Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast

This week: SD Gundam returns to theaters and MSB returns to your ears. We're covering the first half of SD Gundam's Counterattack, and we... liked it? Is that possible? While still marred by several of SD Gundam's persistent issues, this short manages to deliver on the series' potential for madcap, irreverent parody in a way prior episodes haven't.

Show Notes Yankii, Bousouzoku, and Sukeban:

• Books consulted for this week's research:

Ashcraft, Brian, and Shoko Ueda. Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool. Tuttle, 2014. Cherry, Kittredge. “Sukeban - Boss Girls.” Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women, Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, CA, 2017, pp. 73–74. Kawamura, Yuniya. Fashioning Japanese Subcultures. Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Marx, W. David. “Damn Yankees.” Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style, Basic Books, New York, NY, 2015, pp. 123–148. Monden, Masafumi. “Ribbons and Lace.” Japanese Fashion Cultures: Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan, Bloomsbury, London, UK, 2015, pp. 107–134.

• Wikipedia pages for Bōsōzoku and Sukeban.
• Tofugu article about bōsōzoku.
• Vice article about sukeban and the media they inspired.
• Collection of photographs of sukeban from the 1970s and '80s.
• Review of the Sukeban Deka manga and OVA from Okazu (blog covering yuri media).
• Visual aid showing a select few photographs of modified cars and motorcycles (especially with the huge exhaust pipes), and screenshots of the episode that show similar style of exhaust pipes on the Counterattack School's vehicles and mobile suits.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

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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 licenses. The recap music is Olivia by Hyson, licensed under a CC BY attribution license. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.com

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music is Olivia by Hyson, licensed under a CC BY attribution license. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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We're back to wrap up our coverage of SD Gundam Mk II, with parts 2 and 3 in a double header! Luckily (?) there's not much substance to part 2. But Part 3? We've got thoughts. We've got feelings. We've got a lot to say. Plus in the research Thom runs through some of the fun inside jokes and references peppered throughout the episode. Unfortunately SD Gundam Mk II, Part 3 does come with a content warning for transphobia at around the 12 minute mark. We do discuss this in the podcast, and there is a warning before the discussion begins for the benefit of any listeners who would prefer not to hear it.**

Daruma Whiskey:**

• The actual brand is Suntory Old Whisky, but the bottle is said to resemble a Daruma. Sometimes it is packaged in a bag that looks even more like a Daruma.

Roleplaying Games of the Late 80s:

• SD Gundam's Princess somewhat resembles Dragon Quest 1's Princess Gwaelin
• The infamous "But thou must!" scene from Dragon Quest I's English version.
• A page explaining how the gacha-esque lottery system in Dragon Quest II works can be found here.

Gashapon Machines:

• Although it doesn't mention Japan, this page from Gumball machine and bulk candy seller Gumballs.com describes the development of the first toy vending machines.
• Penny Shokai (importers of the first capsule toy machines in Japan) were eventually bought by toymaker Takara-Tomy. In this recent tweet they celebrate the history of gashapon and show a picture of a Tomy-brand gashapon machine from 1988 - contemporaneous with SD Gundam Mk II.
• Here is a history of the gashapon industry over time.
• In 2017, Bandai issued a press-release celebrating the 40th anniversary of their gashapon business. The press release can be found here, and webpages re-stating its contents can be found here and here.
• During our research we found an interview between two gacha industry leaders about the history of the industry. However at time of writing the website is not accessible. An archived copy can be found here.
• Bandai's original 1977 gashapon machine bears a striking resemblance to the machine shown in SD Gundam Mk II.

Traveling Merchant Backpacks (Tabetobako):

• English language sources (mostly antiques dealers) like to call these box/backpacks 'gyosho bako', presumably corresponding to the Japanese 行商 (gyosho, or peddler) and 箱 (hako, box). Examples: one and two.
• Japanese sources seem to prefer the term タベト箱 (tabetobako), for example, this one from the Aomori Prefectural Museum, or more specific terms like 薬箱 (kusuribako, medicine box), for example, this page from the Naito Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry.
• A blog comparing the tabetobako in the Aomori Prefectural Museum to the one that appears in Demon Slayer.
• Here, Hakodate City offers a brief description of Meiji era trade, mentioning the sorts of things that tabeto would sell as they traveled.

Kabuki Food Vendors:

• This page on the website for Kabuki-za outlines the many food options available at the theater.
• This blog describes a trip to see kabuki and mentions the shouts of the food vendors.
• Brief discussion of the intimate relationship between food and kabuki, including a type of sushi named for a kabuki play.
• A blog post about the food experience at Kabuki-za.
• Here's a very detailed dive into the historical experience of going to a kabuki play with a lot of information about food.

Waste Paper Collection:

• The Japanese Wikipedia page for 古紙, or used paper, includes a brief mention of the private small scale collection industry known as ちり紙交換 (chirigami koukan).
• This (English language) rundown of recycling practices in Japan briefly mentions independent collectors and the industry's susceptibility to price fluctuations.
• This page by a paper recycling company talks about the history and the reasons for the decline of chirigami koukan. The company in question was founded by a former waste paper collector who left that part of the industry when it collapsed.
• Chapter 2 of this paper by a team at Waseda University discusses the evolution of the paper recycling industry in the Post-War era: 都市における資源循環システムの再編 と地域社会の変動. It can be downloaded here.
• This article from June 2000 talks about the history of chirigami koukan and supposes that economic conditions might be right for a return of the industry.
• This page has pictures and videos of chirigami koukan trucks in action, as well as an explanation for the decline of the industry and a quote from a former collector.
• In this Reddit thread from 2019, someone unfamiliar with the practice reports seeing evidence that it's still going on in their neighborhood.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music is Olivia by Hyson, licensed under a CC BY attribution license. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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He's Woody, we're MSB, and this is episode 1 of Season 6! This week we breakdown SD Gundam Mk II, Part 1: The Rolling Colony Affair. It's chock full of jokes, and about one and a half of them are good.

As usual we do our best to figure out as many of the inside jokes and references as we can, but this season brings with it some unique new challenges for your loyal podcast hosts... Give it a listen to learn more!

Show Notes _ Puttsun Kamille:_

• Weblio dictionary entry for プッツン (Puttsun).
• Satou Gen says Kamille says 'nya' because he looks like a cat when he closes his eyes.
• Satou Gen says he hadn't seen Zeta or ZZ, Kamille says 'nya' because he didn't know what the real Kamille's speech patterns were

Scirocco's Portrayal:

• Satou Gen says it was Amino's idea to make Scirocco destitute.
• Binbougami, the god of poverty.
• More on Binbougami.
• A brief explainer on harae, or purification, in Shinto rites.

Possible Zorro Reference:

• Wikipedia page for the Zorro character, with a list of the various media featuring him.

Episode Director Amino Tetsurō (アミノテツロー):

• English and Japanese Wikipedia pages for Amino Tetsurō, as well as his Anime News Network encyclopedia page and IMDB page.
• The interview Amino did for the Sunrise website, discussing his longstanding work on SD Gundam.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music is Olivia by Hyson, licensed under a CC BY attribution license. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.com

We're looking back at another season of Gundam through the rear view mirror, and we have a few loose ends to tie up. Lingering musings, listener questions, and a few more research topics! Thanks for supporting us through another season! We couldn't do it without all of you.

Show Notes On the state of Sydney and the notion of Canon

• Books:

Azuma Hiroki, Otaku: Japan's Database Animals. Translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Kono Shion. Kodansha Gendai Shinsho 2001, trans. Minnesota UP 2009. Tomino Yoshiyuki, 機動戦士ガンダム, aka Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation. Asahi Sonorama. Volume 1 (Nov. 30, 1979), Volume 2 (Sept. 30, 1980), Volume 3 (Mar. 16, 1981). English translation by Frederick Schodt, 2004. 宇宙翔ける戦士達 GUNDAM CENTURY, aka Gundam Century. Ed. by Matsuzaki Kenichi. Minori Shobo, Sept. 22, 1981.

• Tomino's "Defeatist Manifesto", a long interview in which he mentions his father's role in World War II and his subsequent relationship to Japan as a nation.
• An English summary of the key information contained in Gundam Century, by Mark Simmons.
• Translation of a 1979 interview in which Tomino mentions that the other sides were destroyed during the opening phases of the war.
• _Translation of an interview with Takayama Fumihiko, chief director of 0080, in which he addresses Sydney, the colony drop, and why they chose Australia. _

The Walther MP/MPL

• Wikipedia page for the Walther MP/MPL.
• The Japanese Gundam wiki page on the Zaku MMP-80, mentioning the identification with the Walther MPL.

The STEN

• The STEN on Wikipedia.
• Variations on the STEN added a pistol grip, but still don't look like the GM Cold Districts Machine Gun.
• Some versions added a wireframe pistol grip that was "predictably uncomfortable to fire."

The Sterling Submachine Gun

• The Sterling on Wikipedia.
• A brief illustrated history of the Sterling submachine gun.
• A run down of less-well-known guns used in the Vietnam War, including the Sterling.

The SA80

• Bullpup firearms generally.
• The SA80 on Wikipedia.
• Articles:

Paul Richard Huard for National Interest. SA80: The Worst Military Rifle Ever? Available at https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/introducing-sa80-worst-military-rifle-ever-44987 Antill, P. (28 August 2009), SA80 (Small Arms for the 1980s): The Sorry Saga of the British Bulldog's Bullpup, http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_SA80.html Anthony G. Williams. SA80: Mistake or Maligned - And What Next? Available at https://www.quarryhs.co.uk/SA80.htm BBC Q&A: Army rifles: What's gone wrong? Available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/656786.stm

A visual aide for comparing these weapons can be found on our website.

Hayashibara Megumi, 林原めぐみ

• ANN Encyclopedia page, Wikipedia page (English), and Behind-the-Voice-Actors page (with visual filmography), for Hayashibara Megumi.
• Book:

Hayashibara, Megumi. Megumi Hayashibara's The Characters Taught Me Everything: Living Life One Episode at a Time. Translated by Jenny McKeon and Nathaniel Hiroshi Thrasher, Yen On, 2021.

• Wikipedia page for Asagi Sakura.

Christmas in Japan

• Articles about Christmas in Japan (contemporary), from jrailpass.com, Timeout Tokyo, and gurunavi.com.
• _Timeline of the history of Christmas in Japan. _
• Japanese Christmas history and traditions from Kansai-Odyssey.com, livejapan.com, and japantoday.com.
• About religion in Japan generally, and Christianity in Japan specifically.
• _Additional information about Christianity in Japan, and a timeline of Christianity in Japan. _
• _An academic paper about Japanese Christmas-Cake. _
• _Christmas parades in the US, and around the world. _
• _About the Disney Parks Christmas Day Parades, and about Tokyo Disney. _

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music is "pieces of life" by Analog by Nature, licensed under a CC BY attribution license. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.com

On MSB this week, we've stopped crying long enough to talk about the final episode of War in the Pocket, and Thom has a Rapid Fire Research Roundup as he works through a whole bushel of Zeon names and inspirations derived from film, literature, and mythology.

Rapid Fire Research Roundup General Rugens:

• Gundam 0080 setting materials (settei) posted by Mark Simmons.
• The Wikipedia page for actor Curd Jürgens.
• A visual aid comparing Rugens and Jürgens as he appeared in The Devil's General/Des Teufels General can be found on our website.
• _Some more information about the real general Ernst Udet, via Wikipedia and a more detailed biography. _

**Captain von Helsing: **

• Wikipedia page for Peter Cushing, with reference to his role as van Helsing.
• A visual comparing Cushing to von Helsing can be found on our website.

The Graf Zeppelin:

• The Graf Zeppelin's Wikipedia page.
• More about the problems that prevented the ship from entering service.
• _More details, some good photographs, and a mockup model of what it might have looked like. _
• _Additional information about the ship, including a report (with photos and videos) about an expedition to dive the wreck itself. _

Siegfried & Valkyrie:

• Wikipedia page for Siegfried (using his Norse name Sigurd).
• Brief Britannica article on Siegfried.
• _A detailed breakdown of different Siegfried myths in both German and Norse traditions. _
• _Wagner's Ring Cycle (Der Ring des Nibelung). _
• Wagner himself, via Wikipedia.
• An article looking at the connection between Hitler, the Nazi regime, and Wagner's operas: Charlotte Higgins for The Guardian: How the Nazis took Flight from Valkyries and Rhinemaidens. July 3, 2007. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jul/03/secondworldwar.musicnews
• _The full version of Siegfried's funeral march. _

Regarding the historical, and enduring, use of Siegfried by the far-right in Germany:

• Michael Zeller for Fair Observer: From Opera to MMA: Nationalist Symbolism and the German Far Right. August 12, 2021. Available at https://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/michael-c-zeller-richard-wagner-opera-nibelungenlied-nationalist-symbolism-far-right-germany-news-915421/
• Jacob Katz, The Darker Side of Genius: Richard Wagner's Anti-Semitism. 1986.
• Marie Todeskino for Deutsche Welle: The hateful side of Wagner's musical genius. May 31, 2013. Available at https://www.dw.com/en/the-hateful-side-of-wagners-musical-genius/a-16850818

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music is "pieces of life" by Analog by Nature, licensed under a CC BY attribution license. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week we're covering episode 5 of War in the Pocket: "Say it Ain't So, Bernie!" and Nina has research on the Spanish painter whose work must have inspired the mural on the wall outside Al's school!

Research: Joan Miró

• You can see visual aids comparing the art on the school wall in War in the Pocket to the works of Joan Miró on our website: gundampodcast.com
• Biographical information and details about his artistic career and some of his artworks from joan-miro.net, Fundació Joan Miró, theartstory.org, the Guggenheim, and Wikipedia. 
• Article about Miró and a 2008 exhibition of his works at MoMA: Schjeldahl, Peter. “Angry Young Man.” The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2008.
• _History and description of Miró's "The Reaper." _
• Photograph and history of "Alicia," a tile mural created by Joan Miró and Josep Lloréns Artigas, commissioned by the Guggenheim.
• Video created by MoMA for a 2019 Miró exhibition titled "How to See." In the video, "curator Anne Umland and the artist’s grandson, Joan Punyet Miró, examine the ways in which Miro worked to achieve a heightened state of awareness in which to paint."
• Article from Architectural Digest about the Cincinnati, Ohio Terrace Plaza Hotel, which is described as having "introduced modernism to the U.S." and is on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s list of the most endangered places in America. Top of the article has a beautiful color photo of the mural Miró painted for the hotel restaurant.
• 1951 article from The Harvard Crimson (university newspaper) about the arrival of the commissioned Miró mural for the graduate student center.
• about the Sol de Miró design, created for a 1983 Spanish tourism campaign. Check our website for an image of the poster in question.
• Article about how Miró's time in the USA and Japan influenced his art: Orlova, Ksenia. “Joan Miro. 1960s: In Search of a New Artistic Language, Close Contacts With the Cultures of the USA and Japan.” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2020), 7 Sept. 2020, https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200907.025.
• _Details of an upcoming (as of Feb. 7, 2022) art exhibit at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan, titled "Joan Miró and Japan." _
• Pages about Takiguchi Shūzō (瀧口修造) from Wikipedia (English and Japanese), the Takiguchi Shūzō Archives at TAMA Art University, and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. 
• Wikipedia page about the Yomiuri Indépendant Exhibition.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music is "pieces of life" by Analog by Nature, licensed under a CC BY attribution license. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week on MSB: Thom discloses his bias, Nina says several brilliant things, and a new(ish) guest joins us to discuss anime, animation, and animators in 0080! 

We're thrilled to welcome "old" anime fan and historian Matteo to MSB. You can find Matteo on twitter at https://twitter.com/MatteoWatz, and you can find his writing on his blog https://animetudes.com/ or on https://fullfrontal.moe/. 

• The Inoue Toshiyuki interview mentioned during the podcast can be found here: https://fullfrontal.moe/toshiyuki-inoue-interview/
• This episode also includes the song Unveiling Soul by Evgeny Teilor, available at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Evgeny_Teilor/Appearances/Unveiling_Soul_1751 and licensed under a CC BY Attribution license.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

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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 licenses. The recap music is "pieces of life" by Analog by Nature, licensed under a CC BY attribution license. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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It's parallels all the way down as our coverage of War in the Pocket continues! This week we're talking about episode 3: And at the end of the rainbow...?

Al shows his potential, Bernie shows how he really feels, the commandos show us a new mobile suit, and Chris shows off her batting average. They're all one big happy(?) family(??) on this week's episode of MSB! Plus for research Thom digs into the references hiding in plain view in the title sequence, how they might connect to other contemporary works, and what it all might mean for the show...

You'll find it all in Mobile Suit Breakdown 5.4: Child & Soldier. And don't forget to check out our website gundampodcast.com for visual aids to accompany this week's research piece!

The Aerial Steam Carriage 

• Article about the aerial steam carriage design.
• Article about other early experiments in powered flight.
• Wikipedia article for the aerial steam carriage.
• Wikipedia pages for William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow.

The Carrack 

• "Carrack" on Wikipedia.
• An early Japanese depiction of a Portuguese carrack.
• Artist's rendering of Christopher Columbus' ships,  Niña (on the left, a caravel), and the carracks Santa Maria and Pinta. In truth, the Santa Maria was the only carrack. The Pinta was a second caravel.

Guernica 

• Ishaan Tharoor for The Independent, "Eighty Years Later, the Nazi war crime in Guernica still matters." 
• Toby Saul for National Geographic, "The horrible inspiration behind one of Picasso's great works." 
• Guernica (the painting) and Guernica (the bombing of) on Wikipedia. 
• BBC article on the legacy of Guernica, which notes how Franco and the nationalists tried to blame the bombing on Communists, and the ongoing struggle to define the history of the Spanish Civil War.
• Le Drapeau noir (The Black Flag) by René Magritte, which may also be a response to the bombing of Guernica.

Lilliput

• Alt, Matt. Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World. Crown, 2021.
• A tweet from the author Pure Invention specifically about Lilliput and its origins. 
• An original Lilliput sold for a little over $3,000 at auction back in 2016.
• Images of an original Lilliput can also be seen on the Japanese auction site Mandarake.
• Manchukuo on Wikipedia (note that at the time Lilliput was manufactured, Manchukuo's economy was still under the authority of Kishi Nobusuke. He featured in a research piece on episode 5.2). 

Atomic Robot Man

• Japanese blog with photos of Atomic Robot Man, including the box.
• The Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity collection includes a 1990s reproduction of Atomic Robot Man. 
• A great article about Atomic Robot Man's history in the United States, including pictures of two original models.
• Article from 1997 about people who collected 'Made in Occupied Japan' products.
• Article with contemporary advertisements for Atomic Robot Man.
• Article about how to tell an original A.R.M. from a reproduction. 

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

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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 licenses. The recap music is "pieces of life" by Analog by Nature, licensed under a CC BY attribution license. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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They're back! MSB came back! Hurray! This week we're talking about War in the Pocket episode 2: Reflections in a Brown Eye. The research covers Al's home electronics and what they say about him and the story, plus... Chris's pile of dropped books from episode 1? Really? Well, OK. Plus we have a mini celebration for Gundam's 10th anniversary! Frank Kelly Freas - The Art of Science Fiction:

• The Wikipedia page for Kelly Freas, and his (unfinished) website,
• A detailed profile of Kelly Freas hosted on PulpArtists.com.
• His New York Times obituary.
• A bibliography of his works from the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
• His book (the one Chris drops) is: Kelly Freas, Frank Kelly Freas: The Art of Science Fiction. Donning (1977).
• Some iconic works: Star Trek portraits, the cover from a Bradbury short story, and the cover for Heinlein's "Have Space Suit - Will Travel." 

Consumer Electronics, 1988 / UC0080:

• Books: McCreery, John. Japanese Consumer Behaviour: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers. University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. Accessed (excerpts only) here. LaMarre, Thomas. The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media. University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Alt, Matt. Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World. Crown, 2021.
• Some statistics: the fertility rate in Japan, 1800-2020, color TV ownership in Japan, 1984, and households in Japan with television, 1988. 
• Wikipedia pages for light guns generally, and the NES Zapper.
• Article about Bandai's light gun peripheral.
• Page about the Dragon's Lair TV series.
• Pages on the history of the videocamera and the camcorder from Wikipedia, the LegacyBox blog (a home video digitization service), and CCTV Camera World (sales of cameras and other equipment for CCTV, page includes some useful information on the transition to digital). 
• Storage media! Wikipedia pages for the floppy disk and 8mm video format.
• Specific camera models: the Handycam series and the Mavica.
• What does "still video" mean?? 
• Page with names, pictures, and specifications of camera by release-year (this page is for 1988). Several looks similar in shape and overall aesthetic to Al's camcorder.

Music

• The recap music is "pieces of life" by Analog by Nature, licensed under a CC BY attribution license.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music is "pieces of life" by Analog by Nature, licensed under a CC BY attribution license. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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We finally get started on Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, and it makes quite the impression! Was it the good or bad kind of impression? There's only one way to find out!

This week, we review and analyze episode 1, "How many miles to the battlefield?" (戦場までは何マイル?), and research and discuss the history of Playboy Magazine in Japan, how the creative team's nostalgia and childhood memories connect to 0080's story and themes, and how the unexpected appearance of mobile suits in a neutral colony connects to the history of US military bases and the presence of nuclear weapons in Japan.

Playboy Magazine in Japan

• Wikipedia pages for Playboy, Monthly Playboy (月刊プレイボーイ / Gekkan Pureibōi), the Playboy Clubs, and Playboy Bunnies.
• _Britannica page for Playboy. _
• _History of Playboy, from the company's website. _
• Twitter thread (with photos) about Playboy clubs (and similar) in Japan, by @mulboyne.
• Photo of Taga Rie, a Bunny at one of Japan's Playboy clubs, from Getty Images (they had to lean like that to place drinks/light cigarettes because if they bent over they'd fall out of the one-piece).
• _Vintage store based in Las Vegas, with photographs of Monthly Playboy covers from the 70s and 80s. _
• Wikipedia pages for China Lee and Jennifer Jackson.

Papers and articles:

• Batura, Amber B. “From the Bachelor Pad to the Jungle: Bunnies, Playboy Magazine, and Vietnam Soldiers.” Texas Tech University, 2018. Accessed at https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2346/73903/Batura_Amber_Thesis.pdf
• Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly. “The Surprising Tale of the Playboy Bunny Suit.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 4 Oct. 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/history-of-the-playboy-bunny-suit/541929/
• “Tokyo's Foreign Flavors.” Edagawa, Koichi, Japan Quarterly; Oct 1, 1985; 32, 4; ProQuest pg. 356

Nostalgia and the Creative Team

• Team credits and biographical information was sourced variously from animenewsnetwork.com's encyclopedia and ja.wikipedia.org pages for the specific people.
• _Timelines of the major events of the Vietnam war are available in various places including History.com, Britannica, and Wikipedia. _

Japan & Nuclear Weapons

• Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution is described on Wikipedia here, and the full text of the constitution is available in English at the website of the National Diet of Japan.
• _The 1951 Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan is described here. _
• The 1960 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan is described here.
• _More information about the U.S. military use of Japanese ports, specifically during the Korean War. _
• Two articles by U.S. researchers around the year 2000, going into what was then publicly known and acknowledged about nuclear weapons deployed in and near Japan.
• Several articles from 2010 when the new Japanese government confirmed the existence of the secret agreements permitting U.S. nuclear weapons to pass through Japanese ports without prior consultation.
• _A 1981 article from the Christian Science Monitor about the Japanese reaction to former Ambassador Reischauer's admission about the secret agreements: "Japan reels under Reischauer's nuclear 'bombshell'." _
• Steve Rabson, Six Decades of US-Japanese Government Collusion in Bringing Nuclear Weapons to Japan. Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 19, Issue 14, No. 3. Available at https://apjjf.org/2021/14/Rabson.html

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music is "pieces of life" by Analog by Nature, licensed under a CC BY attribution license. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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It's time to start our coverage of the much-anticipated Gundam side story 0080: War in the Pocket! Kind of!

Actually, it's time for us to cover Gundam's real first OVA - SD Gundam Mk I Part 3: SD Olympics as we get ready for the first episode on War in the Pocket next week. We research and discuss the history and characteristics of the OVA format, some of what happened in Japan and the world between Char's Counter Attack and 0080, and the influences, references, and gags in the SD Olympics short.

SD Olympics

• Wikipedia pages for the 1988 Summer Olympics, the ABC gameshow Battle of the Network Stars, and the Hanna-Barbera Cartoons Laff-A-Lympics and Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics.
• Gundam Fandom Wiki page on Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk I. 
• This book discusses the imports of American cartoons to Japan (though mostly it's about the influence in the other direction):
• O'Melia, Gina. “Introduction.” Japanese Influence on American Children's Television: Transforming Saturday Morning, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, 2019, pp. 23–25.
• As usual I relied on jisho.org as a Japanese-English dictionary, but I also used The Wisdom English-Japanese Dictionary (digital version for Dictionary app).

Articles about the Olympics:

• Dahl, Tracy. “Award of 1988 Olympics Boosts S. Korea's Effort For Political Security.” The Washington Post, 4 Oct. 1981. Accessed at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/10/04/award-of-1988-olympics-boosts-s-koreas-effort-for-political-security/2db0f29f-29cd-4581-8771-2f08c225181f/
• Nalewicki, Jennifer. “How the 1988 Olympics Helped Spark a Global Kimchi Craze.” Smithsonianmag.com, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/kimchis-olympic-connection-180968224/.
• Manheim, Jarol B. “Rites of Passage: The 1988 Seoul Olympics as Public Diplomacy.” The Western Political Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, [University of Utah, Sage Publications, Inc., Western Political Science Association], 1990, pp. 279–95, https://doi.org/10.2307/448367.
• Aw, Gene. “The 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics.” Go! Go! Hanguk, 4 Dec. 2019, https://gogohanguk.com/en/blog/seoul-olympics-1988-memories/. (Includes embedded video of the opening ceremonies for the 1988 Summer Games)
• Dator, James. “Never Forget That a Flock of Peace Doves Got Incinerated at the 1988 Olympics.” SBNation.com, SBNation.com, 9 Aug. 2017, https://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/8/9/16119834/peace-doves-olympic-opening-ceremony-1988-seoul
• Trex, Ethan. “5 Memorable Moments from Olympic Opening Ceremonies.” Mental Floss, 26 July 2012, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31314/5-memorable-moments-past-opening-ceremonies. (Content warning - contains embedded video of the dove incident)
• Montague, James. “Hero or Villain? Ben Johnson and the Dirtiest Race in History.” CNN, Cable News Network, 23 July 2012, https://www.cnn.com/2012/07/23/sport/olympics-2012-ben-johnson-seoul-1988-dirtiest-race/index.html.
• Eldridge, Larry. “Too Many `Perfect' Scores of 10 Distort Olympic Gymnastics Results.” The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 1988, https://www.csmonitor.com/1988/1004/prom.html.
• From the IOC website, articles about the 1988 Summer Olympics and how it boosted tourism, South Korea's international profile, and national pride / feelings of global citizenship. While any content produced by the IOC is of course going to be propaganda for the Olympics, it's an important perspective on the event. 
• Landing page for the Olympic World Library, part of The Olympic Studies Centre (a resource for official documents related to past Olympics).
• Wikipedia pages for sprinter Ben Johnson, decathlete Jürgen Hingsen, and the "perfect 10" in gymnastics. 
• Video about Olympic shot-put, with a good section on men’s shot-put 1988.
• jisho.org page for the kanji 焼, and Cambridge Dictionary entry for 焼ける.
• Article with photos and video of the "Samurai Trash Collectors" performance artists.
• Tofugu article with LOTS of Japanese onomatopoeia, including the ワー！(wa-!) that appears over the stadium at the end of the short. 

March 12th, 1988 to March 25, 1989

Books and articles:

• Field, Norma. In the Realm of a Dying Emperor. Vintage Books, 1993.
• “Hibari Misora, Japanese Singer, 52.” New York Times (1923-), Jun 25, 1989, pp. 26. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/nathan-zucker-74-film-producer-dies/docview/110368815/se-2?accountid=35927
• By, Robert T. "Japan's 'Lark of the Beautiful Sky': Hibari Misora is a chic chanteuse who is the rage of her country's teen-agers. A fishmonger's daughter, she has, at 19, the top income in Japanese show business." New York Times (1923-), Jun 09, 1957, pp. 201. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/japans-lark-beautiful-sky/docview/113922091/se-2?accountid=35927
• Wikipedia pages for 1988 and 1989, as well as 1988 in Japan and 1989 in Japan.
• Wikipedia page for World Expo '88.
• An account from an Expo Japan-Pavilion attendant, describing the pavilion (with photos).
• Informational document from the Expo, scanned to PDF.
• Wikipedia page for singer and actress Misora Hibari (美空 ひばり). 
• Short article from the Japan Society about "contemporary Japan" - from the 1989 beginning of the Heisei Era. to the present.
• This article is mostly a summary of the Heisei Era, and discusses the transition to a new era (written before the Reiwa name was chosen). But it also touches on the previous transition from Showa to Heisei.

What's an OVA?

• Pages defining and describing OVAs, often with additional historical context, from Wikipedia, Anime News Network, and TV Tropes.
• Explainers on the OVA format and its place in the anime industry from CBR.com and OTAQUEST.
• "Bandai, the Post-Gundam Wave, and the Year 1985" - by Sean O'Mara for zimmerit.moe, discussing Bandai specifically, including their OVA production and video rental segments, and their efforts to attract new consumers while holding on to aging, hardcore fans.

Music

• The recap music in this episode is "Olivia" by Hyson.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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The saga that started on a whim with the Titans News Network back in Season 2 finally reaches its thoroughly avoidable conclusion in this action packed radio drama-style satire! What has become of Thom Thomson and Nina Ninasdottir after the end of Radio Free Shangri-La? Did any of the cyber newstype corps survive? What about those NZC interns? 

All that and more awaits you in Content Creators of Axis!

The music included in this episode was:

• Quiet Hours and Quiet Rain both by onlymeith
• Air by Jesse Spillane
• Shiro (Instrumental) by Aussensaiter
• B Calm Violin Track by String Factory / Dimitri Artemenko
• Time Flux by Revolution Void

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.com

On the podcast this week: our final episode of Season 4, Iraj returns to talk about asteroids, nuclear explosions, and capes, Thom names names, and Nina looks at alternative narrative frameworks. Plus we clean up a few ambiguities, answer some questions, and come clean about our favorite mobile suits. Will Thom's controversial takes enrage the MSB fandom?!

Names, Names, Names: The Geara Doga

• _The Nagano designs for a 'Killah Doga' / キラ・ドガ and a サイコ・ドーラ can be seen in this Twitter post by Mark Simmons. _
• _The DWDS (Digital Dictionary of the German language) records usages of Killer going back to 1972. _
• The assertion that the Geara Doga and its gear was designed to look like a German WWII soldier is from the Japanese Wikipedia page for the Geara Doga, which cites: Yutaka Izubuchi "Yutaka Izubuchi Mechanical Design Works (1)" Movic, August 2000, pp. 16-17. ISBN  978-4896014907.

The Alpha Azieru

• Izubuchi Yutaka explains that he drew the Alpha Azieru without having been asked, and says that the name comes from the Greek letter α and the word アジール, meaning an asylum or refuge.
• Background on what アジール means in Japanese can be found at the Japanese Wikipedia page.
• Jisho.org page on アジール which specifies the German derivation from Asyl.

The Sazabi

• Izubuchi Yutaka explains that the prior title for the MS was ザ・ナック and that he thought Sazabi would be hard to trademark.
• ZeonicScanlations Twitter thread translating excerpts from an old Animedia book and specifying the Sotheby's reference.
• _ZeonicScanlations page translating a section of B-Club 30 from 1988 about the Sazabi, mentioning Zanac and the conflict with a similarly named Famicom game. _
• The video game Zanac, which prevented CCA from using ザ・ナック for the Sazabi.
• _Japanese Wikipedia page on the Sazabi. _
• _Japanese Wikipedia page for The Knack (the band). _
• And the Japanese Wikipedia page for "My Sharona," specifically.
• _A rundown by Zimmerit.moe of musical references included in Nagano Mamoru's Five Star Stories. _
• English-language interview with Izubuchi Yutaka in which he mentions the name issues for the Sazabi.
• Nagano's design for the Naitiengeaile (Nightingale) can be seen on this twitter post by Mark Simmons.
• Nagano's revision of the Naitiengeaile as the Nahatgall (ナハトガル, Nachtigall) can be seen here, or here.

Story Structures, Cross-Cultural Analysis:

• Masterclass overview of 4 different story structures.
• Author Kim Yoon Mi's overview of story structures from around the world.
• Tofugu article about how arguments are structured in Japanese (with reference to how this relates to Japanese story structures.
• Blog post from art-collective Still Eating Oranges about "plot without conflict."
• _dbpedia and Japanese Wikipedia pages for kishoutenketsu (起承転結). _
• _Articles on kishoutenketsu from Art of Narrative, Book Riot, Mythic Scribes, and Tofugu (Tofugu specifically looking at how this structure is used in Japanese horror). _

Papers and articles:

• Francisco Vaz da Silva. “Narrative Cultures in the Mirror.” Narrative Culture, vol. 1, no. 1, Wayne State University Press, 2014, pp. 85–108, https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.1.1.0085.
• Matsuyama, Utako K. “Can Story Grammar Speak Japanese?” The Reading Teacher, vol. 36, no. 7, [Wiley, International Reading Association], 1983, pp. 666–69, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20198301.
• Koenitz, Hartmut & Pastena, Andrea & Jansen, Dennis & Lint, Brian & Moss, Amanda. (2018). The Myth of ‘Universal’ Narrative Models. 10.1007/978-3-030-04028-4_8. Accessed at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329064597_The_Myth_of_%27Universal%27_Narrative_Models
• Lien, Henry. “Diversity Plus: Diverse Story Forms and Themes, Not Just Diverse Faces.” SFWA, 18 Dec. 2020, https://www.sfwa.org/2021/01/05/diversity-plus-diverse-story-forms-and-themes-not-just-diverse-faces/.
• Wikipedia page for jo-ha-kyuu (序破急).

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

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This week, Nina and Thom are joined by new guest Tatiana - a filmmaker, professional editor, and sometime animator to discuss technical aspects of filmmaking in Char's Counterattack, how the movie holds up today, what the movie tells us about it's intended audience (and how audiences unfamiliar with Gundam might react to it) and what Tomino and company might have done differently.

Plus Thom's research reveals one way in which Char's Counterattack turned out to be unrealistically optimistic, and Nina digs into the real science and technology that might have inspired the movie's psycoframe.

The Bamiyan Statues:

• A survey of giant Buddha statues with brief descriptions and photos - the Leshan Buddha is number 11 and the Buddhas of Bamiyan are number 4.
• "Bamiyan Buddhas" by Dr. Melody Rod-ari for Khan Academy, covering the history and design of the sculptures.
• "Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley"  by UNESCO.
• "Destroyed Buddhas Reveal Their True Colors" by Andrew Lawler for Science.org, an article about archeological reconstruction of the Buddha's pre-modern appearance.
• "Bamiyan: Ten Years On," a brief video by UNESCO about the Bamiyan Buddha ruins.
• "Commemorating 20 years since the destruction of two Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan" by Ernesto Ottone R., UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture. Available at https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2253.
• "Why the Buddhas of Bamian were destroyed" by Michael Semple, who was personally involved in negotiations to try to save the Buddhas.
• An 1833 sketch of the Buddhas of Bamiyan by Alexander Burnes.
• "From Ruins of Afghan Buddhas, a History Grows" by Carlotta Gall for the New York Times,  Dec. 6, 2006. NYT article from 2006 about international archeologists examining the ruins of the Buddhas and speculating about possible reconstruction plans.
• A collection of other drawings and photos showing the Buddhas. 
• A timeline of the US invasion, occupation, and departure from Afghanistan including mentions of fighting in and around Bamiyan.
• An article from late July 2021 about fighting between Taliban and government forces in and near Bamiyan.

Miniaturization of Technology:

• Chemistry-specific definition of "particle." 
• Wikipedia pages for miniaturization, transistor counts (great chart), integrated circuits, surface-mount technology, and Moore's Law.
• How Stuff Works page for the transistor.
• Wikipedia page for the transistor radio.
• For more on Sony, transistor radios, the Walkman, and the sales of small, Japanese, consumer electronics in the US, check out this book chapter:
• Alt, Matt. “5 - Plugging In and Dropping Out.” Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World, Penguin Random House, New York, NY, 2020, pp. 131–160.
• US Government report about the contemporary state of miniaturization technologies: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Miniaturization Technologies, OTA-TCT-514 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 1991). Accessible at: https://ota.fas.org/reports/9129.pdf 
• Semiconductor History Museum of Japan website. Very detailed and often very technical, with different topics broken down into timelines. Of particular interest, Japanese improvements to photolithography in the early 1980s (the Wikipedia page on photolithography has some helpful and easy to follow diagrams of the simplified process).
• "Molecular computers - tomorrow's technology?" by Leroy Cronin, and Hamera Abbas, 31 December 2006, for the Royal Society of Chemistry - Education in Chemistry website.
• Pages from IBM, Wikipedia, and the University of Waterloo, Canada, about quantum computing.
• "What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?" by Scott Aaronson, June 8, 2021, for Quanta Magazine.
• Article about the latest, record-breakingly tiny chip from IBM: Brown, Dalvin. “IBM Says New Ultradense Microchip Might One Day Quadruple Your Cellphone’s Battery Life.” The Washington Post, 12 May 2021. 

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

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Holidays or not, we're back with another episode! This time we're joined by long time friend of the show, and neuropsychology consultant, Dr. Shar! She returns to the program to discuss the psychologies of the many deeply broken people at the heart of Char's Counterattack. This episode also features a collaboration between MSB and Matteo Watz of anime research and analysis blog Animétudes!

Beltorchika's Children: Tomino Yoshiyuki, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack - Beltorchika's Children (機動戦士ガンダム 逆襲のシャア―ベルトーチカ・チルドレン). Kadokawa Shoten Sneaker Bunko. Feb. 2, 1988.

Char's Counterattack Production:

• Matteo Watz (aka @Animétudes)'s article, "The animation of Char’s Counterattack." 
• Izubuchi Yutaka (出渕 裕)'s Wikipedia pages (English and Japanese) and Anime News Network encyclopedia page (ANN). 
• ANN reporting on the Yutaka Izubuchi Focus Panel at Anime Expo 2006, by Sean Broestl.
• Masuo Shouichi (増尾 昭一)'s Japanese Wikipedia page and ANN encyclopedia page. 
• ANN obituary for Masuo Shouichi (増尾 昭一). 
• Kitazume Hiroyuki (北爪 宏幸)'s Wikipedia pages (English and Japanese) and ANN encyclopedia page. 
• Yasuomi Umetsu (梅津泰臣)'s Wikipedia pages (English and Japanese) and ANN encyclopedia page. 

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

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This week we're joined by two returning guests, costume designer Sarah McCostumes and theatrical mask consultant Sean DMR to talk about costuming, mobile suits, and what the aesthetics of Char's Counterattack can tell us about the characters, the world, and the story. Plus in the research Thom looks at Char's iconography and tries to trace its origins.

Char's Iconography Background on Prussian-style Collars:

• Prussian uniforms (including various Zeon-esque collars) - “The Waffenfrock 1842-1895” from Kaiser’s Bunker. 
• Imperial Japanese Army uniforms during the Russo-Japanese War (showing the contrast collar borrowed from the Prussians). 
• Influence of Prussian military uniform helmets in Latin America, by Ricardo Jara Franco. Aug. 18, 2011. Available at http://pickelhauben.net/old-site/articles/latin_America.html
• Martin, Bernd, and Peter Wetzler. “The German Role in the Modernization of Japan — The Pitfall of Blind Acculturation.” Oriens Extremus 33, no. 1 (1990): 77–88. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24048466
• Wikipedia page on the uniforms of the Imperial Japanese Army.

General background on Eagles as symbols:

• “Eagle,” from Heraldsnet.org, an online glossary of heraldric elements.
• Wikipedia pages for eagles in heraldry, the national emblem of Indonesia, the Roman aquila, and the Shahbaz (the fabled eagle-like creature used in Achaemenid iconography).
• An overview about the role of eagles in different Native American cultures, with links to other sources.
• The Warrior and the Eagle, an old Lenape legend.
• “The Bald Eagle, Creature of Nature and an American Symbol” by Ellen Terrell for the Library of Congress. June 27, 2019. Available at https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2019/06/the-bald-eagle-creature-of-nature-and-an-american-symbol/.

The Reichsadler:

• Wikipedia pages for the Reichsadler, the coat of arms of Austria, and the coat of arms of Germany.
• German text of the Imperial Rescript of August 3rd, 1871. 
• “When is a German eagle a Nazi eagle?” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 2, 2016. Mirrored here.
• Flags of Nazi Germany, including ‘Podiumflaggen’ (podium flags).
• “Political and Civil Flags of the Third Reich 1932-1945,” by Pete Loeser.
• “The Nazi Eagles of Berlin,” from Digital Cosmonaut, documenting surviving depictions of the Reichsadler and Parteiadler in Berlin today.
• “The Federal Eagle,” published by Deutscher Bundestag (German Federal Parliament).

Katou Tateo (_加藤 建夫) and the 64th Sentai_:

• Wikipedia pages for Katou Tateo (加藤 建夫), and the propaganda film about Katou's squadron (Englishand Japanese).
• A forum thread featuring numerous historical photos of Katou's emblem on planes of the 64th Sentai.
• The opening to the propaganda film about Katou's squadron, featuring the song and a version of the eagle emblem.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

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With last week's general discussion of the plot of Char's Counterattack out of the way, it's time to start diving deep on specific aspects of the film. This week: environmental justice advocate Colin joins us to discuss the environment, and environmentalism, in Char's Counterattack. Plus in the research Thom explores what it might mean that the Federation is headquartered in Lhasa while Nina looks at how a 1988 audience might have responded to talk of 'nuclear winter'. From the Talkback

• In preparation for our conversation, Colin had us read "Principles of Environmental Justice" by the Delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held on October 24-27, 1991, and "The Progressive Plantation" by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin.
• You can find Colin on Twitter at @padgettish and listen to them co-host for Wow! Cool Robot!!'s coverage of Zeta Gundam, or their own much less serious podcast about Medabots at Medawatch.
• They also recommended the Environmental Justice Network as a resource.

Lhasa, Tibet

• Timeline of major events in Tibetan history from the BBC.
• Tibetan history via Britannica.
• Wikipedia pages for the history of Tibet, Lhasa, the 5th Dalai Lama, Tibet under Qing rule, and Mongol invasions of Tibet.

General Tibetan history:

• “Tibetan Nation: A History Of Tibetan Nationalism And Sino-tibetan Relations,” by Warren Smith. Routledge. 1997.
• Tourist guide to the Potala Palace (which definitely appears in the movie) and the Jokhang Temple (which probably does). By She Jingwei for China Global Television Network, Mar. 26, 2019. Available at https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d30496a4e33457a6333566d54/index.html.

Recent History: Tibet and China:

• “Tibet, China and the United States: Reflections on the Tibet Question.” By Melvyn C. Goldstein for The Atlantic Council of the United States. 1995. Available at https://web.archive.org/web/20061106021854/http://cc.purdue.edu/~wtv/tibet/article/art4.html.
• Topgyal, Tsering. “Identity Insecurity and the Tibetan Resistance Against China.” Pacific Affairs 86, no. 3 (2013): 515–38. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43590713.
• “The Monastery as a Medium of Tibetan Culture,” Donald S. Lopez, Jr. For Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine. March 1988. Available at https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/monastery-medium-tibetan-culture.
• “Timeline of Destruction of Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in China,” by Alexander Berzin. 1994. Available at https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/history-culture/buddhism-in-east-asia/timeline-of-destruction-of-tibetan-buddhist-monasteries-in-china

• “Threat from Tibet? Systemic Repression of Tibetan Buddhism in China,” by Ryan Cimmino for Harvard International Review. Sept. 16, 2018. Available at https://hir.harvard.edu/repression-tibetan-buddhism-china/. “Genocide in Tibet,” by Maura Moynihan for the Washington Post, Jan. 25, 1998. Available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1998/01/25/genocide-in-tibet/27c0891c-57f1-4a7c-b873-a1071d93cbfd

• “’Prosecute them with Awesome Power’ - China’s Crackdown on Tengdro Monastery and Restrictions on Communications in Tibet.” Human Rights Watch. July 6, 2021. Available at https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/07/06/prosecute-them-awesome-power/chinas-crackdown-tengdro-monastery-and-restrictions

• International Resolutions and Recognition on Tibet (1959 to 2004), assembled by Lobsang Nyandak Zayul for the Department of Information and International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration. Available at https://tibet.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/International-rsolutions-on-Tibet.pdf
• The Dalai Lama:

• “Chronology of Events [in the Dalai Lama’s life].” From the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Available at https://www.dalailama.com/the-dalai-lama/events-and-awards/chronology-of-events “14th Dalai Lama,” by Britannica. Available at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dalai-Lama-14th/Life-in-exile

• “Dalai Lama caught in the middle as India and China reboot ties,” by Sugam Pokharel for CNN. March 30, 2018. Available at https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/30/asia/india-tibet-china-dalai-lama-intl/index.html

• “Dalai Lama opens exhibit of Tibetan art at Ueno,” by Ray Mahon for Stars and Stripes. Sept. 28, 1967. Available at https://www.stripes.com/news/dalai-lama-opens-exhibit-of-tibetan-art-at-ueno-1.18977.

The 1980s Negotiations:

• Norbu, Dawa. “China’s Dialogue With the Dalai Lama 1978-90: Prenegotiation Stage of Dead End?” Pacific Affairs 64, no. 3 (1991): 351–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/2759468.
• “Tibet 1985: The Last Fact-Finding Delegation - A Personal Account” by Tenzin Phuntsok Atisha.” 2020. Available at https://www.atc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Tibet-1985-EBOOK.pdf.
• A report about the 1980s negotiations, based on declassified documents created by US officials at the time. “U.S. Officials Hoped Chinese Liberalization Program for Tibet in Early 1980s Would Bring Significant Improvements,” by Robert A. Wampler for National Security Archive. Feb. 28, 2013. Available at https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB414/.
• Press release: “Sino-Tibetan Contacts to Resume,” by Chhime R. Chhoekyapa from the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, including an annexed timeline of negotiations between the Dalai Lama and Beijing. May 2, 2008. Available at https://www.c3sindia.org/geopolitics-strategy/sino-tibetan-contacts-to-resume/
• Additional relevant Wikipedia entries on the "Great Game," the 1959 Tibetan uprising, Tibetan unrest 1987-1989, the Tibet Autonomous Region, Chushi Gangdruk, the Tibetan independence movement, the Convention of Lhasa, and the Seventeen Point Agreement.

Japan, Chernobyl, & Nuclear Anxiety

• Wikipedia pages for the Chernobyl disaster, its effects, and its cultural impact,
• Page on the Chernobyl accident from the World Nuclear Association.
• About the "Red Forest."
• Page on the "Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident."
• Wikipedia pages for the band The Blue Hearts (ザ・ブルーハーツ), and for "On Your Mark," the Change and Aska song with the Ghibli/Miyazaki AMV (anime music video).
• Radiophobia.
• Specific pages on the nuclear-power debate, the anti-nuclear movement (in general and in Japan), and anti-nuclear organizations.
• Japanese-language page on the anti-nuclear movement.
• Website for the Citizens Nuclear Information Center (原子力資料情報室) (shortened to CNIC), a Japanese anti-nuclear organization (in Japanese),
• History and timeline for CNIC (in English).
• CNIC English-language newsletters, Oct. 1987, Dec.1987, and Jan-Feb 1988.

Contemporary articles the Chernobyl disaster:

• Silk, L. (1986, May 02). Economic scene|: Chernobyl's world impact. New York Times (1923-) Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/economic-scene/docview/110930284/se-2?accountid=35927 Hudson, Richard L., Terence Roth. "Chernobyl: Coping with Consequences --- Lingering Fallout: A Year Later, Mishap at Chernobyl Damps Atom-Power Industry --- Siemens Plant-Building Unit Battles Germany's Greens, Seeks to Reassure Public --- in Britain, Cuddly Reactors." Wall Street Journal Apr 23 1987, Eastern edition ed.: 1. ProQuest. 10 Nov. 2021.

• STUART D. "BIG AREA STRICKEN: SPREAD OF RADIOACTIVITY WAS FAR GREATER THAN INDICATED BEFORE FALLOUT FROM CHERNOBYL DISASTER AFFECTED LARGER AREA THAN FIRST REPORTED." New York Times (1923-) Aug 22 1986: 2. ProQuest. 10 Nov. 2021.

• Taylor, Robert E. "Scope of Chernobyl Accident is Unclear to West as Fallout Continues to Spread." Wall Street Journal May 05 1986, Eastern edition ed.: 1. ProQuest. 10 Nov. 2021.
• "Panel Says Japan should Boost Nuclear Power use." Wall Street Journal Jul 21 1986, Eastern edition ed.: 1. ProQuest. 10 Nov. 2021.
• WEINSTEIN, BERNARD L. and HAROLD T. GROSS. "Japan is Spending Heavily to Avoid Oil." New York Times (1923-), Mar 27, 1988, pp. 1. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/japan-is-spending-heavily-avoid-oil/docview/110543916/se-2?accountid=35927.
• ERIK E. "After Accident at the Soviet Station, Nuclear Power is Questioned again." New York Times (1923-), May 02, 1986, pp. 1. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/after-accident-at-soviet-station-nuclear-power-is/docview/110943137/se-2?accountid=35927.

Other articles and papers:

• Zhukova, Ekatherina. “Foreign Aid and Identity after the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: How Belarus Shapes Relations with Germany, Europe, Russia, and Japan.” Cooperation and Conflict, vol. 52, no. 4, Sage Publications, Ltd., 2017, pp. 485–501, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48590276.
• Okabe, Aki. “Japan Reacts to Chernobyl.” Earth Island Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, Earth Island Institute, 1987, pp. 14–15, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43881866.
• Great book about film director and screenwriter Honda Ishiro (本多 猪四郎): Ryfle, Steve, et al. Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa. Wesleyan University Press, 2017.
• English and Japanese Wikipedia pages for the Kurosawa Akira (黒澤 明) film, 生きものの記録 or "I Live in Fear."
• About the Stanley Kubrick film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
• Not mentioned in the research but when I was editing and got to the part about Nazi scientists, I remember the existence of this satirical song, "Wernher Von Braun" by Thomas Andrew Lehrer (1965).

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

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This week, we recap and discuss Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack (機動戦士ガンダム 逆襲のシャア), while trying to avoid spoiling the discussions coming up in future episodes. Before we dig in to the movie itself, Thom presents research on how and why Char's Counterattack got made - background information on the production, tie-in novels, and other versions of the story. We also discuss how we'll be pronouncing a number of the names in the film.

The Other Counterattacks

• Japanese-language Interviews with various staff for CCA, including producer Uchida Kenji.
• Much of the information about the production timeline is based on information and images collected in this discussion on Twitter.
• Japanese-language summary of Beltorchika's Children.
• Different Japanese language blog entries with some details about Hi-Streamer and Beltorchika's Children including publication dates.
• Translated version of the original Zeta proposal (but be warned that this incorporates antisemitic conspiracy theories).
• Interviews with Nagano Mamoru and Izubuchi Yutaka, both touching on the behind-the-scenes of Char's Counterattack.
• Japanese Wikipedia page on 'Gaia Gear' (aka Mobile Suit Gaia Gear: Char's Counterattack).
• Japanese-language commentary on Beltorchika's Children.
• And of course... Beltorchika's Children itself:

富野 由悠季 (Tomino Yoshiyuki), 機動戦士ガンダム 逆襲のシャア―ベルトーチカ・チルドレン (Beltorchika's Children). Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko (1988). From the Talkback

• Oshii Mamoru talks about Char's Counterattack (including the politically-charged language).
• Japanese-language explanation of the Buddhist origins for the commonly used word 邪魔 (じゃま / jama).
• The demon in question.
• Japanese-language explanation of the differences between 粛清 (purge) and 粛正 (purge).

Music

• "Dangerous Tonight" by VYVCH.
• "Noise to Flange Tag" and "The Placing Rule," both by Small Colin and available here.
• "Cold War Echo" and "November," by Kai Engel.
• "Onistwave" by P C III.
• "Immersive" by Sergey Cheremisinov.
• "Garden of Untamed Roses (Act II)" by Lloyd Rodgers.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com. Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

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This special bonus episode is a companion for Season 4 of Mobile Suit Breakdown. It's a brief recap of the history of the Universal Century up to the start of CCA, for the benefit of anyone who wants a refresher on how we got here. 

Normally this would be included in one of our regular numbered episodes. We had scheduled it for episode 4.2, but since that episode wound up being more than 3 hours long, we made the call to split this section out and release it separately as a short bonus.

The music used in this episode included: The Dance of the Sky by MMFFF, Grey Sky Piece by Rutger Muller, Golden Riddles, Echoes and Points (Act II) by Lloyd Rogers, and New York City (Instrumental) by spinningmerkaba.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

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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 licenses. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

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This week begins our coverage of Char's Counterattack with... a bunch of things that happened before Char's Counterattack. We recap and discuss the first two SD shorts, - both of which were shown in theaters before the Char's Counterattack movie: “Fierce Fighting - Will Gundam Stand Up!?” (激闘編 - ガンダム大地に立てるか!?) and “Holiday - The Menace of the Zeon Hotel? Destruction orders for the Gundam Pension!” (休日編 - ジオン・ホテルの脅威？ガンダム・ペンション破壊命令!!). In addition to our first thoughts and impressions, we try to identify and explain references, puns, and other gags that might be missed by an audience that doesn't speak Japanese. Thom researches the origins of the SD or "Super Deformed" aesthetic in anime and anime merchandise, and I give a whirlwind review of world events from the end of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ to the premier of Char's Counterattack - February 22nd, 1986 until March 12th, 1988.

Contemporary Events

• Wikipedia timelines for 1986 and 1987.
• More detailed information about the Khian Sea waste-disposal incident, and the Goiânia accident.
• About "Our Common Future" (aka the Brundtland Report), and estimated world-population milestones.
• The (financial markets) Big Bang, a timeline of Japan's asset price bubble, Black Monday 1987, and the Economist's "Big Mac Index."
• A March 2020 article about the use of the "circuit breaker" during the financial shocks caused by Covid-19 lockdowns and related uncertainty.
• The Kurdish genocide (aka the Anfal campaign), the 1987 "Mecca incident," the Sumgait pogrom, and the first Intifada.
• Explanation of the Leiyu massacre.
• More detailed timeline and explanation of the June Struggle.
• All about the Iran-Contra scandal.
• Wikipedia pages about Klaus Barbie (the "Butcher of Lyon") and the warcrimes allegations against Kurt Waldheim.
• In Cold War notes, the history and content of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the drafting and belated fame of Reagan's "Tear down this wall" speech, and Perestroika.
• How the Seville Statement on Violence came to be, the contents, and critiques.
• Diego Maradona and the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
• The slang phrase "going Postal" and its origins in US Postal Service workplace shootings.
• The 1980s in Japan specifically.
• Tokyo Weekender article about the 1980s news stories that garnered the most public attention in Japan.

SD Gundam's Origins

• A basic explainer of SD Gundam from Bandai itself: Part 1 and Part 2.
• Anime News Network Encyclopedia Entry for Choro-Q Dougram.
• Settei (setting documents) showing character heights (and head sizes) in First Gundam.
• Japanese-language interview with Kouji Yokoi (横井孝二), an early innovator of SD art often cited as the creator of SD Gundam.
• Archived version of a different interview with Yokoi.
• Japanese Wikipedia page for Kouji Yokoi (横井孝二).
• Japanese Wikipedia page for SD Gundam.
• This page from Space Battleship Yamato fan Tim Eldred features some photos taken from old issues of _Model Information, giving a sense for the kinds of photos included alongside SD fan art._
• This blog has scans of other pages (including fan art and model photos) from _Model Information. _A drawing of Aura Battler Dunbine (written Ohlah Battler Dunbine) by Yokoi is included in one shot.
• Image showing some of the RoboChanMan toys.
• Early SD designs by Yokoi.
• SD-styled horror monsters, made in 1986 by Bandai.
• A Yokoi Zaku that appeared on instruction manuals for RoboChanMan.
• Detailed and image-rich Japanese-language blog post about the origins of SD Gundam.

Gags & References in the First Two SD Gundam Shorts

• The History of Gunpla from gunpla101.com.
• About tanning-as-beauty-trend in Japan, by Japanese cosmetics and skincare company, Kanebo.
• An article on the history of light therapy from 1900-1950. Doesn't address Japan directly, and obviously doesn't cover the 1980s, but includes pictures of the kind of sunlamp that appears in the first SD Gundam short.
• From TV Tropes - the 'lots of luggage' and 'human pack-mule' tropes.
• A tweet from professor of early modern and modern Japanese religions, Takashi Miura, featuring art inspired by traditional depictions of the warrior-monk Benkei. If you click through the images, he also posted some of the original art of Benkei (Saitō Musashibō Benkei / 西塔武蔵坊弁慶), and explains that the tools arrayed behind him represent the "low-wage laborers whom he protects."
• Jisho.org page for the word あげる (ageru), listing multiple meanings and their different kanji. There is also a jisho.org page for the colloquial expression 揚げ足 (age-ashi) that the first SD short makes a visual pun on (literally - fried leg).

• This dictionary was a big help as well: Chie, Yamane. “あげあしをとる.” 研究社　日本語口語表現辞典　Kenkyusha Nihongo Kogo Hyogen Jiten, 2nd ed., Kenkyusha, Tokyo, 2020, p. 11.

• A bit about Japanese tea ceremony.

• Wikipedia pages on the games Go and Reversi. The Reversi page has a section on the Othello version/ruleset.
• About the common ostrich.
• A source discussing the changing methods of measuring the speed of a baseball and the introduction of radar guns in the 1970s and 80s, and a post from a baseball performance-training company about ball exit-speed.
• Wikipedia's list of baseball video games.
• Jisho.org search for the word のり (nori).
• Wondering about the samurai with one arm out of his kimono sleeve is apparently pretty common. Here are two responses, one on Quora and one on Reddit's "Ask Historians" subreddit. It is also covered very briefly in this article from TimeOut Tokyo about kimono.

Music

• The music in the SD recap sections is "Hyson" by Olivia and "Dawn" by Mr. Smith.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

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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 licenses. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

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This week we revisit the final episode of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ in light of the first draft of the episode 47 script recently shared by Gundam expert Mark Simmons. This script was written solely by Zeta Gundam and Gundam ZZ writer Endo Akinori, before being significantly re-written by head director Tomino Yoshiyuki. It stands out as a rare window into the work process behind the scenes of Gundam, and offers Nina and Thom the chance to ask... would the episode have been better without the boss' meddling?

Huge thanks this week to Mark both for making this script draft available and for translating relevant sections into English!

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

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Warning: Due to an error, an uncensored version of this episode was briefly available for download. The error has been corrected, and we apologize for the oversight that allowed it to slip through. We encourage anyone who downloaded the episode between 12:00 AM and 6:00 AM on August 7th to re-download the corrected version.

This week, we look back on Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) as a whole. We analyze the show, assess its strengths and weaknesses, check in on its running themes, compare Judau Ashta to the protagonists of First Gundam and Zeta Gundam, and much more. Plus, Nina predicts where Gundam will go next, the final episode of the Radio Free Shangri-La radio drama, and Thom wraps up the Heike Monogatari Breakdown series of research segments.

• Books Thom referenced in the research segment this week:

平家物語 (The Tale of the Heike), trans. Royall Tyler. Penguin (2012).

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

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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 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 47 - “Warrior, Once More” (戦士, 再び......), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and continuing research on the Tale of the Heike and it's influence on Double Zeta.

• Books and articles Thom referenced:

平家物語 (The Tale of the Heike), trans. Royall Tyler. Penguin (2012).

Totman, Conrad D. A History of Japan. 2nd ed., Blackwell, 2011.

• The poem read in the eulogy is an excerpt from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, available at Project Gutenberg.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 46 - “Vibration” (バイブレーション), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and continuing research on the Tale of the Heike and it's influence on Double Zeta.

- Books and articles Thom referenced:

平家物語 (The Tale of the Heike), trans. Royall Tyler. Penguin (2012).

Totman, Conrad D. A History of Japan. 2nd ed., Blackwell, 2011.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 45 - “The Battle of Axis” (アクシズの戦闘), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and continuing research on the Tale of the Heike and it's influence on Double Zeta.

- Books and articles Thom referenced:

平家物語 (The Tale of the Heike), trans. Royall Tyler. Penguin (2012).

- About Sir Accolon of Gaul and Morgana/Morgan le Fay from Arthurian legends.

- Chivalry!

- Wikipedia page for the song "Greensleeves," and one set of lyrics for the tune.

- The recording of "Greensleeves" used in the eulogy for Mashymre is performed by Howie Mitchell & Charlotte Williams, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 44 - “Emary's Glory” (エマリー散華), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the Japanese ballad form enka, and Thom's continuing research on the Tale of the Heike and it's influence on Double Zeta.

This episode includes Epilogue (Instrumental Version) by Josh Woodward, licensed under a CC-BY license.

- Books and articles Thom referenced:

平家物語 (The Tale of the Heike), trans. Royall Tyler. Penguin (2012).

Sources of Japanese Tradition volume one, compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary, Donald Keene, George Tanabe, and Paul Varley. Columbia UP (1958, 2nd ed., 2001).

The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople, Susan Wise Bauer, W. W. Norton (2013).

The Cambridge History of Japan volume two, ed. by Delmer M. Brown, John Whitney Hall, Donald H. Shively, William H. McCullough, Marius B. Jansen, Kōzō Yamamura, Peter Duus. Cambridge UP (1988)

The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukansho, an Interpretative History of Japan written in 1219, Delmer Brown and Ichiro Ishida. University of California Press (2021).

A Brief History of the Samurai, Jonathan Clements. Little, Brown Book Group (2013).

The Samurai: A Military History, Stephen Turnbull (1977).

- Brittanica entry for Minamoto no Yoritomo.

- Article covering the development of the Heian era's elite warrior class: "Bushi: A brief history."

- English translation of an order from the Emperor Kammu abolishing the levy system and calling on local magistrates to furnish guards from their families.

- Book about enka:

Yano, Christine Reiko. Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song. Harvard Univ. Press, 2010.

- Wikipedia page about yojijukugo (四字熟語), 4-character idioms and phrases, including some common ones and their translations (異体同心 / いたいどうしん / itaidoushin among them).

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

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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 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 43 - “The Girl from Core 3, Part 2” (コア３の少女 (後)), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on a possible inspiration for the name of Chara's new mobile suit, and Thom's continuing research on the Tale of the Heike and it's influence on Double Zeta.

- Wikipedia page for 'grimalkin,' and a reference for passage in Macbeth that mentions 'grimalkin.'

- Papers/articles:

"grimalkin, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2021, www.oed.com/view/Entry/81487. Accessed 29 June 2021.

Raber, Karen (2016) "Response: Monster Pets," Early Modern Culture: Vol. 11 , Article 10. Available at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/emc/vol11/iss1/10

- Wikipedia pages for bakeneko and nekomata (and the same from yokai.com: bakeneko, nekomata).

- English and Japanese pages for Godolphin Arabian (and an explanation of what a "thoroughbred" is).

- Page about the children's book, King of the Wind.

- On horse-racing in Japan.

- Books and articles Thom referenced:

平家物語 (The Tale of the Heike), trans. Royall Tyler. Penguin (2012).

Sources of Japanese Tradition volume one, compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary, Donald Keene, George Tanabe, and Paul Varley. Columbia UP (1958, 2nd ed., 2001).

The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople, Susan Wise Bauer, W. W. Norton (2013). 

The Cambridge History of Japan volume two, ed. by Delmer M. Brown, John Whitney Hall, Donald H. Shively, William H. McCullough, Marius B. Jansen, Kōzō Yamamura, Peter Duus. Cambridge UP (1988)

The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukansho, an Interpretative History of Japan written in 1219, Delmer Brown and Ichiro Ishida. University of California Press (2021).

A Brief History of the Samurai, Jonathan Clements. Little, Brown Book Group (2013).

The Samurai: A Military History, Stephen Turnbull (1977).

- A high resolution, annotated, zoomable image of one of the most famous scrolls depicting the massacre at the Sanjou Palace (from Princeton University).

- An overview of the Heiji disturbance, featuring high resolution photos from an ancient scroll depicting the events.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

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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 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 42 - “The Girl from Core 3, Part 1” (コア３の少女 (前)), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the uniforms worn by the miners at Cicero asteroid, and Thom's continuing research on the Tale of the Heike and it's influence on Double Zeta.

- Books and papers consulted for the Tale of the Heike Part II - Early Retirement:

平家物語 (The Tale of the Heike), trans. Royall Tyler. Penguin (2012).

Sources of Japanese Tradition volume one, compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary, Donald Keene, George Tanabe, and Paul Varley. Columbia UP (1958, 2nd ed., 2001).

The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople, Susan Wise Bauer, W. W. Norton (2013).

The Cambridge History of Japan volume two, ed. by Delmer M. Brown, John Whitney Hall, Donald H. Shively, William H. McCullough, Marius B. Jansen, Kōzō Yamamura, Peter Duus. Cambridge UP (1988).

The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukansho, an Interpretative History of Japan written in 1219, Delmer Brown and Ichiro Ishida. University of California Press (2021).

Hurst, G. Cameron. “The Reign of Go-Sanjō and the Revival of Imperial Power.” Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 27, no. 1, 1972, pp. 65–83. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2383478. Accessed 26 June 2021.

- Wikipedia pages for Emperor Go-Sanjō (後三条天皇) and Emperor Shirakawa (白河天皇).

- Wikipedia pages for tobi trousers (aka Nikkapokka, Nikka zubon) and knickerbockers.

- Jisho.org page for tobi/とび/鳶.

- Blog post "Japanese Construction Worker Fashion" with some historical information, conversations with construction workers, and lots of pictures of construction workers, catalogues, and shops.

- Article from Esquire about tobi pants as fashion.

- Wikipedia page on Imperial Japanese Army uniforms, including photos and period posters showing the knickbocker pants as part of some uniforms.

- Article and photo series on construction worker clothes in Japan.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 41 - “Rasara's Life” (ラサラの命), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the the Tale of the Heike, and how this classic of Japanese literature may have influenced Zeta and Double Zeta.

- For the Tale of the Heike itself and background on the role of the Fujiwara clan in government and the rivalry between the emperors Toba, Sutoku, Konoe, and Go-Shirakawa:

平家物語 (The Tale of the Heike), trans. Royall Tyler. Penguin (2012).

- An outline of the social, economic, and governance system that was in place at the beginning of the Heian Era: 'The Taika Reforms' in the New World Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and Britannica.

- Further background on the Heian Era and changes that occurred during it from Brittanica, and an overview of the Heian Era with particular focus on the development of Japanese culture during this period from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

- From Yokai.com, an illustrated English-language database of demons, ghosts, and other monsters of Japanese folklore - the Emperor Sutoku.

- Brief biographies of the emperors mentioned in this piece (and paintings!): Emperor Toba, Emperor Sutoku, Emperor Konoe, and Emperor Go-Shirakawa.

- For the shōen or 'estates' system that developed during the late Heian Era and undermined the central government, this brief overview places them in context with other political challenges and changes. There's a more extensive discussion here.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 40 - “Tigerbaum Dream” (タイガーバウムの夢), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the Haw Par Corporation and Tiger Balm Gardens in Singapore and Hong Kong.

- US website for the Tiger Balm line of products.

- Japanese Wikipedia page for Tiger Balm.

- Website for Tiger Balm’s parent company, the Haw Par Corporation (虎豹企業有限公司), and the Wikipedia page for the Haw Par Corporation.

- About Chinese Renaissance architecture.

- Haw Par Villa, Singapore's website and Wikipedia page.

- Very short article about Haw Par Villa, Singapore, with some photos from inside "The Ten Courts of Hell."

- About the “Four Asian Tiger” economies.

- Wikipedia page for Tiger Balm Garden, Hong Kong and the Haw Par Mansion.

- Wikimedia Commons photos of Tiger Balm Garden, Hong Kong and Haw Par Mansion.

- Video of Tiger Balm Garden, Hong Kong, from the 1949-1960, and from 2015 (just before it closed).

- Image searches for “Haw Par Villa” (Getty Images / Alamy) and “Tiger Balm Garden” (Getty Images / Alamy).

- The photo of statues of beautiful, smiling, nude women, that I can't verify is from Tiger Balm Gardens, but the poster says is from a family trip there in 1965.

- Two articles from Zolima City Mag: one about Adrian Wong's installation "The Tiger Returns to the Mountain" (inspired by Tiger Balm Garden), and one about Tiger Balm Garden and the Haw Par Mansion's history and future.

- A New York Times Article from 1985 about the Tiger Balm Garden, Hong Kong’s 50th Anniversary restoration.

- Memories of Tiger Balm Garden, particularly the part depicting hell.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 39 - “The Second Coming of Sarasa” (サラサ再臨), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the story of the Trojan Horse.

- An outline of the Epic Cycle poems with English translations of their surviving fragments, by Hugh Evelyn-White.

- An annotated version of the Evelyn-White translations that offers additional context about the characters involved as well as the back story of the fragments.

- Translations of the surviving summaries of the the Epic Cycle poems, by Gregory Nagy. The summaries are attributed to one 'Proclus' about whom we know very little.

- Public domain translation of The Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler.

- Public domain translation of The Aeneid, translated by John Dryden.

- Public domain translation of The Posthomerica (or The Fall of Troy) by Quintus Smyrnaeus (Quintus of Smyrna), translated by A. S. Way.

- Japanese Wikipedia page for the White Base, including the anecdote about a Clover exec saying it looked like a rocking horse.

- Jisho.org page for "Trojan Horse" in Japanese.

- How many days happen in the Iliad, anyway?

- The Library (or Bibliotheca) of Apollodorus (or Pseudo-Apollodorus) and including the reconstructed Epitome covering the Trojan war, translated by Sir James George Frazer.

- Internet archive e-book version of 'The Library.'

- A history of the surviving text of The Library:

Diller, Aubrey. “The Text History of the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus.” Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 66, 1935, pp. 296–313. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/283301. Accessed 2 June 2021.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 38 - “The Iron Wall of the Jamru Fin” (鉄壁, ジャムル·フィン), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on blood-type personality theory.

• Wikipedia page for Type A and Type B personality theory, and a Huffpo article about the Type A personality type.
• Wikipedia page for blood-type personality theory, and for Nomi Masahiko (能見 正比古).
• BBC articles about burahara (blood harassment) and an overview of blood-type personality theory and its history and popularity in Japan.
• Chart of distribution of different blood types by country.
• Another overview of blood-type personality theory's history, and a summary of each blood-type's characteristics.
• And one more overview of the blood types' characteristics, inter-type compatibility, and how blood-type theory gets used in social situations, this time from Tofugu.
• English version of the Human Science ABO Center's official website.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 37 - “Nahel Argama” (ネェル·アーガマ), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on different shuttle-launch methods.

- NASA's Space Shuttle Propulsion Trivia page and FAQ about the shuttle program.

- Article comparing the costs of different launch methods.

- Cost assessments for the different parts of the shuttle program.

- What happened to the last surviving external fuel tank from the shuttle program?

- The space shuttle by the numbers.

- NASA information page about the external fuel tank.

- Space shuttle orbiter dimensions.

- Information on the external solid rocket boosters.

- Wikipedia page on air-launch-to-orbit.

- 1998 rundown of designs for reusable launch vehicles, including some designed for air-launch-to-orbit.

- 2006 article about Kazakhstan and Russia collaborating on an air-launch-to-orbit system for satellites.

- 2007 conceptual design for a supersonic air-launch-to-orbit system.

- A brief look back on the history of Mass Driver research.

- 2019 assessment of Mass Drivers by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers:

E. Inger, "Mass Driver Design Traveling Earth to the Moon," in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 161034-161039, 2019, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2950882. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8889556

- 2012 report on the StarTram mass driver design, by Lisa Zyga for Phys.org.

- Wikipedia article on the proof of concept mass driver built by Gerard O'Neill and team.

- 1977 newsletter for the L-5 Society (a space exploration enthusiast group) which mentions the demonstration of the O'Neill mass driver.

- A detailed explanation of the function and benefits of lunar mass drivers.

- 1980 article from the same L-5 Society newsletter with an update on progress on the Mass Driver project.

- 1994 paper proposing a mass driver-style launch system dubbed "MagLifter" by John C. Mankins.

- 2003 paper examining the proposed 'MagLifter' maglev mass driver system.

- Wikipedia page for 'rocket sled launches', a similar launching method that could be combined with a mass driver.

- Article about the US Navy's experimental mass driver-like rail gun and how might be used in space exploration.

- The Radio Free Shangri-La segment this week includes "Military march music" by humanoide9000, used pursuant to a CC BY attribution license.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

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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 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 36 - “Ple 2 Under Gravity” (重力下プルツー), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the history of cloning technology.

- Encyclopedia Britannica page on cloning generally, and a BBC timeline of animal-cloning.

- "The History of Cloning" from the University of Utah.

- Wikipedia pages for Robert Briggs, Thomas King, Tong Dizhou, and Steen Willadsen.

- Explanation of "cell potency."

- About David Rorvik (the former-journalist who wrote about his involvement in the alleged case of human cloning).

- The US Food and Drug Administration page on "Myths about Cloning."

- NIH National Human Genome Research Institute "Cloning Fact Sheet."

- Articles:

Robert G. McKinnell, Marie A. Di Berardino, The Biology of Cloning: History and Rationale, BioScience, Volume 49, Issue 11, November 1999, Pages 875–885, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313647

Liao, Lianming et al. “Stem cell research in China.” Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences vol. 362,1482 (2007): 1107-12. doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.2037. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2435574/.

Sullivan, Walter. “First Cloning of Mammals Produces 3 Mice.” The New York Times, 4 Jan. 1981, Section 1, pp. 1. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/04/us/first-cloning-of-mammals-produces-3-mice.html

Budiansky S. Karl Illmensee: NIH withdraws research grant. Nature. 1984 Jun 28-Jul 4;309(5971):738. doi: 10.1038/309738a0. PMID: 6738687. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6738687/

Newmark, Peter. “Illmensee Inquiry: Fraud Charge Unproven, Researcher Resumes Duties.” Nature, vol. 307, no. 5953, 1984, pp. 673–673., doi:10.1038/307673a0. https://www.nature.com/articles/307673a0.pdf?origin=ppub.

Paul, Darcy A. “The Historical Development of Cloning Technology and the Role of Regulation in Ensuring Responsible Applications (2003 Third Year Paper).” Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, 2003, http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:8852108.

- The eulogy in this episode includes the song 'world of ruin' by Damiano Baldiano, licensed under a Creative Common Attribution license.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 35 - “Falling Sky” (落ちてきた空), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary on the use of Ireland as a setting in Gundam with special-guest Sarah McCostumes!

- Sarah's Twitter account, and the Twitter for the podcast they're a part of, "Wow!! Cool Robot!!!"

- Sarah's YouTube video, "What Mobile Suit Gundam Can Teach Us About Fashion Theory."

- Articles about the role of women in the Troubles (which Sarah discusses in relation to Miharu in First Gundam).

- The book Sarah quoted was: Mulholland, Marc. Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2020. 

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 34 - "Kamille's Voice” (カミーユの声) discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research Dublin as depicted in the episode, and the inspiration for Beech Mansion.

- General background on Dublin from Britannica and Wikipedia, as well as two overviews of the history of Dublin, a page on the River Liffey, and one about the Protestant Ascendancy.

- About O'Connell Street, it's monuments, and specifically the O'Connell Monument.

- More detail (with photos) on the various parts/tiers of the O'Connell Monument, and pictures of some of the bullet holes in the monument.

- One of the buildings from the show (next to the statue) demolished in the 1916 Easter Rising.

- A later incident in which the O'Connell monument was bombed by loyalists during the Troubles.

- Picture of the O'Connell Bridge.

- About O'Connell generally (Britannica and Wikipedia), and as an abolitionist.

- The Oath of Supremacy that prevented Catholics from serving in government, Catholic emancipation, and the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829.

- The General Post Office, Dublin, and a picture of the same building, burned out in the Easter Rising.

- The Custom House: picture of the front, old photo of the Custom House before it was burned, and additional information about the burning of the Custom House.

- Topographical map showing the lack of hills north of Dublin except for Howth Hill.

- Beech Mansion aka Buna Yashiki aka ぶな屋敷 (dictionary entries for ぶな (buna) and 屋敷 (yashiki)).

- About beech trees.

- Japanese Wikipedia page for ぶな屋敷.

- Japanese Wikipedia pages for the collection in which the Beech Mansion story appeared, noting the special popularity of the 1980s Granada Holmes version, and for the Granada Holmes adaptation itself.

- Japanese fansite for the series, and the fanzine's page on the Adventure of the Copper Beeches.

- Page on 'Holmes in Japan' presented by the Japan Sherlock Holmes Club.

- Japanese text of the Adventure of the Copper Beeches / ぶな屋敷, and an English-language overview of the story.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.com

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 33 - "Afternoon in Dublin” (ダブリンの午後) discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on this episode's Animation Director, Kanayama Akihiro (金山明博), and Unit Director, Imanishi Takashi (今西隆志).

• Pages about Kanayama Akihiro (金山明博) on Japanese Wikipedia, Anime News Network (ANN), and IMDB (the IMDB page is incomplete).
• ANN article about Kanayama attending Japan Expo USA 2014, and an interview with Kanayama from the expo itself.
• About a solo exhibition of Kanayama's work in 2017.
• About JAniCA (Japanese Animation Creators Association).
• Pages about Imanishi Takashi (今西隆志) on Japanese Wikipedia, ANN, and IMDB, as well as the IMDB page for his pseudonym, Oukuma Asahide (大熊朝秀). You can see him credited under both names (Imanishi for Director and Oukuma for Writer) on the Wikipedia page for Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (obviously, spoiler warning if you haven't seen this show yet).
• Japanese Wikipedia page for the historical figure Oukuma Asahide (大熊朝秀).
• English-language pages about director Nagahama Tadao (長浜忠夫) and the Robot Romance Trilogy.
• ANN page for color designer/setter Imanishi Kiyoko (今西清子) (maiden name Takashima (高島)), and her two IMDB pages: under her maiden name and under her married name.
• Japanese-language page with general information about Imanishi Takashi, that includes mention of him being very drunk at an official event, and an English-language blog post discussing the possibility that Imanishi's drunkenness at an important prescreening led to career consequences.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 32 - "Across the Salt Lake” (塩の湖を越えて) discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on pipelines in Algeria.

- About the real Chott Melrhir.

- Detailed overview of Algeria's hydrocarbon industry from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

- Less detailed overview from OPEC.

- Map of the major external pipelines in Algeria. The purple line leading northeast from Hassi R'Mel is the Trans-Mediterranean Pipeline, and the light green area where it passes near to the Tunisian border is the rough location of Chott Melrhir.

- Map of Algeria's domestic pipelines.

- News articles about Sonatrach's on-again-off-again plans to build a refinery in Biskra, near the site of the future one the Karaba forces are guarding in Gundam ZZ:

2012: Algeria Advances Refining Expansion With Start Of Biskra Construction

2016: Algeria’s Sonatrach lets contracts for three new refineries

2018: Plans for new oil refineries inch forward

2020: Algeria’s Sonatrach lets contract for grassroots refinery noting that plans for the Biskra refinery seem to have stalled

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.com

Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.com

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 31 - "Blue Corps, Part 2” (青の部隊 (後)) discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on religion in postwar Japan and the history of Islam in Japan.

- Books and articles:

Basabe, Fernando M., et al. Japanese Youth Confronts Religion: A Sociological Survey. Sophia University. Tokyo, Rutland, Vt: Charles E. Tuttle, 1968. 

Roemer, Michael. “Religious Affiliation in Contemporary Japan: Untangling the Enigma.” Review of Religious Research, vol. 50, no. 3, 2009, pp. 298–320. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25593743. Accessed 9 Feb. 2021.

Asia in the Making of Europe: Volume I, the Century of Discovery, by Donald F. Lach, University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp. 505–518. Accessed here.

Bodde, Derk. “Japan and the Muslims of China.” Far Eastern Survey, vol. 15, no. 20, 1946, pp. 311–313. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3021860. Accessed 23 Mar. 2021.

Symonds, Shannon Reed. “A History of Japanese Religion: from Ancient Times to Present.” The College at Brockport: State University of New York, History at Digital Commons @Brockport, 2005. Accessed here.

- General pages on religion in Japan from Britannica and Nippon.com.

- Wikipedia pages for Japan Sinks (日本沈没) and Prophecies of Nostradamus (ノストラダムスの大予言) (popular apocalyptic fiction from 1970s).

- General page on Islam in Japan.

- About Ibn Khordadbeh, 9th century Persian geographer.

- Wikipedia page for the Black Dragon Society (黒竜会/kokuryūkai).

- Pages about Umar Mita, the Japanese Muslim whose 1972 translation of the Qur'an I mention in the podcast. Both pages include background information on Islam in Japan.

- Article from the Asia-Pacific Journal - Japan Focus about local mosques and the day-to-day lives of Muslims in Japan.

- Wikipedia pages for Kawauchi Kōhan (川内 康範) (and for his 1960 series, Messenger of Allah / アラーの使者), Dewi Sukarno, and Muhammad Hussain Inoki (aka Antonio Inoki / アントニオ猪木).

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.com

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 30 - "Blue Corps, Part 1” (青の部隊 (前)) discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the Franks.

- Books and articles:

Edward James, The Franks, Blackwell 1988.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Taking stock of the Franks: South Asian views of Europeans and Europe, 1500-1800, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 42, 1 (2005). 

Jonathan Shepard, The Uses of the Franks in Eleventh-Century Byzantium, Anglo-Norman Studies XV, Boydell Press (1993).

Vedran Sulovsky, German, Roman and Frankish: The National Narratives of the Early Hohenstaufen Era (1138-1190). Available at https://www.academia.edu/36843759/German_Roman_and_Frankish_The_National_Narratives_of_the_Early_Hohenstaufen_Era_1138_1190_and_Their_Influence_on_High_Politics.

Anthony Reid, Early Southeast Asian Categorizations of Europeans, in Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia, Silkworm Books (2000).

Szymon Wierzbinski, Normans and Other Franks in 11th Century Byzantium: the Careers of the Adventurers before the Rule of Alexius I Comnenus, Studia Ceranea 4, 2014.

- Thom also listened to Gary Girod's "The French History Podcast," episodes 26 - 45. Available at thefrenchhistorypodcast.com.

- Wikipedia page for the Roman foederati.

- Pages for the Franks, Francia, Clovis I, and the Merovingian Dynasty.

- About the Mediterranean Lingua Franca.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

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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 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 29 - "Runaway Roux” (ルーの逃亡) discuss our first impressions, and talk to physics consultant and friend-of-the-podcast Iraj about the physics of the Audhumla's battle with the Sadalahn in Dakar.

- Regarding the correction made for our last episode, on the pronunciation of W. E. B. Du Bois name, this blog post quotes Du Bois own letters, and his description of how to pronounce his name.

- Zeonic Scanlations' translation of a B-CLUB 15 article on the Gundam ZZ background notes.

- Additional music credit for the RFS: "Way Out West" by Twin Musicom (twinmusicom.org) licensed under a CCBY Creative Commons Attribution License.

- Notes from Iraj on the question of using water spray to deflect a beam weapon.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 28 - "Leina's Blood, Part 2” (リィナの血 (後)) discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Pan-Africanism.

• Wikipedia pages for the Pan-African colors and Pan-African flag.
• Ethiopian history, and a source for the Ethiopian flag as the source of the Pan-African colors: Smith, Whitney. Flag Lore of All Nations. Millbrook Press, 2003.
• About Theodosia Okoh, the artist and statesperson who designed Ghana's flag (including her description of the symbolism of the flag's colors).
• Pages about Pan-Africanism from Wikipedia and the Pan African Development Education and Advocacy Programme.
• BBC article about the Organisation of African Unity conference in 1963.
• Article examining the different views of Japanese Imperialism by Black intellectuals in the United States.
• Series of Articles from “Africana Age: African and African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century,” a project from the New York Public Library’s Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (accessed via Wayback Machine): 1. Pan Africanism 2. W. E. B. Du Bois 3. Marcus Garvey 4. Africa - 1980-2010 5. The Black Power Movement
• Timeline of decolonization in Africa.
• About the Angolan Civil War.
• Wikipedia pages for Marcus Garvey and Kwame Nkrumah.
• The definition of neocolonialism that I referenced.
• The poem from the farewell is Auf Wiedersehen by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 27 - "Leina's Blood, Part 1” (リィナの血 (前)) discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Pentax cameras and the mobile suits that appear in this episode.

- Pentax Brand overview and a brief history of the Asahi Optical Corporation.

- Wikipedia page for Pentax.

- A Brief History of Japanese Binocular Production, by Peter Abrahams.

_- One example of the kind of thing Asahi Optical made during the war. _

- About Super-Multi Coating (SMC).

- What is a pentaprism?

- Camera innovations in 1983 (when the Pentax Super A was released).

- A detailed review of the Super A/Super Program.

- The Pentax manuals for the Super A/Super Program and Program A/Program Plus showing design features like the illuminating window and the Prontor-Compur terminals.

- Early auto-focusing cameras from the '80s, including the Pentax ME-F and its competitors.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 26 - "Masai's Heart” (マサイの心) discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the setting: rock formations, architecture, desert trees, inspiration for Masai's name, and just where exactly is the Gundam team, anyway?

• Petsu-chan's Twitter thread about the Gundam team's route around Africa [SPOILER WARNING - covers episodes not yet covered by Mobile Suit Breakdown].
• Papers about Mosque architecture:

Cleo Cantone, West African Mosque Architecture - A Brief Introduction, for MuslimHeritage.com. Available at https://muslimheritage.com/west-african-mosque-architecture-a-brief-introduction/.

Cleo Cantone, A Mosque in a Mosque: Some Observations on the Rue Blanchot Mosque in Dakar and its Relation to Other Mosques in the Colonial Period, Cahiers d’Études africaines, XLVI (2), 182, 2006. Available at https://journals.openedition.org/etudesafricaines/15253?lang=en (includes details about and pictures of the triangular pediment style of mosque)

The Great Mosque of Djenné / Mud Architecture, ArchEyes.com, available at https://archeyes.com/great-mud-architecture-mali-dogon-culture/

Architecture of the Sub-Saharan Civilizations, LumenLearning.com, available at https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-arthistory/chapter/architecture-of-the-sub-saharan-civilizations/

• Wikipedia page for the Great Mosque of Djenné.
• About the Agadez Mosque in Niger, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• Modern mosques designs in West Africa: Masalikul Jinaan and the Great Mosque of Touba.
• Wikipedia pages for African architecture generally, and for Sungbo's Eredo and the Walls of Benin (plus the sack of Benin, 1897).
• Description of architecture and urban planning in old caravan towns in Mauritania (with lots of pictures of dry-laid stone architecture).
• List of deserts in Africa, with subsection on the deserts that make up the Sahara.
• Photographs of sandstone pinnacles and other geological features near the Ennedi Mountains in Chad. Includes photographs that show the variety of different terrains in the are (sand dunes, gravel beds, small groups of palm trees, lava rock, etc.).
• Wikipedia pages for the Hoggar Mountains, Tadrart Rouge, and Tassili n'Ajjer - all mountains in Algeria with their own beautiful rock formations.
• Wikipedia page for the Aïr Mountains, which includes a photo of some rocky outcroppings near Agadez, and a photograph of some rock spires and cliffs near Bilma, Niger (found through Pinterest, and the link to the original is dead, so I can't say for sure it is what it says it is, BUT it looks right, based on other pictures from the region).
• Article about the effort to use deep-learning AI to do a tree count of the Sahel Desert.
• Several articles on plant life in the Sahara.
• This episode's animal-friend: Uromastyx geyri, also known as the Geyr's dabb lizard, Geyr's spiny-tailed lizard, Sahara mastigure, Saharan spiny-tailed lizard, Yellow Niger Uromastyx, and Saharan yellow uromastyx.
• Pages about the Maasai people from Wikipedia and the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, and a page about Masai as a given name and surname.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 25 - "Rommel's Face” (ロンメルの顔) discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the possible origins of a collection of Gundam names: the Gaza-C, Gallus-J, and Bawoo mobile suits, the character Desert Rommel, and Zeon itself.

- Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica pages on the Gaza Strip.

_- Wikipedia page for Gazami crab, and the Animal Crossing entry for the Gazami crab from Nookipedia. Today gazami is usually written ガザミ, but there are also kanji: 蝤蛑. _

_- Is Zeon actually Zion? Fred Schodt recalls that he chose the Zeon spelling to avoid any religious connotations because he assumed Tomino did not intend them. _

- For the Gallus-J: Wiktionary page on the Latin word Gallus (rooster, inhabitant of Gaul, priest of Cybele).

- Not directly related but mentioned in the segment: The Red Hand of O'Neill and the Red Hand of Ulster.

- For Desert Rommel: Britannica biography for Erwin Rommel, Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht, and the _IMDB page for the movie, "The Desert Rats" (1953). Separately, this British armored division also fighting in North Africa gave themselves the name Desert Rats. _

- Wiktionary page for the kanji (Japanese character) on the Bawoo mobile suit, and the Wikipedia page that explain hyougaiji.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 24 - “Sibling Love Blooms in the Southern Seas” (南海に咲く兄妹愛), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the history of childhood in Japan, and how children and childhood are characterized in the Gundam universe so-far.

- Articles:

Copeland, Rebecca. “Fashioning the Feminine: Images of the Modern Girl Student in Meiji Japan.” U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, no. 30/31, 2006, pp. 13–35. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42771942. Accessed 26 Jan. 2021.

Endō, Mika. “Repurposing Poetry: The Emergence of Working-Class Children's Expression in Interwar Japan.” Japanese Language and Literature, vol. 50, no. 1, 2016, pp. 25–52., www.jstor.org/stable/24891978. Accessed 20 Jan. 2021.

Ghanbarpour, Christina. “Home Education in Rural Japan: Continuity and Change from Late Edo to the Early Postwar.” U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, no. 41, 2011, pp. 25–51. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42772313. Accessed 27 Jan. 2021.

Sofue, Takao. “Childhood Ceremonies in Japan: Regional and Local Variations.” Ethnology, vol. 4, no. 2, 1965, pp. 148–164. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3772726. Accessed 26 Jan. 2021.

Uno, Kathleen. “Civil Society, State, and Institutions for Young Children in Modern Japan: The Initial Years.” History of Education Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 2, 2009, pp. 170–181. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40648076. Accessed 20 Jan. 2021.

- Chapters from "Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan" (which is available for free through Jstor, and as a free kindle download, and was an enjoyable read - I recommend it!):

Frühstück, Sabine. “‘. . . And My Heart Screams’: Children and the War of Emotions.” Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan, edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall, 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2017, pp. 181–202. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1w8h25q.14. Accessed 26 Jan. 2021.

Moore, Aaron William. “Reversing the Gaze: The Construction of ‘Adulthood’ in the Wartime Diaries of Japanese Children and Youth.” Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan, edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall, 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2017, pp. 141–159. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1w8h25q.12. Accessed 26 Jan. 2021.

Piel, L. Halliday. “Outdoor Play in Wartime Japan.” Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan, edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall, 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2017, pp. 160–180. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1w8h25q.13. Accessed 27 Jan. 2021.

Porath, Or. “Nasty Boys or Obedient Children?: Childhood and Relative Autonomy in Medieval Japanese Monasteries.” Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan, edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall, 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2017, pp. 17–40. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1w8h25q.6. Accessed 27 Jan. 2021.

Roberts, Luke S. “Growing Up Manly: Male Samurai Childhood in Late Edo-Era Tosa.” Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan, edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall, 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2017, pp. 41–59. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1w8h25q.7. Accessed 26 Jan. 2021.

Walthall, Anne. “For the Love of Children: Practice, Affect, and Subjectivities in Hirata Atsutane’s Household.” Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan, edited by Anne Walthall and Sabine Frühstück, 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2017, pp. 60–80. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1w8h25q.8. Accessed 27 Jan. 2021.

Yuki, Jinno. “Consumer Consumption for Children: Conceptions of Childhood in the Work of Taisho-Period Designers.” Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan, edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall, by Emily B. Simpson, 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2017, pp. 83–101. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1w8h25q.9. Accessed 27 Jan. 2021.

- Wikipedia articles for shichi-go-san (7-5-3), genpuku, and teeth blackening.

- Wikipedia article on education in Japan in the post-war period, and the "Kyoiku Mama" or "Education Mama."

- Background information about "Hagakure," and reference for the translation I quote:

Yamamoto, Tsunetomo. Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai. Translated by William Scott Wilson, Kodansha International, 2002.

- Reference for the episode of "Dark" that I quote toward the end of the research piece:

Friese, Jantje, and Ronny Schalk. “Dark.” Season 2, episode 5, Netflix, 21 June 2019.

- Library of Congress reference for Japan's current age of majority, legal voting age, and legal smoking and drinking age.

- Paper on Japan's post-war labor force (includes some limited data on labor-force participation of 15-18 year olds).

- Overview of Japanese labor law from the International Labour Organization, which includes a section on child labor limitations/restrictions.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.

Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more!

The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. The recap music for Season 3 is New York City (instrumental) by spinningmerkaba, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.

Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it.

Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.com

Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 23 - “The Burning Earth” (燃える地球) (sometimes also translated to English as “Earth Ablaze”), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the history of childhood.

_- Wikipedia pages for “child” and “history of childhood.” _

- Papers:

Uno, Kathleen. “Civil Society, State, and Institutions for Young Children in Modern Japan: The Initial Years.” History of Education Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 2, 2009, pp. 170–181. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40648076. Accessed 20 Jan. 2021.

Abraham, Erin. “Out of the Mouths of Babes: Speech, Innocence, and Vulnerability in Early Medieval Perceptions of Childhood.” Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies, vol. 7, 2014, pp. 46–64. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26193974. Accessed 20 Jan. 2021.

Endō, Mika. “Repurposing Poetry: The Emergence of Working-Class Children's Expression in Interwar Japan.” Japanese Language and Literature, vol. 50, no. 1, 2016, pp. 25–52., www.jstor.org/stable/24891978. Accessed 20 Jan. 2021.

Cunningham, Hugh. “Histories of Childhood.” The American Historical Review, vol. 103, no. 4, 1998, pp. 1195–1208. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2651207. Accessed 20 Jan. 2021.

Zuckerman, Michael. Journal of Social History, vol. 28, no. 1, 1994, pp. 186–188. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3788358. Accessed 20 Jan. 2021.

- DOL pages on “Youth and Labor,” specifically those pertaining to employment by parents and non-agricultural employment (which mention the federal age and work-hour restrictions).

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This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 22 - “Judau, Launch!” (ジュドー、出撃!!) (sometimes also translated to English as “Judau Sorties!”), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the history of recreational ballet and ballet in Japan.

- Main paper I consulted about ballet in Japan:

Ono, Sayako. “Ballet in Japan: Reconsidering the Westernization of Japanese Ballet.” Journal of Glocal Studies, vol. 3, 2016. https://www.seijo.ac.jp/research/glocal-center/publications/backnumber/jtmo420000005foz-att/a1469430663005.pdf. Accessed 12 Jan. 2021.

- Paper about perceptions of dance by young people in the UK:

Sanderson, Patricia. “The Arts, Social Inclusion and Social Class: The Case of Dance.” British Educational Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 4, 2008, pp. 467–490. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40375509. Accessed 12 Jan. 2021.

- Wikipedia pages for The Red Shoes (1948 film), dancers Yoko Morishita (森下洋子) and Olga Sapphire (Ольга Сафайя, オリガ・サファイア) (also known as 清水みどり, neé Olga Ivanovna Pavlova/Ольга Ивановна Павлова).

- Wikipedia page on the economic history of Japan, which talks about the economic booms of the '60s, '70s, and '80s.

- Overview of the book_ In Ballet Class: An American History, by Melissa Klapper (talking about the history of recreational ballet in the United States)._

- Page on the Bolshoi Ballet Academy website about the academy's involvement in ballet education in Japan.

- The first of our Patreon posts about the Haman Karn cosplay we commissioned from Deidre (Rozenrabbit), and her social media links.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment.

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