile armor be named for the Greek god, and why did the translators decide to call the エルメス Elmeth instead, J-type missiles, and some of the odd place names and vocabulary from these episodes. - - Ovid's Metamorphoses, which contain the story of Hermes defeating Argus Panoptes and freeing Io. - Wiki page about Io. - General information about Hermes. - Books and articles that discuss Hermes in the context of Jungian psychology: Merritt, Dennis L., Ph.D. Jung and the Greening of Psychology and Education. Oregon Friends of C. G. Jung Newsletter, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Oct. 1996-Jan. 1997, pp. 9, 12, 13. http://www.dennismerrittjungiananalyst.com/Jung_and_Greening.htm Miller, Jeffrey C. The Transcendent Function. State University of New York Press, 2004. McNeely, Deldon Anne. Mercury Rising: Women, Evil, and the Trickster Gods. Fisher King Press, 2011. - About Mercury's/Hermes' hat, the Petasos. - Searchable Japanese trademark database (where we looked up "エルメス"). - Wiki pages on torpedoes generally, the PGM-19 Jupiter, the JL-1, the Jericho missile, the J-600T (Thunderbolt), the Mark 6 exploder, the Mark 15 torpedo, the Type 93 torpedo, and the Kaiten manned torpedoes. - Breakdown of different Japanese torpedoes. - Quora discussion about the Type 93. - Several articles about the mighty Type 93. - And one book: Burke, Torpedoes and their Impact on Naval Warfare, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, 2017, https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/1033484.pdf - Definition and etymology of "mahal" from Oxford Living Dictionaries, Wiktionary, and Merriam-Webster. - About Gujarati, the language in which (according the Google translate, so take with a grain of salt) "Gel Dorva" means "drawing gale." - Possible inspirations in the names "Durva" and "Darva." - A place or places called "Buttsham" or "Butts Ham" mentioned in: Sessional papers from the House of Commons, Records from the English Place-Name Society, Alphabetical List of Populated Places Derived from the Census of Scotland, and papers of the Surrey Archeological Society. - Tonderu/とんでる／翔んでる definition from a translation dictionary. - Tonderu/とんでる／翔んでる definition from a Japanese-language search. - Online discussion (in Japanese) of the word Tonderu/とんでる／翔んでる, its meaning, and its nuances. - The poem in the memorial is The Swan by F.S. Flint. - The music in the memorial is "Stars Collide (Instrumental Version)," from Josh Woodward's album, "Breadcrumbs." (in this episode, song edited for time) - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 40/39 "Lalah's Dilemma" (エルメスのララ) and 41/40 "A Cosmic Glow" (光る宇宙), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: Hermes - why might Lalah’s mobile armor be named for the Greek god, and why did the translators decide to call the エルメス Elmeth instead, J-type missiles, and some of the odd place names and vocabulary from these episodes. - - Ovid's Metamorphoses, which contain the story of Hermes defeating Argus Panoptes and freeing Io. - Wiki page about Io. - General information about Hermes. - Books and articles that discuss Hermes in the context of Jungian psychology: Merritt, Dennis L., Ph.D. Jung and the Greening of Psychology and Education. Oregon Friends of C. G. Jung Newsletter, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Oct. 1996-Jan. 1997, pp. 9, 12, 13. http://www.dennismerrittjungiananalyst.com/Jung_and_Greening.htm Miller, Jeffrey C. The Transcendent Function. State University of New York Press, 2004. McNeely, Deldon Anne. Mercury Rising: Women, Evil, and the Trickster Gods. Fisher King Press, 2011. - About Mercury's/Hermes' hat, the Petasos. - Searchable Japanese trademark database (where we looked up "エルメス"). - Wiki pages on torpedoes generally, the PGM-19 Jupiter, the JL-1, the Jericho missile, the J-600T (Thunderbolt), the Mark 6 exploder, the Mark 15 torpedo, the Type 93 torpedo, and the Kaiten manned torpedoes. - Breakdown of different Japanese torpedoes. - Quora discussion about the Type 93. - Several articles about the mighty Type 93. - And one book: Burke, Torpedoes and their Impact on Naval Warfare, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, 2017, https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/1033484.pdf - Definition and etymology of "mahal" from Oxford Living Dictionaries, Wiktionary, and Merriam-Webster. - About Gujarati, the language in which (according the Google translate, so take with a grain of salt) "Gel Dorva" means "drawing gale." - Possible inspirations in the names "Durva" and "Darva." - A place or places called "Buttsham" or "Butts Ham" mentioned in: Sessional papers from the House of Commons, Records from the English Place-Name Society, Alphabetical List of Populated Places Derived from the Census of Scotland, and papers of the Surrey Archeological Society. - Tonderu/とんでる／翔んでる definition from a translation dictionary. - Tonderu/とんでる／翔んでる definition from a Japanese-language search. - Online discussion (in Japanese) of the word Tonderu/とんでる／翔んでる, its meaning, and its nuances. - The poem in the memorial is The Swan by F.S. Flint. - The music in the memorial is "Stars Collide (Instrumental Version)," from Josh Woodward's album, "Breadcrumbs." (in this episode, song edited for time) - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 39/38 "The Newtype: Challia Bull" (ニュータイプ、シャリア·ブル), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: Jupiter - why would we go there, and how would be do it?, helium and its uses, and government experiments in psychic phenomena. - - A few articles explaining the role of Helium-3 in plans for near-future nuclear energy production. - About lunar helium-3 mining, including about China's apparent interest in mining the moon. - Interview with the scientist who lead the team that started the discussion about lunar helium-3 extraction. - NASA biography of geologist-astronaut Harrison Schmitt. - Estimate of rate of energy consumption increase. - About the cancellation of the last Apollo missions. - Wiki pages on helium-3 and neutron radiation. - Decades of Discovery: NASA’s Exploration of Jupiter. - Target: Jupiter — Missions to the Solar System's Largest Planet. - Up Close and Personal with Jupiter: A History of 9 Space Probes. - History of NASA's Pioneer 11. - NASA's Blueprint for 1970s Planetary Exploration (1968). - How far is Jupiter and how long does it take to get there? - Wiki pages on Jupiter, its exploration, the NASA Deep Space Network, and Pioneer 10. - Helium discovery, production, and use, and more detail (and diagrams) on helium production. - The LZ129 Hindenburg: history and disaster. - The Helium Act of 1925, Herbert Hoover's public papers (1930) regarding helium export, Recommendation of the House of Representatives Military Affairs Committee to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Helium Exports (1937), and Franklin D. Roosevelt's public papers (1938) White House statement on Helium for export. - Use of helium in WWII. - Current uses and recent US legislation. - Wiki pages on The Men Who Start at Goats, the Stargate Project, and Project MKUltra. - Wiki page on the human potential movement. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes We've decided to take the podcast in a new direction. Henceforth this is now Mobile Suit Breaddown, THE definitive bread and bread-related podcast. Yup, it's going to be all bread all the time around here. Please support the official release of bread. Happy April 1st! We hope you enjoy this episode, and we're excited to get back to Gundam with episode 1.32 in a few days! You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 38/37 "Char and Sayla" (再会、シャアとセイラ), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the Gelgoog’s decidedly low-tech sword, the word “kanchou,” and gold in WWII. - - The warrior monks who favored the naginata and nagamaki were closely affiliated with the mythical warrior demons called Tengu. For more about how the Tengu supposedly taught them the use of their weapons: Roald Knutsen, "Tengu: The Shamanic and Esoteric Origins of the Japanese Martial Arts" (Knutsen is a former soldier, and has a menkyo kaiden in iai-jutsu. We weren't able to get our hands on it, but Knutsen's 2004 book "Japanese Spears" is supposed to be the very best English source on the subject). - A very interesting Sword Forum discussion of the differences between nagamaki and naginata, plus different examples of nagamaki and lots of pictures. - A photo of a historical nagamaki. - For an authority who views the nagamaki as more of a short polearm rather than a long sword: Encyclopedia of Japanese Martial Arts, David A. Hall, Kodansha International; 1 edition (February 22, 2013) - Wiki articles on the naginata and nagamaki. - The full list of ranks for the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy (including where "kanchou" fits in). - Wiki pages on Nazi gold and gold laundering. - Forbes article on Operation Fish. - Articles about Canfranc from El Pais (in English): "a hub for Nazis, gold and spies," "Last train for spy central," and "Casablanca in the Pyrenees." - Two articles about Albert Le Lay (both in Spanish). - Wiki page on Portugal in WWII. - Beautiful description of what Lisbon must have been like during the war, especially with regard to the mix of people (by a historical fiction writer). - From Life Magazine, July 1940. Fascinating look at American attitudes towards dictatorships and neutral countries, prior to the US joining the war: “Portugal: The War Has Made It Europe's Front Door.” Life, 29 July 1940, pp. 65–73. - Book about Portugal during WWII, with detailed chapters on the economy, Nazi gold and gold laundering, and espionage in Lisbon, among other things: Lochery, Neill. Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45. Scribe Publications, 2011. - The section from Alan Ross' diary (used in the memorial) is printed in: "Leaves in the storm : a book of diaries / edited with a running commentary by Stefan Schimanski and Henry Treece." You can find the excerpt here. - The music in the memorial is "Dancing on the Edge" by Kai Engel. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 37/36 "Duel in Texas" (テキサスの攻防), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the early Classical Greek armor that may have inspired the design of the Gyan, Westerns in Japan, and... dueling in Texas. Special Guests this week: Sean Michael Chin and Wen Wang. - - Reddit /r/AskHistorians thread on the linothorax. - Ancient Chinese paper armor. - Linothorax reconstruction project and a New Yorker article about the reconstruction project. - How did Phalanxes function in battle? - Articles on Hoplite warfare: Krentz, Peter. “The Nature of Hoplite Battle.” Classical Antiquity, vol. 4, no. 1, 1985, pp. 50–61. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25010823. VAN WEES, HANS. “The Arms, Armor, and Iconography of Early Greek Hoplite Warfare.” Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece, edited by GREGORY F. VIGGIANO and DONALD KAGAN, Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 57–73. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2855dr.8. - IMDB page and description from the Japan Society of Daisogen no Watadori / Plains Wanderer (1960). - The interview with Seijun Suzuki, director of Shottogan no Otoko / Sandanju no Otoko / Man with a Shotgun (1961), is from this book: Desjardins, Chris. Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film. I.B. Tauris, 2005. - IMDB page for Koya no Toseinin (1968). - An article from an Australian magazine discuss the filming of Koya no Toseinin in Australia, including interviews with the lead actor and some of the production staff: "DODGE CITY, Goonoo Goonoo-style" The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982) 15 May 1968: 4. Web. 20 Mar 2019 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48531687. - The book that introduced me to the term "Eastern Westerns," as well as their prevalence: Teo, Stephen. Eastern Westerns: Film and Genre Outside and inside Hollywood. Routledge, 2017. - Texas State Historical Association article on dueling. - Dueling in Uruguay - 1990 article about a duel that almost happened. - Collection of Spanish language articles about dueling in Uruguay, including its ban in 1992 and calls to reinstate it. - Uruguay's Ex-President wants to reinstate dueling. - The poem in this week's memorial is Su Shi's First Ode on the Red Cliff. This link has the poem in the original Chinese and the English translation, with calligraphy. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 35/34 "The Glory of Solomon" (ソロモン攻略戦) and 36/35 "Big Zam's Last Stand" (恐怖!機動ビグ·ザム), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the Solomon Islands campaigns and related battles in the Pacific during WWII, Archimedes' heat ray, and weaponized asteroids. - - Source for the quote at the end of Thom's research, touching on what it was like to have been there: Robert L. Eichelberger, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo, P-47 Press, 2018. - Detailed list (with map!) of naval battles during the Solomon Islands Campaign. - Source on the strategy around Rabaul: John Miller, Jr., Carthweel: The Reduction of Rabaul, Office of the Chief Military History, Department of the Army, Washington DC, 1959. - "Combat Narratives: Solomon Islands Campaign: I The Landing in the Solomons," from the Office of Naval Intelligence, Publications Branch, U.S. Navy, 1943. - "Withdrawal from Guadalcanal: Abandoning the Island of Death." - Wiki article on the Guadalcanal evacuation. - Shorter article about Guadalcanal. Contains the excellent summing up of the whole Southwest Pacific campaign: "American losses were significant, but Japanese losses were devastating." - "IN PURSUIT OF DECISIVE ACTION: AIR POWER’S IMPACT ON THE GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN" Master's Thesis by Lt. Col. Nicholas B. Evans for SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES. - Not discussed in our episode but vitally important: the indigenous perspective on the war in the Solomon Islands. - Wiki article on the Bougainville counterattack. - Wiki aritcle on Cactus Air Force. - Overview of the Siege of Syracuse and Archimedes' heat ray, including attempts to replicate the heat ray. - The page for the MIT student-led attempt to replicate the heat ray, including the one done with Myth Busters. - Description of the Myth Busters episode that did another attempt to replicate the heat ray. - On deflecting asteroids and using them as weapons. - "Kinetic Bombardment" and "rods from god". - The song from this week's memorial is Without Redemption, by Kai Engel. - Latin text of Book 12 of the Aeneid. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 34 (33 in the US), "A Fateful Encounter" ("宿命の出会い"), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on O'Neill cylinders, a review of Lagrange points, neutral countries in WWII, the Battle of the River Plate and the hunt for the Graf Spee, and the term "red tape." - - About Gerard O'Neill, and about his book, "The High Frontier." - An article on real space colony designs, concept art, and more art and info on O'Neill space cyclinders. - Discussion of Lagrange points in Gundam and in our world. - Article about increasing critical examination of the actions of neutral countries during WWII. - How neutral countries maintain their neutrality. - Swiss neutrality, and the recent (early 2000s) independent report analyzing Switzerland's impact on WWII. - Swedish neutrality. - Hague Convention concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War. - About the Graf Spee ship. - Wiki page on the Battle of the River Plate and "The Trap of Montevideo." - Book on naval warfare in WWII, includes section on the Battle of the River Plate: The Great Sea War: The Story of Naval Action in World War II, E.B. Potter, Fleet-Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. - Book about the battle itself: The Battle of the River Plate: The Hunt for the German Pocket Battleship Graf Spee (2d Ed.), Dudley Pope, 2005, McBooks Press. - Wiki page indicating that "red tape" originated in Spain, versus Quora page indicating that it originated in England. - Japanese synonyms for "red tape. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 33 (32 in the US), "Farewell in Side 6" ("コンスコン強襲"), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Attachment Theory and Amuro's relationships with his parents, blast exposure, the polytrauma system, diagnostic criteria for PTSD, teen brain development, and what tinnitus has to do with depression. We are joined by a special guest - Shar! Shar is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and our Clinical Psychology Consultant. You can find her on YouTube as Dr. Sharmander, on Instagram @dr_sharmander, and on Twitter @The_Sharmander. - - Sources on Attachment Theory: Ainsworth, M. D. S., Blehar, M. C., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of attachment: A psychological study of the strange situation. Hillside. NJ: Erlbaum. Armsden, GC, & Greenberg, MT (1987). The inventory of parent and peer attachment: Individual differences and their relationship to psychological well-being in adolesence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 16, 427-454. - Breakdown of damage from blast exposure. - Polytrauma development in the VA. - Diagnostic criteria for PTSD and a self-administer test. - "Why teen brains suck" a.k.a. The teen brain: It’s just not grown up yet.. Knox, R. (2010). National Public Radio: Your Health. National Public Radio, 1. - Tinnitus and depression. Langguth, B., Landgrebe, M., Kleinjung, T., Sand, G. P., & Hajak, G. (2011). Tinnitus and depression. The world journal of biological psychiatry, 12(7), 489-500. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 31 and 32 (30 and 31 in the US), "A Decoy in Space" ("ザンジバル,追撃!") and "Breakthrough" ("強行突破作戦"), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: Itano Ichiro, possible inspirations for the Zakrello mobile armor (including psychological warfare, Japan's involvement in the Korean War, and "Tiger Tanks"!), and the physics of why Amuro blacks out when the Gundam grabs hold of the Bigro. - - Itano's wikipedia page (in Japanese). - Video compilation of examples of the 'Itano Circus.' - Interviews with Itano: from a Q&A at Animazement 2012, an article that originally appeared in SFX Total Anime #3, 2010, and an article that originally appeared in NEO magazine #69, 2010. - About psychological warfare (psyware) in the Korean War. - Sources on Japanese involvement in the Korean War (especially note Korean-descended people in Japan who volunteered to fight for the South Korean army, or sabotaged the war effort to help North Korea). While Japan's involvement is often characterized as purely economic (including acting as a rear-base), there was significant direct participation. - Sources on the 1st China-America Provisional Tank Group in WW2. - Iraj's explanation (with calculations!) of the physics behind Amuro blacking out in that fight with the Bigro. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 29 and 30 (28 and 29 in the US), "Tragedy in Jaburo" and "A Wish for War Orphans," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: orphans, orphanages, and childcare in Japan, the history of robots in Western cinema, Operation Gunnerside, visual inspiration and references, and the St. Nazaire raid. - - Our sources on life in Japan's orphanages: Japan Info. (Jun 17, 2016). What Challenges Do Children in Japan’s Orphanages Face? (Culture, Society) No author credits. Retrieved from http://jpninfo.com/53458 Quora (Answers) (Oct 23, 2015). What is it like to be raised in a Japanese orphanage? Karen Ma. Retrieved from https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-raised-in-a-Japanese-orphanage The Japan Times News (May 1, 2014). Japan’s orphans neglected: HRW by Tomoshiro Osaki. Retrieved from https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/01/national/japans-orphans-neglected-hrw/ - About adult adoption in Japan. - Japan's WWII war orphans, in the home islands and in China. - Ron briefly mentioned the Tekketsu Kinotai, young boys who were conscripted into the Japanese army to defend Okinawa. We talked about this in episode 1.2, when we discussed the battle of Okinawa, and there's more info here: A War to be won (Apr 2, 2016). Okinawan boys of the Tekketsu Kinnotai, Japan’s last ditch weapon (WWII History Articles) Posted by Admin. Retrieved from http://ww2awartobewon.com/wwii-articles/okinawan-boys-tekketsu-kinnotai/ - For the history of daycare/childcare in Japan, we consulted this article: CHUNG, BYUNG-HO. “LABOR-MARKET DEMAND FOR WORKING MOTHERS AND THE EVOLUTION OF DAY CARE SYSTEM IN JAPAN.” International Journal of Sociology of the Family, vol. 18, no. 2, 1988, pp. 233–247. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23029742. - Sources on film history, and specifically on robots in cinema: Sarris, Andrew. The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968 1st ed. New York: Dutton, 1968 Dirks, Tim. Robots in Film: A complete Illustrated History of Robots in the Movies Early to 1939 Sourced from: https://www.filmsite.org/robotsinfilm1.html - These articles provide an overview of Operation Gunnerside. - An interview with Neal Bascomb, author of The Winter Fortress, a book that "sets this daring sabotage mission in the context of the high-stakes race between the Germans and the Allies to create a nuclear weapon." - The New York Times obituary for Joachim Ronneberg, the leader of the Gunnerside raid. - The evolution of diving suits (relevant for appearances of amphibious mobile suits). - The wiki page for Kappa, and art depicting the Kappa: image 1, image 2. - The wiki page for Kamaitachi, and interpretations of how they might look: image 1, image 2, image 3. - Alien 'Zarab,' possible inspiration for the Z'Gok. - Charles H. Townes, inventor of the maser. - About phonons, and an abandoned patent for a phonon maser. - Wiki article on Sasers. - Sources on the St. Nazaire raid. - You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 27 and 28 (26 and 27 in the US), "A Spy on Board" and "Across the Atlantic Ocean," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: possible inspiration for the G-Sky EZ, the Cape Verde Islands, famous pro-wrestling tag-teams that may have inspired the Gogg mobile suits, language and culture notes, and submarine warfare in WWII. - A reference on the Allied Phonetic Alphabet (as opposed to the in-use-now Nato Phonetic Alphabet), in which "E" = "Easy." - All about Sherman tank variants, including the "Easy Eight." - Explanation of canards (what they are, and their function on a plane), and the Rutan VariEze homebuilt aircraft (an example of a place with canards). - Overview of the Cape Verde independence movemement. Cape Verde had only recently gained it's independence (1975) when Gundam was released. - Pro-Wrestling Wiki's history of the National Wrestling Alliance, the international pro-wrestling organization that unified US and Japanese wrestling. - Biographies, history, and some video of the Wild Samoans. - Family tree showing the extended Anoa'i family history in wrestling and how the Wild Samoans are related to (among others) Dwayne Johnson. - Real sumo headbutt spear attacks: photo 1, photo 2, photo 3. - Wiki pages on Rikidozan and Toyonobori, and a profile of them as a tag-team. - Another profile of Rikidozan, a photo of him standing over a defeated Kimura, and an interview with The Destroyer about his matches with Rikidozan. - Overviews of the Battle of the Atlantic, and of submarine warfare in WWII. - Alfred Thayer Mahan, and his influence on naval tactics. - Technologies used to combat submarines: huff-duff (high-frequency direction-finding), FIDO (the Mark 24 mine), MAD (magnetic anomaly detector), and the Leigh Light. The Miharu tribute music is a 1926 Recording of Londonderry Air by Leo Rowsome, hosted by Irish Traditional Music Archive / Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann. The text is the lyrics to "Eily Dear," written by Fred Weatherly. You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 26 (25 in the US), "Char Returns," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: war balloons, top secret information, the battle of Sekigahara, naval mines, and possible aesthetic influences for mobile suit design. - Overview of the history of military ballooning, and of incendiary balloons specifically. - More detailed information about the Civil War-era Balloon Corps. - Explanation and photo of barrage balloons. - Overview of Japan's Fu-Go balloon program, and the news story detailing the 2014 discovery of an unexploded incendiary from a Fu-Go. CORRECTION: I stated that I thought this happened in Oregon. It actually happened in British Columbia, Canada. - Great explanation of how images can be sent via radio waves. - Wikpedia page on classified information (levels, differences between different countries, etc.), and an article which discusses what happens when people reveal classified information. - The US National Archive FAQ on identifying and handling classified records. - Two overviews of the Battle of Sekigahara (the second includes lots of images of art depicting the battle). - Wikipedia pages on Kikkawa and Kobayakawa. - Detailed information on naval mines, including their history, types, and the technology and mechanisms involved, from the Minewarfare & Clearance Diving Officers' Association, NavWeaps (Naval Weapons, Naval Technology and Naval Reunions website), and the Worldwide Independent Inventors Assoication (archive). - Pictures of E. Honda's "Sumo Torpedo" headbutt attack and a real one, another sumo photo, and a photo of the 'Spear' attack in pro wrestling. You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episodes 24 and 25 (23 and 24 in the US), "The Black Tri-Stars" and "Odessa Day," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: kendo armor and footwork, Japanese spies, rollerblades, plane formations and maneuvers, droop snoots, Japanese body-language and gestures, hydrogen bombs, and military funeral rituals. - Explainer on kendo armor, an image of the 'men' (helmet), and an image of the 'men' with all it's component parts labeled. - Beginners guide to kendo (footwork description on p. 11), and an explanation of kendo competition. - Photo of a kendoka (kendo practitioner) in full armor, looking a little like a Dom mobile suit. - Wiki page and Radio New Zealand piece about Heenan, the RAF pilot who was spying for Japan in Singapore. - About the fall of Singapore. - Forum post explaining how Aircraft Recognition Codes worked during WW2 - using differently colored lights instead of the modern radio-based IFF codes. Post was written by Senior Master Sergeant Gene Hellickson (U.S. Air Force 1965-1969, Air National Guard 1972-1988). - About No. 62 Squadron RAF, the squadron that bore the brunt of the attack following Heenan's treachery, and that we later re-formed as a supply squadron. - The history of in-line skates, including the facts that they are 1) Pretty old, and 2) Rollerblade, Inc. wasn't founded until 1980. Either way, they are probably not the inspiration for the Dom's movement. - Definition of touch-and-go flying drill. - Description of formations, along with their development and use over time, especially during WWI and WWII. - More detailed descriptions of Vic/Vee and Finger-Four formations, and Thach weave maneuver. - Wiki article on snoot drooping technology, and a Quora thread with an excellent explanation of the reasons for drooping that snoot on a fighter plane. - Picture of the Sukhoi Su-27 'Flanker' with its characteristic banana-shaped profile, and one of the Mikoyan MiG-29 'Fulcrum' with its snoot pointed groundward. - All about the Fairey Delta 2, another droop-snoot plane. - What is look down/shoot down radar? - Concorde snoot drooping video (snoot drooping begins at 5:10 and goes until 8:50). - Photos, video, and descriptions of Japanese gestures. - A great reference for Japanese gestures, with visual references. - An ANN article that briefly describes 'dekotsun,' an affectionate forehead poke, which we think is what Matilda does to Amuro when she calls him "cheeky." - History of the battlefield cross (rifle stuck into the ground, with helmet on top), and a wikipedia article that contains an excerpt from the US Army Field Manual, describing the battlefield cross as used in memorials. - Text of Ode of Remembrance, a section from a longer poem, For the Fallen, by Laurence Binyon. It is often used in WWI memorial ceremonies, and we use it (with a modified last line) in our memorial for Lt. Matilda. The music in our memorial tribute for Lt. Matilda is Mother's Mourning by Dee Yan-Key. You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episodes 22 and 23 (21 and 22 in the US), "The Trap of M'Quve" and "Matilda's Rescue," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: Japanese sentō (public bathhouses), all-plastic wristwatches, bauxite mining, gallium, the bombing of Darwin, a famous POW-camp escape-attempt, plastic explosives, Lt. Matilda's voice actress, and smoke bombs. - An overview of Japanese sentō. - Additional articles about the history of sentō (these include some great artwork and photographs). - a brief history of the Japanese "system-bath" - baths in private homes that for many people replaced regular use of the local sentō. - For the connotations of nudity in Japanese media, we consulted this paper: "Nudity in Japanese visual media: A cross-cultural observation." Downs, J.F. Arch Sex Behav (1990) 19: 583. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01542467 - And our source on the prevalence of indoor plumbing in the US as of 1940 is: Lutz, James D. “Lest We Forget, a Short History of Housing in the United States.” American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2004, aceee.org/files/proceedings/2004/data/papers/SS04_Panel1_Paper17.pdf. - the story of the ahead-of-its-time, "all-plastic" Tissot IDEA 2001 and its competition from Japan. - general information on the history, types, and uses of plastic explosives. - A map of Bauxite mining operations around the world. - Video of the gallium-spoon trick. - Overview of the Bombing of Darwin, and additional detail specifically about the Allies' strategy in the South Pacific. - The story of Matthias Ulungura, who captured Japanese Zero-pilot Toyoshima Haijame. - A photo of Aboriginal dancers at the ceremony to unveil the cairn to commemorate Matthias Ulungura. Plaque reads: "This memorial was erected by the Northern Territory Government in recognition of Matthias Ulungura 1921-1980 Who, unarmed, on 19th Feb. 1942 on Melville Island captured the first Japanese prisoner of war (a zero pilot) to be taken on Australian soil." - More about the Cowra Breakout, a Japanese-POW escape-attempt, which Thom parallels to Cozun's attempted escape from the White Base. - The history of smoke screens and an example of their use in a specific battle in the Mediterranean during WWII. - Toda Keiko (Lt. Matilda's voice actor), performing as Ayu Akemi - this is her first Enka single. You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 20 and 21 (19 and 20 in the US), "Hand-to-Hand Combat" and "Sorrow and Hatred," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: conflict management and resolution in Japanese culture, ship-boarding actions during WWII, and what a Buddhist wisdom-king has to do with Ryu. - Core cultural concepts that are helpful to understand before delving into conflict resolution specifically. This paper gives an overview of research done on conflict resolution in Japanese culture, as well as some general findings. - Our main source for information on the Altmark Incident (ship-boarding action in WWII), is by an anonymous author under username 'WatTyler', WW2 People's War. WW2 People's War is an online archive of wartime memories contributed by members of the public and gathered by the BBC. The archive can be found at bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar. - The Wikipedia page for the Altmark Incident takes a more neutral/pro-Norwegian stance. - What is a Myo-o? - Two detailed descriptions of Fudo Myo-o. - Fudo Myo-o is frequently depicted in art, including in paintings like these, sculpture, and even in tattoos. You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 19 (18 in the US), "Ramba Ral's Attack," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: the city of Sodom, mythical weapons, and Kendo and other Japanese sword-fighting traditions. - The city of Sodom shows up in a number of texts - Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica have nice overviews of the attempts to establish Sodom's location archeologically, as well as the descriptions of Sodom and the story of its destruction across the Bible, the Torah, the Quran, and other sources. - About the Winchester '73 model rifle, and its eponymous film, a classic of the Western genre. - Three examples of deadly and blood-thirsty spears from Celtic mythology: Gáe Bulg, Lugh's spear, and the Lúin of Celtchar. - Dyrnwyn, the sword that destroys the unworthy who try to draw it, is part of the Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain from Welsh mythology. - The stories of Excalibur, Accolon's combat with Arthur and subsequent death, and Clarent. - Muramasa (cursed) and Masamune (not cursed) Japanese swordsmiths, whose swords have several legends attached. - A brief overview of Kendo, an expansion on Kendo tactics, and two pieces on how Kendo techniques differ from the cutting techniques of traditional sword fighting. - Discussion of timings in Kendo, including "nuki" timing that Thom discusses, and a video of Kendoka practicing this timing. For a longer discussion of "nuki" timing: Junzo Sasamori, Gordon Warner, This is Kendo: The Art of Japanese Fencing, Tuttle Publishing, 2012. - Discussion of "katate" or one-handed striking in Kendo. - Video of a young kenjutsuka practicing "tameshigiri" using a one-handed upward slash similar to that used by Amuro in the show. - A guide to Iaido terminology. - Different Tameshigiri cutting patterns. Amuro's is closest to the advanced sequence called "Mizu gaeshi." You can subscribe to the 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 [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 photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap and review Mobile Suit Gundam episode 18 (17 in the US), "Zeon's Secret Mine," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: the science behind Zeon's new anti-Gundam tech - the Adzam Leader, forced labor of POWs, Japan's post-war economy, ninja outfits, and cognac. - A discussion of inductive coupling, one of the technologies that our resident science-guest Iraj speculates could be responsible for the Adzam Leader's effect on the Gundam. - Page from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum about the forced labor of Soviet POWs in Germany, and George Washington University "Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific" research and policy program's page on Japan's use of POW forced-labor. - NPR article about the Mitsubishi Corporation's apology for using POWs for forced-labor. - Wikipedia article about Japan's "economic miracle." For more detailed information about the Japanese economy at that time, and the changes to standard of living that went along with it, this book is great: Hane, Mikiso. Eastern Phoenix: Japan since 1945. Westview Press, 1998. - General information on ninja, and on the Tokugawa-era secret-polics, the Oniwaban, who largely replaced ninja. - A sketch of a 'traditional' ninja outfit, but Japanese painter Hokusai. - All about the kabuki art-form, and specific information on kabuki stage-hands (called kuroko). - A detailed history of cognac, explanation of how cognac is made, and guide to understanding cognac labeling. - A paper presented to the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium using cognac as a case study to analyze factors influencing luxury exports, and a working paper by Instituto Politécnico de Leiria on European luxury brands strategies in Japan. - A 1988 article on cognac's increasingly global presence, and 1992 LA Times article on cognac consumption in Japan (the cognac market in Japan would crash shortly afterward). You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap and review Mobile Suit Gundam episode 17 (16 in the US), "Amuro Deserts," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: flight simulations, bazookas, the Antarctic Treaty, Zeon's resource strategy, and two-rank promotions, all with a special guest. - While Wikipedia has a nice overview, various technology publications, flight schools, and other aviation industry websites also have information on the history of flight simulators. - Two overviews of how bazookas work, plus a picture of the "bazooka" instrument that the weapon is named for, and an explanation of the backblast area. - For his discussion of the Antarctic Treaty, our friend and guest-voice Sean consulted various online resources about Gundam, as well as one of the Gundam novels: Tomino, Yoshiyuki. Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation. Stone Bridge, 2004. (Pages 99 and 448 of the 2012 English-language printing) - In discussing Zeon's resource strategy, Sean references Operation Edelweiss, Japan's preparations for WWII, and some more general information on strategy related to the control of necessary raw materials during WWII. - When Thom discusses Ramba Ral's pursuit of a two-rank promotion, he mentions both the ranks of the Imperial Japanese Army (used in First Gundam's Japanese version), and the ranks of the Imperial Japanese Navy (used in First Gundam's English translation). For reference, the ranks in the Japan Self Defense Force (used by the Japanese armed forces at the time when First Gundam was made, and still in use today) are completely different. - Thom also mentioned a couple of famous military awards, namely the Victoria Cross and the Albert Medal (which he mistakenly referred to as the Albert Cross). The biography of Baron Richtofen (the Red Baron), with information about the German propaganda rumors that whoever shot him down would get a Victoria Cross, is: Burrows, William E. Richthofen: A True History of the Red Baron. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1970. ISBN 0-15-177172-3 You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap and review Mobile Suit Gundam episode 16 (15 in the US), "Sayla's Agony," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: Song Dynasty ceramics, art looting in wartime, armies and salt, siblings on opposite sides of WWII, and Lop Nur, the probable inspiration for "Lop Lake" in this episode. - Overview of Song ceramics, specifically aimed at collectors. - About the planned Führer Museum in Linz, and the art storage facilities hidden in mines, Merkers and Altaussee. - Outline of Japanese colonial rule in Korea and the "Three Alls" principle. - The Kin no Yuri / Yamashita's gold conspiracy theory. - About looted artifacts in Japanese museums and the art black-market in Japan. - And an article and a book about looting! B. Gaudenzi & A. Swenson, ‘Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century – Towards a Global Perspective’, Journal of Contemporary History, DOI: 10.1177/0022009417692409, final author manuscript. Liu, Zhuozhen, "The Case for Repatriating China's Cultural Objects," Springer, Feb. 25, 2016. - Historical facts about salt, and an explanation of hyponatriemia/low blood sodium. - List of times that siblings wound up on the opposite sides of wars, including many examples older than those we discuss in this episode. - News articles from the LATimes and CNN about the Akune and Oka brothers. - All about Lop Nur, the inspiration for this episode's salt-lake, "Lob Lake." You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap and review Mobile Suit Gundam episode 15, "Cucuruz Doan's Island," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: the different Japanese terms for martial arts (and why Cucuruz uses kakutogi), who is Suzumura Kazuyuki?, the skinny Zaku, desertion in WWII, Anime Friend and the episode production team, and the nuances of the Japanese word nioi. Special note: This is only episode 15 in Japanese releases. This episode has never been included in an English-language release. - For an explanation of why the Japanese Ministry of Education used katogi rather than budo to describe martial arts in schools, check out this book: García, Raúl Sánchez. The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts. Routledge, 2019. - And for definitions of the various terms for martial arts: Encyclopedia of Japanese Martial Arts, David A. Hall, Kodansha International; 1 edition (February 22, 2013) - A discussion of the Japan Self-Defense Force's specific form close-quarter-combat (source in Japanese). - Anime News Network profile of Suzumura Kazuyuki. - Fan discussion of the "skinny Zaku" (source in Japanese). - All about Anime Friend, former subsidiary of Tatsunoko Productions (source in Japanese). - An overview of desertion during WWII and specifically in the Pacific War, news stories about a book that discusses the experiences of specific deserters from the US army. - The article in which I found that horrific account of accidentally killing civilans. - A paper discussing WWII in Papua New Guinea, and its effects on the indigenous population generally and on the relations between the indigenous population and the colonial administrative forces. - More statistics on desertion, as well as the story of the group of Japanese soldier in Okinawa who deserted to surrender to the US Army, A book chapter detailing Japanese deserters' involvement in the Viet Minh, and a more recent news article touching on the wrongful executions of supposed Japanese army deserters. You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap and review Mobile Suit Gundam episode 14, "Time, Be Still," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: the Neo-Confucian concept of gekokujō and it's importance in prewar and wartime Japan, Audie Murphy, the "Memphis Belle" B-17 bomber, Japanese fighter aces, anti-tank explosives, and the Piasecki "AirGeep" hover-bike. - An explanation of Gekokujō, focusing on its importance in Japanese history. - The life and military career of Audie Murphy. - The "Memphis Belle" B-17 Bomber and it's history and preservation. And a one-sheet about the "Hell's Angels" B-17, that beat the "Belle" to the 25-mission benchmark. - Saburo Sakai and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, famous Japanese fighter aces. - Detailed explanation of tanks used in the Pacific War. Two articles about the haftholladung German anti-tank explosive, explanation and photos of the Type-99 Japanese anti-tank explosive, and an army intelligence bulletin from 1945, detailing late-stage anti-tank tactics in the Pacific War. - Piasecki's own page on the AirGeep, an overview of the AirGeep development program, and some additional details on the tech. You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap and review Mobile Suit Gundam episode 13, "Coming Home," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: the original Pinocchio and some of the Japanese media it inspired, military quartering and billeting, and the martial art judo. - Overview of The Adventures of Pinocchio, Pinocchio as a character, and some of the darker themes of the original story. - Various adaptations of the Pinocchio story, including the 1940 Disney film, Osamu Tezuka's manga adaptation, and the two anime series: Piccolino no Bōken and Pinocchio: The Series. - Text and explanation of the 3rd Ammendment of the US Constitution, first-person accounts of German soldiers quartering and billeting in occupied territory, and a discussion of the US army quartering in private homes on the Aleutian islands. - Judo's origins and other Judo information from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and premier English-language judo website, Judo Info. We also consulted this book: Encyclopedia of Japanese Martial Arts, David A. Hall, Kodansha International; 1 edition (February 22, 2013) You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap and review Mobile Suit Gundam episode 12, "The Threat of Zeon," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: large public funerals and their use in politics, is "rookie syndrome" a thing?, the episode directors and their possible influences (or - were they thinking of Samuel Fuller's film "Shock Corridor"?), and some fun analysis of the newly introduced tech. - In talking about funerals, we reference Pericles' funeral oration, Antigone, the Duke of Wellington's funeral, and the funerals of the Meiji and Taisho Emperors. For WWII specific examples, we talk about FDR and his comparatively subdued funeral, Reinhard Heydrich and his elaborate funeral, the rumors about special treatment for Kamikaze pilots, and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. For details about Yamamoto, I also referenced this book: Davis, Don. Lightning Strike: the Secret Mission to Kill Admiral Yamamoto and Avenge Pearl Harbor. St. Martin's Griffin, 2006. - Here's a synopsis for Shock Corridor, as well as reviews from the LATimes and Criterion, and the IMDB page, which has plenty of screen grabs so you can see what I meant about the visual style. - Thom's discussion of "Rookie Syndrome" references this article: Japanese Military Suicides During the Asia-Pacific War: Studies of the unauthorized self-killings of soldiers, Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 25, June 22, 2015, Janice Matsumura and Diana Wright https://apjjf.org/-Janice-Matsumura--Diana-Wright/4334/article.pdf. - A fan analysis Thom is willing to reference! How many Zaku fit in a Musai? - And for those of you who like this sort of crunch, our source on naval weaponry. You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes Content Warning: Suicide. "What do you mean 'she has lost the will to live?'" This week, we recap and review Mobile Suit Gundam episode 11, "Icelina - Love's Remains," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: suicide in Japanese culture, the proper way to get vengeance, meaningful character names, how to roll your Rs, and saying goodbye to the most fabulous characters so far. - A longer definition of shinjū. - More information about the life and works of Chikamatsu Monzaemon. - Detailed synopses of the plays Sonezaki Shinjū and Shinjū ten no Amijima. - Additional explanation of giri and ninjou and their place in Japanese society during the Tokugawa Shogunate. - Journal articles about interpreting shinjū in plays and in society, and discussing the Buddhist influence on Japanese attitudes toward suicide and euthenasia: Heine, Steven. “Tragedy and Salvation in the Floating World: Chikamatsu's Double Suicide Drama as Millenarian Discourse.” The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 53, no. 2, 1994, pp. 367–393. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2059839. Becker, Carl B. “Buddhist Views of Suicide and Euthanasia.” Philosophy East and West, vol. 40, no. 4, 1990, pp. 543–556. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1399357. - Books and articles about Kataki-uchi (the rule-bound and later beaurocratized revenge from medieval and Tokugawa periods): Varley, H. Paul. Japanese Culture. Univ. of Hawaiʻi Press, 2004. Ikegami, Eiko. The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan. Harvard University Press, 2003. The Great Mirror of Male Love (Nanshoku Oukagami) Stanford UP, 1990, Trans. by Paul Gordon Schalow. Jasmin M. Curtis (2012). Drops of Blood on Fallen Snow: The Evolution of Blood-Revenge Practices in Japan. University of Massachusetts Amherst (Masters Thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1963&context=theses Mills, D. E. “Kataki-Uchi: The Practice of Blood-Revenge in Pre-Modern Japan.” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 10, no. 4, 1976, pp. 525–542. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/311761. You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes Everything continues to go well for the Zabi family. This week, we recap and review Mobile Suit Gundam episode 10, "Garma's Fate," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: Where exactly are we? Are we there yet? How long will it take to get there?, the Seattle "Kingdome," carpet-bombing and incendiaries, the first kamikaze pilots, and episode director Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. - A couple of the maps I looked at before Thom told me they are not to be relied upon. - History of the Seattle Kingdome stadium, unexpected architectural star of the episode. - Carpet-bombing and incendiaries explained. Prepare to be sad about the lengths humans go and the creativity employed in the interest of killing each other. - The first kamikaze pilots. - And additional information on episode Director Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (aka YAS), character designer, animation director, artist, and award-winning manga creator (link is to a source in Japanese). I highly recommend doing an image search to see samples of his artwork; it makes his artistic influence on the show much clearer. You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes In this episode Thom and Nina discuss Mobile Suit Gundam episode 9, "Fly! Gundam!" , desperate times on the White Base, what Bright actually wants, whether or not there's time for philosophy, a famous slap, and an entirely unnecessary full body pan. We research: Just how a person like Amuro might respond to trauma, and what a post-traumatic stress breakdown might look like: ADAA overview of common reactions to trauma A lengthier and more descriptive discussion of many of the same reactions Veteran's Affairs resources regarding PTSD among soldiers including risk factors Corporal punishment in Japan, and what Tomino thinks about it: An archived copy of a now defunct anime website's Tomino interview. Survey results on corporal punishment in public opinion in Japan Times and Asahi Shinbun. Recent case of suicide due to abuse by coach. Research and analysis of corporal punishment in Japan. Japanese ideals of modern masculinity in the 1970s, and how they relate to *bushido Masculinity and male virtues. Bushido virtues. Hofstede Insights cultural model and specific insights about Japan. Just what is motivation, and how does it work? Psychology Today article on different motivational models. Could old people be... the enemy? Tomino tells an audience that "adults are the enemy." You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes Is this what all mothers are like? This week, we recap and review Mobile Suit Gundam episode 8, "The Winds of War," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: Canadian geography and the town of Saints-Anges, Tomino's influences, Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, The Grand Illusion, and what is furusato and why is it so important in Japanese culture? The only source we have for Saints-Anges (St. Anges in the show), is Google maps and the deductions we walk you through in the podcast. Still, we're pretty sure its a reference to a real town. Even if they probably picked it by stabbing a finger at a map. Click here for an overview of Akira Kurosawa's career, style and themes. To learn about Yasujiro Ozu, Senses of Cinema has a wonderful overview of his career and explanation of his style, and the Japan Times has a discussion of Ozu's current popularity in filmmaking circles. You can read more about Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) here. This article gives a thorough explanation of the concept of furusato and its place in Japanese culture. If you'd like to listen to the song Furusato, the one all Japanese school-children learn, you can listen here. You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes Noh drama! A "mother complex!" and Mobile Suit Gundam Episode 7! This week, we recap and review Mobile Suit Gundam episode 7, "The Core Fighter's Escape," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: hostage crises and Flight 472, how fighter jets land on aircraft carriers, laser measurement, "fool" and "coward" archetypes in European and Japanese literature and theatre, and what on Earth is a "mother complex"? Wikipedia has a list of major hostage crises, and more detailed information on Flight 472. We only covered the basics of how landing on an aircraft carrier works, but for more information on the myriad bits of technology that contribute to that process, check out this page on How Stuff Works. Here are links with more information on laser range-finding and laser measurement. In our research of possible literary and theatrical bases for Kai's character, we started with this overview of fool archetypes in European literature and theatre. The blog post that started us down the research rabbit-hole of "skeptic" characters in noh drama is here. For English-language information on noh (that isn't behind a paywall), the definitive source seems to be www.the-noh.com. It is from that site that we pulled definitions for the Ayakashi mask, the waki character-role, and the rongi question-and-response section of plays. ** Special note: We included this bit about Acting Captains in the 1.6 show notes, but it was meant to go with this episode. To find our what exactly an "Acting Captain" is, we consulted the United States Navy Regulations, 1990, Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C. Chapter 10: Precedence, Authority, and Command, Section 4, 1074. Some nuances certainly vary from nation to nation, but the Imperial Japanese Navy took Britain's Royal Navy as its model (and the United States Navy originates in the same system). You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes Ever wonder if Char and Garma were more than just friends? There's more evidence to float that ship than you might think... On the Gundam podcast this week, we watch Mobile Suit Gundam episode 6, "Garma Strikes," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: soldier psychology, inspiration for the names of Zeon ships and tech, romance between men in Japanese history, and what exactly is an acting captain? For our discussion of soldier psychology, we consulted the helpful and detailed website, Military Science Fiction. Trying to decipher the inspiration for the names of Zeon ships came down to scouring German and Japanese dictionaries on the web (our favorite online Japanese dictionaries are Jim Breen and Jisho. There are a few great resources on romantic and sexual relationships between men in Japanese history. We enjoyed Tofugu's great article "The Gay of the Samurai: All About Homosexuality, Buddhist Monks, Samurai, and the Tokugawa Middle Class". The following books were also helpful in our research: Pflugfelder, Gregory M. Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950. University of California Press, 2007. McLelland, Mark J. Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. To find our what exactly an "Acting Captain" is, we consulted the United States Navy Regulations, 1990, Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C. Chapter 10: Precedence, Authority, and Command, Section 4, 1074. Some nuances certainly vary from nation to nation, but the Imperial Japanese Navy took Britain's Royal Navy as its model (and the United States Navy originates in the same system). You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap and review Mobile Suit Gundam episode 5, "Re-Entry to Earth," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: hot towels, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the history of spaceflight, childhood trauma, Japanese migration, and physics in science fiction! with special guest, Iraj. The East Japan Oshibori Cooperative Association has a brief history of hot towels (oshibori) in Japan (site is in Japanese). Wikipedia has a thorough overview of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, while the following news articles talk about those who refused to leave the exclusion zone, farmers returning to tend their animals, and the high percentage of returners who are 65 and older. I go over the history of spaceflight very quickly - you can learn more here, and click here to learn specifically about Skylab (the space station that broke up on re-entry, it's pieces crashing into Australia). For our discussion of transitional objects, we reference online articles here, here, and here, as well as this article from the International Journal of Adolescence and Youth: Enrique Roig , Clelia Trelancia Roig & Nancy Soth (1987) The Use of Transitional Objects in Emotionally-Disturbed Adolescent Inpatients, International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 1:1, 45-58, DOI: 10.1080/02673843.1987.9747625 In case, like me, your high school science knowledge could use a refresher, here is a handy chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, which Iraj references several times in the episode. And here are the promised links with more information about reinforced carbon-carbon and ceramics used on space shuttles. Our discussion of Japanese migration is based on this article from UCLA's Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, and on this book: Masterson, Daniel M., and Sayaka Funada-Classen. The Japanese in Latin America. University of Illinois Press, 2004. You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes On this episode: space-refugees, soldiers as police, cultural changes in the Japanese post-war period, the "granddaddy" of anime, and anime history and aesthetics. To learn more about Japan's response to the Indochina Refugee Crisis, check out these articles: Havens, Thomas R.H. “Japan's Response to the Indochinese Refugee Crisis.” Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, vol. 18, no. 1, 1990, pp. 166–181. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24491760. Wain, Barry. "The Indochina Refugee Crisis." Foreign Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, Fall 1979. Web. 21 Sept. 2018. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/cambodia/1979-09-01/indochina-refugee-crisis I'm not posting links to photos of soldiers and civilians from the Vietnam War years, because there are hundreds and it's depressing, but a Google image search will quickly show you what we mean if you're unfamiliar with photography of the period. In the US, when we learn about Japanese history it is usually in the context of WWII. For a great overview of Japan in the post-war period, check out this book: Hane, Mikiso. Eastern Phoenix: Japan since 1945. Westview Press, 1998. Wikipedia has an extensive overview of anime (with a great bibliography of further reading!). I also enjoyed the two books below. The first, on the history of Might Atom/Astroboy, is written by Frederick L. Schodt who also translated the Gundam novels Tomino wrote between first Gundam and the compilation movies. The second provides some analysis of anime aesthetics and philosophy which I didn't always agree with but did find interesting. Schodt, Frederik L. The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution. Calif., 2007. Brophy, Philip. 100 Anime. BFI Publishing, 2006. You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes In this episode: Astrography of the Gundamverse in UC79, what keeps the sides in-place?, collective decision-making, introducing the Minovsky particle, and developments in physics of the 1970s prove Clarke's Third Law, that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." A map of Lagrange Points and a map of the UC79 Gundamverse, showing the sides and Luna II. (Ignore the maps that refer to future series)" The Zaku I, which seems inspired by Roman gladiators. It's worth pointing out, many empires throughout history (including the Nazis in WWII) have styled themselves after the Roman Empire. All of the sources we read on collective decision-making focus on a business context, but the practice has it's foundation in Japanese history and so will certainly affect other aspects of Japanese society. You can read a detailed breakdown of the process here and here. A timeline of developments in physics. Pay special attention to developments during the post-war period, when a number of sub-atomic particles were discovered. This more detailed explanation of quantum entanglement is well worth a read. And finally, a report by the US Energy Research and Development Administration on the projected timelines for development of fusion power, published in 1976. Skip to page 10 for a chart of development progress over time as a function of research spending. You can subscribe to the 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 [email protected]. The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. All Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise Inc. or Bandai or any of its 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] Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com