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#251 - Gundam Wing vs. GQuuuuuux | Boot or Reboot
Brandon traumatizes Andrew by making him relive the summer he wouldn’t stop quoting the Gundam Wing commercial in a Boot or Reboot to see which Gundam series Andrew would rather watch. After the break, they take a Buzzfeed Quiz in honor of Brandon’s trip to Japan.
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Transcript
00:00:00 Andrew
That guy's NCIS now.
00:00:02 Brandon
Lumberg or Peter?
00:00:03 Andrew
Lumberg yeah.
00:00:04 Brandon
Ohh didn't know that if I realize you didn't realize this is still going.
00:00:06 Andrew
No, Ron Livingston is not an NCIS.
00:00:11 Andrew
It is. They're placed uh Mark Harmon with.
00:00:16 Andrew
Gary Small.
00:00:16 Brandon
Just got Kerry calling.
00:00:20 Narrator
No welcome.
00:00:22 Narrator
To namely 90's, the podcast that takes you back to the time before smartphones, Google and Y2K, join your hosts as they relive the pop culture that shaped a generation and the parts that many people wish they could forget.
00:00:41 Narrator
Listen and to the conversation about how the decade defined those who spent their childhood there and how it shaped them as adults. So.
00:00:52 Narrator
Down the grunge and dial up the Internet, let's get started. It's time for namely 9.
00:01:00 Narrator
News.
00:01:03 Andrew
That's right, you're listening, namely 9. He's my name is Andrew. I've heard Brandon. You can.
00:01:07 Andrew
That's me. You can find this online near me, nineties.com or on Instagram. Blue sky near me 90s.
00:01:14 Andrew
You'll find the show on YouTube every Monday at youtube.com slash at namely 90s, and finally for like sports show every patreon.com/namely 90s and set up for sport levels. Why they speed up more and more as I went through.
00:01:25 Andrew
Good question.
00:01:29 Brandon
I've been like, yeah, I was rubbing my eye when you started, so it was good. Good start all around. We don't we don't take second takes we I think over the course of I I think we've crossed 300 episodes at this point. We've only once we started.
00:01:35 Andrew
Good stuff. Good stuff.
00:01:48 Brandon
That intro.
00:01:50 Andrew
Yeah, at this point, we literally don't care anymore.
00:01:53 Brandon
Which is a great pitch. So that's the one in Japan. And they're like, oh, yeah, was this since the last few episodes, your podcast and like.
00:01:54 Andrew
If that's not obvious.
00:02:02 Andrew
Don't.
00:02:03 Brandon
I'm like I was.
00:02:04 Andrew
Listen to the middle episodes.
00:02:04 Brandon
Like when your mom sounds a great season 2, I liked Season 1 as well. Yeah, you know, but.
00:02:14 Andrew
Don't listen to this garbage.
00:02:16 Brandon
Well, you know, yeah, the final, the final one hopefully.
00:02:18 Andrew
Listen to the final show, you know.
00:02:24 Brandon
We're we're really ambitious about it and so hopefully someone puts some effort into it before we record.
00:02:33 Brandon
But yeah, it will. It will be a good one.
00:02:37 Brandon
Maybe probably more you'll be more of this.
00:02:38 Andrew
Yeah. Uh, what?
00:02:40 Andrew
What else has been going? So we've recorded 2 back-to-back really quickly. About two weeks ago.
00:02:45 Brandon
Yes, because I was going to Japan, which I did, I actually.
00:02:49 Andrew
And you came back. Welcome back to hell.
00:02:52 Brandon
I think you I am surprised I made it through. I made it through customs like that. There is no.
00:03:01 Brandon
And stop me to search my social media. No one that's on site.
00:03:04 Andrew
They stopped you to search your bag for banned.
00:03:06 Andrew
Books.
00:03:07 Brandon
Yeah, non-stop me to to ask me my pronouns, because that's the trick question. If you say you have pronouns and they starting with Lamar, but yeah, you know, all of our inflammatory remarks we've made over you, you've kept sending me names and.
00:03:27 Brandon
Like if they look at my phone, I'm going to be detained.
00:03:32 Brandon
Especially so I made it back into the country high and now I can say **** Donald Trump and you know, we'll be throwing the to the gulag. We're finding. Yeah. When they finding this door podcast.
00:03:38 Andrew
Well.
00:03:45 Andrew
This is a fair and balanced podcast.
00:03:51 Andrew
Bear and balance.
00:03:52 Brandon
Yeah. So yeah.
00:03:56 Brandon
I went to Japan for a little a week week in a few days was fun.
00:04:01 Andrew
Did you go to Japan in the same way that Katy Perry went to space? You like? Yeah, he stepped off the plane with one foot and just got back on, therefore.
00:04:06 Brandon
Kinda smells like you're rich.
00:04:13 Brandon
I mean, that's how I visited Utah, Atlanta, or sorry, Georgia. And it's, I guess it's been in Colorado now.
00:04:23 Andrew
Like The funny thing is you like when you flew there, you flew on a 787, which is like flying on the Starship enterprise. And when you flew back, you flying out was like Rust Bucket.
00:04:27 Brandon
Yes, but it was amazing.
00:04:34 Andrew
Like the Millennium Falcon in the early portion of Star Wars, you know?
00:04:37 Brandon
Yeah, 777200 I even heard, like some person, some kid next to me who I think had some sort of was on the spectrum and they were just, like, listing off the facts about the.
00:04:56 Brandon
And be like, Oh yeah, it's 21 years old and, you know, normally you don't see those things in service anymore. But I guess we're going to fly on it. I'm like.
00:05:06 Brandon
All good, all good. At least the door won't fly off. Assuming they they didn't expect an inspection.
00:05:13 Andrew
You should do the. You should.
00:05:15 Andrew
Do the Luke Skywalker. What a piece of junk. It's just like, hey.
00:05:19 Andrew
F You don't, they is.
00:05:20 Andrew
That don't do that in Family Guy where he says that you're just like.
00:05:24 Andrew
Right.
00:05:24 Brandon
Was Leia says one of the pieces or.
00:05:27 Andrew
The funny this it says Luke Skywalker.
00:05:27 Brandon
No, you're right.
00:05:28 Brandon
Look, looks looks at looks at Luke says. Luke says we're piece of junk. Leah says you came in that thing. You're braver than I thought.
00:05:36 Andrew
I I feel like in real life, like Han.
00:05:38 Andrew
Solo be like ****.
00:05:39 Andrew
You he shoots both of them. I think they did. Yeah. There was something with this where he said the F word twice, which just.
00:05:40 Andrew
Yeah.
00:05:42 Brandon
Which is one of the painters response in in blue harness, yeah.
00:05:47 Brandon
Yeah.
00:05:50 Brandon
Yeah, this is etag episode. Yeah.
00:05:54 Andrew
To being in the press.
00:05:54 Andrew
Room at the White House.
00:05:56 Brandon
Speaking of Star Wars, I went to Star Wars Celebration 2025, which is in Japan.
00:06:01 Brandon
Three days and cheaper. That was pretty cool. You know, it's next one is in LA for 2027 after the Olympics. So currently there are like 0 hotels near the LA Convention Center, which everyone's freaking out about. So.
00:06:18 Andrew
Ah.
00:06:21 Brandon
Hopefully for the Olympics next year, the.
00:06:25 Brandon
Do something.
00:06:27 Andrew
Yeah, maybe they built some hotels.
00:06:30 Brandon
OK.
00:06:30 Andrew
I know some people who live down there.
00:06:32 Brandon
Ohh yeah I I mean.
00:06:34 Andrew
Drive from Orange County or Huntington Beach.
00:06:35 Brandon
You know, it's like, yeah, I mean, I have family in Pasadena, but it's like.
00:06:41 Andrew
Pasadena it wouldn't be too bad.
00:06:44 Andrew
I guess so.
00:06:45 Andrew
Listen, it wouldn't be great, but.
00:06:47 Andrew
Get somewhere to stay where there's no hotels.
00:06:47 Brandon
I know that.
00:06:49 Brandon
True. But like driving, driving from there to the Convention Center sounds like to to line up at like 6:00 AM to get inside that sounds.
00:06:57 Brandon
Terrible.
00:06:59 Andrew
Yeah, the basic question why you would even go.
00:07:01 Brandon
Yeah.
00:07:02 Andrew
Kind of test.
00:07:03 Andrew
I do want to.
00:07:04 Brandon
Go well. OK. So, like, yeah, this time. And I went when I was in Anaheim. Like, the hotels were walking distance. And so it was like.
00:07:15 Brandon
You go in, you do a merge run and you exit and.
00:07:21 Brandon
Spend the day inside.
00:07:24 Brandon
Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, we got to see the first episode and or before.
00:07:29 Brandon
It.
00:07:29 Brandon
Dropped. That was the only panel I made it into, which I was kind of upset about. So I I think I sat in on the there was a like a book. The future of the.
00:07:30 Brandon
Uh.
00:07:44 Brandon
The whole written Star Wars panel, but I read the books but I haven't read the comics and like I sat down and they're like, oh, we're going to talk about Star Wars Comics for 20 minutes and like.
00:07:57 Brandon
OK, I've made a huge mistake.
00:08:00 Andrew
Once again begs the question of why even go? Everything you're saying is making this sound terrible.
00:08:04 Brandon
No, it's fine. OK. So, like, do you know?
00:08:06 Andrew
Yeah, from a foreign country and saw no panels. Good. OK, great.
00:08:10 Brandon
Yeah. Well, I mean, I could have known. I would've got the panels until way after I committed to do this, but I could have stood and standby, but I enjoyed the Convention. Four more. Yeah. Did some pain collecting and bought some swag and did some demos. I did a VR demo for Mediquest.
00:08:13 Andrew
Sure, sure.
00:08:20 Andrew
Nice. Yeah. Like a convention floor.
00:08:30 Brandon
Which that was the mistake. Stand in line for three hours to play a VR demo.
00:08:36 Brandon
Like.
00:08:38 Brandon
Yeah, that was my last day, though there was there was, there was the last day. It was I I made bad choices on the last day, but it was fun. The original reason, the whole reason got put by head original is cause that celebration. Anaheim on the last day I was talking to a guy in line while we were waiting for the pins.
00:08:39 Andrew
News.
00:08:57 Brandon
He was from Japan and he was like a sushi chef that worked under this guy that does like these Star Wars vegetable carvings like, you know, the Japanese vegetable.
00:09:13 Andrew
No talking, wearing off.
00:09:13 Brandon
Yes, I I OK, while in Japan, so I didn't spend the whole time going to celebration. We we went around, we went to Mount Fuji, we stayed in Tokyo a day and went to Akihabara but like.
00:09:29 Brandon
My friend like I got taking pictures of her and she was taking pictures of me and she kept saying smile and I was like I am smiling and I looked.
00:09:36 Brandon
At the photos I was just like.
00:09:38 Brandon
If not frowning, just like straight faced and like I need to remember how to smile correctly.
00:09:45 Andrew
I'm not having fun here apparently.
00:09:48 Andrew
I was having.
00:09:48 Brandon
Fun I just couldn't convey it with my face. Yeah, well, because I was, like, trying to be like, you know, I feel a little governing, yeah.
00:09:50 Andrew
Your face? Yeah. Why don't you inform your face that you're having fun?
00:10:01 Andrew
You said all it's just.
00:10:03 Brandon
Yeah.
00:10:04 Andrew
Do a lot of that.
00:10:05 Brandon
It's a lot lot of balling, a lot of, lot of fine. I got to taste wine, food, use on winery. Check it out. If you're in the Fuji Lakes area, probably the best is the best example of of native.
00:10:15 Andrew
Always.
00:10:22 Andrew
Did you just say native? Ohh boy.
00:10:24 Brandon
Well, not not native fermentation, but it's it's their, it's their.
00:10:29 Brandon
Only native that is for for grape kosher and they do an amazing job with it. They do a sparkling as well. Shout out to to them. But yeah, what did. What did you do last two weeks?
00:10:41 Andrew
Right.
00:10:44 Andrew
Ohh God, I don't even know worked a whole bunch.
00:10:49 Andrew
That was it.
00:10:50 Brandon
Bye.
00:10:53 Andrew
No life life is business as usual over here, which is boring and mildly irritating.
00:11:00 Brandon
Always good. Always good to know.
00:11:01 Brandon
That's that's how I left you.
00:11:04 Andrew
Well, the good news is, yeah, some things never change.
00:11:06 Brandon
Yeah, I forgot to start a timer, so I don't.
00:11:11 Brandon
Know where we are.
00:11:12 Andrew
We're there. We're there.
00:11:13 Brandon
OK, so in honor of my Japan trip and it's the fact that we're currently just doing through through the reboots until.
00:11:21 Brandon
We.
00:11:21 Brandon
At the end of the show.
00:11:25 Brandon
I thought we would go a little Japanese for this one, which I'm hoping you haven't already done yet because I feel like I might have done.
00:11:33 Brandon
This to you already.
00:11:34 Andrew
We've talked about Gundam Wing, but.
00:11:35 Andrew
Not a boot or reboot.
00:11:36 Brandon
Yeah. OK. So there there's a new Gundam series that just came out that's releasing weekly on Amazon Prime not sponsor and technically so Gundam Wing came out for us here in the states in the summer of 2000.
00:11:56 Brandon
But comma it came out in 1995 in Japan.
00:12:00 Brandon
I'm going to make you watch 2 government trailers, although in English, in English and yeah. And boot or reboot you.
00:12:08 Andrew
Thank you for that.
00:12:13 Brandon
So.
00:12:16 Brandon
What do you what what? What do you know? What do you what do you what are you thinking? How are you feeling?
00:12:22 Andrew
I don't know anything. I actually forgot what the.
00:12:26 Andrew
Underwing even is.
00:12:27 Andrew
Because I wasn't listening last night.
00:12:29 Brandon
Sweet.
00:12:32 Brandon
Alright, alright. Are you ready?
00:12:34 Andrew
You're welcome.
00:12:37 Andrew
Oh yeah.
00:12:38 Brandon
Down about here.
00:12:40 Andrew
14 minutes 21 seconds. Wow.
00:12:41 Andrew
If a distant future. Ohh yeah, mankind has reached the stars, but the Galaxy is trouble.
00:12:44 Andrew
What a piece of junk.
00:12:48 Andrew
It's like not an.
00:12:49 Andrew
Easy.
00:12:50 Brandon
Thing that thing.
00:12:50 Andrew
Earth Spear Alliance rules the outlying colonies with an iron fist.
00:12:52 Andrew
That thing is a space shuttle. How is it the space?
00:12:55 Andrew
God would understand station.
00:12:56 Brandon
That's how they get from the colonies.
00:12:59 Andrew
Isn't it about time you people realized the ones posing the most threat are none other than yourselves?
00:13:02 Brandon
So this is the two noni trailer for teaser trailer for Gundam Wing.
00:13:06 Andrew
Those who oppose.
00:13:07 Andrew
That we won't be needing you.
00:13:11 Brandon
The one that I kept quoting that summary, I'm really annoyed you.
00:13:13 Andrew
Die.
00:13:15 Andrew
I remember.
00:13:15 Andrew
Bottles are way up with mobile suits. The key to military dominance. The only hope for the Colonies 5 Elite soldiers and their legendary mobile suits called Gundams.
00:13:27 Andrew
Why does the GA or the old voiceover guy sound like William Neeson?
00:13:32 Brandon
You're close. Do you want to keep guessing?
00:13:34
Very mistaken, and the Gundams will soon come.
00:13:36 Andrew
Is it a famous actor?
00:13:37 Andrew
To.
00:13:38 Andrew
He's a famous voice actor. These pilots, they shake the foundation. No, no, of history. No more Autobots rollout. They can stay alive.
00:13:41 Andrew
I'll chalk no Donovan. Now you know where the guy from transformer.
00:13:57 Andrew
Knives, Edward Cullen.
00:13:58 Brandon
Which I didn't realize was a kid. Yes. Vampire Peter Cullen.
00:14:05 Andrew
Who's making conversation over the?
00:14:10 Andrew
Might eliminate all this Wheeling. It sounds like Congress.
00:14:11 Andrew
I've already watched this tonight. That's the line. Say goodbye.
00:14:17 Andrew
Ready for combat 1?
00:14:21
Don't die on me.
00:14:23 Andrew
From the Gundam universe aging chapter and one of the greatest anime sagas of all time Gundam weekdays at 532, doctors was made eyes on a person shall not.
00:14:36 Andrew
Days at 5.5.
00:14:37 Andrew
Live the telephone.
00:14:38 Andrew
Probably.
00:14:43 Brandon
So that was ohh yeah.
00:14:43 Andrew
It.
00:14:44 Andrew
Compelling.
00:14:46 Brandon
I mean, he got me to watch back in the day.
00:14:49 Andrew
So it is hitting its target audience of.
00:14:52 Andrew
12 year olds.
00:14:53 Brandon
Yep, Yep.
00:14:54 Andrew
11 year olds.
00:14:55 Brandon
All right, so run down mobile second wing, also known as new Mobile Report Gundam Wing in Japan, is 1995. Japanese mecha anime series directed by Massa she, Masashi Ikeda. It's the 6th installment in the gun franchise.
00:15:15 Brandon
Taking place in the after Colony timeline.
00:15:19 Brandon
The plot centers on a warm future between Earth and its orbital colonies and the Earth moon system. The series aired on Japan and ran for 49 episodes from 19 April 1995 to March 1996.
00:15:38 Brandon
There was 4 Ovas made original video animations and a direct sequel called Endless Waltz.
00:15:47 Brandon
UM.
00:15:49 Brandon
Also in 2010, they had a like light novel series called Frozen Teardrop, which was technically another sequel to the series. It's fared modestly well in Japan, but found greater success in the United States and single handedly popular popularized the gun franchise in the West.
00:16:10 Brandon
The plot synopsises in the distant future, mankind has colonized things with cost. Jesus faith colonies at each of the five Earth and LaGrange points the the like.
00:16:24 Brandon
Essentially the earth.
00:16:27 Andrew
Well, here's how you know it's not realistic. Down on earth, the nations have come together to form the United Earth sphere of alliance.
00:16:34 Andrew
Now we've already blown each other up by now. This is the next iteration of society.
00:16:38 Brandon
Very true. The alliance oppresses the colonies with its military lights, and the colonies were wishing for their own independence. And they're headed by a pacifist named Hiroyuki. And then 20 years prior to the series, he's assassinated. And.
00:16:57 Brandon
The assassination prompts 5 scientists from the organization, organization of the Zodiac, referred to as Oz, turning rogue upon the completion of their mobile supertype pathologies. The story begins in after Colony 195 with Operation Mediar.
00:17:17 Brandon
These kids, 5 teenage boys each shows by each of the five scientists, get their own Gundams and essentially do some terrorism on Earth.
00:17:29 Andrew
Of course, teenage boys. Why teenage boys? Why would you?
00:17:32 Brandon
You know, that's primarily the target audience, as you said.
00:17:39 Brandon
The the series focuses on hero UE duo Maxwell, Troy Barton Quatro, Barbara winner and Cheng Wifey as they attack Oz to get rid of weapons and their power. Yes, essentially yes. Well, so each of their mobile.
00:17:54 Andrew
So this is the Wizard of Oz.
00:17:56 Andrew
Is what you're saying.
00:17:59 Brandon
It's named after Zodiac.
00:18:04 Brandon
Zodiac things. Leo Taurus.
00:18:04 Andrew
You got what now?
00:18:12 Brandon
What else anyway?
00:18:14 Andrew
Astrology.
00:18:15 Brandon
Yes.
00:18:18 Andrew
Astronomy, OK?
00:18:19 Brandon
It also focuses on Relena Peacecraft, who's an heir to a pacifist nation on Earth, and she becomes romantically involved with hero. Yeah.
00:18:34 Brandon
It's.
00:18:35 Andrew
Sounds convoluted. The type of convoluted that 11 year olds can.
00:18:37 Andrew
Mm-hmm.
00:18:39 Andrew
Really get behind.
00:18:40 Brandon
You know, it was a lot of melodrama and a lot of things exploding.
00:18:49 Brandon
Don't take it in that context.
00:18:50 Andrew
It's like Grey's Anatomy.
00:18:52 Brandon
Ohh yeah, let's see. Like I said, there's only a lot of success. And it. Yeah, this one in the previous installment, G Gundam were the only main series from the 90s that averaged over 4% rate ratings on Japanese TV. There's also a lot.
00:19:11 Brandon
Of.
00:19:14 Brandon
A A lot of offers that make doujinshi which are kind of like.
00:19:25 Brandon
Manga but for.
00:19:29 Andrew
Mature adults.
00:19:30 Brandon
Sure. And they buy, yeah, they buy.
00:19:37 Brandon
It's.
00:19:38 Andrew
It's ***********. That's what it is, no.
00:19:40 Brandon
Yeah, that depict the romantic relationships between the main characters.
00:19:45 Brandon
Who are men so?
00:19:46 Andrew
It's it's, it's, it's ***********.
00:19:50 Brandon
More or less, but generally had a great success in North America just after the week after.
00:19:57 Brandon
Its year in.
00:19:57 Brandon
March 2000, March 6th of 2000. The series was the top rate program in all age groups on Cartoon Network. During the summer of 2000, they remained the first or second top rated show amongst kids and teens.
00:20:09 Brandon
During his 12 airings per week on 2 on the tsunami block, yeah.
00:20:15 Brandon
That's Gundam wing.
00:20:17 Andrew
Maria says it was ranked 73rd Best Animated series by IGN, calling the series so good that even those opposed to anime have to give the shows due credit.
00:20:26 Andrew
Like the polls like Warley, I mean, you could not like it, but the post is a weird way of saying that.
00:20:36 Brandon
It is a strange word.
00:20:37 Andrew
I won't stand for it.
00:20:39 Brandon
Ohh, how dare you? Alright and now.
00:20:46 Brandon
Here's the trailer for G Flux.
00:20:51 Andrew
Yeah, we'll have to dig into that one.
00:20:53 Andrew
Shortly. Yep.
00:20:56 Gundam Trailer
A space colony is 6.4 kilometers in diameter and generates 1G of rotational gravity by rotating once every 113.5 seconds. The heavens aren't above our heads, but rather under our feet, and those of us born in the colonies don't know the feel of real gravity.
00:21:15 Gundam Trailer
Or the sights.
00:21:16 Gundam Trailer
The real guy.
00:21:17 Brandon
You know, just going to be you can't see anything.
00:21:18 Gundam Trailer
Let alone the touch the the real.
00:21:20 Andrew
Sea I can't.
00:21:21 Brandon
OK.
00:21:22 Gundam Trailer
Right Clan Battle, where you fight me mobile.
00:21:24 Andrew
Actually like their.
00:21:25 Gundam Trailer
For prize money.
00:21:25 Andrew
Proposition that you would have to spin the things and then take an inward curve to generate gravity. This is interesting.
00:21:26
Clan battle. Exactly decent people.
00:21:32 Gundam Trailer
I didn't expect you to have such cute.
00:21:35
Kid, you want to try Clan battle?
00:21:37
If we involved in amateur, she's only going to.
00:21:39
Get killed. But she's just a kid.
00:21:40 Andrew
Clint, that's a matter of life and death.
00:21:42
Clan Battle is A2 on 2 mobile suit fight between map teams.
00:21:46 Andrew
That is not planned with the king.
00:21:46
Destroy your opponent's head and you.
00:21:47 Andrew
Win. Leave. Seen the other side too.
00:21:50
Have some fake but you smell.
00:21:52 Brandon
Although in Japanese it's probably.
00:21:53 Gundam Trailer
So you'll compete and plan battle with me.
00:21:55 Andrew
The Gundam you say?
00:21:57 Andrew
It's time to fight space technology.
00:22:16 Andrew
Hmm.
00:22:19
That girl's got a good sense of timing.
00:22:21
She might be the real deal.
00:22:24 Gundam Trailer
Chill or be killed.
00:22:27
Machu.
00:22:29 Andrew
Please call OK sushi.
00:22:37 Brandon
Watch suji. I think his name is.
00:22:40 Andrew
Hmm.
00:22:41 Andrew
No, he spared no expense with the plot.
00:22:42 Gundam Trailer
Do you guys feel freaking out in space?
00:22:47 Andrew
It was times new Roman or something like it was. It was not Sam. Sarah. It was with Sarah.
00:22:47 Brandon
That.
00:22:50 Brandon
That's hilarious.
00:22:52 Brandon
Is Calibri, so that was agreement from G Crooks, which is a Japanese anime television series jointly produced by Sunrise in Studio Kara, which is known for it.
00:23:12 Brandon
I think it's called mobile suit or not mobiles. It's neon genesis.
00:23:18 Brandon
Of Ben Galleon or whatever that one is.
00:23:23 Brandon
Pop popular franchise.
00:23:24 Andrew
You're making. You're you're saying words while here is noise.
00:23:27 Brandon
Right. So it's billed as the 16th installment of the Gundam franchise and the second television series to be aired. Sorry, second in a row after which mercury to feature a female lead.
00:23:28 Andrew
You will.
00:23:39 Brandon
UM.
00:23:41 Brandon
It features characters designs from Takata and mechanical designs, from Ikuto Yamashita.
00:23:53 Brandon
The yeah. You kind of see there a little bit more.
00:24:01 Brandon
They look like they look like that series that I was talking about instead of like Gundams, but.
00:24:05 Brandon
You know the series is set an alternate version of the original gunman timeline, the universal century, which diverges from the original series continuity because Shar steals the original Gundam alongside White Base and becomes the pilot. Instead of Amuro Ray and then.
00:24:26 Andrew
Freebase no.
00:24:28 Brandon
And he basically changes the outcome of the one year war by winning it with the Gundam instead of losing it to the Gundam, and which means so in this in this version of the timeline, the Principality of Zeon was.
00:24:46 Brandon
I think they were technically the oppressors.
00:24:48 Andrew
I mean, this is like a real man in the high tower situation, right? Yeah. OK.
00:24:52 Brandon
Yes, yes, that's exactly that's a great way to put it. So she sends this on the Amazon Prime. So Shar and the the Gundam disappear after going through a phenomenon called.
00:25:08 Andrew
Hi Castle, sorry I said it wrong.
00:25:11 Brandon
It is castle. Yes, you're correct.
00:25:13 Andrew
Yes, I apologize.
00:25:15 Brandon
He disappears in a giant flash and then this is set five years after the principal decision won the war. Where I'm going to tell you, Yuzu rehab, high school student living on a space colony side 6 crosses paths with a girl named.
00:25:35 Brandon
Diane Dan, a war refugee which is what cats say.
00:25:38 Andrew
None.
00:25:41 Brandon
In Japanese, her encounter gets her involved with clan battles and space police, and the missing Gundam emerges and she steals a mobile suit called The G Cooks, which in the show they're like, oh, I think that's just a filler.
00:26:01 Brandon
And then they're like, oh, let's just call it that, which is a prototype meant for new types, which the whole thing about transcending humanity. And then, yes. So.
00:26:17 Brandon
She's taken in by the Pomeranians.
00:26:21 Brandon
Pomeranian, Pomeranian that's it, but that's his Pomeranians yeah.
00:26:27 Andrew
Where is that?
00:26:29 Brandon
The GCS is taken by the Pomeranian Pomeranian. Yeah, pomeranians.
00:26:35 Andrew
Why am I not seeing this?
00:26:37 Brandon
It's the last paragraph halfway through.
00:26:44 Andrew
You keep talking.
00:26:45 Brandon
Yeah. So they're an underground team and mechanics participating in clan battles, which is a series of illegal high stakes mobile suit, dueling matches and then.
00:26:59 Brandon
The girl meets the pilot of Red Gundam and they fight together in.
00:27:04 Andrew
Ohh yes, this Pomeranian sorry I could not find.
00:27:06 Andrew
It.
00:27:08 Brandon
So twice. So that's we're only on episode 3, which are the episodes that they showed in theaters prior.
00:27:16 Brandon
This in both Japan and America. So yeah, that's all I can give you about the story.
00:27:23 Brandon
You go into your head and on your mouth. If you had to choose between 1:00 or the other, which one interested you more?
00:27:31 Andrew
I think the production quality on the newer 1 is better, but I was bored by the trailer.
00:27:34 Andrew
Hmm.
00:27:37 Brandon
Yeah, I thought it sounded better. Japanese.
00:27:40 Brandon
Honestly.
00:27:41 Andrew
He was a little too, yeah. Like, first of all, was that Dakota Fanning, like, 20 years ago doing the?
00:27:47 Andrew
Voiceover.
00:27:47 Brandon
Kind of.
00:27:48 Andrew
It was just a little too.
00:27:50 Brandon
She's young.
00:27:51 Andrew
I don't know, it just looked too boring. They.
00:27:55 Andrew
Didn't hype it up at all.
00:27:55 Brandon
Trying. Yeah, I think they're going for the stunning visuals instead of the.
00:28:02 Brandon
Anything.
00:28:02 Andrew
Yeah, but I I wanted to know what happened.
00:28:04 Andrew
In the first trailer.
00:28:06 Andrew
And didn't.
00:28:07 Andrew
Care.
00:28:08 Andrew
I didn't really fully understand what was going on in the second trailer. The first trailer I knew some ***** were getting kicked and some.
00:28:13 Andrew
Stuff was getting shot, yeah.
00:28:15 Andrew
So like I'm all about that.
00:28:15 Brandon
Where where the second one you saw the the little suit for like a second and it was blowing some things up.
00:28:22 Andrew
Yeah, I was like ohh alright.
00:28:23 Andrew
So I would watch the first one.
00:28:25 Brandon
See, that's why you need the voiceover of Optimus Prime.
00:28:28 Brandon
I'm yeah.
00:28:33 Brandon
All right. Well, there you have it, Andrews.
00:28:35 Andrew
What about you?
00:28:36 Andrew
Gun to your head. You're supposed to choose to.
00:28:38 Brandon
Uh, I mean, I'll go back and watch. Gonna win any anytime.
00:28:45 Andrew
Nice, nice.
00:28:45 Brandon
Yeah. Yeah. Although I I do have to say it falls apart around episode 42.
00:28:51 Andrew
I just imagine these people like fighting tiny fluffy like.
00:28:55 Andrew
7 LB dogs running around.
00:28:57 Brandon
The power rings, yeah.
00:29:00 Brandon
Alright, well there you have interpreter reboot for the week. If you have any ideas of what we should do for the next two of us. No before.
00:29:08 Andrew
Alright, let's take a well deserved break.
00:29:15 Brandon
And we just leave this part in. So always stay there.
00:29:17 Andrew
And now back to the snow, say, and now back to the show.
00:29:22 Brandon
Alright. And since I was in Japan and we're talking about anime, I found this BuzzFeed quiz called watch and see. I'll reveal your sailor being alter ego based on your dream visit to Japan.
00:29:34 Andrew
All right.
00:29:35 Brandon
Yeah.
00:29:37 Brandon
You remember Sailor Moon, right?
00:29:41 Andrew
I do. I do. I do? Yep.
00:29:43 Brandon
I think we talked about it once. All right, shall shall. We Are you ready? Let's go take a place to visit shiana Bamboo Grove. The go to Coogee Temple, which apparently has a bunch of those lucky cats.
00:29:49 Andrew
Yeah. Good.
00:30:01 Andrew
All and all that was very.
00:30:05 Brandon
The Nagoya Castle and the Tempos and Ferris wheel.
00:30:10 Andrew
Ooh, I am boy, the bamboo Grove looks real peaceful. I'd go there.
00:30:17 Brandon
Cool, cool. I was actually thinking about picking that one as well. I didn't get to see any castles while I was there, so I'm going to go with the go to Coogee Temple.
00:30:28 Andrew
Nice.
00:30:30 Andrew
Ohh dear. Take a place to visit.
00:30:35 Andrew
Are you going to visit the?
00:30:37 Andrew
This is the. This is what we're here for. Ship chidorigafuchi mouse.
00:30:38 Brandon
Do you do you want to both?
00:30:43 Andrew
Both.
00:30:46 Andrew
Hayyan Shrine, OSU Kannon our Universal Studios Universal Studios Japan Universal Studios Japan.
00:30:49 Andrew
Right.
00:30:59 Brandon
Are you picking Universal Studios Japan every week? So chidorigafuchi mode, Chidori, I think is either lightning, some sort of bird.
00:31:02 Andrew
No, no, I'm not choosing yet.
00:31:13 Andrew
You say white meat.
00:31:16 Andrew
What?
00:31:16 Andrew
Just a white meat. It means white meat.
00:31:18 Brandon
Now some sort of lightning or burst.
00:31:20 Andrew
Ohh is it white meat? A bird? Best meat?
00:31:24 Brandon
It might. It might be the sound of a bird. I'm just gonna. No.
00:31:26 Andrew
Very remote. It looks like that's where.
00:31:29 Andrew
Like mosquitoes would breed.
00:31:30 Brandon
I think I I think I'm going to pick Universal Studios Japan because I want to do the.
00:31:35 Brandon
Super Mario world.
00:31:39 Andrew
All I can do is look at them and.
00:31:43 Brandon
Discern from what you see.
00:31:46 Andrew
Yeah, I'd go to the shrine because I definitely need.
00:31:48 Andrew
Jesus in my life.
00:31:49 Brandon
I don't think you could find Jesus in the Japanese. Pick a place to visit Atsuta Jingu Shrine, which looks like a nice little nature shrine.
00:32:03 Andrew
It's it's a. It's a grass Hut.
00:32:05 Brandon
Yes, the Inno Kashira Park, which has a bunch of people on swan boats and row boats.
00:32:13 Brandon
Uh, the mashiki markets, which is a cool night market to go to or the Umeda sky building, which is 2 tall towers with all tall in the middle of it.
00:32:24 Andrew
Nishiki market looks like a place to get an exotic respiratory disease.
00:32:28 Andrew
So I'm not going there.
00:32:32 Andrew
Yeah, I want to go to.
00:32:34 Andrew
The Humada sky building that looks so cool.
00:32:37 Brandon
I will go to the chicky market cause I didn't get to do night markets on this trip.
00:32:43 Andrew
This looks pretty easy. OK, pick a place to visit via Abeno Harukas, the Ginza, Legoland Japan or the.
00:32:53 Andrew
To get Sukyo bridge.
00:32:56 Brandon
Pretty good. I'm doing pretty good.
00:32:58 Brandon
OK, OK.
00:32:59 Brandon
I.
00:33:01 Brandon
I like the view from abano. How? Because of. Yeah, yeah, I'll do that.
00:33:08 Andrew
Como City, say Legoland in Japanese.
00:33:12 Brandon
Legal. Ohh, it's that LR thing? Ruby Rago Lego brand.
00:33:19 Andrew
I want to say Leyland because when I get to the capital I can say try capital. I can say do we?
00:33:25 Andrew
Do we storm it? Yeah. Yes, indeed. All right.
00:33:27 Brandon
Which you've done before.
00:33:30 Brandon
Fantastic.
00:33:31 Brandon
Pick a place to visit Chinatown, Yokohama, Koromon market, the Neudeck Kyoto Tower, or Tokyo Disneyland.
00:33:43 Andrew
They have a Chinatown. That's funny.
00:33:47 Andrew
This is the oldest part of town.
00:33:52 Andrew
Boy killed looks smoggy. Is that why that global warming thing is named after it?
00:33:56 Brandon
Yes, maybe. I don't know.
00:34:00 Andrew
I'm gonna go with the Kumon market, because it looks less crowded and I bet.
00:34:05 Andrew
There's a lot of good stuff to purchase there.
00:34:09 Brandon
I've heard good things about the Chinatown in Yokohama, but I I wanted to go up one of those towers, so preferably Tokyo Tower, but I could do the Kyoto Tower. Tokyo Disneyland isn't cool. I hear Tokyo is Tokyo sea.
00:34:28 Brandon
Disneyland C is the better one to do.
00:34:29 Andrew
Hmm.
00:34:33
Good to know.
00:34:33 Andrew
Yeah. Pick a place to visit. Is it dotonbori Raju, Nijo Castle or Yokohama Red brick warehouse?
00:34:45 Brandon
Oh I.
00:34:50 Brandon
I mean, it does look like there's a taxi in canal and downtown body that looks interesting, but I I think I wanna go to Harajuku because I went to Akihabara when I was there.
00:35:03 Andrew
UMUM.
00:35:05 Andrew
Alright, yeah.
00:35:07 Andrew
The.
00:35:09 Andrew
Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse looks interesting. I might go see that.
00:35:12 Andrew
Cool.
00:35:14 Brandon
A big place to visit Asakusa which looks like it's a castle or a shrine, or both. Kiyomizudera, which also looks like a.
00:35:27 Brandon
Castle or temple, or both? The Osaka Aquarium in Cairo, Khan or Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan or the Sun Kin garden.
00:35:40 Andrew
I'm I'm in a peaceful mood. The sunken garden for me.
00:35:42 Andrew
Into.
00:35:45 Brandon
Are they saying sunken gardens? Is that OK?
00:35:47 Andrew
Yes.
00:35:51 Brandon
Q Mizu Daro looks like the tower that, like, overlooks Mountain Fuji. So. But I don't see Mountain Fuji in that picture. But I'm gonna go with it.
00:36:04 Andrew
OK, we're going to really change it up here. Pick a place.
00:36:07 Andrew
To visit the.
00:36:10 Andrew
Arashiyama monkey park.
00:36:13 Andrew
The Imperial Palace, Osaka Castle, or Yamashita Park.
00:36:18 Brandon
So my traveling companion went and saw the Snow monkeys while I was at at Star Wars Celebration. So.
00:36:28 Andrew
Did they RIP their face off?
00:36:31 Brandon
No, thankfully, but apparently they if you go at the right time of year, you could see the monkeys bathing in the Hot Springs.
00:36:39 Andrew
And then no, rip your face off.
00:36:42
Yeah.
00:36:45 Brandon
But I do.
00:36:45 Brandon
Also want to see Osaka Castle. So did I I I technically I think I saw the Imperial palace from from the road so.
00:37:03 Brandon
I'll see. I'll go to Osaka Castle.
00:37:06 Andrew
Because it's giving me like Hyrule Castle vibes and going Imperial Palace. And actually that's probably what it was inspired by.
00:37:10 Andrew
Cool.
00:37:13 Brandon
That makes sense, yeah.
00:37:16 Brandon
All right.
00:37:18 Brandon
And you wanna go first? You want me to go first?
00:37:19 Andrew
I'll go first. I'm sailor mercury.
00:37:22 Brandon
Ohh wow.
00:37:23 Andrew
The future is something that you make yourself. You have to believe in it. You're quite humble. But when it comes to intelligence, you know that.
00:37:30 Andrew
You're smarter than.
00:37:33 Andrew
Hmm.
00:37:35 Brandon
I'm Sailor Moon. I stand for love and also stand for justice in the name of the moon, I will punish you. You're extremely extroverted and passionate. I can see one of those two things. And you always look on the bright side of things.
00:37:54 Brandon
OK. That was that was that was our quiz. And if you want to take the quiz along with us, check out the link in the description.
00:38:02 Andrew
Reconsider your life, that's.
00:38:04 Andrew
That's what I would suggest.
00:38:05 Brandon
This is not a great one, yeah.
00:38:11 Brandon
But you know everyone that has their I don't understand how it pertains to the places that we picked, but here I guess, yeah.
00:38:21 Brandon
Any final thoughts for our Gundam Japan Sailor Moon episode?
00:38:26 Andrew
Ohh boy Nope.
00:38:28 Brandon
Did he cross 30 minutes?
00:38:35 Brandon
Well, that's at least we can addition and naming 90s and you can find the upsides out every Monday until.
00:38:42 Brandon
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00:39:02 Brandon
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00:39:14 Brandon
Next time.
00:39:36 Brandon
The name of the moon. I will punish you.