Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast

Show Notes This week on MSB, environmentalism consultant Colin returns to the program to discuss the role of the environment across the whole grand sweep of Tomino Gundam to this point. Is Tomino actually an...

Show Notes This week in the first of our Season 10 extra research episodes, Nina explores the long history of diapers around the world and in Japan to better understand the subtext and significance of Karlmann's cloth...

Show Notes A quick update on our work behind the scenes as we prepare for Season 11. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or...

Show Notes Thank you all for your patience and your kind words of sympathy. We're ready to talk about Gundam once again, and this week a question from a listener prompts us to look back at the whole Tomino Era of...

Show Notes This week we answer most of the outstanding listener questions, ranging from Haro to Hilda Bidan, missed opportunities, Family Guy, Tomino's improvisational writing style, and more! Please listen to it!...

Show Notes Part one?? That's right, on this week's episode of MSB we start to answer your many thought-provoking questions about Victory Gundam. From the show's position on the role of women in society to its music to...

Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 51. After a wild road-to-air-to-space trip that took us from Kasarelia all the way to Kasarelia, we've reached the final stop and we're ready to type up our...

Show Notes This week, Victory Gundam's penultimate 50th episode! This one has it all: Tragedy! Heroism! Gender! There are shocking twists, heel turns, face turns! And the true audience surrogate is revealed at last!...

Show Notes This week: Victory Episode 49! Nothing says Epic Space War like bikinis! Plus we ask the important questions, like is Haro a misogynist? What does Katejina keep in the trunk of her mobile suit? Is Uso finally...

Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory episode 48, plus... Maria makes things right by making everything worse, Warren gives Elisha exactly the kind of pep talk we'd expect from a thirteen year old boy, Thom is forced to...

Show Notes This week on MSB: we're covering Victory episode 47. The Gender of it all is overwhelming, Cronicle underwhelms in truly impressive fashion, Maria has a funny idea of compassion, and Marbet discovers a cool...

Show Notes This week on MSB, we're joined by new consultant, and Bible scholar in training, Vivian 'Wheels' Wheeler to talk about the Ophanim, the famous 'wheels within wheels' from the Book of Ezekiel. You can also...

Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 46. Kagatie's sinister plan is finally revealed (It's babies. Of course it's babies) and two characters surprise us by winning our (grudging) support. Plus Marbet's...

Show Notes This week we're talking about Thompson v. White, 149 So.2d 797 (1963). Be sure to read along with us! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded...

Show Notes This week: Victory Gundam episode 45. It's another(!) recap episode... kind of? We test out some new podcasting technology, the Angel Halo gets its first field test, Queen Maria tells all the kids to pick up...

Show Notes This week on MSB - it's the research from 10.44: Hope Springs Eternal! This is part four of our series on Yugoslavia and its influence on Victory Gundam, and the second of three research pieces covering World...

Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory episode 44. We've GOT to talk about Shahkti, plus the hard line between children and adults, the Desperation of Maria Pure Armonia, whether we like Victory or not, Gundam...

Show Notes Victory Gundam ep. 43 This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 43. We meet a new BESPA character who will surely be around for a long time, talk about comets and their characteristics, wonder whether Fuala...

Show Notes This week on MSB we're talking about the Victory Gundam episode with a truly goth title: #42 'A Shining Vortex of Fresh Blood.' We discuss Sigmund Freud, weird facts, name and design references, the sour end...

Show Notes This week on MSB, it's Victory Gundam episode 41 and we have so much to say about it. We cover comrades and commanders, Uso's ten dads, Shahkti's burgeoning feelings, the price of pink paint, Karlmann's...

Show Notes This week on MSB, we're talking about Victory Gundam episode 40. It's got the full Victory package: a cool robot, a bad war, grief, comedy, vertically oriented death, continuity errors, Flanders doing...

Show Notes This week on MSB: Uso and the League Militaire crew discover that to BESPA 'ceasefire' means the opposite of what you'd think, as the soldiers of Largaine Base resolve to use up all their ammunition, and...

Show Notes This week on MSB, we're talking about motorcycles, bikes, biking, riding on motorbikes, traveling by bike, touring, voyages conducted primarily via gasoline-powered two-wheeled vehicles and looooooooove...

Show Notes This week on MSB, it's Victory Gundam episode 37. We talk a lot about life, death, fluids, and another anime you might have heard of before that came out around the same time as Victory. Please listen to it!...

Show Notes This week on MSB we're talking about Victory Episode 36. Tune in for tragedy! Comedy! Bullying! Robots! More Cronicle Asher discourse than you'd expect, and a gosh dang wonder of the natural world. Plus...