We join up with Captain Iria Solari's Red Wolf Squadron as they drop into the One Year War's Eastern European theater in Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance! Despite being on Netflix, Solari's team has a very unchill time as they encounter the nightmarish Gundam EX and have to resort to Zaku Wacky Types patched together in a Zeon junkyard. In this series…

Gundam Trivia @anime expo chibi 2024 Recorded November 10, 2024; Ontario Convention Center Ballroom A; 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM Attention Gundam fans! Come test your Gundam knowledge with the Colony Drop Podcast! Whether you’re a Newtype fighting for spacenoid independence, a Coordinator seeking Freedom from annihilation, or a new fan that fell in love wi…

In October 2024, Anime Expo Cinema Nights brought the Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) compilation films to theaters across the United States and we were there for every single one! Join us as we journey alongside the Soldiers of Sorrow on the White Base as they fly fearlessly toward the Encounters in Space they are destined for! We discuss the massive cr…

Fresh off Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom, we take a deep dive into the (limited) lore around the Cosmic Era's genetically enhanced humans known as Coordinators. We run through Coordinator history from George Glenn's reveal all the way to his brain in a jar. Plus, Isaac pitches a devious new plot for Blue Cosmos - COORVID-19 - and we discover the C…

It's September 0079, and Degwin Zabi has ordered you to destroy the RX-78-2 Gundam at all costs! How do you do it?! In this episode, we discuss methods we would have employed to destroy the White Devil. All options are on the table, including nukes, water, and even pretty women. Along the way we explore Trowa's connection to Batman, the Sleggar but…

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom has finally arrived on Netflix! At long last, we can correct the tragedy that was our theater experience with a proper review! Made with love for Cosmic Era fans, the film is beautiful but feels a bit familiar to its predecessors. Lakoose returns with GelGOOGs and smorgasbords; Evidence 01 becomes a replica; an Archa…

We conclude our discussion of The Plot to Assassinate Gihren with one goal in mind: find the answer to the mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma – who is Reginleif? Plus, ads are coming soon to a space colony near you; Degwin proves to be a visionary; Command HQ double taps; the Galbaldy appears but the White Rose answers; Lieutenant Stressf…

Bandai Namco called and they need record breaking profits and they need them yesterday! Luckily, Sunset Productions has arrived with a solution: license the Mobile Suit Gundam brand into as many punny products as humanly possible. No industry shall be left unexploited and no demographic shall be left unsatisfied. Cucko clocks? We’ve got those. Cash…

Gundam Trivia @ Anime Expo 2024 Recorded July 6, 2024; LA Convention Center Panel Room 404AB; 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM Calling all Gundam fans! Come test your Gundam knowledge with the Colony Drop Podcast! Whether you’re a grizzled veteran of the One Year War or a new fan that fell in love with The Witch From Mercury, we’ll have trivia for all levels. Plu…

The One Year War is almost at its close in December 0079, but something is amiss in the Principality of Zeon... We follow Leopold Fieseler's investigation of the shadowy organization known as Valkyrie which has one goal - to kill Gihren Zabi! If you enjoy Gundam politics and One Year War lore, The Plot to Assassinate Gihren is a veritable multicour…

We discuss our lists of five battles, characters, mobile suits, scenarios, or situations we want to see more of in future Gundam projects. Isaac digs deep for more faction lore, including the nukes of Blue Cosmos, the corporate militaries in the Ad Stella timeline, and even all seven space wars! Meanwhile, Brian asks for clarity on the rarely refer…

Pull up a chair to hear the tale of how on May 8, 2024, we became two of the most unlucky Gundam fans in the United States trying to watch the new film Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom. In better news, we will be running Gundam trivia at Anime Expo 2024! Plus, we have a new mascot and need you to help us name her! Double plus, Sunrise reanimated par…

You might have been thinking, "Wow, did Gundam 00 really kill Brian and Isaac?" The answer is no. We would never relent to our nemesis! On this episode, we focus all our newtype potential into finishing the fight against the Innovade menace in Gundam 00 Season 2! This show raises the stakes in the back half as Ribbons abuses his brain WiFi powers; …

Finally, the time has come to face our nemesis. We embark on an exhausting discussion/review of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 1! While Celestial Being tries to eradicate war, we find that Sunrise did not learn from Gundam Wing's lessons on boredom; Alejandro is The Man with the Golden Gun; OO beats SEED in volume but not in the physics department; a…

We board the Thoroughbred, a covert Pegasus-class ship, armed with Gundam Units 4 & 5 and head toward Granada to fend off Zeon during the final stage of the One Year War! While Gundam pilots Ford Romfellow and Luce Cassell work on their teamwork, Isaac declares there are just too many damn Gundams! #OnlyOneGundam! Zeon counters with the skeptical G…

If Gundam Evolution taught us anything, it's that Sunrise ripped off the wrong game. But here at Sunset, we are smarter than that. We know exactly which game Sunrise should rip off next. Join us as we lay the foundation for what would easily be one of the most fun Gundam games of all time: Gundam Smash Bros.! We discuss potential characters, stages…

We tour the ruins of Side 4 in Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky and Bandit Flower where the Federation's Moore Brotherhood goes head-to-head with Zeon's Living Dead Division for control of the Thunderbolt Sector during the One Year War. Or as we like to think of it - that time when a bunch of Federation volunteers led by some rich kids …

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, listeners! On this episode, Brian handcuffs Isaac to Santa’s sleigh and we fly through our rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas! Our Twelve Days of Gundam-mas features spinning HLVs, Murrue’s WMDs, GG gas, colony drops (of course), and much more! Even Afranche Char gets a mention! PLUS: We create New Year’s …

We head back to the front lines of the One Year War to read the 2002 manga series Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles! We join up with Matt Healy’s Special Forces Experimental Unit as they trade blows with Ken Bederstadt’s Zeon Foreign Legion across the Earth. Despite the Tokyopop version missing the beginning, middle, and end, this manga surpr…

The time has come to revisit G-Saviour - the first Gundam live action film from way back in 1999! If you don't CONSENT to this experience, now is your chance to back out! Join us as our hero Mark Curran serves up a sassy one-liner almost as often as his old pal Jack tries to murder someone; General Garneaux gets hot and heavy after green champagne;…

You requested it - no - you demanded it! We finally sortie in Gundam Battle Operation 2! Will this be the one Gundam game to rule them all? As we fight our way through the tutorial gauntlet, the absurd matchmaking times, and the ancient UI just to play the game, we find our preferred MS on unusual sides - Isaac in the Guncannon and Brian in the Gou…

It's time to empty our mailbag once more in this double-sized episode! Isaac reveals that Banagher makes him second guess Zeonism. What is worse - short series with terrible endings or long series that are terrible all the way through? Should Iron Mask be a newtype cult leader? Who cleans the toilets under Durandal's Destiny plan? Is Isaac wearing …

We finally end the misery by flying through the rest of Mobile Suit Victory Gundam! The second half takes a dip before it tries to soar at the end as Shakti gets passed around like a football to move the plot along, Junko leaves Brian way too early, Uso bites Lupe's boob, Tassilo gets handsy with Fualla's bells, everybody in Zanscare backstabs each…

On this episode, we catch up on the latest Gundam news from the past few months: Isaac thinks the new Requiem of Vengeance might involve the White Devil himself; the Gundam SEED movie lets us know exactly what it's about - FREEDOM (but not Justice); Bandai-Namco give their interpretation of Suletta and Miorine's "marriage." Plus, Evolution evolves …

We head back to the frontlines of the One Year War to review the 2022 film Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island (or Amuro’s Weekend Getaway, as Isaac calls it). The film is a cinematic side story in which Gopp hires women, M’Quve should’ve lead with the napalm, Doan teaches us how to milk a goat, Bright dual wields bridge phones, and the Jabur…

We conclude our review of Suletta and Miorine's journey in The Witch from Mercury! While we were rooting hard for the show, we agree the ending didn't stick the landing (missed the airport entirely, actually) as Delling sleeps through the back half, Elan Prime's pen is mightier than a space laser, Prospera is for some reason rewarded with a Quiet l…

We dive into the first half of the newest (and freshest!) Gundam series: The Witch from Mercury! Join us as we discuss how Lady Prospera is an enigma wrapped in a Daughtress mask, phlebotinium has a new flavor and it's called Permet, Suletta's age just doesn't add up, convertible bonds are a trap, and bigger guns = bigger fun. Plus, in a shocking d…

Gundam is a franchise that spans almost all forms of media: anime, manga, models, music, novels, video games, and much more. So have you ever wanted a subscription service that unlocks... all of it? Well at Sunset Productions, we have and on this episode we are designing our own Gundam omni-media subscription service! From anime we've never seen to…

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm so we take a look at what it is and how it might impact the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise. Can ChatGPT answer hard-hitting questions about Gundam? What happens when you ask ChatGPT to create a Gundam series? Join us as ChatGPT generates Mobile Suit Gundam Eclipse, Mobile Suit Gundam: Aces of the Cosmos, and Mobil…

Sunset Productions welcomes the millions... and MILLIONS... of Gundam fans to ringside as the next evolution of mobile suit entertainment takes shape before your very eyes - G-Wrestler! Your hosts, GM Ross and FAZZ, take you through the action as we pitch Gundam Wrestling from training camp all the way to Wrestlemania, in a world where the Char clo…

In our longest episode ever (because this show is so special) we tackle the first half of 1993’s Mobile Suit Victory Gundam. We discuss Tomino’s hatred of the show, rumors about his depression, how the tradition of biking was likely revived behind the scenes, Cronicle’s Wal-Mart mask, and Maria’s failed matriarchy led by a man. Plus, we rename all …

This is the episode you've been waiting for! Sunset Productions has a sit-down, tell-all interview with the creator of Gundam himself, Yoshiyuki Tomino! Tomino-san answers all of our most burning questions about Gundam, including the live-action film, space exploration, Haro, and more! Happy AFD, listeners! Haro at HLJ Haro at USA Gundam Store More…

After being unsatisfied with Gundam Evolution, we design our dream Gundam video game: GUNDAMFIELD! Sunset Productions spares no expenses and has no budgets! Plus, Brian's kids do an Endless Waltz of sickness and health, a WWE tangent spurs a preview of Gundam Wrestling, we ponder what the Universal Century's currency is called, and Isaac blows our …

Isaac bought himself a gaming PC for Christmas, so we take the recent Gundam hero shooter video game known as Gundam Evolution for a spin. We discuss our likes, dislikes, ways we think the game can be improved, and what units we would like to see added to the roster. Our biggest takeaway - always PTFO!…

Isaac woke up one morning and decided he'd had enough of antagonists embracing space fascism in Gundam. "There are just too many! They must be stopped!" he said. So we went to work solving Gundam's problem of space fascism overabundance by presenting some alternatives, including communists, cults (of various kinds), engineers, machines, migrators, …

In our first ace pilot spotlight episode, we examine the backgrounds of two of our favorite pilots from the OYW era - Anavel Gato aka The Nightmare of Solomon and Cima Garahau aka The Mayfly of Space! Gato is so popular, his exploits at Solomon got adapted three different times, but Isaac still isn't satisfied! Gato's beam rifle was so big that Sun…

What better way to celebrate Christmas than discussing one of the most heart-wrenching Gundam stories of all time? Pull up a chair to our Christmas Eve campfire and join us for our review of 1989’s masterpiece, Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket! The Alex was pretty tough, but was Kris’ best weapon a Louisville Slugger? Is the Alex’s Chobha…

On this episode, we examine Gundam's tropes in two ways. First, we list our top five tropes of which we've had enough! Then, Isaac plays the lightning round as Brian goes down TV Tropes' Gundam list to identify which tropes are problems and which are just fine the way they are. How many Gundamjacks is too many? What shade of gray is space fascism? …

Join us for the first annual Mobile Armor Awards! On tonight's episode, we hand out the most coveted award in the Gundam metaverse - The Golden Explosion - to mobile armors in the Universal Century who've demonstrated excellence (or inferiority) in the following prestigious categories: Least Memorable Best Performance Most Craptacular Most Intimida…

We conclude our Destiny review and as expected, not even SEED mode can save this plane from crashing. The back half is full of twists that don't make sense and super weapons that fire every few episodes for good measure. Lil' Djibril is more trigger happy than ever, Shin kills Captain McSacrifice, somehow Mwu returns, the writers assassinate Lunama…

Trick or treat! Sunset Productions is back and giving out treats in the form of Gundam Halloween special ideas! Brian makes kids dress up and relive the One Year War in order to claim their candy - oh the horror! Isaac does his best Crypt Keeper impression to spin a terrifying yet punny anthology known as the Nightmares of Solomon! Brian finishes t…

We activate SEED mode once more and head back to the Cosmic Era to discuss the series everyone loves to hate - SEED Destiny! The series starts out strong with ruins of Junius 7 raining down on the Earth and Blue Cosmos exercising their quick nuclear trigger finger. However, we then nosedive into a rapid tailspin as Cagalli says yes to the dress, Je…

We run through our thoughts on The Witch From Mercury Prologue! Are we hyped? Definitely! Does Isaac have a lot of questions? Absolutely! We consider exactly what layer kills your child, the curious case of Cardo's "death," the possibility of the L'Frith having A.I. and/or using nanotech, and whether the Development Council's evil blue room with th…

Our mailbag is overflowing once again, so we dive in to your comments on this double-sized episode! We run down your suggestions for the Live Action Film opening and Top Female Pilots (including a few glaring omissions...), consider Gundam Wing's place in the universe, saddle up for a showdown with a Gundam pilot version of Blondie who travels a lo…

We countdown our top 5 favorite mobile suit weapons! From beam rifles to beam sabers, from heat hawks to bazookas, we're scouring all timelines for those weapons of war near and dear to our hearts. In this episode, Isaac forgets how to count and brings a list of 8, Mark Gatha shouts attacks during surgery, we decide that Bandai should do a collabor…

Solomon, we have returned! In this double-sized episode, we conclude our review of Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory! This episode is all about the show's multitude of conspiracies and their players - Earl Grey, Coliny and his cat, Jamitov, Bask Om and his goggles, O'Sullivan, Cima - basically everybody! Plus, we ask the hard questions like, was Cima re…

To commemorate episode 0083, we review Isaac's favorite series - Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory! In this double-sized episode, we call for listener renditions of The Winner's saxophone, admire all of the Delaz Fleet's sharp dressers (here's looking at you, Cima), wonder how Lt. Burning aka Lt. Brown Leather Wallet got his tan, and agree t…

Information about The Witch from Mercury has finally been revealed! Cue wild and reckless speculation! In a world full of space corporations, meet protagonist Suletta Mercury (she's from Mercury). Isaac loves a good space corporation tale. Will there be Harry Potter/ Game of Thrones like houses? Will we get a tournament arc? Is Guel angry because h…

Our suicide mission aboard the Icarus comes to an end as Tobia and the rest of the Steel 7 arrive at Jupiter to destroy the colony laser. Will Tobia's X-1 Full Cloth be enough to handle the Callistos and their Dictii? Amidst the fierce battle, we ponder if Giri's Vigna Ghina II was formerly owned by Dorel Ronah, ask why Giri hates the Callistos so …

We conclude our review of the original Mobile Suit Gundam TV series with a triple-sized episode! In the back-half, Isaac experiences a roller coaster of emotions as the Doms arrive (hooray!) but then get completely spanked (;_;), while Brian complains about the G-Fighter and modern takes on newtypes controlling time. Plus, Sleggar slaps Mirai into …