Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! The Gundam book club starts now! On this episode, Gundam experts Mark Simmons and BJ of Zeonic Scanlations join to help us kick off this 2025 literary effort. As we'll be starting off by reading the Frederik Schodt translations of the Yoshiyuki Tomino Mobile Suit Gundam novels, we recorded this discussion about the context for those novels and how Tomino ended up a prolific novelist. In two weeks, we'll be posting an episode where we discuss the first volume of th...
Jun 16, 2025•2 hr 24 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! We are at the end of the Megazone 23 coverage - and it has been a roller coaster. This is an episode for the haters and we hope you enjoy the discussion trying to figure out what happened here. Please find Caitlin at these links: Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/alltsunnodere.bsky.social Megazone 23 review on ANN: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/megazone-23-the-complete-trilogy/anime-blu-ray/.217790 Anime Feminist: https://www.animefeminist.com/ Please find ...
Jun 06, 2025•1 hr 57 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! Welcome to the distant future of Megazone 23, just don't watch the news or ask where all the people are! Space Queen Emily and Ethan Halker return to help ask what could have been and laugh at the misfortunes of Eiji Takanaka and company. Find Emily on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/spacequeenemily.bsky.social Please find Ethan at these links: Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/sundownmcmoon.bsky.social Bomb Squad Productions: https://twitter.com/BombSquadProd...
May 23, 2025•2 hr 39 min
Hop on your hog, count your grenades, and get ready to roll for the back half of Megazone 23 Part 2! If it's all too much, you can simply leave like BD inexplicably does at the end of this film. Find Emily on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/spacequeenemily.bsky.social Please find Ethan at these links: Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/sundownmcmoon.bsky.social Bomb Squad Productions: https://twitter.com/BombSquadProds ZekeFilm: https://www.zekefilm.org/author/ethan-halker/ Skeet us @gian...
Apr 25, 2025•1 hr 55 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! We return to the zone, but things have changed. Regular friends of the podcast Ethan and Coop join up to cover gore, sex, and all the others delights of Megazone 23 Part 2. Please follow Coop here: Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/riderstrike.bsky.social Site: https://riderstrike.carrd.co/ Please find Ethan at these links: Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/sundownmcmoon.bsky.social Bomb Squad Productions: https://twitter.com/BombSquadProds ZekeFilm: https://www....
Apr 18, 2025•2 hr 15 min
Hello and welcome to Side 6 Soundwaves - Giant Robot FM's attempt to cover GQux on a week-to-week basis as it airs! For the debut episode, we have on Lady Emily to talk through all the happenings of meeting Machu and company. The first episode of S6S is available to all free - future episodes will be patron exclusive at the $5 tier. Please consider supporting us if you like this episode! Please find Emily at these links: Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/ladyemily.nebula.tv Youtube: https://www.you...
Apr 13, 2025•2 hr 58 min
Apologies for the week delay! We promise it didn't weirdly age the first minutes of this podcast at all! Enjoy the back half of our discussion on Megazone 23 Part 1 as we appreciate the splendor of the consent manufacturing machine. Please find Caitlin at these links: Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/alltsunnodere.bsky.social Megazone 23 review on ANN: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/megazone-23-the-complete-trilogy/anime-blu-ray/.217790 Anime Feminist: https://www.animefeminist.com/ Pleas...
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 59 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! We didn't even remember this was the 100th mainline episode while recording! GRFM friend Caitlin Moore joins the podcast with her partner, Jared, to talk through the first half of Megazone 23 Part 1. It's good! Please find Caitlin at these links: Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/alltsunnodere.bsky.social Megazone 23 review on ANN: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/megazone-23-the-complete-trilogy/anime-blu-ray/.217790 Anime Feminist: https://www.animefeminist....
Mar 28, 2025•1 hr 57 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! Sean and Ethan return with pmc and Stephen this week to talk through the latter parts of Megazone 23 - the big changes going into Part II and whatever is going on with the parts 1 and 2 of Part III! Not hard to keep track of at all. Please find Sean at these links: Site: https://www.zimmerit.moe/ Zines: https://garagekit.club/ Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/sean.zimmerit.moe Please find Ethan at these links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sundown_McMoon Bsky:...
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 57 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! Main feed coverage is back! We are kick off a unit on Megazone 23, the foundational 80s OVA. Helping us out are experts Sean O'Mara of Zimmerit and regular friend of the podcast, Ethan Halker! Please find Sean at these links: Site: https://www.zimmerit.moe/ Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/sean.zimmerit.moe Please find Ethan at these links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sundown_McMoon Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/sundownmcmoon.bsky.social ZekeFilm: https://www.zeke...
Mar 14, 2025•2 hr 39 min
The Endless Waltz has ended! Alice and Brian of the excellent On the Shoulders of Giants podcast complete the celebration of Kampfer the only way any of us know how: discussing whatever is going on in the final bit of Gundam Wing Endless Waltz. Please find Alice, Brian, and Niko here: Site: https://osgpod.com/ Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/osgpod.bsky.social Tweet us @giantrobotfm and write to us giantrobotfm@gmail.com Giant Robot FM is hosted by Stephen Hero and pmcTRILOGY Support us...
Jan 03, 2025•2 hr 30 min
Giant Robot FM listeners, do you have strong feelings about the Wing Zero Custom? Do you lack context for Endless Waltz because you haven't watch the TV series? This is the Gundam Wing Endless Waltz podcast discussion for you. Please follow Coop here: Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/riderstrike.bsky.social Site: https://riderstrike.carrd.co/ Please follow Megan here: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/brainchild129.bsky.social Manga Test Drive: http://mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/ Renaissance Josei...
Dec 27, 2024•2 hr 36 min
We're closing in on Christmas and at last the discussion of Endless Waltz proper has begun. To help pmc and Stephen celebrate the reason for the season, David Majors of The Promenade Merchants Podcast and Andy of The Big O Archive bring the positive Gundam Wing cheer. Please find David at these links: Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/deltajulietmike.bsky.social Promenade Merchants: https://bsky.app/profile/promtrekpod.bsky.social Please find Andy at these links: Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/engi...
Dec 20, 2024•2 hr 23 min
Note from pmc: Sorry for the delay on this one! Had to recreate a few things, so some of this is a little more scuffed than I would like - but it's all here! Endless Waltz history! Multiple manga side stories! Super Robot Wars! We've got it all here on this massive rundown of Gundam Wing post-Gundam Wing. Fandom experts Brittany (@lifeaftermeteor) and Phoenix (@dankhushrenada) Find Brittany at these links: Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/lifeaftermeteor.bsky.social Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/...
Dec 13, 2024•3 hr 39 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners - it's that time of year! Stephen and pmc have returned to Gundam Wing for the holidays and Mark Simmons has returned for a third history episode! Join us for a stroll through the creation of Gundam Wing, some of the show's key personnel, and the legacy of Wing's US broadcast. Please find Mark Simmons here: Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/toysdream.bsky.social Skeet us @giantrobotfm and write to us giantrobotfm@gmail.com Giant Robot FM is hosted by Stephen Hero and ...
Dec 06, 2024•3 hr 12 min
Ah, well, nevertheless, here's the second half of our discussion with the excellent SpaceQueenEmily on the Zone of the Enders 2167 IDOLO OVA! Mentally, flip back and forth between a church wedding and a climactic showdown in space as needed, that's our advice. Find Emily on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceQueenEmily Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/spacequeenemily.bsky.social Tweet us @giantrobotfm and write to us giantrobotfm@gmail.com Giant Robot FM is hosted by Stephen Hero ( st...
Nov 08, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Get your ass to Mars! SpaceQueenEmily returns to GRFM to talk to pmc and Stephen about the first 21 minutes of the Idolo OVA and whatever is going on with Radium, a normal person. Is Radium like Isamu Dyson? Are the LEVs great grunt suits? Find Emily on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceQueenEmily Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/spacequeenemily.bsky.social Tweet us @giantrobotfm and write to us giantrobotfm@gmail.com Giant Robot FM is hosted by Stephen Hero ( stephen hero) and pmcTRILOGY (...
Nov 08, 2024•2 hr 9 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! Buckle in for a cozy history episode dedicated to some production history specific to the Idolo OVA - it's just you and Stephen and pmc. Note from pmc: I bungled some of the roles here, turns out the actor for Radium is so unknown, imdb editors buried his credit deep in the weeds. Whoops! That's what I get for doing dub trivia without watching the OVA first. Tweet us @giantrobotfm or @giantrobotfm.bsky.social and write to us giantrobotfm@gmail.com Giant Robot FM i...
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 26 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! A new batch of main feed coverage here and, as always, we lead off with a history episode discussing the origins of the original Zone of the Enders video game, the project that launched the cross-media Z.O.E. project. David Bednar joins us to relive ZOE, the MGS2 demo, and the late PS1/early PS2 era. Please find David at these links: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/shoebill.moe Manga translation project: https://bsky.app/profile/whalehead.bsky.social Talking Tre...
Oct 25, 2024•3 hr 18 min
This episode was originally published for Simulator patrons on August 1st, 2023. At long last, here is our look into the history behind Assault Suits Valken, the tremendously influential 2D mecha action game that spawned and continues to influence countless other games - almost a sub-genre unto itself. Chronicling the original release, Cybernator, the ill-fated PS2 version, and of course the recent Declassified on Switch, Stephen and pmc walk you through the people and history of Valken before t...
Sep 13, 2024•2 hr
The Bartoll stops here! Rounding out our coverage of the Super Robot Wars Original Generation OVA The Animation, Zappa returns to teach pmc and Stephen some essential SRW knowledge! Please find Zappa here: ACE Axis Communications & Entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqO5kQk4HQWkyCLMIh1XHXw Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ACE_Zappa Twitter: https://twitter.com/overmanZs1 Support Giant Robot FM at patreon.com/giantrobotfm Tweet us @giantrobotfm and write to us giantrobotfm@gmail.com...
Sep 06, 2024•1 hr 42 min
Veteran Super Robot Wars and mecha expert D180223 comes on for a rousing discussion of Super Robot Wars and, of course, ep. 2 of the SRW OG The Animation OVA. Please find D180223 at these links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/180223 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/180223 Tweet us @giantrobotfm and write to us giantrobotfm@gmail.com Giant Robot FM is hosted by Stephen Hero ( stephen hero) and pmcTRILOGY (@pmcTRILOGY) Graphic Design by DuarfS https://www.behance.net/maezurita https://www.i...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 29 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! Here's the first episode of our SRW OG The Animation discussion featuring first-time GRFM guest Chris Guanche. Reminder: Stephen and I were graciously invited onto MAHQ's podcast Gundamn! not that long ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40l0C8J0BVo Please find Chris at these links: MAHQ: https://www.mahq.net/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/cguanche.bsky.social Tweet us @giantrobotfm and write to us giantrobotfm@gmail.com Giant Robot FM is hosted by Stephen...
Aug 23, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Giant Robot FM listeners! We are back with a new installment of main feed coverage - this time going over Super Robot Wars Original Generation The Animation . Friend and supporter of the pod ZappaSlave joins pmc and Stephen to talk through a brief glimpse at the overall series history and some of the particulars relevant to the OG slice of SRW. Please find Zappa here: ACE Axis Communications & Entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqO5kQk4HQWkyCLMIh1XHXw Twitch: https://www.twitch....
Aug 16, 2024•2 hr 54 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! At last here is the final part of our Robot Jox discussion featuring good friends Maddy and Russell Latshaw! Join us for a fine talk covering the aerodynamic demise of Tex Conway, the nature of Achilles's relationships with Athena and Alexander, and whatever is going on in space! Please find Maddy here: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hyakushiki0087.bsky.social Twitter: https://twitter.com/hyakushiki0087 Carrd.co : https://hyakushiki0087.carrd.co/ Please find Ru...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 47 min
Hello, Giant Robot FM listeners! Finally, it's the crossover you all have been waiting for - a hot dog in Robot Jox! Wait, no! I mean, the co-hosts of the excellent mecha podcast On the Shoulders of Giants have joined pmc and Stephen to talk big bots. Please find Alice, Brian, and Niko here: Site: https://osgpod.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/osg_pod Tweet us @giantrobotfm and write to us giantrobotfm@gmail.com Giant Robot FM is hosted by Stephen Hero ( stephen hero) and pmcTRILOGY ...
Jun 14, 2024•2 hr 47 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! In our new era, podcasting is outlawed and discourse is now decided through a contest by champions. For the people, Andy of The Big O Archive joins pmc and Stephen to discuss the opening 25 minutes of Robot Jox! Please find Andy here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EnginVIR Site: http://thebigoarchive.com/ Tweet us @giantrobotfm and write to us giantrobotfm@gmail.com Giant Robot FM is hosted by Stephen Hero ( stephen hero) and pmcTRILOGY (@pmcTRILOGY) Supp...
Jun 07, 2024•2 hr 24 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! We're back with another 3 hours, following up on our focus on Stuart Gordon with an episode focused on the production and release of the Robot Jox film itself. Imagine you're in a 14th-century Italian castle while listening to this! Please find Ethan at these links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sundown_McMoon Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/sundownmcmoon.bsky.social ZekeFilm: https://www.zekefilm.org/author/ethan-halker/ Bomb Squad Productions: https://twitter.com/...
May 31, 2024•3 hr 16 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners! Our adventure into live action mecha, and specifically Robot Jox, have begun! On this week's history episode, Rex and Ethan join Stephen and pmc to talk through the background and early filmography of Robot Jox's director, Stuart Gordon. Please find Ethan at these links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sundown_McMoon Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/sundownmcmoon.bsky.social ZekeFilm: https://www.zekefilm.org/author/ethan-halker/ Bomb Squad Productions: https://twitter...
May 24, 2024•3 hr 8 min
Hello Giant Robot FM listeners - while our coverage on Robot Jox is fast approaching, we couldn't let the Bravern sail off into the sunset without giving it at least an episode. Rather than choose any single podcast friend, we invited any who were willing and able to submit some audio answers to questions! Find Emily at these links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceQueenEmily Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/spacequeenemily.bsky.social No Cartridge Podcast: https://twitter.com/NoCartridge P...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 50 min
