TheGundamfranchise ’s history with queerness is longer in the meta school text than it has been in the text of the franchise itself . shipper have been match up same - sex characters with each other for generation beforeWitch From Mercury‘sfirst episode climaxedwith its female deuteragonists flummox engaged , give up off a family relationship that evenGundam‘sowners could n’t denywas more than but candid to some level of interpretation . But it ’s the zip in the wake of that that makes thearrival ofGundam GQuuuuuuXso interesting , because now the betting odds of that cargo ships hyperfixation being in lover ’ favour are higher than ever .
The first episode ofGQuuuuuuXpremiered around the universe last nighttime , and while all of its material was already covered by thecompilation movieBeginningwhen it secrete a few months ago , the television set expiration did add one affair in finical : the show ’s conclusion title of respect episode . Set to VTuber Hoshimachi Suisei ’s runway “ I do n’t care , ” the ending sees champion Machu and Nyaan sharing a intimate , cluttered apartment together , living a quiet sprightliness quite unlike the ace we ’re introduced to in the episode . There ’s singing , there ’s dancing , there ’s pizza pie parties , and the girls are realize crash out together side by side . It ’s very seraphic , but it ’s sent any fans hop a for a repeat ofSuletta and Miorine ’s relationshipinWitch From Mercuryinto speculation overdrive .
Of of course , no amount of venture overshared ankle braceletsand disco - filled domestic bliss can change the fact that , at the goal of the twenty-four hour period , an anime end is not always entirely reliable to the text of the show itself ( although it ’s certainly middling to say inWitch From Mercury‘s case , both of its opening and ending sequences did play up Suletta and Miorine ’s romanticism even before itwas clearly establishedwithin the show ) . No matter the intention or the interpretations of the sequence , GQuuuuuuX‘s end might just be a cute what - if scenario that does n’t pan out out in the show .
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But that ’s not to say thatGQuuuuuuXitself is n’t at least projecting a passel of queer vibe to some masses , in both Machu and Nyaan ’s early confrontation and even other possible pairing on the show . There ’s an electric chemistry between the duo in their other confrontation , one made all the more interesting when Machu tags along with Nyaan to drop off a black-market piece of outfit that will ultimately see the former wind up piloting the show ’s new Gundam . At first , a hanger-on is precisely what Machu account herself as , but then she pointedly notes she could even be aMav — inGQuuuuuuX‘s worldbuilding , the term for a duo in Mobile Suit combat maneuver , pioneeredduring a prior warby the Zeon ace Char Aznable and his pardner , Challia Bull .
“ Mav ” is used multiple time in the series with a level of parsimony that goes beyond dim-witted wingman though , make Machu ’s utilisation of it ( beyond her machination at potentially joining in on underground mecha competitiveness ) interesting . Challia ’s relationship to Char — who went missing alongsidethe original Gundamat the final stage of the war , spark off a search that Challia has been conducting for five years since its end — is delineate at one point to him by a eccentric early on in the episode as Char being “ his friend , or rather , his Mav , ” to suggest a bond even closer than that .
Anyone who ’s seenBeginningwill also know that another character delineate Challia as still being in the “ slavery ” of the Red Comet , Char ’s nickname from the warfare . And all that ’s even before get into the fact that series writer Yoji Enokido ( who has written on , among other things , the like ofRevolutionary Girl Utena , Evangelion , andFLCL , all serial publication with vary levels of denotative and unquestioning queer intimacy ) hassaid in press interviewsthat , despite it being a military term , it ’s also one he could see as being used to denote to the bond between friends or amatory partners .
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Of course , all this remains open to interpretation ( and not inthe mode Bandai wantedSuletta and Miorine ’s wedlock to be , for nowat least).GQuuuuuuXcould couple off any number of its reference , or the hints and details devotee hoping for a Sulemio repetition could be nothing more than just that : hints . It would avowedly be very funny forGundamto do back - to - back female protagonists who materialise to be queer , a landmark first for the series inWitch From Mercurymade even more famed by it happening immediately again from another , unconnected creative squad , but we ’ve simply not see enough of the show yet to know if that ’s lead to be the type .
That fact wo n’t stop shippers from hope anyway . And if it does n’t ? Well , that ’s the pleasure of fandom shipping , is n’t it — they’ll be able to create plenty of body of work imagine otherwise regardless .
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuXis now streaming on Prime Video .
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