*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 14: Horse Gundam (Real)

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It went from a plot that didn't move.

We got a monster of the week week there for months.

If people are watching it with us, I have no idea, but it's months for us.

And now suddenly it's like all gas, no breaks.

We have to shove all the plot to the final 10 episodes.

Yep.

Yep.

We watched episodes 38

through 42 today.

We're taking bigger chunks.

This is five episodes.

And the next episode of Lions Led by Robots will be the end of our season one because it'll be the end of G Gundam and we'll watch the final six episodes in case anybody is watching it with us at home.

Yep.

What did you think of these episodes?

Other than we've confirmed two things we've long were suspicious of.

That is, horses can be Gundam pilots.

Yep.

It's confirmed.

Master Asia's horse gets in a Gundam suit and pilots a Gundam, which brings up so many more questions.

Okay, in in this world, in the G-Gut, in the Neo-universe, whatever you want to call it, it has been established that Gundams, not mobile suits, because I know I've been told by multiple people that listen to Joe, shut the fuck up.

Those are two different things.

But Gundams only exists for the Gundam fight tournament, and every country only has one.

So who does the horse represent?

Also,

how does this abide by the match rules in that like Neo Hong Kong technically has two fighters?

Is the horse counted as a separate fighter?

It must.

Otherwise, like, why can't Rain just squeeze into the Gundam next to Domon?

Yeah, it's a plot oversight.

I enjoyed these episodes.

Imagine how terrible, how terrifying that must be for the horse.

Yeah.

Like, all right, clippity clop, get the fucking weird latex horse machine.

I'm having so much fun with the horse, the latex machine.

Master Asia went down a checklist of people's weird fucking kinks and turned it into a Gundam.

But my thing is that, like, it's very clear from the previous, and also should point out that depending on where you're watching it, the numbers of these episodes might be fucked up.

That is true.

That is very true.

And Summit has 50 episodes listed.

There's not 50 episodes of the show.

So I don't know how they did that.

It's, it's like, we, we talked about this a little little bit uh during our bonus episode about Akira.

This is like back in the day, like when you got anime on American TV, it was like random out of order.

Like episode numbers were fucked.

Nothing made sense.

And the original run of G Gundam definitely ran into that.

And most importantly, since nobody hosts the legal stream of the English dub of this show, nowhere.

Crunchyroll doesn't have it.

Hulu doesn't have it.

Fucking Netflix Netflix doesn't have it.

Amazon Prime doesn't have it.

Nobody is a home for this dub.

Fair enough, the dub is shit.

But

since nobody's actually legally hosts it, every single fucking pirate site gets it slightly different.

And like, because I'm watching a pirated version that has the English and Japanese sub and dub.

And it's like, I can't tell if the subtitles are fan done because they're so wrong.

Because I started watching the english version and it's like the subtitles are for what i assume is someone's interpretation of the japanese you know the thing is is it really it really could be that bad and also professionally done like if you go back to the 90s when this came out and this wasn't a big title you could see some really fucking bad hack jobs about dubs and subs localization i mean we've talked about four kids on this show before you know you could get something real, real bad coming out of it because the U.S.

wasn't seen as like a big market yet.

It was a market, sure.

So we got, I mean, I'm sure the subs in other languages are probably even worse, but they weren't trying very hard.

Most of these subs were probably done by like one guy in a basement in Boston or something for like $20.

It was Shocks' uncle.

That's actually how Shocks paid his way through law school who's doing anime subs.

We've also established something else in this string of episodes.

That is, not all Gundam horses have horses in them,

but some do, which is even more confusing.

Like, how does the Gundam horse with the actual horse in it feel about fighting the other horse Gundam?

Is this like a Michael Vick situation?

I mean, like, horse fighting is like horrific, and it's actually a thing that exists.

Is Master Asia, does Master Asia have clippity clop?

The horse is actually like Funsaki or something, but I've dubbed it Clippity Klop.

Like, does he have a trained fighting horse?

Joe, I'm going to answer this question for you very simply.

They thought it would be fucking sick if Master Asia's horse piloted a Gundam and thought no more about it.

That is 100% true.

I found the interview.

Yeah.

Imigawa effectively says, nobody thought that we'd put a horse in a Gundam.

Well, you showed us, sir,

fucking owned.

Can we put more animals in Gundams?

The point I was going to make is that it's been made very clear from all the previous episodes that the process of putting on the Gundam pilot suit is extremely uncomfortable.

So imagine the level of distress that horse is feeling.

Yeah, like uncomfortable, nigh on painful.

Like none of the guys yell or scream.

There's a lot of grunting, a lot of ass shots and domo.

But like rain is very clearly in pain in the weird anime horny way, I should point out.

And the horse is screaming when it gets put into the latex machine.

Whatever the fuck that is.

We never actually see if there's some kind of tube mechanism to get, like, is the latex machine thing inside the Gundam?

Do they have to go to...

None of these questions have been answered.

And I'd understand that I'm focusing a lot on the horse.

It's because I don't like them.

But because how many other weird things could you stick in there?

Any kind of animal.

I mean, you could just put a dog at the pilot of the shining Gundam, apparently.

Like, who gives a shit?

I think Bandai Namco are going to hear this and have a great idea.

I mean, Domon does have the brain of a dog.

Like, he's a fucking moron.

Yes, but he's an overly violent, emotional idiot, like a dog.

Like a bad dog, I should point out.

Domon is a human version of an XL bully.

But speaking of Domon being a moron, in this first episode, the ultimate attack duel with Master Asia, Domon gets really mad at Rain and she resigns as his engineer.

Yeah, because it should be pointed out here, he attacks her physically again.

Yes.

This is not the first time this has happened.

And this episode begins right where the last episode left off, which is, you know, Grizzly Gundam getting absolutely fucked up alan b is also up having the berserker mode tear apart and then a whole bunch of ambulance crews show up and one of them is a fake one and kidnaps alan b

dobone decides that this is specifically rain's fault because rain is a doctor which is a fact that only gets used very rarely during the entire run of the show, mostly the next three episodes.

And decides that he can't trust her, shoves her onto the ground, and storms away.

The only person that seems to have an issue with Domo's conduct is Argo Golsky, the man in prison for murder.

Yeah, well, look, you know, sometimes gruff men, you know, have hearts of gold.

You know, he obviously has a lot of respect for Natasha, same as me, quite honestly.

Who does?

Yes, exactly.

We're all big Natasha respectors of this podcast.

Who up respecting they, Natasha?

And Domon goes out and like is on the ship with those vagrant kids.

And he's like, they're asking, he's like, oh, where's Rain?

He's like, oh, I don't know.

And he decides to go searching the wilds and then runs into Master Asia's horse.

Yeah, who just

leads him back to he follows Master Asia's horse.

Of course, Dobo knows whose horse it is because Master Asia has the only real horse that we've seen in this universe.

And Domon follows it onto a boat.

The whole time he is speaking to the horse and then the the horse turns the boat on and it just magically pilots its way over to where master asia is the horse is a boat pilot

this is a show we're supposed to be taking seriously and uh prime minister wong uh decides to set the gundam heads on master asia and domon after master asia berates Domon for being a moron and not noticing his presence.

Yeah, yeah.

And there's also, there's, there's a string of things that happen in these episodes that really pisses me off about the storytelling, which I know is something stupid to focus on in G Gundam, but this all could have been played in a much better way, which is like, oh, it's like, cause we've already got the surprise Gundam heads before in our last episodes.

And we didn't know who was controlling them.

It was like, oh, it was an accident, you know?

Like, Mr.

Wong brought the Gundam heads back, but like, he's not in control of them.

You know, shit happens when you're playing with the literal devil in a robot form.

Yeah.

But now it's just like, I will unleash the Gundam heads.

Ha ha ha.

Master Asia doesn't know about it.

Like, yeah, but now I do.