Mech Ado About Nothing

It's the newest serious AU Gundam and also most likely the only one you've ever seen. We talk classism, IBO's unique setting, a ton of awesome mobile suits, and if Newtypes are finally a bad thing in this monster of an episode. 

 Our theme song is Street Dancing by Timecrawler 82. You can reach us at [email protected], our website is mechado.moe, and our Twitter account is @mechadopodcast.

Ian and Dan lose their minds over the spectacular conclusion to Ideon. We try to wrap our heads around the graphic violence, fanatical characters, and absolutely bonkers ending. 

 Our theme song is Street Dancing by Timecrawler 82. You can reach us at [email protected], our website is mechado.moe, and our Twitter account is @mechadopodcast.

It's the first of two Ideon movies this week, as Ian gets to introduce Dan to his favorite super robot. At first glance, this is a recognizable 80s robot anime, but under the surface this show is completely deranged and as a result it rules. We talk Koichi Sugiyama's questionable politics, Legally Distinct From Amuro Ray, and extradimensional power-based ultraviolence.

 Our theme song is Street Dancing by Timecrawler 82. You can reach us at [email protected], our website is mechado.moe, and our Twitter account is @mechadopodcast.

Ian gets mad about time travel this week as Buddy Complex comes to a spectacularly mediocre close. Buddy Complex misses the obvious plot beats in favor of even more obvious plot beats, and everyone forgets half the setting and plot. Mild spoilers for Kimi no Na wa inside.

 Our theme song is Street Dancing by Timecrawler 82. You can reach us at [email protected], our website is mechado.moe, and our Twitter account is @mechadopodcast.

It's Pacific Rim the anime this week, and we're mostly disappointed. We watch seven episodes of Buddy Complex and still aren't clear on if anything in particular happened. There are tons of cools mechs (VaLiAnCeRs) but it doesn't quite offset the overwhelming mediocrity.

 Our theme song is Street Dancing by Timecrawler 82. You can reach us at [email protected], our website is mechado.moe, and our Twitter account is @mechadopodcast.

Dan returns for us to watch a thoroughly underwhelming Macross movie! We have an episode-long flashback to Do You Remember Love, and then do our best to talk about the literally one thing this movie does differently. It literally could be worse.

 Our theme song is Street Dancing by Timecrawler 82. You can reach us at [email protected], our website is mechado.moe, and our Twitter account is @mechadopodcast.

Dylan from Project Esports and Class 1-A joins Ian to talk about the first half of Titanfall 2! Our first video game episode is spent reminiscing about Call of Duty, discussing the bare-bones plot and setting, and breaking down the campaign's surprisingly excellent level design.

 Our theme song is Street Dancing by Timecrawler 82. You can reach us at [email protected], our website is mechado.moe, and our Twitter account is @mechadopodcast.

Ian conscripts his girlfriend into watching the first episode of various mech anime this week! Anna gives her mecha-novice opinion of the first episodes of Gundam 0079. Evangelion, and SSSS.Gridman and it mostly just involves her telling us what does and does not slap. Explicit language warning.

 Our theme song is Street Dancing by Timecrawler 82. You can reach us at [email protected], our website is mechado.moe, and our Twitter account is @mechadopodcast.

We watch what is simultaneously the worst and most fun movie yet. Ribbons Almark makes his stunning return, fifty percent of this movie is fight scenes, and there is exactly one good gag. The characters and plot may be bad, but the mechs are at least passable so at least there's something going for this two hour trainwreck.

Our theme song is Street Dancing by Timecrawler 82. You can reach us at [email protected], our website is mechado.moe, and our Twitter account is @mechadopodcast.

Gundam 00 comes to an end with a massive bang. We try to assess where the second season falls apart, what the show does well, what it's missing, and whether any character in this show has the slightest idea what's going on. Plus, we get some pressing news from our greatest piece of fan mail yet!

 Our theme song is Street Dancing by Timecrawler 82. You can reach us at [email protected], our website is mechado.moe, and our Twitter account is @mechadopodcast.