{"id":24740,"date":"2023-12-21T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T08:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=24740"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T08:55:10","slug":"20231221-24740","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231221-24740\/","title":{"rendered":"The Witch from Mercury director confirms same-sex marriage between Suletta and Miorine\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hiroshi Kobayashi, the director of the <strong>Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch of Mercury <\/strong>anime, has confirmed that the series does in fact end with the female protagonists Suletta Mercury and Miorine Rembran getting married. This statement ends a long period of fans\u2019 frustration over the characters\u2019 homosexual relationship being made vague and open for interpretation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30d6\u30eb\u30fc\u30ec\u30a4\u6700\u7d42\u5dfb\u306e\u76e3\u7763\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30d3\u30e5\u30fc\u3067\u30b9\u30ec\u30c3\u30bf\u3068\u30df\u30aa\u30ea\u30cd\u306f\u7d50\u5a5a\u3057\u3066\u3044\u308b\u3068\u306e\u3053\u3068\u3067\u3057\u305f\uff01<br><br>\u30b9\u30ec\u30df\u30aa\u7d50\u5a5a\u304a\u3081\u3067\u3068\u3046\uff01\uff01\uff01\ud83c\udf89\ud83c\udf89\ud83c\udf89<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E6%B0%B4%E6%98%9F%E3%81%AE%E9%AD%94%E5%A5%B3?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u6c34\u661f\u306e\u9b54\u5973<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UIZvL6QCCC\">pic.twitter.com\/UIZvL6QCCC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u305f\u3063\u304f\u3093\ud83d\udc0f (@sgk_123) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sgk_123\/status\/1737666389866111419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>Post translation: <\/strong>The interview with the director in the Blu-Ray of the final season confirms that Suletta and Miorine are married!! Congratulations SuleMio!!<\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As spotted and shared by X user @sgk_123, the interview with Kobayashi in the Blu-Ray booklet of the final season of The Witch from Mercury reveals the directors&#8217; thoughts about the epilogue of the anime. Kobayashi states, \u201cI knew I was going to make an epilogue, but it was a while before I decided upon the exact number of years that should pass in-between. The ending itself follows \u201cThe Tempest,\u201d and depicts Suletta and Miorine getting married and becoming partners.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20230712-20044-001.jpg\" alt=\"Suletta Mercury and Miorine Rembran from Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury\" class=\"wp-image-24744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20230712-20044-001.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20230712-20044-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20230712-20044-001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20230712-20044-001-600x337.jpg 600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Witch from Mercury was the first Gundam series anime title to feature a female protagonist \u2013 Suletta Mercury, and fans were even more excited when she also turned out to be the first LGBT protagonist of the series, developing a meaningful relationship and reaching a happy end with Miorine Rembran.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, although the anime ended on a satisfying note for most viewers, a series of decisions by the production side soured things for fans later on, making them feel cheated out of a canonical same-sex relationship and marriage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, there was a difference in how Japanese official sources and US official sources treated the fact, as the US sources were very open in referring to Miorine as Suletta\u2019s \u201cwife\u201d and similar, while Japanese sources made no explicit clarifications (<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230712-20044\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Related article<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1250px) 100vw, 1250px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/F0BvAFzaYAISCCm.jpg\" alt=\"Suletta Mercury and Miorine Rembran from Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury\" class=\"wp-image-20046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/F0BvAFzaYAISCCm.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/F0BvAFzaYAISCCm-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/F0BvAFzaYAISCCm-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/F0BvAFzaYAISCCm-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/F0BvAFzaYAISCCm-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/F0BvAFzaYAISCCm-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/F0BvAFzaYAISCCm-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/F0BvAFzaYAISCCm-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/F0BvAFzaYAISCCm-747x420.jpg 747w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, things further escalated in July this year, when the digital edition of the Gundam Ace magazine\u2019s September issue was revised so as to not include the word \u201cmarried.\u201d Suletta\u2019s Japanese voice actress had given a statement for the magazine in which she described Suletta and Miorine as a \u201cmarried pair,\u201d but this was edited into just \u201cpair\u201d a few days after initial publication. After numerous inquiries from fans, Bandai Namco Filmworks released a <a href=\"https:\/\/g-witch.net\/news\/detail.php?id=20824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a> in which they apologized for the \u201cinconvenience caused\u201d but stated that they want everyone to be free to interpret the story to their liking. This obviously did nothing but anger fans further, and most gave up any form of official confirmation from the production side.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is perhaps why news of Kobayashi confirming the marriage has caused so much excitement worldwide, with the words #\u30b9\u30ec\u30df\u30aa\u7d50\u5a5a (jp: SuleMio marriage) even trending on X\/Twitter, together with an outpouring of fanart and words of celebration. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiroshi Kobayashi, the director of the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch of Mercury anime, has confirmed that the series does in fact end with the female protagonists Suletta Mercury and Miorine Rembran getting married. 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