Bi & Les FLAGS on it! That bubble tho (8

Sorry didn't see the les flag

Official Marriage

You love to see it

^^^ The show really did fall to pieces in the last couple episodes, having so many plots but no time at all to follow through on them (and then dedicating way too much time for a really bad Lauda arc, Fuck Lauda) Before the finale almost everyone watching was certain they'd announce another season, like they did with IBO, so there was some pretty massive whiplash when they just wrapped everything up the way they did. Unfortunately, Suletta and Miorine's relationship was the biggest victim of that pacing. I love the messy politics and themes of the older series, but I would have even forgiven them dropping the ball on all that and its characters if they really focused on their relationship, and sadly they just didnt allocate enough time. Even a few more minutes for them instead of everyone in meetings relaying things we already know would go a long way. Between the horrible production conditions and Okouchi dropping the ball every show he writes, I'm not surprised.

I'll also push back on the narrative that Gundam doesn't and has never done explicit romance or kissing. Turn A, IBO, thunderbolt, 00, 08th MS Team, even the worst hetero nightmare show SEED, theyve all done explicit romance and kissing. IBO in a roundabout way ends with a lesbian domestic partnership executed extremely similarly to Suletta and Miorine. Turn A in its own way is extremely queer in themes and coding, the main character Loran can very easily be read as trans or nonbinary, etc. Now, the scene of them floating in space is evoking a very romantic scene from F91, but like the sword fight a couple episodes prior it kind of ends up using the reference to scaffold all the meaning and weight into that scene, rather than doing the work itself.

All that said for all my problems with the end of the show, I don't mind the ending these two got itself all that much. It's cute it's nice i'm glad they got married and i'm happy for everyone who's happy. Personally I just really wish they put the time and effort to give it the weight it deserved.

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theyve all done explicit romance and kissing

Unironically, most of them end up dead

"That's my secret : I'm always having fun."

3 years has passed and they still look at each other like they're still falling in love

Congratulations!

thats a different issue

Cute.

Lovely.

Cute.

Nice. ^_^

Nice.

Cute.

Nice.

Nice. :D

Excellent. ^_^

Nice.

Shamiko, did you get your wife pregnant?

Beautiful.

Very nice. ^_^

Lovely. ^_^ Looking forward to the last four episodes.

^It's everyone's favourite song after "Gay or European"

^^^^I agree. There are so much more that could have been done if we are given more episodes. Unfortunately, we didn't. For me, basing on what was happening in ep 23 and the tweets that they are posting, I was sure that it will be the last episode. 1 ep for 24-25 mins, that's an awful little time to fit all the narratives that are left to be explored. So I went into ep 24 with low expectations and got happy after. (At this point of my life, I just want to have happy things and not stress over the stuff I can't control.)

On the Lauda arc, it felt to me that it came out of nowhere, though I might've just missed the clues. Maybe they just pushed those scenes to showcase Schwarzette more. You know, monies lol. If that's the case, then it's just sad that other better arcs are axed to make way for this.

I haven't watched a lot of Gundam shows so I am just basing on people's accounts. I am taking in your accounts as well. So maybe it's because the MCs are both female so the explicit scenes are much, much less likely. We got a long way to go for non-hetero ships for main franchises it seems. At least we can treat this as a step closer to getting better queer shows, especially those from JP. Like big anime franchises or super popular anime/manga with queer MCs.

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That moment when you realize that the pictures wouldn't really be spoilers if they weren't tagged as such :D

The newest cope is that somehow they are, like, "platonic married best friends", which is insane but man people will say anything.

I would assume that anybody who says this is trolling for the lulz.