Nostalgium Arcanum
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Mobile Suit Gundam
November 9th, 2026 | 1 hr 32 mins
1970s, 1980s, 70s, 80s, War, animation, anime, cartoon, cartoons, japan, japanese, mech, mechs, sci-fi, scifi, tomino, yoshiyuki tomino
On the surface, Mobile Suit Gundam looks like any anime of its late 70s, early 80s, vintage. Giant mech robots fight each other in space as lasers go "pew pew pew!" But Yoshiyuki Tomino's political soap opera plumbs thematic depths and gray morality that belies its undeniably cool and toyetic sci-fi trappings. We're joined by podcaster Derek Van Dyke (Pixel Spectrum, Castle Bravo) to blast off to this cartoon that married the adventure of Star Wars to the horrors of real war.