OZ begins to conquer Alliance-held countries on today’s episodes of Gundam Wing, leading Caitlin, Kat, Mallory, and Cathy to ask the hard-hitting questions: Are Trieze and Zechs having sex? If so, how serious are they? We discuss Zechs’s devoted underlings, including poor Otto who dies in the unstable Tallgeese—is that why we named our podcast after it?! Duo and Heero briefly star in a sports anime, The Basketball That Heeroko Plays, and we relaunch our campaign to make sure Wufei gets shipped with everyone, starting with a romantic coffee date with Trowa. Then the three podcast Sort-of-Catherines reckon with the show’s Catherine as an uncanny shadow form of ourselves. Finally, we all come to understand the true heart of OZ thanks to… the black plague? Sorry, Lady Une, read up on feudalism next time. For our fandom artifact, we relive the melodious prose of Animerica magazine c. April 2000 and discover a quote that unlocks all the secrets of Gundam Wing’s gender relations. For listeners who want to follow along, most of the Animerica Gundam Wing issue is available online at https://www.animenostalgiabomb.com/mobile-suit-gundam-wing-castle-of-cagliostro-trigun-animerica-april-2000/, thanks to Anime Nostalgia Bomb.