Show Notes

We're back! This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 1 - "Prelude of ZZ"/プレリュードZZ" - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on world events 1985-86, and anime industry luminaries contemporary opinions on the state of the anime industry at that time.

- Wikipedia lists of significant world events in 1985 and 1986.

- Pages on Japan's economy generally, the "economic miracle" of the post-war period (until the bubble burst in the early 1990s), and the Plaza Accord that led to the appreciation of the Yen against the US dollar.

- Page about Brain, the first computer virus for MS-DOS.

- Information about the sinking of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior.

- What was Voyager 2 up to?

- The Wikipedia page on Expo '85 is a bit thin, but luckily some contemporary articles are available online, like this first-hand account in Creative Computing Magazine's August 1985 issue, or from El País' March 1985 issue (article in Spanish).

- Blacotaku's page with scans of the original Newtype Magazine article plus English translation - "21 Prophets of Anime - Grand Prophecy of Anime '86."

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 includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

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