Ep 0012 - The Price of Smiles (2019) - Pt 3

01/08/2024

This time around we're discussing Nanomachines! No, not Metal Gear Solid, we're covering Egao no Daika (The Price of Smiles)!

Content warnings for this episode: Discussions of manipulation, warfare, visualizations of blood and violence, depictions of child soldiers, references to trauma and representations of PTSD.

Our theme is “She Loves Your Fusion” by PartyFactor on Pixabay. Other sound effects also sourced from Pixabay. Any and all clips of copyrighted media are included for transformative use or commentary, and On the Shoulders of Giants makes no claim of ownership on the sampled audio.

Mechs Discussed

Kingdom of Soleil

Guard

Main Battle Unit

Squire

Multi-Purpose Unit

Kilbanov

Artillery Unit

Kingdom Carrier

Ship of the Line

Empire of Grandiga

Krahe 1

Main Battle Unit

Krahe II

Advanced Unit

Empire Carrier

Ship of the Line

Cool Factor(tm) Score

Alice	Brian	Niko
9	6	4

Other Images of Things Discussed

Team Kingdom

Kingdom Uniforms

Team Empire

Empire Uniforms

royal blessings

quality animation

war... war never changes...

the senate

well guess my daughter was smooshed

MAPS MAPS MAPS

poor people soup

NANO MACHINES

subtle metaphors

out on the prairie

defensive emplacements

this shit owns

scale

lily tells a child her parents are dead

"art"

this is "war" apparently

children bully lily (justified)

mechanical work

ccw

stella (not) shining

gun, but big

poppy fields

SPECIAL forces

"ur dads ded""

STEALTH MISSION

computers typing

water skies

got u in my sights

"can you walk it off?"

the two meet peacefully

deploy the homosexuality

epilogue

sunflowers: thriving

GAME TIME!

This time, we played "Family Fued"! Our hosts had to put together their squad of mech pilots, or their family to go to war with. They are also a member of the crew, had to pick their line up, to be arbitrarily rated by the host.

Team Brian	Team Niko
Asuka Langley Captain Evangelion	Stacker Pentecost Captain Pacific Rim
Lelouch Lamperouge XO Code Geass	Akito Tenkawa XO Martian Sucessor Nadesico
Cheng Wufei Mobile Suit Gundam Wing	Zhi Hard Reboot
Anemone Eureka 7	Li Shimin Iron Widow
Simon the Digger TTGL	Galo Thymos Promare
Brian OSG	Niko OSG