# Yugoslav Interlude 5: The Music Stops

An episode of [Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1434773197), 4 Jul 2026, 30 min.

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Show Notes In the Interlude this week, does Yugoslavia still matter? Does it still matter for Gundam in 1994? Plus, back in Yugoslavia: Stalin pulls a top ten anime betrayal (which might even be a Top Ten Stalin Betrayal, a much more competitive field), Yugoslavia proves itself a strange kind of beast, Ante Pavelić is more the slippery kind, and this podcast still isn't about Prince Paul. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment. You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com. Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, the recap music Window by 1000 Handz, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, all licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it. Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.com Read transcript

## Transcript

[0:08] You're listening to season 11 of Mobile Suit Breakdown, a weekly podcast covering the entirety of sci fi mega franchise Mobile suit Gundam from 1979 to today.
[0:30] Welcome back to Mobile Suit Breakdown's Yugoslavia Interlude. This week's episode marks the end of what to me is the first act of this story, the crucial events that set Yugoslavia on the course it would hold through the bulk of the Cold War and the remainder of Marshal Tito's life. That makes this a good time to take a step back and check in with the Gundam of it all. It's well and good to say that you have to understand Yugoslavia to understand Victory Gundam, but Victory Gundam grows smaller in our rear view mirror with each passing day. Is it still worth spending all this time on a country that officially dissolved before the release of episode 9 of Stardust Memory? Does Yugoslavia still matter to the Gundam of the later 90s? Well, yes. Tomino Yoshiyuki was born late in 1941, just over a month before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Araki Yoshihisa, who wrote for many of Tomino's early series, including eight episodes of First Gundam, was born even earlier in 1939. Fellow First Gundam writer Hoshiyama Hiroyuki, who wrote 11 episodes, and background art director Nakamura Mitsuki were both born in the spring of 44, a month before the Imperial carrier fleet was annihilated at the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Writer Yamamoto yu, also with 11 episodes to his name, was born at the end of 1946, while Mecha designer Okawara Kunio and character designer Yasuhiko Yoshikazu were both born in December 47, just two years into the American occupation. The older members of this generation experienced the catastrophic end of World War II in their own persons, and the younger ones grew up in a defeated nation. The landscape of their early years was composed of shattered buildings and broken men. They grew up hearing about the war from those who had lived it. Older children trained to fight a last ditch guerrilla campaign against potential American landing parties. Mentors like Tezuka Osamu and Takahata Isao, who had narrowly survived air raids. Fathers and older brothers…
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