Show Notes
This week, we recap, review, and provide analysis of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 50 - "Riders in the Skies" (宇宙を駆ける), discuss our impressions, and provide commentary and research on Scirocco's name and the "The-O" mobile suit.
- Japanese Wikipedia page for Paptimus Scirocco.
- Wikipedia page for the Sirocco wind (aka scirocco, jugo, siroc, xaloc, sciroccu, Σορόκος, siroco, xlokk, shirok, siròc, eisseròc, ghibli, khamsin, شْلُوقْ or شْهِيلِي).
- Forbes interview in which Tomino discusses working with Takahata and Miyazaki in the 1970s:
Ollie Barder, Yoshiyuki Tomino On 'Gundam', Newtypes And The Perilous Future Facing Humanity, Forbes.com, available at https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2017/03/13/yoshiyuki-tomino-on-gundam-newtypes-and-the-perilous-future-facing-humanity/#6c5c38754b8a
- From Anime News Network's encyclopedia, a comparison of the projects where Tomino, Miyazaki, and Takahata overlapped. Looking at the pages for individual projects you can see that they sometimes collaborated directly on individual episodes.
- Jisho.org page showing the Japanese pronunciation of "baptism."
- Japanese Wikipedia page for "The-O."
- Forbes interview with Kobayashi Makoto (The-O's designer):
Ollie Barder, Makoto Kobayashi On Mecha Design And The Importance Of Red And Blue Paint, Forbes.com, June 25, 2016. Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2016/06/25/makoto-kobayashi-on-mecha-design-and-the-importance-of-red-and-blue-paint/#201328e6e369
- Wiktionary entry for "θεός", also known as "theos," and for "theos" in Latin.
- A blog entry from a collector of religious headwear with images and information about the "eboshi" hats.
- Images showing a court noble's costume, including taller "tate eboshi" hat that resembles the shape of The-O's headgear.
- For a brief discussion of a modern Shinto priest's ceremonial garb, including the eboshi:
John Renard, The Handy Religion Answer Book, Visible Ink Press (2012).
- Pictures of modern shinto ceremonial garb including tall eboshi.
- A detailed English page about the different types of eboshi, with pictures, by Joshua L. Badgley.
- Modern depiction of what a naga eboshi kabuto (armored helmet in the style of a very tall eboshi) might have looked like. And one from a gachapon collection of legendary armors.
- Book detailing both the types of kabuto eboshi as well as the methods of their construction:
Trevor Absolon, The Watanabe Art Musuem Samurai Armour Collection Volume I ~ Kabuto & Mengu (2011).
- Pictures of a historical eboshi kabuto, possibly from the Edo period.
- For Blavatsky's assertion that "theos" and a perfect circle were synonymous in the minds of "the ancients":
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine: Anthropogenesis, Theosophical Publishing Society (1902).
- English translation of Borges' "Pascal's Sphere":
https://www.filosofiaesoterica.com/pascals-sphere/ originally from Jorge Luis Borges, Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952, Souvenir (1973) (trans. Ruth L. C. Simms).
- Japanese edition of Other Inquisitions/Otras inquisiciones.
- The poem in the TNN is "Pax Saturni" by Ezra Pound.
- Nina references Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" in the memorial for Scirocco.
- Music used in this episode includes:
Come Play with Me by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3526-come-play-with-me
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Hitman by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3880-hitman
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Gregorian Chant by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3825-gregorian-chant
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Grammophone Taps by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3820-grammophone-taps
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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