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 always entirely true to the text of the show itself (although it’s certainly fair to say in Witch From Mercury‘s case, both of its opening and ending sequences did play up Suletta and Miorine’s romance even before it was clearly established within the show). Challia’s relationship to Char—who went missing alongside 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 him by a character early on in the episode as Char being “his friend, or rather, his Mav,” to suggest a bond even closer than that. And all that’s even before getting into the fact that series writer Yoji Enokido (who has written on, among other things, the likes of Revolutionary Girl Utena, Evangelion, and FLCL, all series with varying levels of explicit and implicit queer intimacy) has 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 bond between friends or romantic partners.
Author: James Whitbrook
Published at: 2025-04-09 22:00:22
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