A happy birthday or a happy deadday?? The Witch from Mercury episode 6 impression.

 Synopsis

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he six episode of the Witch from Mercury started with the conversation between lady Prospera Mercury and Elan’s mentor; Belmeria Winston. First, Bel was surprised that Eleanora was still alive after the event that happened 21 years ago. Lady Prospera asked about why Bell had to side with the house of Peil and about the many enhanced pilots that they have. Bel replied that she had no choice but go with the Peil and she also tried to reason with Prospera to leave the grudge from the past. Just as Prospera leaving her, she talked to someone on phone and told the receiver that she had found out the other witch in the academy. When the other person on the phone asked whether she was worried, Prospera only replied that she had one percent trust on the Aerial Gundam and her beloved daughter. On the other place, the ladies from earth house were having a small meeting regarding what had just happened about Elan Ceres and how Suletta ended up dueling with him. Miorine told Suletta that at the very least she should asked her opinion first before deciding to accept the duel with Elan. Run forward to Geturk’s place, Guel had been relieved of his position as the head of Geturk‘s house and he was kicked out from the house; effective immediately. His father’s man said that he should be thankful that despite his stupidity to go against his will, he would still pay for his tuition money.  Guel took his bag and asked his brother; Lauda to look after the Geturk house in his place.

The start of the famous Guel's camp anime xD

The scene moved to the duelist room and in there Suletta and Elan prepared the dueling vows. Elan staked for Gundam Aerial while Suletta still has not decided about her stake and she asked if she could postpone the stake until their next duel. Just after Elan left the room, Shadiq told Suletta about how Elan had started to be more defensive and how both Guel and Elan had somehow become a different person after her arrival. Since the next duel would be started in the space, the earth house people started to build a thruster for Aerial Gundam. Fortunately, despite having limited resources, Nika managed to build one from the spare parts that they have. The scene moved to Peil house. Elan woke up from his slumber and Belmeria told him that he moaned in his dream. Bel told him that he should have no problem to partake in the next battle yet Elan said that her remark means that it would be his last. Suddenly a figure entered the room and he look exactly just like Elan. Actually that was the real Elen Ceres; the house leader of Peil technologies. He cheerfully asked them about their preparation and he even sarcastically told the surrogate Elan to be more cheerful.

The one and not the only one, Elan Ceres 

Suletta was testing the thruster for the Aerial Gundam in space. When Nika asked her feeling regarding the duel with Elan, Suletta turned gloomy and she said how dumb she was for easily trusting him. His kindness was all an act to get closer; and all of it was just a task given by the house of Peil and how happy she was receiving that small attention made her feeling down. Miorine bluntly said that she truly was annoying and how her naivety made her easily fall for such an act of kindness. However, Miorine said that was the Suletta that she knew; the same person that interfere with her situation and due to her meddling change Miornine’s fate. Miorine just chanting her mantra which said “if you move forward you may gain two” and she encouraged Sulleta to stop feeling sorry and run away. After regaining her resolve, Suletta went to the hangar of Peil’s technology while riding the Aerial. She asked the operators to connect her with Elan because she had an important message for him. The operators told her that it was pointless because he never talked even with them and they didn’t even know anything about the existence of Pharact Gundam themselves. After getting a chance to speak through the microphone, Suletta asked what made Elan annoyed about her and what will he do with Aerial. With no response from Elan, the operators told her that it was a pointless just like what they said. Suletta then started to sing a happy birthday song through the microphone hoping that in her last try he would reply. Finally, Elan called her directly and told her that he had no birthday. Suletta then said that if he did not have one, they might consider that day as his birthday to which he replied that she annoyed him so much.

Be a wife like Miorine ..whooped your s*rry 4ss but kept believing on you

Before the duel started, Sulleta revealed that what she wanted from the duel was nothing more than Elan to tell her about himself. It was obvious that just like a love confession, Sulleta wanted to know more about his opponent. As the battle started, Elan started to get more worked on defeating Sulleta by instantly taking an offensive move. He was angry because of all things; Suletta had everything that he had not. Suletta had a bunch of friends, a loving mother, a future and especially the memory of her past. The fact that Suletta wanted him to tell about his clouded past triggered him and made him blasting his beam rifle furiously. As Elan tried to start using his stun induced drones, Suleta bits provided cover to his mobile suit and they were evenly matched. However, Due to the difference that the Gundam Pharact permets storm made Elan feel weaker over time, Suletta started to give chase to Elan. At a time, Elan managed to deal damage to Aerial’s thruster, which made it lost the capabilities to move easier in the space. Since Aerial lost it movement greatly, Elan managed to stun many parts of Aerial Body. Yet, he didn’t know that Aerial’s defense mechanism started suddenly creating a shockwave that not only protected the unit but also disrupted and immobilized Elan’s drones. Images of a child in light showed before Elan's eyes and in that moment, groups of Suletta’s fin funnel like bits already surrounding the Pharact. In a moment, the fins blasted the Pharact with series of beam shots from many directions; destroyed its arm, leg, and one shot landed on the Pharact's antenna. Suletta Mercury once again became the winner of the duel and still the reigning holder.

Finally a Romeo and Juliet scene (for a few minute)

After the battle, Suletta went to the Pharact’s wreckage and tried to take Elan off the unit. Elan remembered that he once have a mother. This battle made him remembered a fragment of his long forgotten past. Elan told Suletta that he was wrong and now he knew that someone used to celebrate his birthday with him. Suletta said that he was not alone and she would celebrate his next birthday and then a real smile showed in Elan’s face; a smile so gentle that he showed just for her. In the next scene, Suletta and Miorine (well it was Suletta who was waiting technically) was waiting for Elan in the park. Miorine said that he at least should come earlier for his date and she told Suletta to come home before the curfew hour. In the house of Peil, the executives were ready to deactivate the “current” Elan Ceres. Bel protested that this “Elan” still had some use for them yet they already made a decision. In the moment before his deactivation, Elan sang a happy birthday in a slow and calm voice. at the same time, Suletta sat in the park’s bench thinking that Elan just a bit late for their date. Unbeknown to her, that “Elan” had already gone.

 

Review

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n outstanding episode as well as the one with another big plot twists on it. First of all, I never knew that at the end of the day "Elan Ceres" was not that cunning as an individual. The person that we knew (let’s call him Elan 4) is just a dummy of the real Elan Ceres. It was a big twist as his real identity was not even a person named Elan but just another test subject that was having a face lift so he had the face of the real Elan Ceres. He was a disposable subject for the house of Peil and everything that he done was just a direct order from them. Just when we started to see the real color of Elan 4, he got deleted so fast. It marked this anime turn of darkness and I really like how interesting this anime had become. There is a possibility that another Elan will be introduced. However, this Elan (let’s say Elan 5) had no knowledge or emotion of Elan 4 so he would know nothing about Sulleta. It would create another confusing moment with Suletta later on. Also, it was nice to know how smudge the real Elan was and how he might be the big bad boss later on.

TRANS-ARMS or something like that 

The battle of mobile suit also amazing to behold with how Aerial had built-in capabilities to survive even the most dangerous condition. The way Lady Prospera said at the anime beginning that Aerial would not lose which means that even if Elan tried his best, Aerial would automatically initiated the self defense mechanism to counter his mobile suit. By default it seemed as if Suletta won most of her battle via plot armor yet it was still nice to see them. The battle animated fluently and it did have a good pacing and resolve. The way that each Gunbits even have “soul” on them indicated how dark this anime could be. Did they sacrifice children soul on the making of those bits? Or is that image was the soul of Eric Samaya; Suletta’s real name. Is Aerial had Eric soul inside it; which means that it was a living weapon instead of just a machinery? Who was responsible on creating the Aerial since by the words of Bel, it would not be possible for Eleanora to create those very advanced armaments on her own. When Belmeria mentioned the incident from 21 years ago, some fans even creating their own plot twists as if the Suletta that we knew is not even Erict Samaya. The incident from 21 years ago may represent the events from the anime prologue and if that was correct, Suletta should have been a 25 years old..not 16. They speculate that she may be the second daughter of Eleanora or even the clone of the real Eric. Alas, those are still speculations and no matter how good those plot twists are, the real outcome will be revealed later on so we are still openly free from spoiler (at least for now).

This scene is so simple yet powerful. Anyone got PTSD watching this?

This anime made me happy because as Gundam had been an aging franchise, it still entertaining and the plot twist is still going strong even for the six episodes. The character had rub on me and now the possibilities of a bigger plot twist in on horizon. It was another great episode and this anime hooked me up. The open possibilities are big and we may see more possibilities down the line. Is lady Prospera going to be the big bad and the enemy of Suletta? Or is the real Elan Ceres is the big bad one? Who helped Eleanora built Gundam Aerial? Is there a traitor among the three houses? Is Eric Samaya and Suletta Mercury even the same person? All of those questions made this series liked by the fans even if it was using Yuri theme as bait for new viewers (or not a bait but real Yuri IDM lol)