Vrai calls in Gundam experts Maddie and Megan to discuss the too-dense-to-for-a-round-up-episode first cour of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury!


0:00:00 Intros
0:01:35 Background
0:04:19 The Gundam franchise and Universal Century
0:10:15 Gundam: The Origin
0:10:58 Suletta as Gundam’s first female pilot protagonist
0:13:37 The novelty of a two cour anime
0:15:19 Wow cool robot
0:18:22 Military appropriation of medical tech and portrayal of disability
0:23:41 It’s gay too
0:27:11 Reading Suletta as autistic
0:35:24 Guel
0:38:59 These KIDS (GUND-ARM Inc)
0:41:21 Miorine
0:42:51 Prospera
0:47:25 Aerial’s short story
0:48:20 The Manchurian Candidate
0:52:13 Part 2 theories
0:55:41 Gundam recs for G Witch fans
0:58:39 Outro

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Recorded Wednesday 1st February 2023


Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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