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Season 8, Episode 15: Spike Field (Patreon)

Published:
2023-07-15 03:04:52
Imported:
2023-09

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This week on MSB: with the main series out of the way it's time to turn our attention to some 0083 bonus materials about everyone's favorite war criminal: Mayfly of Space 1 and 2. These were intended as sweeteners to encourage home video sales and we're here to tell you that they are sweet indeed! Plus some third hand information, a special request for Mr. Bandai, Thom fails once again to do a 'short' research piece, and possibly the worst wrong gundam opinion yet.

Show Notes

History of the Medieval Science on Women's Bodies

  • Books:

    Monica H. Green, Making Women's Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology. Oxford UP, 2008.

    The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine, trans. by Monica H. Green. U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

    A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus' De Secretis Mulierum with Commentaries, trans. by Helen Rodnite Lemay. SUNY UP, 1992.
  • Image of the cover of one version of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus' 'Liber de Secretis Mulierum' or 'Secreta Mulierum':

Sex Education in Japan

  • Books:

    Noriko Hashimoto, Kaori Ushitora, Mari Morioka, Terunori Motegi, Kazue Tanaka, Mieko Tashiro, Emiko Inoue, Hisao Ikeya, Hisashi Sekiguchi, Yoshimi Marui & Fumika Sawamura (2017): School education and development of gender perspectives and sexuality in Japan, Sex Education, DOI: 10.1080/14681811.2017.1292459   

    Kuwahara Rika for Power News: Misplaced Modesty Hampers Sex Education in Japan's Schools, English trans. by Nippon.com. Nov. 15, 2019.

    Matsumoto S. Sex education and sexual behaviour of adolescents in Japan. Ann Acad Med Singap. 1995;24(5):696-699.

Helga/Nyotai no Shinpi/女体の神秘


The recap music is “80's Synth Rock (Guitar Improvisation)” by Zombie-Fish.

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Mark Simmons

I think you should definitely do a translation of the CD Cinema. The animated versions don't really stand on their own without that explanatory context - I think only the original audio drama explains what the heck Kossel is yelling about in that One Week Battle flashback. According to the audio drama, they're in the process of pumping poison gas into a colony, and Cima's loyal henchman Kossel has made the mistake of looking inside. He cries out "Commander Cima! Commander Cima! I can see them! People are pouring out of the buildings... like ants!" Cima calls back "Kossel, don't look! Don't look!" That seems like a pretty crucial moment that the animated versions kind of tiptoe around, perhaps on the assumption that the Japanese fans have already listened to it. Anyway, personally I feel like the extra scenes of Gato X Cima that they inserted into "Mayfly 2" are a bit unnecessary (those aren't in the original audio drama) but it's nice to see Delaz's Rick Dom again.

Bret M Anderson

In something that Thom probably already knows, but that fits with the discussion of Cima, the Encounters in Space game has a Cima scenario where she can survive. Her ending there, in the least surprising decisions in Gundam, has her decide that the Titans are basically the old boss again, at which point she and her crew ditch for parts unknown. So, yeah. No happy settled life in the cards there. As for the drama, though, it kind of reminds me of Inside Llewyn Davis's ending, using narrative framing to grant the events of the story a feeling of eternal recurrence. Cima doesn't get to die once and be done with it. Her life is now this web of betrayal and death with no exit, eternally rolling the same dice, eternally playing out the same bad hand.

Mark Simmons
>>112964175

And in conclusion, I think this was easily in my top ten favorite research segments! What a great almost-wrapup to your 0083 coverage.

Mark Simmons
>>112964671

Since you mentioned alternate endings, let me float another interpretation of "Mayfly 2" that popped into my head. In the opening scene, we see her Gelgoog (with a fancy digital camo pattern) getting exploded during the Battle of A Baoa Qu; a little later, she has a fateful encounter with Gato during the postwar Karama Point meetup, now flying an intact Gelgoog in the familiar mustard yellow colors. Is it possible that these are meant to be different possible paths for Cima, like different rolls of the dice? Is there a Cima multiverse with divergent outcomes? Or am I reading too much into the video?