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

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

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It went from a plot that didn't move. We got a monster of the 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. But we watched episodes 38 through 42 today.

We're taking bigger chunks. This is five episodes. We've watched episodes 38 through 42 today. We're taking bigger chunks. This is five episodes. And the next episode of Lines 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. Yeah.

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. It's confirmed. Master Asia's horse gets in a Gundam suit and pilots a Gundam. Which brings up so many more questions. OK, in this world, in the G-Gun, 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, why can't Rey just squeeze into the Gundam next to Domo? Yeah it's a plot oversight. I enjoyed these episodes. Imagine how terrible how terrifying that must be for the horse. Like all right Clippity-Clop get the fucking weird latex horse machine.

I've had 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 I should point out that depending on where you're watching it, the numbers of these episodes might be fucked up. That is true. Yeah, very true. And some it has 50 episodes listed and there's not 50 episodes of the show.

So I don't know how they did that. It's like we talked about this a little bit during our bonus episode about Akira was just 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 and 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 doesn't have it. Amazonulu doesn't have it, fucking Netflix doesn't have it, Amazon Prime doesn't have it. Nobody is the 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. Mm hmm. And like, because I, 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 and other languages are probably even worse, but they weren't trying very hard. Most of these subs are probably done by like one guy in a basement in Boston or something for like $20. It was Shox's uncle. That's actually how Shox 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's actually name is like Fun and it's actually a thing that exists is master Asian does master Asia have clippity-clop the horses actually was like

funsaki or something I've dubbed it clippity-clop like does he have a trained fighting the horse Joe I'm gonna answer this question for you very simply they thought it would be fucking sick if master Asia's horse piloted a gun them and thought no more about it. That is 100% true. I found the interview. Yeah. He, he, uh, Immigawa 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 on Dome Mode. 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 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. Who gives a shit? I think Bandai Namco are gonna hear this and have a great idea. I mean, Domo does have the brain of a dog. He's a fucking moron. He's an overly violent emotional idiot, like a dog. Like a bad dog, I should point out.

Domo 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 Reign 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 that this episode begins Right where the last episode left off which is you know? Grizzly Gundam getting absolutely fucked up Allen B is also fucked up having the berserker mode tear shit apart and then a whole bunch of ambulance crews show up and

One of them is a fake one and kidnaps Aladby. 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 Dobones conduct is Argo Golski, the man in prison for murder. Yeah. Well, look at, you know, sometimes gruff men have hearts of gold. You know, he obviously

has a lot of respect for Natasha. Same as me. Quite honestly. Who doesn't? Exactly. We're all big Natasha respecters at this podcast. Who up respecting they Natasha? And Doman goes out and like is on the ship with those vagrant kids and he's like, they're asking like, Oh, where's Reign? He's like, uh, 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 don't one follows it onto a boat the whole time he's speaking to the horse and then the horse turns the boat on and it just magically pilots its way over to our master Asia's. The horse is a boat pilot. This is a show we're supposed to be taking seriously. And Prime Minister Wong 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 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, like, because 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 the Gundam heads back, but like he he's not in control of them, you know. The shit happens when you're playing with the literal devil in a robot form. But now he'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.