Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 22. Welcome back to the Tigris-cast featuring Tigris. This week, special guests Nina and Thom stop by to chat about Gundam, the Tiger of Space, yet another stoic 30-something-year-old antagonist with a lesson to impart, and the worst group project ever. Plus we talk about names both new and old, inexplicable translation changes, and a turtle with pretty good energy. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced w...
Jul 19, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 10Ep. 22
Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 21, the possible significance of lemonade, and a wide-ranging discussion that touches on Tassilo vs. Jinn, Marbet vs. Junko, Odelo vs. Masculinity, and Uso vs. a classic right of passage for Gundam protagonists. 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 live...
Jun 29, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 10Ep. 21
Show Notes This week on MSB, it's Victory Gundam episode 20 'Eve of the Decisive Battle' and we're here to talk newtypes, plot armor, feisty ladies and the knights who love them, and the name of Zanscare's 'Amalthea' battleship. 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...
Jun 22, 2024•51 min•Season 10Ep. 20
Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 19 and a wide ranging discussion that touches on the dystopian nature of life in space, Tasilo Wago's resting creep face, Odelo's newly woken Gundam lust, and of course: motherhood. For the research, Thom returns to the Shrike team to discuss the inspiration behind their character designs. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaw...
Jun 15, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 10Ep. 19
Show Notes This week on MSB it's Victory Gundam episode 18: 宇宙艦隊戦 or Space Fleet Battle. Why are continuity errors a problem? What new translation decision is driving Thom batty? What do the contrasting characterizations of Jinn Jahannam and Maria Pure Armonia say about the factions they purport to lead? How much power could a solar satellite like the Hiland actually produce? And just what is our secret theory? The answers to almost all of these questions can be found on this week's podcast! Ple...
Jun 08, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 10Ep. 18
Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory episode 17 breaks new ground and goes where no Gundam show has dared to go before: making a recap episode (unless you count Prelude to ZZ). Even so, this episode gives us our first glimpse at the Zanscare homeland and its famous queen, so there's still a surprising amount to talk about! Please listen to it! Unfortunately, due to last minute cancellation by our scheduled guest, we didn't have time to prepare a research piece this week. Mobile Suit Breakdown is...
Jun 01, 2024•39 min•Season 10Ep. 17
Show Notes 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! Please listen to it! 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 D...
May 25, 2024•56 min•Season 10Ep. 16
Show Notes 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 i...
May 18, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 10Ep. 15
Show Notes 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...
May 04, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 10Ep. 14
Show Notes 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 portion...
Apr 27, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 10Ep. 13
Show Notes 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 we...
Apr 20, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 10Ep. 12
Show Notes This week on Victory Gundam: Lupe initiates a fiasco, Uso wants to ask you a question, Marbet and Oliver get some more practice fighting like a married couple, and Shahkti wants to be anywhere but here. Plus, Nina's research on the names of the Shrike Team pilots. Please listen to it! Website updates are delayed but the full show notes are available on this page . Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Le...
Apr 13, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 10Ep. 11
Show Notes This week on MSB, Uso makes a serious error and it nearly costs him that which he holds most dear (the opportunity to see Katejina again), Haro demonstrates remarkable emotional intelligence, Dupre discovers the price of humanity in wartime, and Oliver gets some practice acting like a husband and a father. (Imagine that I said that last part in a really ominous tone of voice.) Research this week focuses on sub flight systems and wear they get their names (it's mostly shoes). Website u...
Apr 06, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 10Ep. 10
Show Notes YOU'RE LISTENING TO W.O.R.Y. - ANXIETY RADIO After five years, it's time for a change. Starting today, April 1, 2024, we're going to be taking the podcast in a new direction that we think will really play to our strengths as people. We hope you'll all love WORY as much as you enjoyed MSB. Happy April Fools' Day from MSB!
Apr 01, 2024•2 min
Show Notes This week on Ovine Flock Victory Gunram, the show's real hero finally shows her stuff, Odelo knows how to use one of these, and Cronicle engages in a little recreational deforestation. Plus Shahkti cooks a homecoming stew, Katejina's betrayal leaves Uso stewing, and the mystery of the Kasarelia Kids' parentage continues to simmer, while Nina researches what it might mean for the kids to leave willowherb behind like Uso suggests. Please listen to it! Website updates are delayed but you...
Mar 30, 2024•58 min•Season 10Ep. 9
Show Notes This week on MSB: Nina recognizes the look in a fellow mecha convert's eyes, Thom knows a thing or two about feeling helpless, and we all learn a bit more about ad agencies... maybe even enough to justify a little rampant speculation. Please listen to it! Show notes to come as soon as we're both healthy at the same time, thanks for your patience! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware,...
Mar 23, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 10Ep. 8
Show Notes By reviving the medieval tradition of podcasting, we have become unstoppable! Plus part 2 of Thom's research into the Japanese advertising industry and its role in anime production. This week: TV program development! Full show notes to come soon, thank you for your patience. 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 li...
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 10Ep. 7
Show Notes This week on MSB: we're back with another remarkable episode of Victory dense with big questions: Is war a part of human nature? Is it better to die or to kill? Should we fight for people or for ideals? And if that's not enough, in the research Thom begins to dive into the world of Japanese advertising agencies as we explore their unsung role in anime production. Content warning: this episode of Victory alludes to the threat of sexual violence, which we discuss during the talkback. Pl...
Mar 09, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 10Ep. 6
Show Notes Unfortunately due to illness we've had to delay the release of episode 10.6 by a week. We are on track to resume our regular release schedule next week (March 9th). Thanks for your patience!
Mar 02, 2024•29 sec
Show Notes This week on Mobile Suit Breakdown: it's the Katejina Show feat. Katejina, in which a young woman with faultless logic shows us what it really means to have a big head. We promise that sentence will make more sense after you listen to the episode. Plus enjoy the second half of Nina's research on women in Japanese society during the first half of the 90s! And a special thank you to everyone who commented on last week's episode. Your additional thoughts about babies, moms, and Tominoism...
Feb 24, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 10Ep. 5
Show Notes This week on MSB: Thom thinks it will be a short episode (the runtime proves that to be a lie), not that much happens (except for all the things the characters say and do), and Nina discovers that Xeno's Paradox can apply to research pieces! All that AND we talk about Victory Gundam a bit. Please listen to it! You can find the full show notes in this public post on our Patreon. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded home...
Feb 17, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Season 10Ep. 4
Show Notes This week on MSB: blood in the streets of Uwig as B.E.S.P.A.'s cruelest soldiers descend upon the city. Uso (and your hosts) struggle to cope with the horror of it all, Katejina is lucky to be alive, and Shakti is not very good at hiding for someone who's been hiding for most of her life. The full show notes will be available soon on our Patreon and on our website. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the L...
Feb 10, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 10Ep. 3
Show Notes This week on MSB, it's episode 2 of Victory Gundam: The Day He Met the Machine. We discuss this much more conventional opening episode, more dubious translation choices, running gags, production priorities, and lots more. Plus Nina presents the first part of her research into the social fallout of the asset price bubble and the place of young people and otaku in Japanese society as of 1993. Please listen to it! You can find the show notes on our website and in this public post on our ...
Feb 03, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Season 10Ep. 2
Show Notes Show notes for this episode will be uploaded to our website and this public post on our Patreon 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 in...
Jan 27, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Season 10Ep. 1
Show Notes Show notes are available in this public post on our Patreon and will be uploaded to our website shortly. 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...
Jan 20, 2024•38 min
Show Notes This week on Mobile Suit Breakdown: it's the end of this first era of SD Gundam! In lieu of research, we cast our minds back across all the SD shorts that we've [enjoyed|endured] to render a final verdict on it and discuss what we liked about it, which ones we'd recommend, and what it all meant for the Gundam franchise. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European se...
Jan 13, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Season 9Ep. 15
Show Notes On MSB this week, SD Gundam Matsuri takes us back to the medieval world of Suda Doaka for a new saga of good versus evil, Thom finds it impossible to be objective about medieval mecha, and Nina profiles composer Okada Tohru! Show notes will be uploaded to our website soon, and in the meantime they can be found on this free post on our Patreon . Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, p...
Jan 06, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 9Ep. 14
Show Notes Surprise! While we were away someone else translated the second part of SD Gundam Matsuri, so now we get to reap the benefits of their hard work and you get a new episode of Mobile Suit Breakdown about it. Enjoy! Show notes are available on our 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,...
Nov 11, 2023•53 min•Season 9Ep. 13
Show Notes This week on MSB, Thom returns to Zeta Gundam to talk about the Homo Avis flying machine and, for the first time as far as we can tell, reveal its real world inspiration! Show notes are available on the Gundam Podcast 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 o...
Oct 28, 2023•19 min•Season 9Ep. 12
Show Notes This week on MSB... it's finally time for the first part of never-before-translated SD Gundam movie SD Gundam Matsuri - SD Command War Chronicle: Gundam Force: Super G-Arms: Final Formula vs Norm-Gather ! It's time for Space Battles and Rock Operas as the forces of good, evil, and music team up to take down an eldritch horror from beyond the stars. Check out the MSB translation available in the PDF attached to this post and then listen to the episode for the best (and only?) English-l...
Oct 21, 2023•35 min•Season 9Ep. 11
