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Gundam in reconguista episode 9 entitled Megafauna went to south felt like a breather episode after giving us plenty of mobile suits war from the recent episodes. The episode started with Klim Nick and Mick jack boarded the Armorzagan and left the Megafauna back to Ameria. Then, the scene moved to Raraiya usual antic to run for every place and ended up in the bridge while the Director and the ship crews were having conversation. Regarding to Raraiya and Noredo, I felt that they were not given any real character developments lately, which was quite a shame and a disappointment for me. Most of the time I watched as Raraiye keep running and ended up hugging the G-self unit while Noredo would try to catch and calm her. I don't know why the series had not tried to explain about Raraiya real identity yet even though that the series were already at the nine episodes. Also, Noredo Nug started to feel like a background character whose main job was taking care of Raraiya and that's it. Even the other characters from the ship haven't got any defining moment either and they started to feel more like card board characters

The Director and the ship crew mentioned that there were incoming threats from the space and Raraiya might be the only person who knew about it. However, knowing her amnesia and mentality, it would take some time before we know about what was the threats from the space actually look like.  Bellri suggested that Ameria and the Capital Armies should join forces to handle the incoming threat but Aida look doubtful with how easily the idea could become reality just after the intense wars between the two factions. From the information that I could assume, su cordism was like a religion faction with the holiness as its leader. In addition, Director Wilmit and General Surugan agreed to meet with the holiness to get the information about the incoming threat. So, after some consideration, they set the ship port to South or to be exact to the Capital territory.

Even as a breather episode, this episode did not forget to give some mobile suit action as captain Mask suddenly ambushed the Megafauna; which en route to the capital. However, since he took the space ship alone he lost once more and had to abandon his Mobile suit. The interesting part was when Bellri still gave him a nudge so that Mask did not get blown with the wind while he tried to escape from his falling unit. Considering that he kept attacking the Megafauna and endangering the life of his friends, Bellri still saved  him and gave him chance to retreat.

This episode at least gives us a bit information that Capital Army and Capital Guard were two completely different entities and the relation between them was not in a good term. Bellri was of course a Capital Guard Cadet and in this episode, he finally reunited with his Ex-instructor Kerbes. Bellri said that since the Amerian Army did not give him a rank of lieutenant, he choose to remain as a Capital Guard Cadet. Director Wilmit herself contacted the Capital Guard and asked them for assistance to get to the Capital. Then, with the help of the Capital Guard, they managed to get to the Capital and asked the permission to get the audience with the Holiness.

In short, they met and had an argument about whether the distribution of the Photon Battery should be distributed equally. General Surugan insisted that the Capital Tower had to stop the monopolization of the Photon Battery while the Holiness argued that the way the Amerian wanted the Photon batteries might create another trouble like the past century. The atmosphere got heated as Colonel Cumpa from the Capital Army's research division suddenly entered the scene and joined the discussion. The Capital guard tried to protect Bellri and asked him to leave the meeting right away along with Aida, Raraiya, and Noredo.

There were mysteries surrounding this series and to this point, they still were not fully explained. What was the Photon Battery? Why did the Holiness insisted to forbid the distribution of the Photon Battery? Who actually built the G-self unit? Could Bellri and Co escaped from the Capital? I am worried that they way the series treat its characters and how complicated it's storyline might turn some of the fans off. Still, I would see the next episode and see how it fare.