Overview:
Suletta responds to Guel’s impromptu proposal, and somehow catches the eye of Elan Ceres as well. He is a spy trying to find out if Aerial does use GUND technology, and will go to any lengths to do so. Guel doesn’t like seeing Suletta treated this way and challenges Elan to a duel.
Our Take:
The interesting thing about the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise is that you can go from hating a character one second to really liking them the next. Guel Jeturk is the newest in a very long line of those types of characters for the series. He was mean to Miorine and was also mean to Suletta who is one of the cutest cinnamon rolls to ever grace the Gundam universe.
But the reason I bring him up is when Elan made Suletta cry he immediately challenged Elan to a duel. Guel might just be misunderstood but I think his feelings for Suletta are genuine and now that he doesn’t have his father’s hooks in him there might just be a decent person under that pink hair.
Elan might seem like a dick right now but even he probably has more to him than meets the eye. The Gundam franchise is usually really good with characters that aren’t one-note or just flat evil. Char Aznable is one of the most popular anime characters ever and he is an antagonist for most of the early Universal Century stuff. What I am getting at is that most of these characters are schoolchildren and I think they are being used for something that we don’t know yet.
I’m glad these were the two-episode drop they decided to do because it’s a neat little mini-arc. Though they did leave us on quite the cliffhanger because now Elan wants to face Suletta in a duel. I hope she can get through to him and not just in combat either. But this anime is going to get dark eventually and I just hope it’s not next week.