Sulleta's tears, Miorine's tears. The Witch from Mercury episode 2 impression

Synopsis

The second episode of the Witch from Mercury had just airing and it started following the aftermath of the battle between Aerial Gundam and Guel's Dilanza. Everyone at the academy shocked that a new student who is timid and had little confidence could completely defeat the best mobile suit ACE pilot in the academy. Meanwhile Sulleta was still unable to accept that suddenly the girl that he was just met yesterday now had become her fiancée. Miorine assured her though that her main motivation was only to get to the earth as soon as possible and she didn’t care about feelings nor marriage. Just after that the front management company Mobile suit squadron came to the scene. They decided to null the duel result and apprehended Sulleta as well as confiscated her mobile suits. Miorine was very angered because the order of apprehending Sulleta came directly from his father; Delling. In short, he used his absolute power to change the rules according to his likes which was the main reason why Miorine wanted to run away from the academy. Afterward, Sulleta was taken custody and she was being interrogated about her Gundam in which she denied that it was not a Gundam but Aerial. Meanwhile Delling held a conference with the council about the discovery of the Gundam mobile suit in the academy. They discussed that someone must had secretly built the machine because there were only miners in planet Mercury. So, after finding out that the Shin sei development Corporation of Mercury was the manufacturer of Aerial, they decided to call the company representatives.

Well either both of you alive and married happily ever after OR everyone dies in the end like usual :V

Meanwhile, Miorine was back in the garden until the friends of Guel pay her a visit. She at the beginning told them that it was Sulleta’s own problem for interfering with her problem. However, after the girls insult her that she was just an exact copy image of her father; she lost her patience and decided to contact Sulleta again. Not long after, one of her father’s men gave her a massage.  The massage was that Deling wanted her to marry the person of his choosing and she had to just cancel her study. She was very angered because of that one sided decision and tried to moved away from his father’s men. As she took a break in the toilet, someone just mentioned a map coordinate outside. The coordinate was the location in where she should be picked up in order to run away from the academy. As she opened the toilet door, she found herself a lady ready to take her away from that place.

Duo Maxwell be like...Where did I hear that line before ??

Back to Vim Geturk office, the representative showed herself to Vim. She was a masked lady known only as Lady Prospera. Both Vim and Prospera seemed that they had already met before as Vim mentioned that it’s been three years after their last meeting. In the other place, Sulleta was still in the captivity and she just remembered about her mom until someone entered the place. It was Elan Ceres who was one of the friends of Shaddiq Zenelly. He was one of the elite pilots of the academy as well as a talented sharpshooter. He came to the cell just to give Sulleta food since she would be very hungry after a long interrogation session. He also didn’t hold back telling Sulleta that she had piqued his interest; which Sulleta thought that he might like her ( although in the reality Elan just tell his friends that it was impossible for him to fall in love)

They already made a female Amuro so it didn't surprise me that they made the female Char

The last part of the anime focused on the meeting between the councils and Lady prospera. Instantly they interrogated the lady about her involvement to the Gundam mobile suit in their custody. First of all, the asked her if she was the witch and had relation to the Vanadis institute to which he said no to both of the question. When they asked about the mobile suit Aerial Gundam, she instantly explained that Aerial was never a Gundam but their latest drone technology. She later told Shadiq (who also attending the meeting) that if it was a mobile suit powered with Gund Arm format, a heavy storm of Permet data would already discovered during the mobile suits battle. The next scene showed us that Lady Prospera unattached her left arm (which turned out to be a mechanical arm) and threw it to Vim. She explained to the council that she had lost her arm and her eyes during Magnetic storm in mercury and that’s way she was wearing a mask and conceal her face. She argued that the only way Mercurian could mine Permet material in planet Mercury was by using their latest drone technology that they called as Aerial. Delling still could not accepting that lack of evidence as an excuse that Aerial was just a latest drone machine and he concluded that it was still a Gundam and the usage of Gundam was prohibited. Just then someone stormed the place. Miorine Rembran entered the room with angry look. She decided to postpone leaving the academy and stayed to recover her friend; Sulleta. She told his father that he was a just a big hypocrite for breaking the rule that he made himself. She demanded a duel between mobile suits and should Sulleta win the battle, Sulleta would still regain her status as Miorine’s fiancée. Just as Delling rejected his daughter proposal, Vim had an idea to let the Aerial perform once more. He told Delling about the emergence of other company’s mobile suit which shook their market share and Aerial performance might help them regaining their lost market. The last part of the anime showed us about Miorine entered Sulleta’s rooms. Miorine asked her to win the duel once more with bigger stake at hand. Should Sulleta lose her next duel, her Gundam will be scrapped completely and she will get expelled as well.

 

Love triangle? mmm maybe not

Review

This episode is the one that I like from this series. True it doesn’t show a mobile suit battle and only focused on Miorine’s anger toward his father. Thankfully, it manages to make the series still interesting to watch and somehow I managed to grasp some points of the story. First of all, it was about Miorine’s position as the Chairman daughter’s. Being the Chairman’s only daughter, her suitor has the chance to become the next chairman; which means that he will have the power to govern the entire academy. The clue is how Delling can make the rules which he can break at any moment due to his absolute power in the academy hierarchy. In the last episode, Vim Jeturk wanted to assassinate Delling right away after Guel managed to defeat the aerial because the winner would be given the right to be Miorine’s fiancée. Killing Delling would make Guel as the man with power on his hand. Let’s not forget that Delling was a man in high position. He was a chairman of the academy; a council of a mobile suit development, as well as a Top manager of Grassley Defense Systems. Which makes it easier for Vim to became the next Chairman or at least become the real puppeteer behind his son’s rise to power.

You want instant recognition? turning into a pink Minnie Mouse will help XD

Another point I could see from this episode was about the caste difference between an Earthian and Spacian. Earthian was the named given to those people born in the earth; which including Nana and the girl with the mouse shaped hair; Chuatury "Chuchu" Panlunch. In other side, Spacian was the name given for people who was born and lives in the space. The difference was actually not obvious but from this episode we could see that the Spacian discriminate the Earthian and considered them as a lower caste in the society. For example, one of the executive told Nika to stay away from delving so far to Sulleta’s situation and asked her to focus only on study. In addition, the cafeteria’s event cemented how the Spacian students didn’t want any Earthian to sit on “their” eating place. It plays homage of the original Gundam where People who immigrated in space developed their own mobile suit to protect themselves and later tried to invade/drop the colony to the earth. Creating tension between those same human race divided by the place where they born.

Some people believe that it was NOT a Yuri anime..Well I also believe myself as the Queen of England LMAO

They managed to develop Miorine’s character in this episode which is nice knowing that she had her own reason to fly away from his father grasp. Everything that happened to her live was dictated by his father. She was forced to be an empty doll that was played and asked to do whatever her master asked. Yet, Miorine was still a human being. She too had her own dream for example; playing piano, making friends, marrying the person that she loved. Her cried shows frustration toward her condition (thanks for her V.A who makes her frustration sounds very real in this episode). Push her even more and she might either do suicide or become an empty vessel. In the end she chooses to defy her father and confront him directly even though she had the chance to run away from the academy. Great character storytelling and development for this episode and the end really makes me eager to see the next episode.