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 25 - Colony Drop (コロニーが落ちる日), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on women at work in Japan of the 1980s, nuclear pulse engines, seiza, and fortune-telling machines. - - Paper about labor force participation of Japanese women: Shimada, Haruo, and Yoshio Higuchi. “An Analysis of Trends in Female Labor Force Participation in Japan.” Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 3, no. 1, 1985, pp. S355–S374. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2535011. - Wikipedia page on marriage in Japan. - Wikipedia page for Japan’s Equal Employment Opportunity Law. - OECD paper on gender pay gap for full-time workers in member countries. - Japan Times opinion article about the ongoing discrimination Japanese women face in the workforce. - Article from Human Rights Watch about workplace harassment in Japan. - Article from Nikkei Asian Review on the sexual harassment of job-seekers. - CNN article covering a Japanese survey about overwork, office culture, and mental health. - Daily Beast article about recent (2018) sexual harassment and sexual discrimination scandals in Japan. *- Unseen Japan translation of recent HuffPo Japan article about harassment during job-seeking. - Wikipedia article on the JSDF (Japan Self-Defense Force). - Japan Times articles about women in the JSDF. - Graph of mean age at first marriage in Japan from 1955 to 2018, by gender. - Trends of mean age at first birth in Poland, Japan and Sweden. - An article with good statistics on dating, marriage, and childbearing in Japan, but with positions and conclusions I mostly disagree with, by Akihiko Kato, a Professor in the School of Political Science and Economics at Meiji University. - Huffpo article on sexist expressions in languages other than English, including “Christmas Cake.” - New York Times article about the increasing number of Japanese women choosing to stay single (also mentions “Christmas Cake”). - A comprehensive paper on the early history of Nuclear Pulse Propulsion, with diagrams: G.R. Schmidt, J.A. Bonometti, and P.J. Morton of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville Alabama. Nuclear Pulse Propulsion - Orion and Beyond. Presented at the 36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit, July 2000, Huntsville, Alabama. Available at https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20000096503.pdf - An article including information on newer ideas for nuclear pulse propulsion: Stan Tacket. Nuclear Pulse Propulsion: Gateway to the Stars. March 27, 2013. Available at http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2013/03/27/nuclear-pulse-propulsion-gateway-to-the-stars/ - A declassified report from Los Alamos on nuclear pulse propulsion. Balcomb, Booth, Robinson, Cotter, Springer, Hedstrom, Watson. Nuclear Pulsed Space Propulsion Systems. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, United States Atomic Energy Commission. 1970. - Background on Freeman Dyson, Stanislaw Ulam, nuclear pulse propulsion, and Project Orion. - Video footage from a 1950s era small scale test of the Project Orion concept. - Wikipedia page on seiza. - Teacher forces 96 students to kneel for 20 minutes as punishment for being late. - Other sources on seiza as punishment: DeCoker, Gary, and Christopher Bjork. Japanese Education in an Era of Globalization: Culture, Politics, and Equity. Teachers College Press, 2013. LeTendre, Gerald K., and Rebecca Erwin Fukuzawa. Intense Years: How Japanese Adolescents Balance School, Family and Friends. Routledge, 2016. - Japan Times article about upcoming changes to law regarding child abuse, including seiza in a list of unacceptable physical punishments. - A brief rundown of some of the most famous fortune telling machines, including the Ask Swami that was "ubiquitous" in 1950s diners. - The Twilight Zone episode with the fortune telling machine and a comparison of the Mystic Seer from the episode with the Ask Swami. - Background on o-mikuji fortunes in English and in Japanese. - Some more readable articles about the practice, with pictures. - An article talking about the o-mikuji vending machines. - Wikimedia's collection of pictures of o-mikuji vending machines. - The roulette wheel omikuji vending machine, and an article about them with pictures that show one on a table in a restaurant. - Tofugu article about Japan's coffee culture that mentions the 1980s coffee boom. - 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

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 24 - Counterattack (反撃), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Japanese grammar and vocabulary, Wernher von Braun, desertification, and a final (we hope!) note about "the birds will laugh at me." - - Kotobank page for レクリエーション (recreation). Kotobank pulls definitions from various sources. All definitions in Japanese. - Miriam Webster and Dictionary.com definitions of recreation. - To talk about the ~んです grammar from this episode, I consulted the following books (and highly recommend them if you’re studying Japanese): “No Da のだ.” A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar 日本語基本文法辞典, by Seiichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui, Japan Times, 2007, pp. 325–328. “Chapter 12.1 ~んです.” Genki I an Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, by Eri Banno et al., The Japan Times, 1999, pp. 230–231. - Wikipedia pages for Von Braun himself, the Von Braun Crater (not the site of Von Braun City), and the V-2 (vergeltungswaffe, "vengeance weapon") rocket program he headed. - A review of empirical evidence about Von Braun's membership in the Nazi party, the SS, and the extent of his culpability for the suffering and death of the enslaved laborers who built his rockets: Neufeld, Michael J. “Wernher Von Braun, the SS, and Concentration Camp Labor: Questions of Moral, Political, and Criminal Responsibility.” German Studies Review, vol. 25, no. 1, 2002, pp. 57–78. JSTOR, <www.jstor.org/stable/1433245>. - A history of the V-2 rocket program: Bode, Volkhard and Kaiser, George. Building Hitler's Missiles: Traces of History in Peenemünde. Ch. Links Verlag (2008). - A broadly positive history of Von Braun's life and career that touches on the darker aspects: Dunar, Andrew J. Wernher Von Braun: A Visionary as Engineer and Manager. From Realizing the Dream of Flight, a NASA anthology edited by Virginia Dawson and Mark Bowles. Government Printing Office (Dec 31, 2005). - Article describing a young Von Braun engaged in what would today be considered unethical experiments on mice: Bartels, Meghan. "Before He Was a Rocket Engineer for Nazi Germany, Von Braun Was a Student Experimenting on Mice." Space.com. August 12, 2019. Available at https://www.space.com/wernher-von-braun-college-mice-experiments.html - Reference.com: What percentage of Africa is desert? - Wikipedia pages on desertification and on Sahel droughts. - Britannica page on desertification. - An overview of current understanding of desertification, from the Desertification Control Bulletin. - Detailed statistics and maps indicating risk of human-induced desertification in Africa, from the United States Department of Agriculture. - A more recent (2015) article from the BBC about the current effects of desertification. - Homepage, Wikipedia page, and Smithsonian article about The Great Green Wall, a project to combat desertification in the Sahel. - 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 have the text of the forum comments and discussion prompts, and sources for submitted research pieces. Some comments have been shortened or reformatted. - Dan: I would like to know your opinion on why certain Mobile suits are called Gundam, and others aren’t. Take the MK II, it’s made of titanium alloy, but it’s called a Gundam. The Hyaku Shiki and Rick Dias are both made of Gundarium Alloy, ( Luna Titanium retconned name) but are not classified as Gundams. LC: I would like you guys to do an occasional deeper dive into the suits themselves. They're characters in the show, and I'd love an occasional conversation about the aesthetics and in-universe story behind them. Sean: Why is the Hyaku Shiki the best MS ever? Robert submitted a research piece about the boat we mentioned in episode 2.19 of the podcast (the one on which Namicar Cornell travels, and where Mirai and her children are held). Sources: definition and explanation of hydrofoils, about the historic hydrofoil passenger service between Hong Kong and Macau, the current hydrofoil passenger service called TurboJET, about the USS Plainview (to which this ship's design might be a reference), and video of the USS Plainview in action. LC: Gundam gets worse the more it strays from harder sci-fi. Zeta is an excellent series that did much good for the franchise, but in my opinion it also created a lot of the things I don't specifically like, primary among this the deeper woo of newtypes. I (admittedly personally) prefer the more grounded aspects of the franchise (yes I understand the humor of enjoying the grounded aspects of a series about giant robots.) I would much rather have it be a way of serving up deeper philosophical and ethical conversations than about new-age post-jedi SPACE MAGIC. Needs more Charma: Toward the end of First Gundam, Gihren and Degwin Zabi share an infamous scene in which Degwin asks if Gihren, Zeon’s “Supreme Leader,” has ever heard of Adolf Hitler. Gihren then describes himself as “a follower of Hitler.” The conventional reading of this scene, and the one Thom & Nina discussed on the podcast, is that Degwin is accusing Girhen of being like Hitler and Gihren eagerly accepts the accusation. As Thom put it, this is when the show turns to the audience and states outright that the whole thing has been a metaphor for World War II. However, I think this scene actually shows that Gihren is an analog not for Hitler, but for his follower Mussolini. Both relied on an external force more powerful than themselves (Mussolini relied on Hitler, Gihren relied on Newtypes). Gihren, like Mussolini, is incoherent as a commander. And he’s killed by Kycilia, similar to the way Mussolini was executed by Italian partisans. The true stand-in for Hitler in First Gundam is actually Char. There are two reasons for this. First is the relationship between Gihren (as Mussolini) and Char - Gihren is weaker in every way and relies on Char’s strength for the sake of achieving his own ambitions. Just as Mussolini’s fascist Italy relied on Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Second, Char is depicted as having taken up but also warped his father’s philosophical beliefs, creating a violent perversion of Zeon Deikun’s philosophy. This reflects Hitler’s own self-aggrandizing interpretation of the philosophy espoused by his mentor Dietrich Eckart. I think the Char/Lalah relationship is more an allegory of the relationship between Hitler and the party and the German public given that both Lalah and Germany rely exclusively on Char/Hitler for survival and also shows how the manipulation of said devotees can lead seeming innocent people to commit barbaric acts in the name of a moral crusade, often against their own self interest. Steven B.: The topic I’m most interested in is theorizing what Gundam manga & light novels could be adapted into anime. What can I say? I love liminal spaces and your podcast is built around only the parts of Gundam that exist as anime. Now, unless I’m mistaken, such adaptations were nonexistent in the Gundam franchise up until the past decade, which saw 4 (that I know of). I know Tomino himself wrote a novelized version of Char’s Counterattack before the film was made, but I’m given to understand it was a soft pitch and by no means a hit on its own. With Hathaway’s Flash coming this winter, what the hell, I want to run down a Top 5 Non-anime Gundam That Could Maybe Become Anime Gundams Some Time in the Near Future. Crossbone Gundam Char’s Deleted Affair The Plot to Assassinate Gihren Zabi École du Ciel We’re Feddie Hooligans!! Austin: Why doesn't Amuro know how to shake hands? What happened on that dock with Kamille? That was the most confused congratulations ever. (This is a reference to the episode where they shake hands on the dock in Hong Kong after rescuing Mirai) Kyle F.: While the Soviet Buran was superficially similar enough to the US Shuttle to be called a copy, it differed in a principally important way. The Shuttle itse

Show Notes Our show-notes are a bit odd this week - no sources, just the text of the questions submitted to us. We have done little or no editing of them, so for the most part they are exactly as they were submitted to us. - Personal Thunderokami: what's your favorite Kebab? Rob B: You mention that the podcast is your full-time time job. How does that work financially? It's easy to see your patreon income, but I'm surprised if that's enough to live comfortably in scenic New Yark City. You don't do adverts, unless is the whole podcast a product placement for Gunpla and you're paid by Bandai?! Are there other ways to monetize a podcast? Toby F: How are you two related to each other, are your brother and sister, husband and wife, are you like Char and Lalah, or are you both just Haros in disguise? Marcus: Nina, how did you learn Japanese? Even though I live here, mine is still awful, any tips? Any chance of a spin-off podcast for those of us learning Japanese via Gundam ("Mobile Suit Language Breakdown") (Related - Marcus is starting a book club to ready Gundam Aggressor in Japanese. It’s never been translated. He’s set up the book club through the WaniKani forums, so if you’re on WaniKani you can check it out! https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-reading-gundam-aggressor-in-2020-in-this-thread/39454) Gundam LDRaku: Thom: favorite Gundam series? Nina: Favorite Gundam scene? Charlie G: Nina, which has been your favorite episode so far and why? Quinnage: For Thom: Why do you think that Gundam has had such a hard time catching on in the west compared to other large franchises from Japan and, how can this be rectified? What’s your favorite Mobile Suit? Cheatobandito: If you guys could pilot any mobile suit (excluding the ball) what would it be? Lucas: What MS would you have liked to have more screen time of? Dylan: Also, if you could design a mobile suit, what color scheme would you pick? What special details or accessories would you want to have? If you could remake Gundam… Fzburner: What would be your ideal Gundam series scenario/plot? And who would you have animate/direct it? Turlooke: If you could have any writer living or dead create a one shot Gundam story, who would you pick and why? Thunderokami: I have a really dumb question, cause its really out there but like, if you could have a classic animator, animate Gundam, who would you choose? Tex Avery, Walt Disney, those sort of animators. Thomas G: If you could have any specific studio, director, writer, or designer produce a new entry in the Gundam franchise, who would you want to be involved—and as a bonus question—what would you like that new entry to be about? Steve B: Nina, since you’re aware that there’s a lot more Gundam to come, what do you hope or expect you’ll see that you haven’t already? They can’t all be genre defining & refining, but they do all try to stand out. I don’t know exactly what would or wouldn’t be a spoiler, but I can vaguely say that there are certain themes that become more prominent or less prominent with the times & the occasional new idea. Nina meets Gundam Quinnage: For Nina: Before beginning this project what was your impression of Gundam? Were you of the opinion that the show was nothing but "wow cool robot" with a thin plot serving only as an excuse for more fights? Mizzlez AKA Hobbs: Was Gundam love at first watch for you? Or did it grow on you over time? and for Nina, 1.5 seasons in, do you actually love Gundam or more the podcast itself, or does this feel like a “job” yet? Turlooke: This one is just for Nina: based just on the titles of the Gundam series, which (if any) have you interested in finding out what they are about? Dylan: For Nina: is there a series that you’ve had glimpses of that you’re looking the most forward to watching in the future? Thom meets Gundam Again Thanksgenking: For Thom: how has this extensive close-reading of Gundam changed your perspective on the franchise? Are there any elements of the show that you’ve grown more appreciative of thanks to the podcast? Charlie W: For Thom - In your journey of watching Gundam shows, when did you first see Zeta Gundam?And how do you think your impression(s) of Zeta Gundam since that very first viewing? How have your thoughts, impressions changed most dramatically since the very first time you watched Zeta? Dylan: For Thom: is there a series that you’re most looking forward to watching with Nina? And are there any that you’ve missed that you’re looking forward/dreading? Charlie G: 2. Thom, which series are you most looking forward to reviewing? Not necessarily which is your favorite. Steve B: Thom, if you could break the established schedule is there any Gundam work, animated or otherwise, that you’d skip to immediately? Perhaps you’re sick of these teens with feelings and just want to watch a 20-something do punches in G Gundam. Maybe you think Char’s Deleted Affair offers valuable insights into the present mindset of Lt. Quattro. Look, I dunno, that’s wh

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 23 - Moon Attack (ムーン・アタック), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research Japanese youth and religion, home shrines and altars in Japan, and a Gundam names round-up that include Buran Blutarch (ブラン・ブルターク), Mouar Pharoah (マウアー・ファラオ), and Siddeley. Plus, the birds laugh at us (a research dead-end!). - - From my attempts to figure out "the birds will laugh at me" - a study of Chinese pottery from a specific kiln, includes examples of pottery with poetry painted on and the “I fear flowers and birds will laugh at me” line. - Anime News Network page for Andersen Monogatari, a 1968 Japanese animated film based on the life and stories of Hans Christian Andersen. - Info page and link to watch Ahiru no ko, or The Ugly Duckling, a silent animated short from Japan, released in 1932. This website is amazing, and has lots of early Japanese animated works viewable in their entirety. - Published study about Japanese young adults and their perception of religion: Japanese Youth Confronts Religion, Fernando M. Basabe. 1967. - Wikipedia articles for kamidana and butsudan, as well an article from learnjapanese123.com about them, and one from tofugu.com about butsudan specifically. The Tofugu article has some great historical information on how the practice of keeping a butsudan may have developed. - Book about ceremony in Japanese home-life, including butsudan, kamidama, and the practices around them: Jeremy, Michael, et al. Ceremony and Symbolism in the Japanese Home. University of Hawaii Press, 1989. - Paper about perceptions and use of butsudan in the Japanese diaspora community in the United States, especially among nisei, sansei, and further removed generations: Iwamura, Jane Naomi. “Altared States: Exploring the Legacy of Japanese American Butsudan Practice.” Pacific World, no. 5, ser. 3, 2003, pp. 275–292. 3. - Wired article and creator webpage for a design project to create smaller and simpler butsudan, reflecting modern and minimalist design. - On Buran Blutarch (ブラン・ブルターク), Wikipedia pages for the Buran program, the Buran spacecraft, and the Energia (the rocket booster used with the Buran spacecraft). - NY Times Article about the Soviet Buran program's test flights immediately prior to Zeta's creation: "SOVIET UNION LOFTS A SHUTTLE MODEL IN AMBITIOUS PLAN" by John Noble Wilford, Dec. 20 1984. - NBC Article about the KGB stealing shuttle program documents for the Buran program: "How the Soviets stole a space shuttle" by Robert Windrem, Nov. 4, 1997. - Brief Roscosmos video about the Buran, in Russian but includes video of the craft launching and its fully automated landing. - CNN Article about the Buran being left to rot in Kazakhstan: "Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in Kazakh steppe" by Jacopo Prisco, Dec. 21, 2017. - Detailed timeline of the Buran program. - Space.com retrospective on the Buran, including its ultimate fate (destroyed when its hangar collapsed). - Jisho.org entry for Plutarch (プルタルコス). - Wikipedia page for Plutarch. - On Mouar Pharaoh (マウアー・ファラオ): Maua (Kenya), Mauá (Brazil), Maúa (Mozambique), the Maua tree, and the Maua cicada. - Wikipedia and CFA (Cat Fanciers' Association) pages for the Egyptian Mau Cat. And a cute video, "Meet the Egyptian Mau." - Wikipedia pages for Pharaoh (the title and position), and for Cleopatra (the 1963 movie). - Liz Taylor/Mouar side-by-side comparison image (created by Thom). - Wikipedia pages for John Siddeley, the Hawker Siddeley company, and the Hawker Siddeley Harrier (a famous VTOL fighter jet). - 1975 archive footage from inside a Hawker Siddeley plant. - Excessively dramatic mini-documentary about the Harrier with a lot of footage of them in action. - The song for the TNN Marasai advertisement is "Drops of H2O ( The Filtered Water Treatment )" by J.Lang (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Airtone. - 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 the

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 22 - The Eyes of Scirocco (シロッコの眼), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Scirocco's implement and corporal punishment in Zeta, the history of vending machines, and a follow-up on last week's research on Saint Miki. - - Roman centurion's vine staff (or vitis, plural vites). - Its descendant, the swagger stick. - An 1869 treatise of staggering length and breadth on the history of corporal punishment: Cooper, William M. The History of the Rod: Flagellation and Flagellants in All Countries from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Kegan Paul (1869). And on the Japanese Context: Drea, Edward J. In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. U. of Nebraska (2003). - Japanese Wikipedia page on soldiers and training, including notes on Imperial Japanese Army and Navy policies on hazing. Miller, Aaron L. Discourses of Discipline: An Anthropology of Corporal Punishment in Japan's Schools and Sports. Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley (available here). Yoneyama, Shoko. The Japanese High School: Silence and Resistance. Routledge (2012). - A WW2 era US Army translation of an internal Japanese Army report on the state of discipline and morale in the army. - Blog post republishing a Mainichi Japan article from November 2009 about the Totsuka Yacht School, and talking about the relationship between hierarchical power and violence. - Japan Times article about corporal punishment in Japanese sports, and its interconnection with popular media including anime, as well as the attitudes among many older Japanese people that corporal punishment is an essential component of masculinity. - Japanese page on the 軍人精神注入棒 Military Spirit Instillation Rod (or the Soldierly Spirit Injection Stick). - Bon Appetit article on the history of vending machines, (includes images of patent drawings) and another brief history with examples of unusual vending machines. - Description of Heron Alexandrinus’ holy-water dispensing machine (and some other miscellaneous details about the vending machine industry). - History of the Automat (restaurant where all food was purchased from vending machines). - Wikipedia page on vending machines (history portion is not very detailed but has useful statistics on vending machines in Japan and sections on different types of vending machines). - History and context for vending machines in Japan. - Burger vending machines (FEBO in the Netherlands is an example of an automat). - 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 21 - A Sign of Zeta (ゼータの鼓動), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the possible inspiration for the Gabthlay and it's gun - the fedayeen, blood oaths in Japanese history, and Saint Miki. - - Fedayeen on Wikipedia. - Painting of an Afghan warrior carrying a jezail ("juzzail" in the caption). - Article about the jezail, with more photos. - A Gadfly mech from Crusher Joe. - Wikipedia article for Horse-fly. - Instances of the gadfly in Greek myth. - An English translation of Plato's "Apology of Socrates." - About Ethel Voynich's novel, The Gadfly,, and the text on Project Gutenberg. - Japanese Wikipedia page for keppanjou / けっぱんじょう / 血判状 (a compact or covenant, sealed with blood). - Japanese and English Wikipedia pages on the Kumano shrines. - Tourist information for Kumano. - First-hand account of Tokugawa-era Japan, by German naturalist Engelbert Kaempfer (English translation): Kempfer, Engelbert, and Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey. Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed. University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. - Wikipedia page for Engelbert Kaempfer (sometimes rendered Kempfer). - Paper that discusses blood oaths in the master/disciple relationship (especially in martial arts): Ozawa, Hiroshi. “Essence of Training (Keiko) in Japanese Culture: Technique (Waza) Acquirement and Secret of Kendo.” Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, 25 Jan. 2005. - Japanese and English Wikipedia pages for the 血盟団事件 / “League of Blood Incident.” - Paper on the Buddhist concept of Samādhi and its use to justify violence in Imperial Japan (discusses the League of Blood Incident and the respected Zen Buddhist master Yamamoto Gempou who testified in support of the terrorists): Victoria, Brian Daizen. “Samādhi Power in Imperial Japan.” (2017). - Saint Miki in English and Japanese Wikipedia, and the Wikipedia page for the 26 Martyrs of Japan. - Saint Miki's saint-page on catholic.org, and a more detailed description of the torture and execution of the martyrs. - Recounting of the San Felipe Incident. - And a book that covers the period of missionary activity before the suppression of Christianity in Japan: Boxer, Charles Randolph. The Christian Century in Japan: 1549-1650. U. of California Press (1951). - 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 20 - The Heated Escape (灼熱の脱出), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the inspiration for the Titan's New Guinea Base, and solid rocket boosters. - - Wikipedia page for New Guinea. - Google maps link for Lae. - General New Guinea pre-colonial and colonial history from the official Papua New Guinea travel website, thecommonwealth.org, and the Wikipedia pages for the Territory of Papua and Western New Guinea. - Additional articles about New Guinea's pre-colonial and colonial history: The Economist. Papua New Guinea’s incredible linguistic diversity. July 20, 2017. https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/07/20/papua-new-guineas-incredible-linguistic-diversity Quanchi, M. and Robson, J. Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands, Maryland: Scarecrow (2005). - Information about New Guinea's pre-history and agricultural revolution: Harari, Y. N. Sapiens: A brief history of humankind. New York: Harper (2015). Sack Peter. German New Guinea: a reluctant plantation colony?. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, n°82-83, tome 42, 1986. Les plantations dans le Pacifique Sud. pp. 109-127. Available at https://doi.org/10.3406/jso.1986.2826 Historical Section of the Foreign Office, Dutch New Guinea and the Molucca Islands. London: H.M. Stationery Office (1920). Available at: https://dl.wdl.org/11918/service/11918.pdf Pouwer, Jan. “The Colonisation, Decolonisation and Recolonisation of West New Guinea.” The Journal of Pacific History, vol. 34, no. 2, 1999, pp. 157–179. JSTOR, <www.jstor.org/stable/25161076>. - Wikipedia pages for various aspects of the Lae Campaign in World War II: the New Guinea campaign as a whole, the Salamaua Lae campaign, and the landing at Nadzab. - US army newsreels about the Lae campaign. Please be aware that these were made during the war and they both contain frequent uses of exactly the anti-Japanese slur that you would expect. - About the Free Papua Movement and Indonesian Annexation of West Papua. - Histories of the Conflict: https://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/asiapacific-region/indonesiairian-jaya-1963-present/ Schnabel Albrecht, Gunaratna Rohan. Wars From Within: Understanding And Managing Insurgent Movements. World Scientific (2014). King, Peter. West Papua & Indonesia Since Suharto: Independence, Autonomy, or Chaos? UNSW (2004). Belford, Aubrey. "An Indonesian War of 'Unknown Persons'" The International Herald Tribune, Aug. 27, 2011. Available at: https://nyti.ms/2BmIM90. - Reports on human rights abuses from the conflict: Brundige et al. Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control. Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School. Available at: https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/Intellectual_Life/West_Papua_final_report.pdf Amnesty International. INDONESIA: "DON'T BOTHER, JUST LET HIM DIE": KILLING WITH IMPUNITY IN PAPUA. July 2, 2018. Available at: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa21/8198/2018/en/. - About the development of the space shuttle Columbia and its first launch and return. - History of the space shuttle program. - NASA overview page for the space shuttle program, with links to more detailed information on the science and history. - Some great photos of space shuttles before and during launch, during transport, and docked with Mir space station. - NASA page from before the end of the space shuttle program, with overview, statistics, and a photograph of a shuttle with the different major components labeled. - Wikipedia pages on solid rocket boosters. This one is very technical - digs into the science of how all the different components work together at different stages, and has good diagrams. This one is more general, and discusses the pros and cons of solid rocket boosters compared to liquid propellant rockets. - About Newtons (unit of measurement). - Wikipedia page on reusable launch systems, with additional information about post-space shuttle program projects, especially in the private sector. - 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 Unit

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 19 - Cinderella Four (シンデレラ・フォウ), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Attachment Theory. - - Wikipedia pages for Attachment Theory, John Bowlby, the Strange Situation protocol, and Attachment in adults. - Paper that addresses attachment in adolescents. - An overview of Adult Attachment Theory and some of the research behind it. - And an even shorter overview on attachment in adults and how it affects relationships. - We didn't discuss it in depth, but if you're curious, here are articles from the APA (American Psychological Association), NPR (National Public Radio), and the New York Times about how the conditions experienced by institutionalized children in Romania affected them (in terms of attachment, neurological development, and long-term effects). The New York Times article also discusses some of the history of attachment theory in popular discourse, and the controversies around it. - Wikipedia page for Michelangelo's “Pieta” (one of the most famous). - 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 18 - Mirai Captured (とらわれたミライ), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on more Gundam names: Hathaway Noa, Namicar Cornell, and Four Murasame. - - Plausible origins of the name Hathaway. - Source for Hathaway-like medieval predecessors for Hedwig. - Wikipedia page and IMDB page for Noah Hathaway. - Japanese release data for the film Neverending Story. - Wikipedia page for "Boxey" character from original Battlestar Galactica TV series. - Sean (Flying_Grizzly)'s research connecting Battlestar Galactica to First Gundam. - Jisho.org entries for Namika names, namikaze, and 'namikaze ga tatsu'/波風が立つ (to make waves; to rock the boat). - Wikipedia entry for Ezra Cornell. - JPN Wiki page for Cornell University. - Wikipedia and Wiktionary pages for "Murasame." - Page for the most famous of the Murasame destroyers. - Murasame in the Final Fantasy franchise. - Wikipedia page on Nansou Satomi Hakkenden. - Ongoing project to translate all of the Nansou Satomi Hakkenden novel. - Wikipedia page for the Matsukaze Noh play. - Pages for the Matsukaze Noh play's authors: Kanami and Zeami. - Discussions about Matsukaze from a History of Noh blog and The-Noh.com. - Tyler, Royall. “The No Play Matsukaze as a Transformation of Genji Monogatari.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 1994, pp. 377–422. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/133198. - Two translations of Matsukaze, this one more readable in English and this one less so. - Side-by-side English and Japanese text of Matsukaze Noh play (this is the one Nina reads from). - 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 17 - Hong Kong City (ホンコン・シティ), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Hong Kong's history and brain-computer interfaces. - - General histories of Hong Kong from Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, Lonely Planet, Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Discover Hong Kong (tourism website), and Hong Kong Free Press. - Explanation of crown colonies. - Hong Kong in the 1980s. - Hong Kong chronologies from Reuters, BBC, and National Geographic. - Articles on how the contemporary political situation in Hong Kong is influenced by its history, from National Geographic and History.com. - Explanation of electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocorticography (ECoG). - Alvien Lucier's brain-performed "Music For Solo Performer" (1965) - Wikipedia page on brain-computer interfaces. - Tragic end to the vision restoration implant experiment. - Article on the ethical considerations of brain-computer interfaces. - Research on using a brain-computer interface to 'extract' information from an unwitting subject's mind: Martinovic, Davies, Frank, Perito, Ros, Song. On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interfaces. Available at https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity12/sec12-final56.pdf. - Articles dealing with prostheses, control methods, and mental load: Mathijs Soede, On the Mental Load in Arm Prosthesis Control, Nederlands Instituut voor Praeventieve Gezondheidszorg, 1980 Dudley S. Childress. Historical Aspects of Powered Limb Prostheses. 1984. Available at http://www.oandplibrary.org/cpo/pdf/1985_01_002.pdf. R.M. Campbell, Control Aspects of Prosthetics and Orthotics, Proceedings of the IFAC Symposium, Ohio, USA 7-9 May 1982, Elsevier (2014). - A brief history of brain-computer interfaces from a company that makes them for consumers. - Much more detailed histories: Fabien Lotte, Chang S. Nam, Anton Nijholt. Introduction: Evolution of Brain-Computer Interfaces. Chang S. Nam; Anton Nijholt; Fabien Lotte. Brain-Computer Interfaces Handbook: Technological and Theoretical Advance, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), pp.1-11, 2018, 9781498773430. ffhal-01656743f (Available at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01656743/document) Leuthardt, E. C., Schalk, G., Roland, J., Rouse, A., & Moran, D. W. (2009). Evolution of brain-computer interfaces: going beyond classic motor physiology. Neurosurgical focus, 27(1), E4. doi:10.3171/2009.4.FOCUS0979 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920041/) - Articles about how brain-computer interfaces work and what they can do: Shih, J. J., Krusienski, D. J., & Wolpaw, J. R. (2012). Brain-computer interfaces in medicine. Mayo Clinic proceedings, 87(3), 268–279. doi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2011.12.008 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497935/ Krucoff, M. O., Rahimpour, S., Slutzky, M. W., Edgerton, V. R., & Turner, D. A. (2016). Enhancing Nervous System Recovery through Neurobiologics, Neural Interface Training, and Neurorehabilitation. Frontiers in neuroscience, 10, 584. doi:10.3389/fnins.2016.00584 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5186786/ Duke SciPol, “Brain-Computer Interface based Neuro-prosthetics” available at https://scipol.org/learn/science-library/brain-computer-interface-based-neuro-prosthetics (05/19/2017). Colin Payne. Engineering a Brain-Computer Interface. April 27, 2017. Available at https://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/14815/Engineering-a-Brain-Computer-Interface.aspx - 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 16 - Through the Haze of Darkness (白い闇を抜けて), discuss our first impressions, and and provide commentary and research on planes and pigeons. - - Wikipedia pages for Beechcraft, the Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing, and stagger as an aeronautics term. - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) article about "Beech's Beautiful Biplane." - Plane and Pilot magazines's All Time Favorite Planes (the Staggerwing is #5). - A page collecting information about aircraft used in the Spanish Civil War (the Staggerwing was used by the Republicans, allegedly as a not-very-effective bomber). - Articles about the Comet Model Airplane and Supply Company. - Wikipedia page for the Edgley Optica. - Page on wing configurations, with pictures to explain tapered and dihedral. - Brief article about the Optica, with video of one flying. - AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) article about the Optica. - Earlier AOPA article about the Optica right after John Edgley re-acquired control of the design. - Listing of every Optica manufactured or planned, with their current status. - Article from 1986 World's Fair where the Optica was demonstrated, after the crash but when hopes were still high. - Official report on the Optica accident discussed in the podcast. - Wikipedia pages on Passenger pigeons and English Carrier pigeons. - The true subject of this episode's research: the Homing pigeon (or Racing Homer), which Britannica calls the Carrier pigeon. - Pigeon post! - War pigeons, further explanation of pigeons in war and stories of Dinkin Award winning pigeons from the Royal Pigeon Racing Association, and a brief history of the National Pigeon Service in the UK. - Story of Olga of Kiev, and her sneaky use of pigeons in the Drevlian Uprising. - Article about "closing the pigeon gap" between the Franco-Prussian War and WWI. - Primary resources (mostly photographs) of war pigeons in World Wars 1 and 2. - Pigeon heroics! The stories of Winkie, Cher Ami, G.I. Joe, Commando, and Mary of Exeter. - 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 15 - Katz's Sortie (カツの出撃), discuss our first impressions, and welcome back our special guest and consultant in neuropsychology, Dr. Shar of Dr. Sharmander Gaming. Find her on YouTube and Twitter. - Disclaimer from Dr. Shar: All views expressed in this interview are the clinician's own and do not represent the opinions of any entity whatsoever with which she has been, is currently, or will be affiliated. Some are reactionary and are for entertainment purposes only. - About moral injury. - Further explanation of adaptive disclosure as treatment for trauma and moral injury. - An article about asthenia and how it doesn't exist to Americans because our diagnostic system is...limited. - Blood redistribution being addressed in space. The music in this week's TNN segment is "reCreation" by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. The role of the pilot was played by Edward Bauer. - 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 14 - Amuro Flies Again (アムロ再び), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Garuda, Sudori, Audhumla, and Asshimar. - - Wikipedia, Ancient History Encyclopedia, and Encyclopedia Britannica pages for Garuda. - One of the Garuda stories. - Explanation of the Garuda Upanishad. - List of things named for Garuda, including the Garud Commando Force, the Garuda Contingent, INS Garuda, and Electronic Attack Squadron 134 (aka "Garudas"). - Wikipedia page for Siduri, the divine alewife from the Gilgamesh myth. And this is the version of the Epic of Gilgamesh we consulted: The Epic of Gilgamesh, trans. by Andrew George, Penguin Books, UK (1999). - Sudri on Wikipedia. - Midgard in the Encyclopedia Britannica (mentions the four dwarves). - Audhumla licking at Buri, from a 1700s manuscript. - My Norse Digital Image Repository (for other images of figures mentioned in the story). - Audhumla on Wikipedia. - Useful book: Facts on File, Inc., Norse Mythology A to Z, Infobase Publishing (2009). - Online copy of the Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson's collection of Norse myths. - Online copy of the Poetic Edda, a later-discovered but earlier-composed set of Norse myths that expands on what was in the Prose Edda. - The Norse Creation myth as told by an expert on the old Norse language. - The Thai company called Asimar, and the Dungeons & Dragons Aasimar. - Definitions of あっ/Aa!, しまった/shimatta, and 閉まる/shimaru. - Stock photo of one version of the ninja costume we talked about last season. - Wikipedia page on sōhei (warrior monks), and photos of the zukin (hood, kerchief, head covering) that they sometimes wore. - 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 13 - “Shuttle Launch” (シャトル発進), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the Valkyrie plane, art, plants in 1980s interior design, and Aristeia. - - NASA fact sheet about the Valkyrie and its service history. - National Museum of the Air Force page on the Valkyrie. - Wired article: Meet the XB-70 Valkyrie, Almost the World's First Nuclear Aircraft, from io9, by Ed Grabianowski, on Dec. 28, 2010. - National Interest article: XB-70 Valkyrie: Why Didn't America Build This Mach 3 Monster Bomber? by Dave Majumdar, Jan 19, 2017. - NASA article about the Valkyrie crash. - A more extensive page on the crash, including information about its aftermath, from the website of a group of... aviation crash enthusiasts. - Newspaper article from after the crash, about the inquiry into the causes: "Colonel Loses Post over XB70 Crash" from The Tuscaloosa News, Aug. 16, 1966. - National Interest article about the competition between bombers and fighter during the Cold War: Bombers vs. Fighters in the Jet Era: Who Won the Battle for the Sky?, by Robert Farley, Nov. 24, 2018. - The author of this book was Director of Defense Research and Engineering in the Department of Defense, in the latter 1950s and early 1960s. He was subsequently Chancellor of the University of California at San Diego, and then founding Director of the University of California Insitute on Global Conflict and Cooperation: Race to Oblivion: A Participant's View of the Arms Race, Herbert F. York, Simon and Schuster, 1970. - Screenshots of the art in Amuro's home (the pieces we identified and the ones that have us stumped, plus side by side comparisons of the identified paintings with the work they're based on). - Wikipedia pages on Jacob van Ruisdael and the painting Windmill at Wijk bij Duursted. - The Amsterdam Museum's page for De Molen bij Wijk bij Duurstede (Dutch). - Wikipedia page for Jean Honoré Fragonard, and a page about Fragonard and his most famous works (including The Bathers). - Wikimedia page for Fragonard's painting, The Bathers. - Wiki page on Delftware (probable inspiration for the blue-and-white ceramics on Amuro's mantlepiece). - Articles about 1980's home decor and interior design, all of which mention plant-trends. - Various articles about indoor, built-in planters, mostly with regards to how they can be repurposed or updated now that it's no longer trendy to use them as planters. - Care-guides for indoor hedge plants: boxwood and Japanese privet. - Thom's source for Aristeia in the lost poems of the epic cycle: Device and Composition in the Greek Epic Cycle, Benjamin Sammon, Oxford University Press, 2017. - Aristeia and philotimia - Two key concepts of the ancient Greek world, by Eugenia Russell, Feb. 19, 2018. - A very neat comic strip depiction of how Aristeia works, from Greek Myth Comix. This comic was guest-contributed by Parham Sorooshian, Feb. 21, 2014. - A.T. Murray's 1924 translation of Homer's The Iliad, published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA. - Alexander Pope's 1899 translation of Homer's The Iliad, published by BH Stanton, Boston MA. - A handy pronunciation guide for many of the heroes in The Iliad. - 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 12 - “The Winds of Jaburo” (ジャブローの風), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on nuclear explosions, the Fall of Saigon, and Mobile Suit Variations. - - Wikipedia pages on nuclear weapons testing generally, United States nuclear weapon tests, high-altitude nuclear explosions, and underground nuclear testing. - And pages on the effects of nuclear explosions, including blast waves, mushroom clouds, nuclear electromagnetic pulses, and condensation clouds. - Slide deck explaining effects of nuclear weapons (WARNING: graphic descriptions and images of nuclear weapon effects on human bodies). - The Operation Crossroads tests at Bikini Atoll. - Two narratives of the Operation Crossroads debacle (includes pictures and video). - Video of underwater nuclear tests (Wahoo and Umbrella, in the 1950s). - About the Partial Test Ban Treaty (which banned all testing except underground testing). - Federation of American Scientists (an NGO founded by alumni of the Manhattan Project) page on underground nuclear testing. - Footage of an underground nuclear explosion. - Paper on the containment of underground nuclear explosions, with descriptions of how they work. - Article about underground testing at the Nevada facility where more than 800 tests were performed. - BBC article explaining how underground nuclear tests function. - Dangers of underground testing contaminating groundwater: "Concerns Arise Over Aquifer Near Nuclear Test Site" by Martin Forstenzer, March 21, 2000. - Wikipedia pages for the Fall of Saigon and Operation Frequent Wind. - Collection of photographs from the end of the Vietnam War. - Timeline and personal account of the final days of the Vietnam War by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who was there at the time reporting for the Associated Press. - First-hand account from journalist Jim Laurie, that mentions approximately 400 Japanese nationals in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City at the war’s end. - Newsweek article from the 40th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. - Famous rooftop-evacuation photos, by Hubert van Es (at that time a photographer for United Press International). - Paper discussing US media depictions of the end of the Vietnam War. Most relevant to our discussion, it touches on how the end of the war was perceived to affect diplomatic relations with other Asian nations. - Paper on Japanese media portrayals of the Vietnam War, and Japanese public’s perception of and reaction to the war: How The Japanese Protest Movement From 1964 To 1968 Changed The Japan-United States Bilateral Relationship During The Vietnam War, Justin Gervais - Article from the Japan Times about Japan’s role in the Vietnam War, particularly Okinawa's, and the war’s lasting effects on the region. - Per our discussion about the fires in the Amazon rainforest: Rainforest Trust uses donations to purchase ecologically vital land in the rainforest and holds it in trust, safeguarding more than 10,000 critically endangered species. They protect some 23 million acres and counting. Charity Navigator rates them 94.69/100 for accountability and transparency. https://www.rainforesttrust.org/ The Amazon Conservation Team partners with indigenous in the Amazon to map, study, and protect the rainforest. They are focused on supporting indigenous communities who are on the front lines fighting against deforestation. They encourage sustainable rainforest use and push for legal protections. Charity Navigator rates them 99.06/100 for accountability and transparency. https://www.amazonteam.org/ - The song for the TNN segment is LAST DAZE by Robbero (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (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 a

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 11 - "Entering the Atmosphere" (大気圏突入), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the Karman Line, a brief history of paradrop operations, and real-world ballutes and atmospherpic re-entry devices. - - Wikipedia pages on Theodore (Todor) von Karman and the Karman Line. - And Wikipedia pages on paratroopers (and a second one), airborne forces, and high-altitude military parachuting (HALO and HAHO). - "Yes, Mass Airborne Operations are a thing of the Past," an opinion article by James King for the Modern War Institute at West Point. - Wiki article for ballutes. - More info about how ballutes and burble fences work. - Wiki entry for experimental inflatable atmospheric re-entry devices. - Wiki page about 2010: The Year We Made Contact. - More info about 2010: The Year We Made Contact, including some quotes from Syd Mead - a legendary Hollywood mechanical designer who worked on this movie right after the aborted 1983 Hollywood Gundam movie, and many years later worked on an actual Gundam series. - Explanations of aerobraking and aerocapture, with information on how ballutes could be used in the process. - A REVIEW OF BALLUTE TECHNOLOGY FOR PLANETARY AEROCAPTURE, by Jeffery L. Hall of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Presented at the 4th IAA Conference on Low Cost Planetary Missions, Laurel, MD, May 2-5, 2000. - And another paper: Akiba, R., Hinada, M. and Matsuo, H., “Feasibility Study of Buoyant Venus Station Placed by Inflated Balloon Entry”, IAF-76-154, XXVII Congress of the Inter. Astronautical Federation, Anaheim, CA, Oct. 10-16, 1976. - Profile on Dr. Akiba. - Post-Columbia articles about cocoon ballute lifeboats. - Papers discussing ballute-like reentry devices: Nanosat Deorbit and Recovery System to Enable New Missions Clark, Ian G. and Robert D. Braun. “Computational analysis of a tension cone supersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator.” 2009 IEEE Aerospace conference (2009): 1-14. Aerodynamic and Aeroelastic Characteristics of a Tension Cone Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator, Ian G. Clark, Juan R. Cruz and Monica F. Hughes, Joanne S. Ware and Albert Madlangbayan, and Robert D. Braun - NASA's HIAD (hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator) inflatable aeroshell: mainpage, page on HIAD-2, and page on the low-Earth orbit flight test. - Video showing (we think simulated) ballute in action, with explanation. - Footage of a ballute inflating in a test chamber, and video showing a ballute from the perspective of a skydiver testing one. - 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 10 - “Reunion” (再会), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the real-life city of Amman (and how it might have inspired events in the episode), language and translation notes, and missile countermeasures. - - U.S. Joint Military Contributions to Countering Syria’s 1970 Invasion of Jordan, by Richard A. Mobley for Joint Forces Quarterly, issue 55, 4th quarter 2009. - Wikipedia pages on the Palestinian fedayeen and the Six-Day War. - The 1967 War and the birth of international terrorism, Brookings Institute, Daniel L. Byman, May 30, 2017. - How Jordan Shaped the Munich Massacre, Molly Fosco, July 20, 2018 for OZY.com. - Black September: The Jordanian-PLO Civil War of 1970, Pierre Tristam, July 3,2019 for ThoughtCo. - BBC articles from the outbreak of civil war in Amman, and the end of principal fighting in Amman. - NYT archives articles from September 1970: Sept. 10: Heavy Fighting in Amman; Hussein Orders Cease‐Fire Sept. 12: In Jordan, the Balance Is Shaken Sept. 17: Jordanian Army and Guerrillas Battle in Amman, Showdown in Jordan. Sept. 18: Hussein's Tanks Clearning Guerrillas from Amman; U.S. Alert is Stepped Up Sept. 19: Jordan Suspends Attacks After 2nd Day of Fighting Sept. 20: Amman Battle Fought From House to House Sept. 22: Syrian Tanks Key Sept. 23: Jordanians Put a Price On the Head of Habash Sept. 24: Amman Diary: Window on the War Sept. 25: Guerrilla Resistance Is Reported Collapsing in North as Fighting Ebbs in Amman Sept. 26: Arafat Complies Sept. 27: Outbursts of Fighting in Amman After Truce Suggest a Breakdown of Authority, In the Flaming Streets of Amman, Hussein Wins the Battle but Price Is Very High. Oct. 2: Big Question in Amman: Will Fighting Resume? - Jisho.org page for 修正 (しゅうせい/shuusei), translated in the episode as "correction." - Jisho.org page for 機 (き/ki), and Tofugo page about the use of 機 as a counter for airplanes and airplane crew. - Example sentence for 大きな声, from Tatoeba.org. - Jisho.org page for 大声 (おおごえ/ougoe). I also consulted Wanikani.com for definition and example sentences (only accessible with free trial or subscription). - Army study guide (for promotion exams), section on “Command Voice.” - Wikipedia pages for missiles, countermeasures, and active countermeasures. - “Project Pigeon.” - Descriptions and explanations of flare and chaff countermeasures (how they work and what they are used for). - From a website that provides full-text of classic flight simulation handbooks, The Official F-15 Strike Eagle Handbook section on defensive tactics, including when and how to use chaff. - Explanation of different fuse types, and additional detail on the proximity fuse specifically. - 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 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