Maxy, Sami, and Alex are here with a special, less intimidatingly large episode of Radio Gundam, as we titillate the senses and trawl the depths of Mobile Suit Gundam to bring you the first of two Cucuruz Doan spotlights, exploring the filthy secret of the original Mobile Suit Gundam, the ‘lost’ episode 15! Except in the countries where it isn’t lost. It’s just a bad episode over there. But it’s lost for us. And so it gets its own episode.
I think we even forget to do a Harowatch.
Join us in two weeks for the SECOND Cucuruz Doan spotlight, looking at the 2022 film Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island. It’s definitely not the case that the recording session ran too long, and Maxy didn’t have time to edit the whole thing because of an impending baby. Not at all.
Show Notes:
- Follow Radio Gundam on tumblr (I swear we’ll start using it eventually) and twitter!
- Main show art by the fantabulous Raiven Tattoos
- Episode art by our very own Alex
- Follow the show via Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts, or use our RSS Feed with the podcatcher of your choice. It’s also available on pocket casts!
- Find Sami and Alex over at Roll History, a low DC dive into Dungeons & Dragons through the ages. Also follow their tumblr and twitter!
- Follow Maxy and Alex‘s accounts on Letterboxd, and compare our Bond film opinions.
- Resources used:
- The Men Who Created Gundam, by Hideki Ohwada, Hajime Yatate, and Yoshiyuki Tomino (published by Denpa Books)
- Animage magazine, March 1980, as archived by CombattlerRickV
- Ultimate Mark, Production History: Mobile Suit Gundam
- Cries in Newtype’s transcription of NHK’s Gundam documentary Making Gundam: The Inside Story
- The documentary itself is available places, but NHK tends to take it down, and their own official link has expired, so just search that title, baybee.
- Forbes’ interview with Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
- ‘Yoshiyuki Tomino Doesn’t Want You To Read This Article‘ by Lauren Orsini for Anime News Network
- An archive of the Q&A wherein Tomino said that he can’t talk about Cucuruz Doan’s removal from western release until a staff member is dead.
- Yutaka Izubuchi talking about Tomino and Yasuhiko’s falling out/fight at the Crusher Joe premiere.
- Whatever mysterious means allowed us to watch this episode.
- Also mentioned in this episode:
- Craig Charles, beloved Liverpudlian
- James Rolfe, beloved Angry Video Game Nerd, presumably from the internet
- Maxy finally built the legs on MGSD Freedom Gundam
- Gee Bill! How Come Your Mom Lets You Eat Two Wieners?
- The demon cat from Adventure Time with approximate knowledge of many things
- Finbarr Saunders, Viz’s youthful idiot obsessed with double entendres. Fnarr fnarr, indeed!
- Foodfight!, the ugliest CG animation of all time
- I’m not linking the shitty monkey cartoon
- The first murder, biblically. Just like Cucuruz Doan, it involves a rock.
- Peter Gabriel, Digging in the Dirt
- What’s YOUR newtype smell? Tell us!
- One for sorrow, the often-varying magpie rhyme
- Related imagery:
The Bee Hive 
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