This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 18 - Mirai Captured (とらわれたミライ), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on more Gundam names: Hathaway Noa, Namicar Cornell, and Four Murasame.

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- Plausible origins of the name Hathaway.

- Source for Hathaway-like medieval predecessors for Hedwig.

- Wikipedia page and IMDB page for Noah Hathaway.

- Japanese release data for the film Neverending Story.

- Wikipedia page for "Boxey" character from original Battlestar Galactica TV series.

- Sean (Flying_Grizzly)'s research connecting Battlestar Galactica to First Gundam.

- Jisho.org entries for Namika names, namikaze, and 'namikaze ga tatsu'/波風が立つ (to make waves; to rock the boat).

- Wikipedia entry for Ezra Cornell.

- JPN Wiki page for Cornell University.

- Wikipedia and Wiktionary pages for "Murasame."

- Page for the most famous of the Murasame destroyers.

- Murasame in the Final Fantasy franchise.

- Wikipedia page on Nansou Satomi Hakkenden.

- Ongoing project to translate all of the Nansou Satomi Hakkenden novel.

- Wikipedia page for the Matsukaze Noh play.

- Pages for the Matsukaze Noh play's authors: Kanami and Zeami.

- Discussions about Matsukaze from a History of Noh blog and The-Noh.com.

- Tyler, Royall. “The No Play Matsukaze as a Transformation of Genji Monogatari.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 1994, pp. 377–422. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/133198.

- Two translations of Matsukaze, this one more readable in English and this one less so.

- Side-by-side English and Japanese text of Matsukaze Noh play (this is the one Nina reads from).

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