Show Notes

This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 42/41 “Space Fortress A Baoa Qu” (宇宙要塞ア·バオア·クー) and 43/42 “Escape” (脱出), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: some Japanese vocab, what the heck is an A Bao A Qu?, the Kyūjō Incident, and how Kai made Thom think of the Illiad.

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- Myou/みょう/妙 definition from Jisho.

- Me/め/奴 definition from Jisho.

- Two Tofugu articles explaining keigo (and Thom was right, both honorific language and humble language fall under the umbrella of keigo).

- The specific translation of 1001 Arabian Nights that Borges cited:

"A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled: The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights.

Translated and edited by Richard Francis Burton."

- Review of a new translation that mentions the debate around the A Bao A Qu citation.

- The connection between Final Fantasy and Borges.

- Japanese edition of 幻獣辞典 (Genjyuu Jiten).

- Borges and Japan, article by Koichi Hagimoto, published in journal Chasqui, Vol. 44, No. 2, November 2015.

- Wikipedia and Britannica articles about Jorge Luis Borges.

- Citation for the book itself: The Book of Imaginary Beings, Jorge Luis Borges, 1957 (trans. 1969 by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, 2006 by Andrew Hurley) published by Dutton in 1969 and Penguin in 2006.

- Wikipedia page on the Kyūjō incident.

- Japan Times and Medium articles about the Kyūjō incident.

- Wikipedia explanation of Kokutai and it's shifting definition through time.

- Book that provides great detail on the politics of the end of WWII in Japan:

Toland, John. Rising Sun. Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2005.

- Section from Hyginus' Fabulae about Protesilaus.

- Another section from the Fabulae, listing the suitors of Helen.

- A chronicle of the Trojan war from Dictys of Crete and Dares of Phrygia, includes Protesilaus in the Chronicle of Ships.