Gundam GQuuuuuuX‘s Big Mystery Just Got Even Bigger

Gundam GQuuuuuuX‘s alternative universe spin on the mankind of the dealership ’s beloved main timeline has already paved the way to some fascinatingly geeky riffs on the originalGundamseries . But as the show begins to move on from the contiguous interest of the man it spun out of the upshot of the original show , where it ’s header could include playing with one of the 1979 classic ’s most challenging characters .

So far , much ofGQuuuuuuX‘s alt - remixing ofGundam‘s Universal Centuryhas tilt heavily on the absence of certain focal part from the original show . Char ’s theft of the Gundam inthe inciting incidentthat turn theOne Year Warin Zeon ’s favor means that so far original admirer Amuro Ray has been left out of the word-painting , and so far both the show itself and the expanded material glimpsed in itsmovie compilationBeginninghave badger other major digit from the originalGundamand their parts to take on in this young story . And that ’s before Char ’s own absence seizure in the show ’s chief five - years - later story has become a driving element to its core mystery , as both our youthful protagonists and their antagonist in the Zeon forces alike try out to discern just why the Red Comet ’s stolen Gundam has returned after its fade .

But one interesting 1979 figure ’s absence fromGQuuuuuuXso far is becoming a primal focus of the series ’ own interpretation ofGundam‘s Newtype concept — and its latest episode dropped our big confidential information yet that they ’re going to make their presence in the series know insomeway at the very least .

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“ The Witch ’s War , ” the quaternary episode of the series ( and our first to not explicitly re - cover textile from theBeginningcompilation ) principally sees Machu and the Red Gundam ’s latest pilot , Shuji , confront a One Year War ex-serviceman yearn for revenge against the Gundam . Having lose her own Mobile Suit combat partner ( consult toas a “ Mav”inGQuuuuuuX‘s language ) at Char ’s hand during the war , the mystifying “ Witch ” Shiiko Sugai finally perishes in a clan struggle against Machu and Shuji , when the latter makes the decision not to disable her suit , but spear up its chest with a radio beam saber , immolating Shiiko and destroying the foeman suit entirely to Machu ’s horror .

But just before Shiiko dies , both Machu and Shuji ’s emerging Newtype connection resonates even more deeply than it did upon their first meeting , not just granting them a moment to hit some kind of understanding with Shiiko in the present moment of her death , but sending out a psychic message that looker-on get word as a didactic piece of euphony … one very familiar to classicGundamfans as the sing - song leitmotiv of Lalah Sune . The leitmotif appeared briefly inGQuuuuuuXbefore when Machu first start to experience her own Newtype abilities , and inBeginningduring Char ’s fade , but not in that diagetic gumption , and not , as it ’s referred to explicitly in the show itself this calendar week , specifically as the “ La - La Sound . ”

Introduced during the last stretch of the original 1979 Zanzibar copal , Lalah is an exceedingly powerful emergent Newtype , recruited by Char in the final stages of the One Year War as a secret weapon not just against the Gundam and Amuro ’s own increase awareness of his psionic abilities , but as part of Char ’s own brewing attempts to seize Zeon ’s ruling Zabi folk . Lalah , whose psionic abilities are annunciate in battle by a haunting , airy Greek chorus of “ la - la ” chanting that can be heard by both Newtypes and average humans , finally falls at Amuro ’s hands while protect Char , but not before she and Amuro share a profound present moment of link thanks to their Newtypism . It leave a lasting impact on both men ’s lives throughout the rest of their appearances acrossGundam‘s UC storytelling .

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Although Lalah ’s role in the originalGundamis relatively brief , her bequest as one of the show ’s first exploration of the Newtype conception , and her human relationship to both Amuro and Char , makes her a riveting fig forGQuuuuuuXto touch on . In the show ’s alternate retelling of the One Year War , Lalah is noticeably abstracted from Char ’s first learning about Newtypism , go to hispartnership with Challia Bull . But her presence here via her leitmotiv , and now especially in its nature as a diagetic sound withinGQuuuuuuXitself , raises some very interesting hypothesis about just where the show is head .

It ’s not been the only clew that Lalah could be a part ofGQuuuuuuXwe’ve had so far , either . The frame of Shiiko ’s death has direct parallels to the presentment of Lalah ’s own death in the original show , just the latest in the series ’ leaf on specific filming selection from the firstGundam , but “ The Witch ’s War ” also returns to another thought briefly affect on byGQuuuuuuXbefore . In the serial publication ’ prior retelling of the One Year War , it was reveal that Zeon was keeping another cryptical object called the “ Rose of Sharon ” in secrecy , before it vanish from under them just as Char vanished in the psionic “ Zeknova ” that ended the conflict .

In “ The Witch ’s War , ” Shuji state that his only desire is to bring the Red Gundam ( which he constantly refers to as being in conversation with ) to Earth , in lookup of a mysterious rose wine , presumptively the same “ Rose of Sharon ” that Zeon were keeping secret . The Rose of Sharon itself is a scriptural reference , appearing in versions of the Old Testament to discover a flower advert in the Song of Songs , but also a innovative horticultural terminus , used to refer to several mixed bag of flowering plant — including the golden - flowered Hypericum calycinum , which for sure feels evocative of the menstruate yellow dress Lalah fall apart in the original series .

Gundam Char Lalah

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Whether we see her or not , or if she stay only part of this version of the originalGundam‘s world via her sing - song leitmotiv , it ’s already clear that any grand mystery thatGQuuuuuuXwants to play with with this new multiplication of Newtypes will link up all the way back to the original show ’s first explorations of the conception . It seems then , as we get close and close to figuring out just what befall to Char in this edition of case , the cleaning woman that would form the relief of his lifespan in the “ main”Gundamcontinuity may have a likewise life-sustaining role inGQuuuuuuX.

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