the OST on this episode made me cry

Why the hell would I watch this if you spoil the last scene?! Are you guys stupid?

Technically wasn't in cold blood. Let alone premeditated.

thanks for the spoiler!

Crunchy you should put up a clip of the end episode art pieces especially 12 that moving art would make such an amazing background

its made even better by [SPOILERS] reaction to killing [SPOILER SPOILER] earlier on and just how much it broke him some great juxtaposition

@@ominousmecha500 Hey thanks for the spoiler thing. Also, I agree 100%

Given it's basically a sci-fi version of Shakespeare's "The Tempest", not surprising at all the drama is grippingly contrasting.

They really need to show gundams squishing more infantry. They need anti-infantry gundam units they could make it the monster in a horror movie type of situation only to show the protagonist in the gundam. Bonus points if they are a zeon sympathizers or from a zeon faction.

@@KwadDamyj. I kinda want to see gundam Macbeth now thanks to you.

Seems like it pretty much is. There’s some more info in the sound novel that takes place between the prologue and the first season

And then Suletta became a Winter Soldier.......

Would you kindly...get in the Gundam , Suletta-chan.

Prospera definitely brainwashed Suletta with that phrase, I mean Suletta's eyes turned lifeless after she said that phrase.

Suletta wasn't REMOTELY okay with Prospera killing those dudes so brainwashing feels like the only plausible explanation. I don't think a simple pep talk would make the girl okay with splattering a dude.

Not the first time for this in Gundam

We welcome all new gundam fans with a happy death and very unsettling themes

Great ! In episode 12....

You say that like new fans weren't making "happy birthday" jokes for weeks.

Heero clapping at this. Good job Suletta!

You did not💀

69 likes? Let me change that

😅

@@Chicken.Attack they did 💀

Come on guys give him a round of applause

You’re a kid now! You’re a child solider now!

😭

I was about to say that now

Bruuuuuuuuh

@@shinypikagamingmetal gear be like

Here's the kicker - The writer's favorite Gundam series is Victory. _VICTORY._

@@anhilliator1 no...

Let me guess, victory is the darkest one

@@anhilliator1 don’t stop shine on

@@anhilliator1 ooohhhh boy...

Consider the possibility of using that giant metal hand to create a barrier between them. I don't think he is going to shoot through that.

@@joshuarobbins9592 I don't begrudge her using the faster, more decisive solution. It's the lack of attention to the splatter and her actions that really screams OFF, or supreme engineered sociopath.

@Bthsr71 I don't see how slamming the ground next to him is any slower considering she is able to fight non lethal in a full moble suit battle. She can clearly make split second decisions under stress like that. Her actions are completely influenced by her mother's brainwashing.

@Bob Duckington my brother in christ, he doesn't have a COD load out. My man's is gonna call in the ac130

@@joshuarobbins9592 Having a rifle and a hand grenade while raiding a station with armed guards and Mobile Suits is "COD load out" for you? What do you think actual soldiers are armed with? A BB gun and a few mean words?

That as well as Nika's involvement with the attack being shown to the cast is gonna make some spicy tension

Very...broken protagonist, isn't it? Mika. Heero. Would you like to know more?

Which is weird because they're training to pilot mechs. What did she think mechs were used for, public works construction? All those laser rifles and beam swords... they're for turning foes into smears. That was why the ending felt so weird to me.

@@RobertPatrician Remember, these characters are about 17 or so. To them, this is like going from using laser tag guns or fighting in video games to killing actual people with actual guns. So Suletta is now that cheerful girl carrying a blood-soaked knife in hand.

@@RobertPatrician I think it's probably Suletta's reaction to it, if she had been shocked like Miorine then she probably would of seemed more sympathetic, it's her reaction- saying "I'm such a klutz" while covered in fresh blood that makes her fiancé freak out.

🩸🩸😅🩸🩸 Such a klutz.

😃🤝🩸I've come to rescue you, Miorine San

Delling: 😴

Bob: 😭

Terrorist: 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

Goddamnit, take my upvote and get out.

She deserves a high five for her timing.

Let's all give her a big hand.

That's what I call a helping hand

Let's give her a round of applause! 👏 😀

Regardless…she was saved before having a hole through her head.

Would you kindly...

Well, these two scenes do not have to necessarily be inextricable.

Well yes but no one was pointing a gun to Suletta at that time but that guy did it to Miorine

War is war. Sulettas mother did this to keep her alive. I don't believe sulettas mom is grooming her. But the college for mobile suit pilots definitely has done more harm.

I can relate

I remember the bloodstain actually wouldn't come off the wall at first when I did it lol It was quite alot.

Saitama: Mosquitos are annoying.

Oh, the smile I had at that point.

@@Kogasengaha_HishoshiWhy doesn't it come off? :O

How not. Splatting a man to death is quite a show just a privileged group have the fortune of watching. Not even in real life

This was a brilliant rehash of this line IYKYK

Not the crossover I expected, but one I most definitely appreciate

child-like innocence… like when little kids pulled legs off bugs or tortured them because they weren't taught the value of a life

@@johnnyj.817 Exactly bro… ! 😎

Welcome to gundam

Just wait until the next season. This is the green light for the emotional roller coaster!

I haven't seen the series and have no interest in it. I've heard about this scene and haven't seen it till now. And yeah. This is truly horrifying. A friend pointed this out for me about Gundam. "There really isn't any truly good endings in Gundam." I asked him don't you mean happy? He refused to use that in conjecture with Gundam.

I wished I gotten into Gundam earlier but this is kind of like a new take on Gundam because the story leads us into a false sense that its just safe duelling and until the plot twist when blood is spilled

Contrast is absolutely vital in a story, but it takes a lot of good teamwork to make sure it makes it from the initial pitch to the final work like this. Huge props to - basically everyone in the team I guess

@Mark Nobody it's not the first time Gundam has done a bait and switch, thought it's probably the first time they've done one like this with the protagonist. I'd say probably the most notable example before this is ZZ, where it plays it like a wacky sunday morning super robot anime with goofy teenagers fighting incompetent villains, right until around halfway through when suddenly there's a colony drop and hundreds of people including named characters die in the blink of an eye.

As soon as I saw the prologue scene of Eri casually blowing up MSs, I knew this series was gonna go DARK at some point. Definitely didn't think it was gonna be at the post credit scene of the last episode tho.......

@zennok technically this isn't the last episode though, just the last episode of the first cour, which means this is about halfway through the season.

Aerial has a mind of her own. So she is no mere tool.

I mean, if Suletta didn't save Miorine and his father in time, things will go worse. Calling Suletta for Murderer is a bit harsh.

@@Ren_1106 I don't blame her, that was quite traumatizing to see Suletta smiling, she's definitely in a state of shock.

@@Ren_1106 I mean, she was freaking out. Suletta just killed a guy (admittedly in self defense) in the most brutal way possible, then has zero apparent reaction to the fact she just did that while covered in blood.

Bro think like this Miorine does not have any right to call Suletta a Murderer because Miorine's Father killed Suletta's Father

@@deanadhiambo1863 "Haha, I'm such a klutz."

I find it kinda funny because a lot of anime characters from 80s or 90s anime would act similarly after killing someone and its just treated as whatever. Like, that girl would probably be thanking Suletta like she didn't just make a guy go splat if this were made back in the day. It kinda feels like parody.

Yeah, if Suletta had been concerned and stressed/ determined in appearance and demeanor, it would have been a lot less horrifying. If she had, she would have been a soldier protecting what is dear, which everyone understands. instead she acted like a callous killer with psychopathic tendencies.

Indeed

Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can PUNCH through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their GRIP on FreeHOLD.

@@TheAxelandx1 No! You don't get to bring those memories of drudgery here. There is no Mars, no boring, oversized bullet sponges, no rolling fortresses, and no Lignt or Darkness infused warriors.

i hope so

Indeed but man this one is gonna be an EXTRA TALL ORDER

Usually, in Gundam, that's not how it is working... Cour 2: Miorine becomes Suletta worst ennemy. She will probably betray her, cause her mother's death

Miorine is gonna want the Guel now or maybe she will understand that the world she is in is in isn’t a pretty one

Maybe in season 2 we will she something about child manipulation in Suletta

They used paints iirc

Especially seeing how lovingly animated that blood is. They put a lot of budget into Suletta's hand alone.

She's adorable

@@HubiKoshi "Who did the key frames on the tomato? Front and center, we've got something special."

Honestly it made me feel she was very... lacking a correct word for it, Immature for her age. It's almost like she was completely sheltered from the world that even basic things like Killing is wrong seem to go past her. honestly she shows a lot of signs of autism now that I think about it, her lack of social skills and being able to read the room, her frequent hiding and not making eye contact... You know what, I think I just broke my own brain with this.

Or trauma

and child soldiers

It probably isint a warcrime

Which this wasn't. It was the stopping of a war crime.

It's fine bro, reasonable force was deployed in a targetted manner, no foul. 👌

Yeah dude, right now the memes are raw savage! Pure ketchup and high fives

@@javiera.riverop.8471on the other hand, we also have fanart of crazed, bloodied Suletta

look at Bob over there, he's having the time of his life

Heero: "First time?"

Should picked an easier assignment for his last day

he planned to have salad with his wife that night

Bro was about to get his bonus and everything!

Retirony.

@@milkncoffee04 he was gonna get that nice 401k..

Its true, from the beginnigj

Well, it is a utena writer so I'm not surprised.

I mean, all the plot beats for Revolutionary Girl Utena have been here since Episode 1, with the way the school and courtship contest system is built...only with Mecha instead of Swordfights (usually). Tomboyish Girl joins elite private school to become despite being and ends up being crowned a duelling champion and winning the presumptive marriage hand of Princess Girl and has to continue fighting in duels with male students to keep her.

My theory is that it's heavily inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest. Prospero is identical to Prospera, and Aerial is too similar to Ariel; their respective prologues are also very similar.

@@sklaWlivE not just that either, Guel has an incredibly similar arc to saionji in the first half, even going so far as to effectively be banished from fighting anymore. the main difference is that the personalities of the main two are basically complete opposites of Utena and Anthy. instead of being confident and self assured like Utena, suletta is anxious and relies on others for motivation and assurance, while Miorine instead of being demure and accepting her place in the demeaning role she's been given, fights back and only goes along with it as long as she has to. they're quite a bit more similar to the movie versions of anthy and utena if anything.

Like the guy featured?

The other guy sure won’t.

Pun intended?

@@zacharybartolo5111 Rules of Nature didn't kick in for him.

Unlike the guy in this clip.

1st timer here and yes

I have a lot of Gundam to watch still, but i don't think i ever saw something so graphic. We have tons of brutal scenes, but this was raw and gruesome

Yep - my girlfriend learned about Gundam from me, and we were watching the series together. She was traumatized.

Sunrise went from being way too slice of life/who gives a F to full Gundam in one episode hahaha

1st timer here.. i was told by older gundam fans that "hey, gundam is pretty messed up, hope youre ready" but i didnt know what they meant. like SURELY it cant be that bad, right? i was so wrong. also the foreshadowing with Prospera talking to Suletta in the hallway after she shot those men and Suletta steps out from the dark corridor onto the blood splattered floor? goddamn.

Went from "plucky cute raccoon" to "a psychopathic murderer on the level of Heero Yuy and Mikazuki Augus" in one fell splat.

@@LegendRazgriz So in other words, a regular Raccoon

@@LegendRazgriz ay hol on lets see how many she kills first before we compare her to those monsters

Absolute Wifey activity.

She even got covered in her victim's blood and didn't react to it.

I see what you did there.

Pat on the head.

bahhahahahaha

Well played.

This gundam is not connected to the old series. Thus anyone can watch it. _We're just waiting to initiate others into the rabbit hole of what Gundam actually is_

@@halodragonmaster You say that as though this series was far removed from what Gundam actually is. Teen drama makes up most of the series.

@@Peasham many people had the dumb idea where it was more like build fighters where there’s no life and death stakes, even though the prologue clearly showed differently

I'm new to Gundam. Always wanted to watch but didn't know where to start. I had no idea it was this dark. Now I'm about go do some research lol.

Everyone who picked this up as their first Gundam because "cute high school qnties but with robots" got the wake-up call. That Prologue episode was the first warning.

For now. She might change her perspective and not like how it feels.

Blunt force trauma to be specific.

The mom and is extremely shady afterward what happened in the first episode all the way up to here and how she acts around everyone especially her daughter it's like Bioshock and the "would you kindly" phrase being said but replace with "Gain one step then to" instead I think there is a lot more going on then realized

@@AnimeFan4Life2022x she kinda always been this way go watch the prequel you’ll understand

​@Sage🌚 wasn't the one in the prequel Eri her sister though, the one that became apart of the suit?

Usuallky it is the Gundam that needs those.

It ain't Gundam without at least one psychopath. Never would've thought it'd be the plucky raccoon girl.

Forget screws and bolts, she's probably gonna need electric shock therapy.

source?

Yeah, she did a great job

@@Roge9 don't know the details, its from some radio show appearance but the translated clip of it is on "tydusarandor"'s channel on yt

Puppet for prospera because she's not her daughter anymore, suletta is some form of aerial bits/funnel + key component Meaning ericht soul & memory have gone into aerial, but her body is healthy & living, its own "identity" Base on my theory from yoasobi blessing, ericht/eriaru is suletta older "sister"

@@Roge9 Kana Ichinose did a podcast with Lynn.

Exactly! She has no sense of what's morally correct since she's always been sheltered or introverted only relying on her mother or Ariel to give her confidence.

@@RebelGiga yeah, I still think she made the right action, I think the scary thing here is her reaction afterwards, when a human ends another human life it’s normal to be repulsed or emotionally impacted, but she offed that guy like a mosquito with a smile and reached out with a hand covered in blood

@@artsykero oh definitely, she was shooken up by her mother killing 3 dudes a few minutes ago but after talking to her mother and getting into Ariel she'd happily make some human ketchup if it means protecting her friends and family.

@@RebelGiga I started looking at Suletta at a bubblier, kinda, more socially active Hiero Yui from Gundam Wing. The bit that set my antenna's waving was her reaction to the people inside Miorine's tomato house. She may be able to function.... barely at times.... But that time was quite a trigger to some strange behaviour that strongly suggests deep seated issues for Suletta.

@@RebelGiga and probably put some of that blood in her hair when she rubbed her head after falling.

The arm was my favorite, we haven't seen gundam have a human arm torn off. They didn't need to but the detail of the arm floating and bouncing off Mironie is the cherry on top for me

That's quite interesting

Her seiyuu is doing a beautiful job but that’s quite the traumatizing revelation; no doubt it’s going to be very interesting to how she’ll fully recover and couldn’t even imagine the amount of PTSD after all of this, that’s a “big” yikes if you ask me in which I dearly feel very sorry for them!!! 🥺🙏🏻

Yes! This is also what I'm hoping as well. We've been shown that in past interactions with Prospera that Miorine seem to always look at her with a bit of suspicion. Here's hoping that she figures out she is the one pulling the stings for Suletta 😩

The thing about this show is how much current issues it brings up. I'm sure its similar in other parts of the world, but in Japan, we have a problem with how some parents raise their kids. Even into their college years, they cling onto their moms because that is all they have. Fathers work very long hours and are hated due to missing life events. Women face a lot of discrimination and only now are starting to wake up. This show does highlight a lot of these issues which is why it is popular with female viewers as well.

Well considering that the lead writers favorite series is victory nah everyone's probably gonna die

you just had to bring that part! 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦 but then again, her mom's the defacto villain here because EVERY SINGLE GUNDAM VILLAIN ALWAYS HAVE THE "CHAR" LIKE MASK! and she is carrying out that role IN SPADES!

Yeah the most common theory floating around is that the whole "If you run away you gain one, if you move forward you gain two" thing may actually be a hypnotic trigger that Prospera trained into her. You can see how she went from utterly traumatized by her mother shooting those guys to death to all ready to go like barely anything happened after they said it together.

@@JackgarPrime In both Episode 8 and 12, you can see Suletta’s eyes act strangely both times she is speaking with her mother. The first time was accepting her excuses. Then followed by more or less accepting orders.

@@knowledgeseeker4614 Also, I know Miorine said the phrase sometimes. I don't remember but did something happen the times that happened.

@@matteste She did say it in Episode 11 as she told Suletta to listen to her and stay by her side. However, Suletta’s eyes seemed relatively fine either because Suletta genuinely wanted it, or Miorine didn’t say the words exactly.

i would prefer actual manipulation from close family member than the comical brainwash trigger-word thing

🥞

i though i heard something about delicious pancakes

@@mendlez2306 pancakes…i never want to hear that word again

SHIZAAAAAA!

Damn straight man 0:40 🤚

The Biggest Slappy.

Vibe check

0:41 Solider:Ey yo I think you you missed my hand- Ariel:well don't move- uh oh

Mikazuki: "What's next, Orga?"

Suletta, Would you kindly...

Also, OP, im not sure if you’re aware but there is a story called Cradle Planet, told from Aerials POV. And Aerial refers to the “if you run, gain one. If you move forward, gain two” as a spell. Like the line used was literally “I wait for the spell to take effect.”

@@Bokura63 Yeah it confirms a lot of what I'm theorising about Aerial's origins and Suletta's role in whatever Prospera has planned. Brainwashing, child experimentation, the digitisation of the human psyche, it's all Gundam, baby.

I hope that Mio can get over it, but Karla Mitchum (Daryl Lorenz's researcher GF in Thunderbolt) lost her mind in a similar situation and regressed to a child mentally.

@hitachicordoba It's an appropriate response to something so traumatic. Seeing someone so innocent and aloof just mercilessly crush someone, and then smile with a blood stained hand outstretched would scar a lot of people for life.

Its less you saved her and more standing there grinning like a brainwashed lunatic in the guts and blood of person she killed.

Man, a boy was pavorized in episode 6

But the prologue was dark

@@Forry140 And that is exactly why I was waiting for the series to get like this. Episode 0 was brutal and full of drama but the actual series felt like a light-hearted school romcom for the most time.

You could add that Prospera is a puppet master for Suletta. The way she communicates to the characters and showed herself to the audience in the past episodes. She exhibits the traits of a popular maksed character in the gundam franchise.

Best theory I've seen is that the small girl in the prologue episode and Suletta are not the same characters. That kid probably died or something else and is now in Aerial. Where Suletta is a clone of some sort based off that child and that is how they are able to have the strong bond without negative side effects like we have seen with other Gundam. Would also explain this almost brainwashing aspect we see in this final scene. The mother seems super shady and is probably in full control.

@@ASliceOfGamingPodcast this would explain the time problem. Witches were hunted 21 years ago but suletta is 17

​@@veyolaski4324 pretty much all of the masked characters in the Gundam franchise tbh Even the spinoffs

She probably burst through a different wall first that closed off due to depressurization. We’ve seen in like Unicorn that ships have that feature to deal with that issue

00:36 You can see behind the mobile suit. Its not space but more space station. Its likely she entered the station through an air lock and then just started smashing internal walls. Suletta may Forgetta but not about needing air to breath.

The same way the station can get cut into segments and still has oxygen. It's muti-hulled and has a series of emergency doors to maintain pressure

realistically, your unlikely to get "sucked" out into space if your not in a position to have the bulk of the air behind you, miorine has her back to a wall, so the full air of the station wouldnt have pushed her towards the hole in the half-second it would take to depressurize, that and the hole is so large, that the volume of air in the room could leave without needing a high pressure to move. gotta remember, the difference between ground level on earth, and the vacuum of space, is 1 atmosphere of pressure, and thats assuming a station isnt kept at slightly lower pressures on its outer-most layers specifically to minimize risks in case of puncture. theres a larger pressure differential just diving 10m under water

Doesn't seem like this was the outermost wall.

Better buckle up, because the trauma train isn't gonna slow down anytime soon.

Still sweet but wrongly motivated

I think everyone forgets how she murdered a bunch of people in the prologue ep lol.

@@zomgpeoplestolemname i don't think Eri and Suletta are the same person. That incident happened 20 years before episode 1. Which mean Eri would have to be around 24. Suletta is 17. Either her age is falsified or she is a completely different person.

@@zaozao48 Her name was falsified and got past a background check right? Age could be similar.

@@DefinitelyNotAMachineCultist Suletta is in high school, so 17-18 at the oldest. In one of the episodes it’s mentioned that the incident in the prologue was 20 years ago (Eri’s 4th birthday) so Eri should be around 22

I mean, they never smile after splattering someone in their respected series

Heero and Mika are still flat and bland.

We are in Sousuke Sagara land now boys...

Don't put Setsuna on that same bucket

Setsuna did same bucket too I mean he shot soldier front Marina right

Same here, this scene at the end wasn't spoilt for me too. As the situation sets in, man am I shook.

I was shocked to see it especially the arm, I knew gundam brutality was gonna be in it but not humans! And the arm just floated to Mironie face and the amount of blood going is insane. To be honest we probably never had a human death as brutal as this outside IBO and I kinda like it, I hope intense scenes are shown more later on as season 1 is already a great start imo.

Space jam

space tomato jam

Facts.

Gundam IBO and thunderbolt PTSD incoming.

Huh, now i know why i was not that afected by the scene... When they cry really changes one, and i dont even consider myself a fan.

I have IBO ptsd from it, the human arm was a big surprised they took time using the torn off human arm.

@@st3v3nk3 don’t forget about Victory. I’m not even done with that show and I’m worried about where it’s going especially after everything I’ve heard!

And that was off screen!