It's been a long time coming, but I bring you Pleasant Evening's first episode on Mobile Fighter G Gundam. In this first part, we chat about our first impressions on Yasuhiro Imagawa's work, which also happens to be the first Gundam alternative universe (AU). This discussion includes conversations about the hyperreal and the random cinema that informs our perspectives.

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Corbin of Pleasant Evenings Book Club.

The ending to Sabres of Paradise offers a sober counterpart to the high passions of the previous two parts. The story of a rebellion that even in defeat refuses to be forgotten shifts into the story of a man who, in captivity, refuses to sacrifice his dignity and faces his new life and coming death with grace few can imitate. We count down all the pieces that fall into place as history marches on past the Murid Rebellion. The hostages return to their homes, the Russian Empire consolidates its victories in Ozymandian pride, and mountains still stand. Closing this book felt like saying goodbye to a world we were immersed in for months. We can't wait to return to the Caucasus.

Opening Song: Laudanum by Velvet Cacoon

Closing Song: Dag Lezginka by Oleksandr Nepytailenko

It won't be the last we see of it, but this is as far as the Universal Century goes.

In some ways compromised but never boring or lacking ambition, Victory Gundam is a true Tomino original and one of our favorite things that we've covered so far.

For this discussion we discuss the motivations of colonization's middle-managers, inter-generational conflicts vs. cooperation, and more on Lupe Cineau's psychology than is probably merited.

Join us next time as we wrap up the third and final installment of Sabres of Paradise, and next, Fighter G Gundam.