Show Notes

This week we're joined by two returning guests, costume designer Sarah McCostumes and theatrical mask consultant Sean DMR to talk about costuming, mobile suits, and what the aesthetics of Char's Counterattack can tell us about the characters, the world, and the story. Plus in the research Thom looks at Char's iconography and tries to trace its origins.

Char's Iconography Background on Prussian-style Collars:

• Prussian uniforms (including various Zeon-esque collars) - “The Waffenfrock 1842-1895” from Kaiser’s Bunker. 
• Imperial Japanese Army uniforms during the Russo-Japanese War (showing the contrast collar borrowed from the Prussians). 
• Influence of Prussian military uniform helmets in Latin America, by Ricardo Jara Franco. Aug. 18, 2011. Available at http://pickelhauben.net/old-site/articles/latin_America.html
• Martin, Bernd, and Peter Wetzler. “The German Role in the Modernization of Japan — The Pitfall of Blind Acculturation.” Oriens Extremus 33, no. 1 (1990): 77–88. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24048466
• Wikipedia page on the uniforms of the Imperial Japanese Army.

General background on Eagles as symbols:

• “Eagle,” from Heraldsnet.org, an online glossary of heraldric elements.
• Wikipedia pages for eagles in heraldry, the national emblem of Indonesia, the Roman aquila, and the Shahbaz (the fabled eagle-like creature used in Achaemenid iconography).
• An overview about the role of eagles in different Native American cultures, with links to other sources.
• The Warrior and the Eagle, an old Lenape legend.
• “The Bald Eagle, Creature of Nature and an American Symbol” by Ellen Terrell for the Library of Congress. June 27, 2019. Available at https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2019/06/the-bald-eagle-creature-of-nature-and-an-american-symbol/.

The Reichsadler:

• Wikipedia pages for the Reichsadler, the coat of arms of Austria, and the coat of arms of Germany.
• German text of the Imperial Rescript of August 3rd, 1871. 
• “When is a German eagle a Nazi eagle?” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 2, 2016. Mirrored

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