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And now your helpful bartenders at The Speakeasy present you a drink invented by Hisui:
The Red Comet (It gets you feeling toasty three times as fast)
Drop a shotglass of vodka into a Highball glass of Red Bull. Bonus points are given for being dressed as Casval Rem Deikun with a mask or at least wearing all red. Anyone dressed as Quattro Bajeena has to drink a Hyaku Shiki.
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Show notes:
Opening song: The Sherlock Hound Opening: Sora Kara Koboreta Story (A Story that Fell from the Sky) by Da Capo.
[00:26] Intro: Just in case you wanted to know who we are and what we are about. We also give all the standard contact info as we introduce ourselves.
Including:
- Our Blog: Reverse Thieves
- Our Host Site: Anime 3000
- The Podcast’s Website: The Speakeasy
- The Reverse Thieves e-mail: reversethieves@gmail.c
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- Alain’s Twitter – HisuiRT
- Kate’s Twitter – NarutakiRT
[02:16] News
- A brief look at NYAF and NYCC. The high and lows and everything in between. Also look for our appearance on the Bonus Round and our two weeks of con articles on Reverse Thieves.
[12:31] The Happy Hour Promo Break
WARNING! There are major spoilers for any and all of Gundam! You have been warned.
[13:55] The Cocktail: Sekiha Love Love Tenkyoken
- Relationships in Gundam vary from show to show. We look at how many of the major Gundam series deal with love among the cast.
[14:27] The Bald Wizard and Love
- Any discussion of love in Gundam has to start with Tomino's influence.
- We look at love in the Original Mobile Suit Gundam where it all began.
- It only gets weirder in Zeta Gundam.
- Double Zeta is sort of in the middle in its weirdness.
- Turn A is the perfection of Tomino's formula.
- I realized we forgot to talk about Victory Gundam but that is OK.
- An analysis of Tomino's strengths and weaknesses when it comes to relationships.
[29:27] The rest of Universal Century and romance.
- Gundam Unicorn also follows the Tomino formula for romance.
- Contraversial Statement: 0083 HAS THE WORST ROMANCE IN ALL OF GUNDAM.
- 0080 works by gently developing a flirtatious relationship and never trying to take it too far.
- 08th MS Team is THE Gundam 90's romance.
[38:57] Get a Second Drink Musical Break
- Food for thought: What are your favorite relationships in the mecha genre?
- Love Letter by Gackt from Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation III: Love is the Pulse of the Stars
[43:47] Passion of Infinite Earths
- We now turn our eyes to the Alternate Universes of Gundam.
- Like everything else in G Gundam it is all about over the top passion.
- Gundam X succeeds in many respects and fails in others due to it being canceled.
- Gundam Seed is very polarizing in the fandom.
- We mostly avoid talking about Wing.
- And finally Gundam 00 and oh boy it is certainly all over the place.
[01:00:34] Final Thoughts
- Our final score card on Gundam relationships.
[01:05:05] Ending
Ending song: Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
