Season 10, Episode 29: Full Frontal (Patreon)

This week we're talking about Victory Gundam's infamous episode 29 (which depicts Uso being assaulted in a bath by an adult woman) and then Nina's research takes us down a dark path to talk about the Holocaust, its influence on Victory, and the racism in Tomino's depictions of Jewish characters. There's also a new mobile suit, I guess. It's pretty cool. Please listen to it (with discretion)!

Show Notes

• The book: Lustig, Arnošt. A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova. Quartet, 1990.

• A Japanese website dedicated to old books includes this page on 「現代東欧文学全集11」 (The Complete Modern Eastern European Literature Collection, vol. 11), the book Tomino was probably thinking of when he mentioned a collection of Eastern European literature. Below is an image of the cover, which I'm fairly sure features an image from the movie adaptation.

  

• Additional articles about and profiles of Arnošt Lustig:
  
  “Arnošt Lustig.” The Booker Prizes, thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/arnost-lustig. Accessed 4 Oct. 2024.
  
  “Arnošt Lustig.” Buchenwald Memorial, www.buchenwald.de/en/geschichte/biografien/ltg-ausstellung/arnost-lustig. Accessed 4 Oct. 2024.
  
  “Arnošt Lustig.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 31 Aug. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno%C5%A1t_Lustig. 
  
  Hevesi, Dennis. “Arnost Lustig, Who Wrote Tales of the Holocaust, Dies at 84.” The New York Times, 6 Mar. 2011. Accessed Oct 4, 2024, via ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/march-6-2011-page-26-n/docview/1931801622/se-2.
  
  Richter, Jan. “Arnost Lustig: Writers Are like Clowns.” Radio Prague International, 31 Aug. 2007, https://english.radio.cz/arnost-lustig-writers-are-clowns-8604571. Accessed 4 Oct. 2024.
  
  

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