Shinn Asuka

Destiny Phase 50: The Future Will be Better Tomorrow

We finally made it. The final episode of Gundam SEED Desitny. We made it through Gundam jackings, speeches about identity, Mobile Suit pilots with frustrating mental acuity, Crygali and Savioring. We made it through disintegrated people coming back to life, Djibril and the Destiny plan. What awaits us in the final episode? You'll have to listen and see.

Destiny Phase 49: Math With Laser Beams

We're almost there. The penultimate episode of Gundam SEED Destiny. It's all come to this. Who will do the most nonsensical philosophizing? Who will pick the most nonsensical character motivation out of the hat? Who will be kicked to the moon? And who will set up a pun without even realizing what they're doing? You'll have to listen to find out, and once you do, might as well stick around for next week too.

Phase 48: Punch The Ghost Out of Shinn

It's almost the end of Gundam SEED Destiny! Who's character motivations make sense? Who just kinda seems trapped by the script, marching inevitably into villainhood? Who will live? Who will randomly get their memories back? And who will it turn out has not one, but two Deathstars? To find out, you either have to listen, or watch an episode of a 16 year old anime!

Phase 44: Coordinator Death Cake

This week, Djibril is doing the cooking by the book, as he tries to kill all the coordinators. Is Meer on the moon? Why is Meer on the moon? How many giant lasers did Djibril build? Why are Durundal and Djibril connected by the force? And what does Cagalli mean when she tells a 15 year old girl that she's entrusting her boyfriend to her? All these questions are asked this episode, and we may have even managed to answer one!

Phase 42: Athrun Used Takedown

It's A Gundam is finally back to talk about Phase 42 of Gundam SEED Destiny, A Call For Counterattack. Athrun is back in action, with his new moveset of Protect, Takedown, Slash and Self Destruct. Good thing that, unlike Shinn, he doesn't have to fight any ghost types this week! Can Athrun's limited moveset take Shinn down? And if not, can he convince an emotionally unstable teenager he's being a dick?

Phase 41: Not Your Daddy's Doms

This week on the podcast, everything's showing up from space, and Geremy makes a surprising amount of jokes about music! Plus, the final new Mobile Suits for the series are introduced: the Lemniscate Justice and the Dom. But not just any old busted Dom. It's the new, sexy Dom Trooper. Listen to find all about it and its trio of pilots!

Phase 38: Gee Rey, What Are We Going To Do Tonight?

Try to take over the world! Or at least Heaven's Base. Lacus Clyne says if that falls, Orb will be next, but before that, Darth Shinn, his mentor Rey, and the girl he's feeling really awkward about will have to take over Heaven's Base. And they have not one, not two, but five Destroy Gundams! Do they combine into some sort of Destroy Megazord? You'll have to listen to find out.

Phase 37: Thanks For Reading My Fan Fiction Gil

Meyrin and Rey are writing more fan fiction this week in Gundam SEED Destiny, and it's all about Athrun! Speaking of Athrun, he's betrayed everyone, and Gil and Rey have to convince Shinn to kill not only him, but also Meyrin. That's certainly good for a growing boy's psyche right?

Phase 36: Meyrin Fantasy 16

After Chairman Durundal tries to gaslight Athrun into thinking Meer is the real Lacus and Kira broke up with her, he has no choice but to do some sweet James Bond stuff. Which Bond girl will he get to flee with him? And why does Geremy constantly doubt himself when he guesses the artists to songs even though he gets all of them right this episode? Listen and find out.

Phase 35: Buy None of Their Playsets or Toys

Shinn went and did a murder on Athrun's best friend, and now Athrun is upset about it! Will this be enough for him to regain his main character status? Or will Rey be able to gaslight him into thinking Kira dying is a good thing? And will Shin do an introspection? Or will he have to be punched in the face instead? And who will get the two new shiny Gundams with the words "For Main Characters Only" inscribed on their head? And which one of them has the devil number for its model number? For provoking so many questions, this sure is a boring episode, but listen anyway!

Phase 34: Excessive Explosions

This week, the show reveals that only a main character can defeat a main character, as the very subtly named "Operation Angel Down" pits Shinn against Kira. Shinn's been wanting to shoot down the Freedom for 2s of episodes now. Will he succeed? The answer will make Geremy sad.

Phase 33: Why Can’t We be Friends? The Secret is Actually the Illuminati

This week, Durundal gives a long, impassioned speech, and doxes the Illuminati in response to them blowing up all of Europe. But according to Kira and Cagali this is.... bad? For some reason? Zach has a theory, and you'll have to listen if you want to hear it.

Phase 32: Destroy Us All

Stella's here in her big robot, and she's going to destroy us all!!! Destroy us all!!! Destroy us all!!! Destroy us all!!! Destroy us all!!! Destroy us all!!! Destroy us all!!! Destroy us all!!! Destroy us all!!! Destroy us all!!! Destroy us all!!! Destroy us all!!! Destroy us all!!!

Destroy us all!!!

Also, that guy in the mask looks vaguely familiar, and for the first time, a Gundam gets taken out by mooks.

Phase 31: He Did a Treason, But It's Fine

This week, the Riddler's here to ask us all an important question: when is treason not a crime? Apparently, when your name is Shinn Asuka. Or Athrun Zala for that matter. Plus, Milly is incredulous about the existence of a hot springs on the Archangel, and half-dead Stella gets a big Dalek-shaped Christmas present from Neo Roanoke. Check it out.

Phase 30: Athrun Got a Rock

This week on the podcast... angry boy evolves into... Grumpy Boy! Grumpy Boy uses "Try to sneak a dying enemy soldier off of the ship in my Gundam." You'll have to listen to see how effective it is.

Also, Kira Yamato gives a speech. "Cry cry, Freedom, mope mope, my girlfriend gave me a cool robot!" Something like that anyway.

Phase 28: I'm a Main Character Too G*******t

This week on Gundam SEED... it's a big one. Shinn gets tired of being sidelined and tries to stand up to Kira... who decides he's going to fly off and scream Athrun's name, like the good ol' days. Someone will die, someone else will die for reasons that don't make the most sense in hindsight, and someone won't die but will get blown up real, real good.

Phase 27: Clearly He's Too Shonen to Betray You

Lacus Clyne is in space, and a bunch of teenagers talk about what they want to do. To try and make things interesting, we speculate on what Rey's blogging about, other possible nicknames for Andrew Waldfelt, and whether or not the Hawke sisters are emotional vampires.

Phase 26: Her Flabber Has Been Ghasted

In this episode of Cowboy Bebop, Lacus and Waltfeld plan a cunning heist to outsmart Meer and ZAFT and steal a shuttle. Will they be able to get away with it before the Sexy Diva realizes what's going on? Unfortunately, this is an episode of Gundam SEED Destiny, and not Cowboy Bebop, so before that, we have to deal with Shinn breaking military protocol and common sense, in order to flashback to the entirety of episode 21. But I promise the Lacus and Waltfeld stuff is real, so listen!

Phase 24: Scoobydooing Their Way Through the Dark Room

Lots of stuff happens this episode, but who cares? There's a traditional Japanese bath house on The Archangel now. How? And why? And who's bathing in it? You have to listen to find out! Yes, you could watch the real episode to find out who's bathing, but how and why sure as hell aren't explained.

Phase 22: At War, Separately, Together

It's been a while, but we're back with style. Spice style! We find out from the cool new orange guy on the team how bad ZAFT is at military structure. We also talk about how long it would take to rebuild your navy after a war as huge as the one that happened 2 years ago, and, yet again, it doesn't look good. Also Minority Report! Don't miss it!