Show Notes

On the podcast this week: our final episode of Season 4, Iraj returns to talk about asteroids, nuclear explosions, and capes, Thom names names, and Nina looks at alternative narrative frameworks. Plus we clean up a few ambiguities, answer some questions, and come clean about our favorite mobile suits. Will Thom's controversial takes enrage the MSB fandom?!

Names, Names, Names: The Geara Doga

• _The Nagano designs for a 'Killah Doga' / キラ・ドガ and a サイコ・ドーラ can be seen in this Twitter post by Mark Simmons. _
• _The DWDS (Digital Dictionary of the German language) records usages of Killer going back to 1972. _
• The assertion that the Geara Doga and its gear was designed to look like a German WWII soldier is from the Japanese Wikipedia page for the Geara Doga, which cites: Yutaka Izubuchi "Yutaka Izubuchi Mechanical Design Works (1)" Movic, August 2000, pp. 16-17. ISBN  978-4896014907.

The Alpha Azieru

• Izubuchi Yutaka explains that he drew the Alpha Azieru without having been asked, and says that the name comes from the Greek letter α and the word アジール, meaning an asylum or refuge.
• Background on what アジール means in Japanese can be found at the Japanese Wikipedia page.
• Jisho.org page on アジール which specifies the German derivation from Asyl.

The Sazabi

• Izubuchi Yutaka explains that the prior title for the MS was ザ・ナック and that he thought Sazabi would be hard to trademark.
• ZeonicScanlations Twitter thread translating excerpts from an old Animedia book and specifying the Sotheby's reference.
• _ZeonicScanlations page translating a section of B-Club 30 from 1988 about the Sazabi, mentioning Zanac and the conflict with a similarly named Famicom game. _
• The video game Zanac, which prevented CCA from using ザ・ナック for the Sazabi.
• _Japanese Wikipedia page on the Sazabi. _
• _Japanese Wikipedia page for The Knack (the band). _
• And the Japanese Wikipedia page for "My Sharona," specifically.
• _A rundown by Zimmerit.moe of musical references included in Nagano Mamoru's Five Star Stories. _
• English-language interview with Izubuchi Yutaka in which he mentions the name issues for the Sazabi.