A giant robot power hour discussing mechs across media, their stories, and why we love them. Join cohosts Alice, Brian, and Niko as we talk through mech design and genre context while begging child soldiers to make better life choices. From anime and manga to video games, tabletops, and everything in between, we at OSG comprehensively rate our favorite mechs and continually challenge each other to come up with the stupidest trivia games imaginable. Let's launch into it!
Our episode this time is on Lancer (2019), a beautiful tabletop role playing game set in a far-future utopia where nothing is scarce and fulfillment is abundant--in which you play as the Omelas Kid.
…This time around we’re discussing the horror of living as a wifeless wifeguy, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)!
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Our episode this time is on Sunrise’s most ambitious baseball metaphor they’ve ever made. It’s Gunhed (1989)!
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Our episode this time is on Ghost in the Shell (1995), a vision of a cyberpunk dystopia so much cooler than the one we have now.
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Shells (Full Cybernetic Body)
T08A2 (R-3000)
Our episode this time is Lightning Round Volume 1, or: a beautiful gallery of women you all submitted for us to discuss!
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MERRY KAMPFER AND HAPPY HYGOGGNUKKAH! We sit down with Giant Robot FM's own pmcTRILOGY to talk about an OVA that insists we have Mineva Zabi at home, Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (1998)!
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It wouldn’t be the holidays if we didn’t have the whole family together, and that family includes Raiden. Our DEEPLY DRUNKEN BONUS EPISODE this time is on an average Tuesday for a cyborg ninja, Metal…
Our episode this time is on Tandem Lovers (2010) by Kasahara Tetsuro, a manga that’s basically Maria Watches Over Us, if Maria was a five ton co-piloted war mecha.
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[Tandemine]
Our episode this time is on *Friends at the Table’s COUNTERweight season (2015-2016), a podcast that covers the average arc of a queer friend group, from gig work to radical regime change.
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Prithee take rooted stock upon thine bums and listen to me fair; podcasts hosts with middling audio and a good fun homosexual air; for we speak of stalwart mechs and rude lesbians in space today; Cos…
Oh no! Niko’s editing computer went and f*cking died! So this one took a while to finish up. A notes app apology from the editing computer will be forthcoming.
Our episode this time is on Random Ac…
NOTE: the audio on this one is crunchy, folks. We did what we could!
We sat down IN PERSON together shortly after BRIAN’S WONDERFUL WEDDING to discuss Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) with his …
On this BONUS episode, Alice sits down for an interview with one of the creators of Heaven Will Be Mine (2018), Aevee Bee! They cover topics from incredibly niche model kits to the importance of depi…
Our episode today is on an artbook that tosses all the BS aside and gets straight to the hard questions about this genre, the most important of which is: what if literally any noun had bigass legs an…
Sorry for the delay—SOMEONE decided to get married. Don’t worry, Brian will be punished accordingly. Our episode this time is on G-Saviour, a film about the only Gundam timeline that truly matters, w…
This time we’re discussing Pacific Rim. No, not the good one. Who do you take us for?! This is Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)!
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Our episode this time is on a game that fondly remembers the 80s, when all the red-blooded American soldier needed was his babe, his brews, his horse, and his fully automated voice assistant enabled …
Why don't you makeout with me about it? Our episode this time around discusses a game that makes me wish I had paid attention in math class, because getting babes is a function of x— Heaven Will Be M…
LIQUID! This time around we come to our penultimate installment of The Metal Year, a game which bravely posits that family can be two old men fistfighting over drugs, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the …