The Gundam Franchise’s History with Queerness is Longer in the Meta text than it has been in the text of the franchise item. Shippers have been matching up Same-Gender Characters with Each Other for Generations Before Witch from Mercury‘s First episode climaxed With its female deuteragonists getting engaged, kicking off a relationship that even Gundam‘s Ownes Coldn’t Deny was more than simply open to some level of interpretation. But it’s the energy in the wake of that that makes the Arrival of Gundam Gquuuuuuux So interesting, because now the odds of that shipping hyperfixation being in fans’ favorite are higher than ever.
The first episode of Gquuuuuuux Premied Around the World Last Night, and whose all of its material was already covered by the Compilation Movie Beginning When it is related a few months ago, the TV release did add one thing in particular: the show’s end titles sequence. Set to Vtuber Hoshimachi Suisei’s Track “I don’t care,” The Ending Sees Protagonists Machu and Nyaan sharing a cozy, clutted Apartment Together, LIVING A Quiet Life Quite Unlike Unes The ONES WEEs Introduced to in the episode. There’s singing, there’s dancing, there’s pizza parties, and the girls are seen crashing out togeether side by side. It’s very sweet, but it’s sent any fans hoping a for a reepeat of Sletta and Miorine’s Relationship in Witch from Mercury Into speculation overdrive.
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Of course, no amount of speculation over Shared ankle bracelets And disco-filled domestic bliss can change the fact that, at the end of the day, an anime ending is not allays entryly true to the text of the show it is Witch from Mercury‘s case, both of its opening and ending sequences did play up sletta and miorine’s romance even before it was cleaarly established Within the show). No matter the interpretations of the sequence, Gquuuuuuux‘
But thats not to say That Gquuuuuuux Itslf isn’t at least projecting a lot of Queer vibes to some people, in both machine and nyaan’s early encounters and even other potential pairings on the show. There’s an Electric Chemistry Between the Duo in their Early encounters, one made all the more interesting when Machu tags along Wind up piloting the show’s new gundam. At first, a tagalong is exactly what Machu describes herself as, but then she pointedly notes she cold even be a Mav,in Gquuuuuuux‘S worldbuilding, the term for a duo in mobile suit combat tactics, pionered during a prior war By the Zeon Ace Char Aznable and His Partner, Challia Bull.
“Mav” is used multiple times in the series with a level of closeness that goes beyond simple wingman though, Making Machu’s Use of It (Beyond Her Intrigue at Potently Fights) Interesting. Challia’s Relationship to Char – Went Missing Along The original gundam At the end of the war, sparking a search that challia has been conducting for five years since its end – is described at one point to point to him by a charocter on in the character ” Rather, his mav, “to sugges a bond even closer than that.
Anyone Who’s Seen Beginning will also know that another character describes challia as still being in the “through” of the red comet, char’s nickname from the war. And all that’s even before geting into the fact that Series Writer Yoji Enokido (who has written on, Among other things, the likes of Revolutionary girl utena, Evangelionand FLCLAll series with varying levels of explicit and implicit queer intimacy) said in press interviews That, despite it being a Military term, it’s also one he could see as being used to refer to the bonded between friends or romantic partners.
Of course, all this remain open to interpretation (and not in The way bandai wanted Saletta and Miorine’s Marriage to Be, for now At least). Gquuuuuuux Could Pair Off Any Number of its characters, or the hints and details fans hoping for a sulemio reepeat could be noting more than just that: hints. It would admittedly be very funny for Gundam to do back-to-back female protagonists who have happy to be Queer, a landmark first for the series in Witch from Mercury Made even more notable by it is happy at the immediatively agan from another, unconnected creative team, but we’ve simply not see enough of the show counted to Know IF that CASTE
That Fact Won’T Stop Shippers from Hoping Anyway. And if it doesn’t? Well, that’s the joy of fandom shipping, isn Bollywood it -thee’ll be able to create planty of work imaging otherwise regardless.
Mobile Suit Gundam Gquuuuuux is now streaming on prime video.
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