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Mechanista in G
by Scanline Media
Two Gundam fans randomly select a robot from Gundam every week, and then talk about its design mechanically, symbolically, and more.
Episodes
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Mechanista in G – Peche Montagne Respect Zone
As the rare person who feels pretty cool on Hathaway 2 (and politely: no, I'm not looking for you to tell me why I'm wrong, I feel how I feel), these days in UC the stuff I enjoy the most is the games. I'm not about GQuuuuuuX, I ain't out here reading Wearwolf. So it's stuff like Code Fairy (god,...
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Mechanista in G – LRX-066 Tera-S’ono
It's always funny to me when the Gundam Wiki goes out of its way to insist that something isn't canon. Like, sure. SD Gundam G Generation: Monoeye Gundams is not real. It didn't happen. But like... what did? You want me to believe that Unicorn happened and then just no one talked about the whole...
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Mechanista in G – NK-13J Denial Gundam
It can be difficult to make a mecha's design really stand out when it's almost purely an unarmed fighter. Certainly there are plenty of examples, especially in the world of super robots, but limiting yourself as the Gundam Build series does makes for a bit of a challenge. Broadly, the Denial…
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Mechanista in G – Newbatron
Everybody starts somewhere, and most beginnings are humble. And so there's nothing to be ashamed of with the furtive Newbatron, the starter mech from MechQuest. But you should maybe feel some sort of way about the state of your game's information resources. I want to know more and you are simply...
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Mechanista in G – ovw-cc Gomel
Dylan made a comment about how they know some creatures actually do "swim" through sand, but uh... is that true? I know there are some in video games, for example Monster Hunter, but I don't think I'm aware of any real world creatures that can do that. I would be curious to learn about them,...
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Mechanista in G – Shoutmon
It starts so promising. And hey, there are some winners near the end, too. But the middle is... well, a bit of a wasteland. It's probably because they tried to make so many combining toys. I don't know that ANYONE can make that look good. You can find a video version of this podcast for free on...
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Mechanista in G – M1 Astray (Part 2)
It's always nice when we get to talk about Seed designs and just be... fairly positive? Because of course, we are usually harsh, because of our thoughts on that show and a lot of its designs. But I have no beef with the Murasame, a design whose restraint the rest of Seed could learn a lot from....
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Mechanista in G – Armanox
We all know that magic and mecha aren't opposing concepts. They can totally play nice together. And mecha and girls? Can go great, for sure. Or very bad, we cannot endorse the behavior of Garalia from Dunbine. But what about both? Magical girls and mecha? Well, I haven't seen Granbelm yet. But…
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Mechanista in G – RX-79[G]Ez-SR Gundam Family
I don't like the Ez-8. I don't like the Ground Gundam. I don't like the GM Ground Type. I don't like the Ez-SRs. But by the time we get to the FOXHOUND, by god, they've made it something I can enjoy. I am not even that much of an 08th MS Team hater! I don't like what that show's come to represent...
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Mechanista in G – Type17 Raiden
Our Gasaraki adventure continues! And concludes, I suspect. This show seems hella weird, especially in light of today's episode. I think I'm not in any rush to watch it. But these designs are fun to discuss, at least! You can find a video version of this podcast for free on Scanline Media’s...
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Mechanista in G – MFX-02 Ishtar Mk II
The thing is, both Tactical Armor and Metal Fake are great names. Tactical Armor is a really crisp genericism: you could use it in the rulebook for a mecha TTRPG and it would fit in very well as evocative shorthand for the general concept of mecha without being too bland. But then Metal Fake...
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Mechanista in G – RX-93-ν2V Hi-ν Gundam Vrabe
Before he was the Meijin... he was just a dude. This week is an Obscure Tatsuya Yuuki Gunpla Special! That title's too long. Vrabe Battle Warriors? Amazing Pod Amazing? Pod Scramble Gundam? Whatever we call it, please enjoy the show. You can find a video version of this podcast for free on…
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Mechanista in G – Gundam Proceed Grab Bag
It's only because of Chris we even saw any of these... perhaps it's a bit greedy to want more details. But we do all the same. This collection of weirdos from a forgotten tabletop game run the gamut from cool as hell to interesting but odd to... why.... And thank god we have an excellent guest to...
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Mechanista in G – Wolf 359 Memorial
In a desperate attempt to both make sense of, and make a meal of, a request, we head down a peculiar rabbit hole. What happens when model makers are just asked to make… debris? Join us for an exploration of the Star Trek TNG episode "The Best of Both Worlds," and more specifcially, the wrecks in...
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Mechanista in G – amazon.co.jp A-Z Gundam
I wonder if this bizarre, forced bit of advertising worked on anyone. I wonder if anyone saw this gunpla and went "wow, that's true, I DO love Amazon." I guess it's more likely back then than it is now, because like all big American tech companies Amazon is really detested these days. Let this...
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Mechanista in G – AVP-03 Gundam Lfrith Anavata
So there's the Lfrith, and then there's the LFRITH. Y'know? I've been swayed by the argument that the XGF-01 and the XGF-02 represent entirely different trees of design- two houses, alike in dignity, or somesuch. So if you want the Aerial, and its predecessor the XGF-02 Lfrith? That's a different...
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Mechanista in G – HT-01B Magella Attack
The age of the gunner is over, the age of the gunner has just begun. By listener request, Dylan and I dive into one of the most OG of machines in Gundam- the original Zeon tank, the Magella Attack. It... never achieves anything of note, besides perhaps being turned into a gun for a Zaku. But…
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Mechanista in G – Neodu
Sometimes it's just one robot! That's ok. We all deserve a break sometimes. …Of course, we didn't take one, we just recorded a second ep immediately after this one, and I'll get that edited in the next day or two. But in theory we're allowed breaks! The Neodu is cool and I hope the next Build…
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Mechanista in G – Galient
I assume it's a portmanteau of "gallant" and "valiant?" Obviously neither of those have an E in them, but it's a language thing. In Japanese an E sound makes more sense there. All I have is my theories, because I've never seen this show, and I'm on the pod with two people who have a lot of…
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Mechanista in G – World Heroes (Part 9)
This is our ninth SD Gundam episode, and I've already made all the jokes or cute wordplay. And some of y'all are like "oh were those supposed to be clever, before?" so I'm REALLY on thin ice. What I'll say then is that there's a real shortage of documentation of our final unit in this ep, and I…
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Mechanista in G – B-ATH-XX Ecrevisse “Danger Melon”
Don't get a big head, folks. It just makes for a bigger target. Unless it's sufficiently up-armored, in which case maybe it's fine? Then again, I believe the "Danger Melon" that we're discussing today ended up in a fight against Chirico Cuvie, and such fights kinda only go the one way. But don't...
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Mechanista in G – HRL Grab Bag
Gundam 00's Human Reform League are not about flashy designs. They're very utilitarian. And y'know? Of the three factions, they're the only ones who get CLOSE to achieving something against Celestial Being on their own. Perhaps that practicality really makes a difference. You can find a video...
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Mechanista in G – Star-vaders (Part 1)
The (Part 1) up there is a combination of my inherent anxiety-driven pedantry and a bit of a goof. I... don't think we'll ever do more Star-vaders. We probably shouldn't have done them in the first place. I goofed. But you never know, and so I feel the need to leave room. But in so doing, it's…
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Mechanista in G – GNW-002 Gundam Throne Zwei
As far as angels go, this one appears to be willing to lend its wings to the devil. ...Cuz it's like the "throne" class of angels? Yeah idk I was hoping it would sound cool, but I think it's a bit too tryhard. But doesn't that just mean Michael Trinity would appreciate it? That boy was one hell…
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Mechanista in G – Cleanup 4/29/26
In fairness, the first half of the episode IS cleanup. It's only after the initial set that I just start making Dylan look at random mobile suits we haven't covered. I suppose in theory I'm spoiling an eventual Gundam Eight episode, but c'mon. It's more fun this way. You can find a video version…
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Mechanista in G – RGE-G1100 Adele
Surpass the AGE. ...Ok, maybe the Adele isn't literally a better performing machine than the AGE-1. But it MIGHT be. And it's definitely a better LOOKING design. Yeah I made some enemies with that statement but not that many. There aren't that many AGE shooters out there period. It's ok. You can...
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Mechanista in G – GAT-X370 Raider Gundam
Gundam SEED is really just a tide of gundams. Like, whatever you think about the show's quality, you can't deny that it just introduces so, so many new gundams, significantly more than previous shows. And they can't all be winners, especially when you have legendary designer Kunio Okawara chained...
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Mechanista in G – Dougram
Our blessed Deloyer, their cursed Side 6. Our glorious corrupt governor, their wicked Federation president. Our great X-Nebula, their primitive Minovsky particles. Our heroic Dougram, their brutish Gundam. You can find a video version of this podcast for free on Scanline Media’s Patreon! If you...
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Mechanista in G – World Heroes (Part 8)
Once again, we head into the SD mines! We see the range of modern SD- acceptable but unimaginative, wild and ostentatious, and sick as all get out. The Three Kingdoms cannot contain all this adaptative swag, not by half. Frickin' BLACKBEARD is here, for crying out loud. You can find a video…
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Mechanista in G – NCC-74656 USS Voyager
As similar as Starfleet's designs are at first glance, not all of the Federation's ships are created equal. And I'm sorry, but we just don't care for the Intrepid-class starship, or its most iconic representative, the USS Voyager, all that much. Still, it's always fun to talk about the odd and...
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Mechanista in G – Cruise Chaser Blassty
With Dylan ready to make their personal pick, our show moves into uncharted territory: 1980s dungeon crawler RPGs! It's Squaresoft (now Square Enix)'s first RPG, it's a Mika Akitaka design, it's Cruise. Chaser. Blassy~! Come enjoy a design that's far more fleshed out than it needs to be given the...
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Mechanista in G – CAMS-04 Wuxia
If Dylan wants another week to think, Dylan gets another week to think. We will instead see what the dice have in store... and oh, it's a dead end! Well, that's fine. The Wuxia is cool, and we have other things to talk about besides. You can find a video version of this podcast for free on…
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Mechanista in G – Skeith, the Terror of Death
We have to spoil ourselves every now and then around here. Sure, one can argue that Avatar Skeith is a mecha. There's a way to make that case. But that's not why we're suddenly talking about .hack on this show. It's just because I want to, and my friend Dylan is kind enough to humor me. You can...
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Mechanista in G – ASW-G-56 Gundam Gremory
The armor? Great. Love the armor. The fingers, oh. Those are fantastic. And great colors all around. But, uh, what are you swingin there, bud? Are you swinging... a weapon that's been broken for a few hundred years? That wouldn't be that hard to fix, at least by giant robot standards. Hmm. Hmm. I...
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Mechanista in G – Dimensional Robo, Goyusha
Entrust your fate to the big, mechanical hands of the cards. Listener CrossZeta made a very efficient request, because we'll probably be rolling Cardfight Vanguard designs for years without rolling out (given that they're only a percentage of the requests anyway). Then again, maybe not- it's fun…
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Mechanista in G – ASW-G-01 Gundam Bael
It's been a while since we've had an episode about a single machine with no variants or upgrades. And one so deserving of them, too! I get that the appeal of the Bael is elegant simplicity. But the Bael exists! Let's have a Bael High Mobility, or a Bael Cannon, or a Bael Full Armor! I know that's...
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Mechanista in G – King Joe
It's not our first tokusatsu mecha, but it might be our most charming. King Joe (great name, by the way) is coming at us straight from Ultraman, a combining robot that proved an instant hit. I love the way having to have a real dude in a suit affects the design of toku robots. Personality is an...
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Mechanista in G – MSAM-033 Gundam G-Arcane
Maybe the red I see is not the same as the red you see. And maybe I first encountered the G-Arcane in Gundam Versus for the PS4 and haven't thought about its color scheme since then. Dylan's right about some things, wrong about some other things, but it's always a good idea to reexamine your...
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Mechanista in G – GUNBOY-Wilbur
Sometimes you do it for the boys. Sometimes you do it for the 'Gram. And sometimes? You do it For the Barrel. Today we discuss the designs of a Gundam AU that, I don't wanna tell tales outta school, but might possibly have been so badly written that its mechanical designer walked away in the…
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Mechanista in G – UMF-4A GOOhN
Alright, alright, get your jokes out of the way. This manta ray lookin' dude is one of SEED's design successes, so I won't have you teasing them too hard. Expect the usual SEED issues- line art errors, slightly nonsensical weapon details, an element here or there that would improve the whole…
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Mechanista in G – Exxtreme Battler, Victor
I didn't PLAN to make this the Victor Show. Sometimes these things just... happen. Hey, if we're gonna do card game designs, we should do like. Netrunner, and Yu-Gi-Oh!. And Magic I suppose, I'll be honest, I don't really care about Magic. I did in high school, and it's not like I've "grown out…
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Mechanista in G – AMX-109 Capule
Friend friend friend friend friend! Who would have guessed that this fun enough one-off design from ZZ would become one of the most beloved parts of Turn A? There's a lot to love about Turn A, of course- a really wonderful show that's horribly slept on. But maaaaaan. The Kapool. What a winner.…
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Mechanista in G – Dimensional Robot, Kaizard
It's fun to discover whole worlds you previously knew nothing of. The listener whose request we rolled this week made the request a few years ago at this point, and sent along some art of the cards they were interested in. And I was like, "oh, there are a decent number of these, huh?" Friends, I...
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Mechanista in G – WMS-GB5 G-Bouncer
I should dial back the Gundam AGE hate. Even its titular Gundam line has a few winners, and the AGE Gundams are the worst designs in the series. The other mobile suits, there are some clear winners! I'd count the G-Bouncer among their number. And it's not fair to hold the writing against them....
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Mechanista in G – UC Engage Grab Bag
It's time for Peche & Pals! The UC Engage art style is often a bit off-putting to us, but we're always here for tinkering with existing designs to make new ones. Riffing on designs is one of the great joys of being a mecha fan, if you ask me. But how wild to go is always a question you've gotta...
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Mechanista in G – NCC-1701 USS Enterprise (Part 3)
Shuttles, shuttles, shuttles. Oh, sure, we do some cleanup, and some Kelvinverse designs, but mostly this episode is dedicated to little boxes for like two to twenty people. It's a bit of a break to our format, because we usually don't give machines with the same design new entries just because...
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Mechanista in G – PKW-109 Stuka
C'mon. He's just a little mecha! Also it's his birthday, he's a little birthday mecha! The Stuka/Goblin fills a niche I didn't realize I needed: short, chunky mobile suit. What IF a Zaku only came up to the Gundam's chest? What IF you could barely see their legs from all that waist skirt?…
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Mechanista in G – NCC-1701 USS Enterprise (Part 2)
We're back with a little help from our friends! Guidance has been issued, and we know how to proceed. And Dylan's happy, because we're just talking about Star Trek stuff this episode instead of a bunch of boats! They've got no appreciation for the ocean, I swear. I'm always saying this. You can...
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Mechanista in G – NCC-1701 USS Enterprise (Part 1)
Space. The bar on your keyboard. This is an episode of the podcast Mechanista in G. Its continuing mission gets more and more unclear with each episode. And this goof has outlived its usefulness. Join us for part 1 of our discussion of the USS Enterprise. And the HMS Enterprise. And L'Enterprise....
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Mechanista in G – Anchor
Sometimes even Gundam Crossbone has good ideas. And they may not be good ideas leading up to them, or even following them. But for one shining moment, you get a cartridge-powered pile bunker leg driving a massive beam saber down, and everything is ok. ...Ok, that's unfair to the F89, that thing's...
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Two Gundam fans randomly select a robot from Gundam every week, and then talk about its design mechanically, symbolically, and more.
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