welcome to the future of Gundammy friends: we have robot schoolwe have big business politics, with girls defending each other’s honor by engaging in giant mecha duels over the right to be wives.
This weekend we saw the debut of Mobile Suit Gundam Witch of Mercury, first mainline entry In the legendary mecha anime franchise since 2015 iron-blooded orphansSet to new timeline in . Gundam Continuity, the series follows the franchise first female protagonistSuletta Mercury wrestling with her childhood trauma rear to be plunge into conflict About the future of mobile suit development and her new life at the Asticasia Institute of Technology. An academy of mobile suit pilots and engineers ruled by the tyrannical Beneritz group――A collection of weapons developers who hold enormous economic and political power over humanity’s early space colonization.Asticassia is home to the descendants of these companies and future Mechanics.Soldier of Ed Conflict.
Little does Sleta find herself in a complex relationship and rivalry upon arriving in Asticacia, but she soon finds herself drawn to one student in particular. due to her childhood trauma). Witch of Mercury It begins with Suretta and Myoline literally bumping into each other in space, with the former discovering the latter is apparently trying to escape Asticasia, and the duo’s connection to Asticasia’s most famous mobile suits pilot Ger Jetak. Miorine’s fiancée. Guell is the “Holder” of Asticasia, a title given to top pilots in their class who fought Mecha-on-Mecha in school-sanctioned duels. However, Myorin’s father is the head of Asticacia’s school board, thus granting him the hand of Myorin’s arranged marriage, giving him not only Delling’s position in the Benneritz Group but also his position in its most influential corporation. One of the Jetarchs may combine his heavy with the political powers run by his machinery. Guell’s father Wim.
Much to Suletta’s shock and eventual frustration that Guel treats his relationship with Miorine as a one-time transaction and their status as heirs to power in the Benertt Group as the most romantic of all. is. Nearly abusive, his pompous demeanor and abuse of her is the driving force behind Miorine’s seeming repeated attempts to escape Asticacia. When he discovers that this has been accidentally prevented by doing so, he immediately challenges Guell to a mobile suit duel with the help of his new friends.
Miorine tries to take her place in a duel to obtain her own future, but she can even destroy the Gundam Aerial, which is Suretta’s suit, by herself. Upon granting her, Suletta immediately gains access to her Aerial’s powerful core her technology, her GUND format (a semi-illegal human-to-her-MS cross-link), and the dizzying remote control of her Drone attacks can quickly overwhelm Guell’s own mechs. Suretta, who won the duel, learns that she holds the title of Owner of Asticacia and marries Mioline. Talking to her, he points out that Mercury, who is supposed to be Sleta’s place, must be quite conservative due to his unfamiliarity, and accepts her new “g”.The room at the climax of the episode”.
Gundam I’ve played out the politics of arranged marriages and unwilling suitors many times before, but I’d like to concentrate Mioline’s marriage on both the microscale of its personal drama and on this broader world-building macro. I am letting you.In the background of the episode, it’s tempting to flip the switch to permanently seal her son’s marriage to her, and soon make Sleta her new match. is amazing for a franchise as old as GundamNone of the comedy is performed and Sleta is shocked at first, but it is revealed throughout the episode that she is attracted to Myorin, who likewise finds her “groom” regardless of gender. We are accepting.
it’s not like Gundam I never tackled queer elements. In the original franchise, his duteragonists Amuro Ray and Char Aznable are never a couple in the text, but are a fundamental pillar of Yaoi Shipment due to their extremely close relationship, having gone from rival to ally to rival. It has become. Turn A Gundam When Witch of Mercuryimmediate predecessor of iron-blooded orphans Guin Reinford becomes obsessed with Roland Seac, the main character of the series, and has a homo-romantic attachment to both Yamagi Gilmerton and Norba Shino. Witch of Mercury Needless to say, we will have it soon.
Only time will tell how Sletta’s new connection with Miolin plays out throughout the series. After all, Holder’s title, and therefore Myorin’s hand in marriage, is clearly transitive, and it’s hard to say exactly how many suitors there were before and now for Guell. But their connection as outcast outsiders who want more beyond the systems of power that trap them – the political capitalism of Myorin and her father’s work, Sleta and her Childhood trauma, and the GUND format that empowers aerials – makes the duo an incredibly compelling pair. See already. Witch of Mercury appears to have placed the burgeoning relationship between Sleta and Mioline at the center of the story from the beginning. If you want this arranged marriage to bloom deeper, GundamThe series’ first major female protagonist, but also the first decidedly queer protagonist.
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