It's time for everyone's favorite convention: the Ameria Colony Guillotine Fest! Bring the kids on down, it's fun for the whole family! On this episode we discuss what makes a Char, the Uso Cycle and the Big Sister with a Thousand Faces, narrative imperatives, and how we're each of us getting what we want out of Victory (despite some quibbles).

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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 on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 25 and... Oliver is Uso-pilled, Odelo is getting better at romance, Peggie is waving death flags in both hands, Uso asks if Shahkti can come out and play, and Marbet is still just terrible at strategy. Plus, we get to meet the REAL star of the show.

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

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This week on MSB, we're covering Victory Gundam Episode 16: Reineforce, Lift Off! or リーンホース浮上. We talk about the episode name, the legacy of Gundam, Shahkti's hacker vision, the relationship between children and war, and much more!

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And you can listen to episode 1 of The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne at https://lydiadisappears.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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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 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.

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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 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.

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: Victory Gundam episode 15. We're saying 'kasarelia' to new characters Godwald Heine and Tasilo Wago, and 'kasarelia' to Fuala Griffon, the old man polycule, and the Earth itself as the action shifts to space... at least for the moment!

We discuss Odelo's unexpected heel turn, Cronicle's predictable but disappointing downward slide, and the understated sadism of wagyu beef. Plus - research on marooning as an historical punishment!

Please listen to it!

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them 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 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.

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 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.

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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 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.

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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 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.

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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.

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 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.

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This week on MSB: Does Uso want to know, know that it doesn't hurt Kate? Does he want to know how it feels to go to space? Does he want to hear about the deal Katejina is making? If he could, would he make a deal with God to swap places with Cronicle? He doesn't want to hurt anyone, but see how deep the beam saber cuts. Unaware, he's tearing the Memedorza asunder. Plus, an answer to the nagging question of what the Arti in Arti-Gibraltar is supposed to mean, and Nina's research on the history of that famous port / fortress!

Please listen to it!

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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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 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.

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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 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.

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This week on Mobile Suit Breakdown, Victory juggles a lot of balls, Uso playing a lot of roles, Mandella gives out a lot of tickets, and Thom identifies a lot of possible inspirations for the League Militaire.

Please listen to it!

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them 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.

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

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

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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).

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 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.

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 21 - “Crybaby Cecilia (Part 2)” (泣き虫セシリア (後)) (sometimes also translated to English as "Tearful Cecilia (Part 2)"), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the connection between Cecilia's family and historical Japanese emigration.

- Books and articles:

Masterson, Daniel M., and Sayaka Funada-Classen, The Japanese in Latin America. University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Millard, Thomas F. “Japanese Immigration into Korea.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 34, no. 2, 1909, pp. 183–189. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1011225. Accessed 10 Jan. 2021.

- Wikipedia page on the Japanese diaspora.

_- Sources for Japanese net migration figures: _

Japan Net Migration Rate 1950-2021. www.macrotrends.net. Retrieved 2021-01-09. 

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/net-migration

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRED Economic Research: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMPOPNETMJPN

- Wikipedia article on Japan-occupied Korea.

- How the pre-Meiji Bakufu government collected taxes (and partly why it was always broke).

- A more detailed (and more positive) assessment of the economy during the Bakufu by a Japanese professor of economic history: Tamaki Toshiaki, Japanese Economic Growth During the Edo Period.

- An overview on the Edo-period social structure and economy, and how developments later on in the period created the instability that forced many workers to travel abroad.

_- Encyclopedia Britannica on the fall of the Bakufu.  _

- Writing about Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff:

Shakespeare William. Henry IV, First Part. University Society. New York: USP, 1901. Shakespeare Online. 20 Aug. 2000. Jan. 6, 2021 < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/henryiv/2kh4charactersfalstaff.html >.

- Two more sources about the Falstaff character.

- Poems used:

Watson, Frank. “#45 Fujiawara No Koremasa ‘あはれとも.’” One Hundred Leaves: a New Annotated Translation of the Hyakunin Isshu, Plum White Press, 2020, pp. 91–91.  Japanese text is referenced from this volume. The translation read in the episode is my own.

Firmage, George James, editor. “& [AND].” Complete Poems, 1904-1962, by E. E. Cummings, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1991, pp. 202, "VII who knows if the moon's."

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 review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 20 - “Crybaby Cecilia (Part 1)” (泣き虫セシリア (前)) (sometimes also translated to English as "Tearful Cecilia (Part 1)"), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the inspiration for the name Milly Childers (and a tangentially related naval disaster), as well as the history of pizza in Japan.

- Sources on Milly's life and works: Wikipedia, the National Portrait Gallery (UK), and this page on British women painters at the 1893 Chicago World&#x27;s Fair and Exposition.

- A collection of Milly Childers&#x27; paintings.

- About Milly's father, Hugh Childers.

- A collection of Hugh Childers' papers, including letters to and about Milly:

The Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Hugh C. E. Childers: 1827-1896, edited by Edmund S. E. Childers (Murray 1901).

- About the HMS Captain, and its designer, Cowper Phipps Coles.

- The alternative design, HMS Monarch.

- Contemporary articles about the capsizing of the HMS Captain:

J. Scott Russell, The Loss of the "Captain.", Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. 22 (1870). Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=MrcZAQAAIAAJ&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s

"Loss of H.M.S. Captain.", Sydney Morning Herald, Sept. 24, 1875. Available at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13371391.

- Brief overview of the history of pizza in general and pizza in Japan specifically:

Ceccarini, Rossella. “Pizza in Japan.” Education About Asia, vol. 16:3, 2011, doi: https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/pizza-in-japan/.

- Article with some history, but a focus on Japanese localization of pizza.

- About pizza-making in Tokyo, circa 2019.

- Article about the executive tasked with launching Dominoes in Japan, Earnest Higa, a third generation Japanese-American from Honolulu, Hawaii. He discusses how being bicultural helped him adapt an American pizza-chain to the Japanese market.

- Blurb for a book about Nick Zapetti, and crime in occupation-era Japan.

- Supposed personal account of hanging out at Nicola’s and meeting Nick and Rikidozan in “gangster joints” in Tokyo. I cannot speak to it’s accuracy or veracity, but it’s a fun read, and references Whiting’s book.

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 review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 19 - “Ple and Axis” (プルとアクシズと) - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the origin of Elpeo Ple's name (pronounced ElPee Puru).

This episode comes with a content warnings - the research on the origin of Elpeo Ple's name deals with the history, sociology, and legal efforts to prevent creation and distribution of simulated (ie drawn) child pornography in Japan. The topic is also discussed extensively in the talkback.

- News article written after Kyoto and Nara criminalized simple possession of Child Pornography:

Tomasz Janowksi, Teppei Kasai for Reuters, Pressure on Japan for stronger laws on child pornography, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012, available here.

- News article noting increasing enforcement against child pornography traffickers but also noting criticism that Japan's lack of a ban on simple possession at the time was hampering international enforcement efforts:

Reuters, Japan police crack down on 300 child porn cases, August 8, 2008, available here.

- News article about the passage of the 2014 amendments to the 1999 law:

Arata Yamamoto for NBC News, Japan Finally Outlaws Possession of Child Pornography, June 18, 2014, available here.

- Opinion piece reflecting on passage of the 2014 law, opposition to it, and its limitations:

Sawa Omori for Al Jazeera, Manga and anime: Japan still treating children as sexual objects, August 11, 2014, available here.

- Newspaper article discussing passage of the 2014 law and the provisions, aimed at simulated child pornography, that were stripped from it:

The Japan News by the Yomiuri Shimbun, Possession of child porn to be banned, June 7, 2014, available here.

- Article regarding the "Junior Idol" industry of girls under 15 and as young as 9 who appear in commercial clothed-but-sexualized photo spreads:

Jun Hongo for The Japan Times, Child Porn Scantily Disguised as Art? Photos of preteen girls in thongs now big business, May 3, 2007, available here.

- Law review article looking at Japanese laws regulating simulated or virtual child pornography and proposing methods to improve compliance with its international treaty obligations:

Cory Lyn Takeuchi, REGULATING LOLICON: TOWARD JAPANESE COMPLIANCE WITH ITS INTERNATIONAL LEGAL OBLIGATIONS TO BAN VIRTUAL CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, Georgetown Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol 44, available here.

- Wikipedia article on Tokyo&#x27;s local ordnance that gives the city limited power to regulate pornographic manga.

- Article regarding Watsuki Nobuhiro's child pornography arrest and conviction, plus the subsequent return of his manga to Shonen Jump:

Brian Ashcraft for Kotaku, After Child Pornography Fine, Rurouni Kenshin Will Resume Publication This June, April 23, 2018, available here.

- Article on the legislative process and policy-maker debates that produced the 2014 law:

Watanabe, Mayuko (2017) : An Analysis of the Japanese viewpoint on regulatory policy of virtual child pornography, 14th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS): "Mapping ICT into Transformation for the Next Information Society", Kyoto, Japan, 24th-27th June, 2017, International Telecommunications Society (ITS), Calgary. Available at https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/168547/1/Watanabe.pdf

- The US legal case mentioned in the piece that struck down a ban on simulated child pornography as being an over-broad limitation on free speech:

ASHCROFT V. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, 535 U.S. 564 (2002). Available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-1293.ZO.html.

- The Iowa case that found imported lolicon manga to be obscene:

U.S. v. Handley, 564 F.Supp.2d. 996 (S.D. Iowa 2 July 2008).

- A brief explainer on Obscenity law by the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute.

- U.S. Department of Justice's Citizen&#x27;s Guide to U.S. Federal Law on Child Pornography.

- United States Sentencing Commission's History of the Child Pornography [Sentencing] Guidelines.

- The introduction of this book addresses the culture of silence around child pornography in Japan and the challenges of researching it:

Mark McLelland, The End of Cool Japan: Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Pop Culture, (Routledge 2016).

- More articles, book chapters, etc.:

Kenneth Alan Adams, The Sexual Abuse of Children in Contemporary Japanese Families, The Journal of Psychohistory; New York Vol. 34, Iss. 3 (2007).

Patrick W. Galbraith, Lolicon: The Reality of 'Virtual Child Pornography' in Japan, Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 1 (2011).

Patrick W. Galbraith, Seeking an Alternative: "Male" Shojo Fans Since the 1970s, from Shojo Across Media: Exploring "Girl" Practices in Contemporary Japan (2019).

Patrick W. Galbraith, "The lolicon guy": Some observations on researching unpopular topics in Japan, from The End of Cool Japan: Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture, Edited By Mark McLelland (2017).

M. Gigi Durham, The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It, (Abrams 2009).

Shari Savage, Just Looking: Tantalization, Lolicon, and Virtual Girls, Visual Culture & Gender, Vol 10, 2015.

Tomoko Saotome, The Reality of Sexuality for Teenage Girls in Japan, Japanese Medical Association Journal, Vol 53, No 5. Available here.

- Report discussing how aspects of Japanese culture, including a code of silence, contributes to widespread sexual exploitation of children and under-reporting of the problem in official sources:

ECPAT Country Overview on Japan: A report on the scale, scope and context of the sexual exploitation of children, 2018, available at https://www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ECPAT-Country-Overview-Japan.pdf.

- English text of the Japanese Constitution.

- Record of a 1997 Senate Hearing on the subject of Proliferation of Child Pornography on the Internet (S. Hrg. 105-214).

- Unofficial English translation of Japan&#x27;s 1999 law banning Child Pornography prior to the 2014 amendments.

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 18 - “Haman's Black Shadow” (ハマーンの黒い影) - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the origin of Elpeo Ple's name (pronounced ElPee Puru).

This episode comes with a content warnings - the research on the origin of Elpeo Ple's name deals with the history of simulated (ie drawn) child pornography in Japan. The topic is also discussed extensively in the talkback.

- Books and articles:

Patrick W. Galbraith, Lolicon: The Reality of 'Virtual Child Pornography' in Japan, Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 1 (2011).

Patrick W. Galbraith, Seeking an Alternative: "Male" Shojo Fans Since the 1970s, from Shojo Across Media: Exploring "Girl" Practices in Contemporary Japan (2019).

Patrick W. Galbraith, "The lolicon guy": Some observations on researching unpopular topics in Japan, from The End of Cool Japan: Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture, Edited By Mark McLelland (2017).

M. Gigi Durham, The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It, Overlook Press (2008).

Masafumi Monden, Being Alice in Japan: performing a cute, 'girlish' revolt, Japan Forum, Vol 26, No 2 (2014).

Cory Lyn Takeuchi, Regulating Lolicon: Toward Japanese Compliance with its International Legal Obligations to Ban Virtual Child Pornography, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol 44 (2015).

Mahaseth, Harsh. (2017). The Cultural Impact of Manga on Society. SSRN Electronic Journal. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332904100_The_Cultural_Impact_of_Manga_on_Society

Terasa Younker, Lolita: Dreaming, Despairing, Defying, Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, Vol 11, No 1 (2012).

Rafael Antonio Pineda for Anime News Network, Rurouni Kenshin Creator Nobuhiro Watsuki Charged With Child Pornography Possession, November 21, 2017. Available at https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-11-21/rurouni-kenshin-creator-nobuhiro-watsuki-charged-with-child-pornography-possession/.124308

- Wikipedia articles for Lemon People magazine, it's competitor Manga Burikko, and The Otaku Murderer.

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 17 - “Retrieve the Core Top!” (奪回!コア·トップ) - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on maglev trains.

This episode comes with content warnings - repeated incidents of strangulation, one of which depicts a character strangling one of his female friends, and a scene depicting an adult woman sexually assaulting a teenage boy. We discuss these scenes extensively in the recap and talkback portion of the episode.

If you would like to skip those discussions, we recommend you listen to the Radio Free Shangri-La, then skip ahead to the research portion: 00:42:00 - Maglev research

- Wikipedia, Britannica, and How Stuff Works pages for maglev trains.

- Wikipedia page for linear motor.

- Webpage on the history of maglev trains from Northeast Maglev, a current high-speed maglev project in the USA.

- Overview of maglev train history and technology from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

- Two discussions of the pros and cons of current maglev projects, one from railway-industry news and analysis site, Railway-Technology.com, and one from The Washington Post.

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 16 - “Melee Aboard the Argama” (アーガマの白兵戦) - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on composer Ferdinand Beyer, the rules of war regarding "perfidy," and extramarital romantic and sexual relationships in Japan.

- Wikipedia page for Ferdinand Beyer, with references linking his piece to piano-curricula in Japan.

- A paper outlining an electronic support system for self-learning piano at the beginner stage. Beyer is highlighted as one of two foundational texts for beginning piano education.

- Scans of historic versions of Vorschule im Klavierspiel (or Beginning Piano School / Elementary Instruction Book for the Piano) op.101 in several languages (public domain)

- Wikipedia pages for the Geneva Conventions, &quot;perfidy," &quot;ruse de guerre&quot; (a trick or stratagem that is not perfidy), and &quot;false flag&quot; operations.

- Relevant articles about the "rules of war" :

History of the law of war on land, June 30, 2000, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 838, by Howard S. Levie

The &#x27;Rules Of War&#x27; Are Being Broken. What Exactly Are They?, June 28, 2018, from NPR's "Goats and Soda: Stories of Life in a Changing World," by Joanne Lu

The Laws of War in Ancient Greece, from Law and History Review, Volume 26, Issue 3, Fall 2008, pp. 469-489, by Adriaan Lanni

“Sailing Under False Colors” An Historic Ruse De Guerre, from Coriolis: the Interdisciplinary Journal of Maritime Studies, Vol 5 No. 2 (2015), by Hank Whipple_

• Definition of Perfidy from the International Committee of the Red Cross._

- Book chapter and journal article address extramarital relationships in Japan:

Dales, Laura, and Beverley Anne Yamamoto. “Romantic and Sexual Intimacy before and beyond Marriage.” Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict, by Allison Alexy and Emma E. Cook, University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019, pp. 104–125. (Available for free if you have a Kindle or the Kindle App)

Lin, Ho Swee. “‘Playing Like Men’: The Extramarital Experiences of Women in Contemporary Japan.” Ethnos, vol. 77, no. 3, Sept. 2012, pp. 321–343., doi:10.1080/00141844.2011.613532. 

- Japan Today article covering 2018 survey about “cheating,” broken down by gender, age, and marital status.

- Discussion of negative employment consequences of workplace affairs in Japan (and court interpretations of labor law vis a vis these affairs and company policies around 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.

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 15 - “The Phantom Colony, Part 2” (幻のコロニー (後)) - discuss our first impressions, and discuss Cargo Cults and the "White Gods" narrative with anthropology consultant, Allie!

Allie was kind enough to provide us with the following references, with the caution that the older of these articles are very much products of their time - with the casual racism that implies. But they do provide perspective on how people of that time interpreted their interactions with Indigenous people. They may not reflect the current state of anthropological scholarship.

Worsley, Peter M. “50 Years Ago: Cargo Cults of Melanesia.” Scientific American, Scientific American, 1 May 2009, www.scientificamerican.com/article/1959-cargo-cults-melanesia/. (Originally published 1959)

Raffaele, Paul. “In John They Trust.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 1 Feb. 2006, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-john-they-trust-109294882/. 

Wills, Matthew. “The Mexica Didn’t Believe the Conquistadors Were Gods.” Jstor Daily, 17 Jan. 2020, daily.jstor.org/the-mexica-didnt-believe-the-conquistadors-were-gods/. 

Townsend, Camilla. “Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico.” The American Historical Review, vol. 108, no. 3, June 2003, pp. 659–687., doi:10.1086/529592. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/529592

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 on MSB, we visit Barcelona and find that the Catalan independence movement may well have gotten what it wanted, even if it took until the Universal Century. Plus Uso doesn't know what kind of episode he's in, Duker Iq's globe-spanning influence becomes apparent, Fuala belongs on the runway, and Thom wants to know what exactly Uso meant when he said that 'League Militaire' means 'Holy Alliance in ancient Roman'.

Please listen to it!

Full show notes will be available on our website soon!

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.

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 14 - “The Phantom Colony, Part 1” (幻のコロニー (前)) - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Mesoamerican step-pyramids, shoal zones, and Sweetwater-type colonies.

- Wikipedia pages for step-pyramids in general, and Mesoamerican pyramids in particular.

- About the Maya city Chichen Itza, and the Temple of Kukulcan (aka &quot;El Castillo&quot;).

- Additional detail about Maya and Aztec temples.

- The Japanese word translated here as "shoal" - 暗礁 (あんしょう). Dictionary entries at jisho.org and Japanese Wikipedia.

- Wikipedia page for shoals.

- More information about O'Neill Cylinders is available from our previous episode 1.28 - Sparks Fly, and its show notes.

- Mark Simmons identifies Moon Moon and AEUG's Sweetwater as "Island 1" type colonies.

- About Island 1 colonies as imagined by Gerard O&#x27;Neill.

- Wikipedia page for the Bernal sphere, the basis for the Island 1.

- Full text of the book The World, the Flesh &amp; the Devil by J. D. Bernal in which the Bernal sphere was hypothesized.

- Wikipedia page on J. D. Bernal.

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 13 - “Little Sister!” (妹よ!) - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on calcium deficiency, the history of Japanese toilets and the Toto company (東洋陶器), and napkin etiquette.

- Symptoms of calcium deficiency (hypocalcemia).

- Japanese sources on calcium deficiency and "frustration."

- Wikipedia pages for Toto Ltd., the Toto Washlet, and the history of toilets in Japan.

- Toto company website page on the history of the washlet.

- The 1982 Washlet ad that led to public outcry.

- Article about prevalence of Toto washlets in Japan and the difficulty of breaking into the overseas market (also describes the public reaction to the 1982 TV ad).

- Another article that mentions the public reaction to the 1982 ad, as well as outlining some of the high-tech new features on contemporary washlets.

- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan has a great kids-oriented site that includes information on toilets in Japan.

- More on the history of toilets in Japan (with great photos of different styles of old toilet - including lacquer and painted porcelain).

- Article with historic data on Toto’s sales of traditional vs. western-toilets, discussing the transition to more western toilets in public restrooms as well as in schools.

- History of napkin etiquette.

- History of table manners generally.

- Blog post about dining etiquette in the Imperial Japanese Navy.

- Japanese etiquette guide specifically about the correct usage of napkins.

- Etiquette guides advising placing the napkin on the table when finished.

- Etiquette guides saying to place the napkin on the table when leaving during dinner.

- Etiquette guides saying to place the napkin on the chair when leaving during dinner.

- Anecdote about folding napkins in France in the 1860s.

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 12 - “Leina Vanishes” (リィナが消えた) - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the history of women in Japan's news-media industry.

- This book chapter provides a good summary, and was the source of most of the statistics referenced in the research this week:

Ishiyama, Reiko. “Japan: Why So Few Women Journalists?” The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism, by Carolyn M. Byerly, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 404–418.

- Wikipedia page for Sasamoto Tsuneko (笹本 恒子) and another brief bio (with examples of her photography).

- Wikipedia page for Hani Motoko (羽仁 もと子), Japan's first woman journalist.

- Part of a UNESCO report on women-in-news around the world, with some reference to Japan and citing the Ishiyama article.

- Wikipedia page for Ito Shiori (伊藤 詩織), and a Japan Times opinion article with more details about her case - how it was handled by police, the local news, and the public:

O'Dwyer, Shaun. “What Lies behind Shiori Ito's Lonely #MeToo Struggle.” The Japan Times, 26 Jan. 2020, www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/26/commentary/japan-commentary/lies-behind-shiori-itos-lonely-metoo-struggle/.

- Article from the Columbia Journalism review about harassment faced by women journalists in Japan, and a increased willingness to bring these incidents to light:

McNeill, David, and Chie Matsumoto. “#WithYou: How Women Journalists in Japan Are Fighting Harassment.” Columbia Journalism Review, 7 Aug. 2018, www.cjr.org/analysis/japan.php.

You can listen to Stormland's cover of Anime Ja Nai at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0KxurgITTg, and you can find more of his work at https://stormland.bandcamp.com/ and https://twitter.com/stormlandbrand.

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