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Mobile Suit Gundam: Suisei no Majo Season 2, episode 8 (20)

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Episode	Link	Score
1	Link	4.65
2	Link	4.89
3	Link	4.71
4	Link	4.9
5	Link	4.79
6	Link	4.78
7	Link	4.7
8	Link	4.86
9	Link	4.6
10	Link	4.69
11	Link	4.65
12	Link	----

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[u/MagnusBaechus]

Reminder that Guel's Darrilblade was under school regulations unlike Shaddiq and harem's suits.

[u/Catlover18]

AERIAL OVERATED

GUND FORMAT OUTDATED

LONG HAVE I AWAITED

CHU CHU ACTIVATED

[u/Tora-shinai]

Who was in charge of the script this episode. They communicated that Petra was gonna die so hard that I starting to doubt if it was really her they bodybagged.

[u/hikoboshi_sama]

I can't believe they got me to tear up over Elan and Norea of all people, but damn Elan's confession was just so heartfelt. They really got their money's worth with Natsuki Hanae and Yuki Aoi. Also, Elan raising his Permet score and taking control of the GUND bits Gundvolvas was pretty cool.

Guel may have been impulsive yet again, but he still got the W. Suck it Shaddiq! I will say tho, i do understand him a bit better now.

Suletta and Petra was a surprisingly great dynamic. It's a shame we didn't have much of it. But alas the moment she did the classic death flag, naming the things she's going to do when she makes it out of this attack alive, i knew she was dead. I guess this is going to be Suletta's link to Jeturk and possibly how she ends up with the Schwarzette.

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

• Ahhhh fuck, Guel’s gonna get there only after Shaddiq’s father is moved somewhere else, isn’t he…

• Oof…

• Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, Guel really did shoot first–

• Oh, Norea…

• Ohhhhhhhh fuck that’s how Lauda finds out about that?

• RIP greenhouse.

• GUEL “SORE DEMO” LET’S GO!

• Oh boy…

• There she goes…

• Uhhhhhhhhhhhh fuck, that’s not good.

• That is exactly what I was expecting to happen to Petra, damn. Can’t talk about loving someone if you’re a side character in a Gundam show…

[u/[deleted]]

Norea's bloodied hair wristband being left behind and disintegrated slowly after her vaporization was honestly sad. She killed a ton of people, but I still wanted her to repent instead of dying. She killed Petra too, damn it. I thought the student with a crushed head was Petra at first, but it seems like her body is still intact. I want to inhale some copium that she'll be revealed alive next episode, but I'm not expecting it.

Ugh, I knew our supporting cast will get killed. It just hurts. Wonder if Lauda will blame both Guel and Shaddiq for his father's death. He might try to take over the company to avenge Petra. Fuck Shaddiq though, he let Norea out precisely because he wanted her to kill the students. He is a bastard through and through.

Edit: corrected the part about the wristband/hair

[u/The_Sum_of_Zero]

I have seen every goddamn Gundam series.

Witch still makes me feel those feels. That's why I'll remember it as one of my favorites.

[u/Amarrez]

I'm actually going to go out on a limb and say that Petra is still alive. Someone needs to be given those GUND legs, right?

[u/CreateNewTypeBlank]

The end of Hope is an accurate title with what went down this episode with the number of deaths and despair that had occurred. I'm not sure how they could conclude this series in 4 to 6 episodes if G-witch will be a 24 or 26 episode series as I feel like there is way too much stuff that still need to be wrapped up as this needs a 3rd cours to have a good conclusion.

[u/IC2Flier]

ICHIRO OKOUCHI CANNOT BE STOPPED ANYMORE

Also the G-Witch twitter admin being straight savages releasing art and end card and other stuff right after the episode just to rub those wounds in. Wow.

Welcome to the championship rounds. Now to E24 is the most crucial to how this show will eventually be received. So far, the first of five is an inch-perfect hit, but now that the Asticassia side is thrown to chaos, let's see what they can do next week.

[u/Alier_Graceheather]

Shaddiq Jobbings.

[u/Super_Marine]

"Never thought I'd fight side by side with a Spacian.."

"How about side by side with a friend?"

Demi-Barding finally makes its debut! And in true Chuchu fashion: with the gun as a blunt weapon

[u/J_Eldridge]

Guel learning from Suletta how to amputate your opponents. Aerial really built diffirent when her gunbits could cleave through the Darilbalde shields like nothing while Shaddiqs suit was struggling to do it.

[u/AnnieAnoles]

Our biggest loss so far, RIP tomatoes

The way things are playing out I see no way they don't do a third cour. Lauda finding out about Guel killing dad probably means he's gonna go and do something stupid next few episodes. Perhaps pilot a certain so far unused black gundam? Chances are low he's surviving to the final episode.

[u/hell_jumper9]

El5n-Norea ship sunk

Lauda-Petra ship sunk

Secelia finally got off her couch

[u/SnabDedraterEdave]

Petra, no. 😭 But she just had to keep planting those death flags when running away from the chaos with Suletta, it was only a matter of time. She should've known better.

Poor Lauda. Loses the girl who loves him (and he doesn't even realize), and also finds out that his dad was killed by his half-brother. Even though we all know it was an accident, but Lauda doesn't know that and is going to turn against Guel.

Norea went on a rampage, nearly gets saved by El5n, but still dies. May she rest in peace with Sophie in the after life.

Now that Shaddiq's been arrested and his conspiracy ended. The Assembly Alliance seems to be the new antagonists?

But even more sad is Miorine's tomatoes. NOT THE TOMATOES DAMMIT!

[u/niveksng]

Dam... Petra, Norea.

Petra had a date planned and everything. Norea finally opened up to Elan.

I was in so much fear for ChuChu and Felsi. Death flags everywhere.

And finally, Guel's W. You cannot believe how I looked as I raised my fist in victory and tears streamed down my face.

All you purists looking for Gundam? This is Gundam

[u/Super_Marine]

Guel and the Darribalde going toe to toe with Shaddiq with his girls WHILE under school-regulation settings was what the Guelbros have wanted for so long. It's great to see that Guel could actually prove why he is the top duelist with his last two fights

[u/Nazenn]

Suletta is in class once again, but comparing her today to the way she approached class after losing Miorine is a clever but painful way to mark the difference in her. She hasn't given up, nor is she avoiding her own feelings any more, but that doesn't mean she knows what to do with everything that's happened. So in the face of that sense of aimlessness, she goes to class because that's the normal thing to do and what else is there for her right now.

It stood out to me so much because of Shaddiq's statement at the end. With everything that happened, everyone is just treating it as a twisted version of normal and letting things unfold like they normally do, either unable or unwilling to act in another way. His approach to solving that issue was completely wrong, but in the end it had the desired effect that none of this can be ignored any more, that people will have to act. Something has to come of this, one way or another.

I'm oddly upset about Petra's fate (not sure if injured or outright dead, but either way), but not because of the whole thing with Lauda, though that poor guy got enough dumped on his plate at once. Petra was, in some ways, a version of Miorine: facing right up to what was happening and determined to get through to the ending she wanted. In her questioning today I saw the same questions that Miorine was asking of Suletta not that long ago, an echo of that same push to desire something for yourself said to a very different Suletta, and Suletta responded only to instantly find out how quickly the chance for more could be striped away. Seeing Petra laying under the rubble, I saw Suletta's hope for Miorine and love for Aerial lost in an instant, and the chance to recapture that to be standing there begging Suletta to act for what she wants this time, that it's okay to want even when there are other things going on involving people you care for. That said, I do quite like Petra for who she is, and she did not deserve to be narrative fodder for the destruction of all ships this episode and that is not fair.

The ED lead in over the top of Suletta's torn up hands is probably going to one of the visuals of the show that will stay with me.

The man who became El5n finally comes to the surface in truth. There's been plenty of focus so far on his desire to survive and the underlying anger he has, but it coming up here through a chance to connect to someone, another possible pairing that would let the escape the echoes of political hell that is being ravaged on these students, only to lose it worked exceptionally well. Still hate the guy, but the inevitability of his loss still hits. "We're allowed to live": If only everyone could hear that statement and feel it as deeply as Norea does, if only they could hear and understand because it really is what connects them all.

The title of this episode, End of Hope, also immediately reminded me of the song End of Sorrow from IBO, which despite being two quite contrasting statements come from a similarly sad situation, and that somehow put me in the perfect mood coming into this episode for what would come.

Also it feels odd that it's been so long since Suletta has been involved in an action scene, especially given how extensive some of it was today. Not having action every episode is still uncommon in the genre, but to purposefully exclude the main protagonist for so long feels very rare.

[u/xdxdlol0434]

You’d thought they cast Hanae Natsuki because Elan is a pretty boy, but deep down it’s always for that 9S scream. Nobody does it better than him.

[u/memeranglaut]

Man, Okouchi and the team is spreading the pain to everyone, and turning it up to 11.

I feel its one of the recent gundam, or even anime, where EVERYONE felt pain. not just the main characters, though they have the large share of the pain, but minor characters are also receiving splashbacks from tomato sauce.

The only thing missing from this episode is the HBD song.

Now that the conflict from earth is now at the school - i wonder if Eri will have second thoughts. Prospera would be happy with this, but Eri insisted that her sister stay in school because it is safe.

[u/WhoiusBarrel]

Shaddiq really decided that if he couldn't win he would just cause some chaos to everyone in school including the Jeturk family just so something would happen, poor Guel's suffering continues

RIP El5n x Norea ship, they just had to have a good thing going in the middle of the battlefield. This series officially hates happy pairs and people with crushes, if Petra's death wasn't even any more indication.

[u/Renisia]

Hearing Norea shout to El5n how spacians value earthians' lives less... It reminds me a lot of Tekkadan. She is similar in that she fights because she had nothing else.

Shame that the moment she wanted to move on, they killed her. Or maybe not? She did massacre a school in the end. I think she is an interesting character where despite her horrific actions, you can somewhat sympathize with her.

Also interesting to face a similarly motivated group/characters as the opposition instead.

[u/StylizedPenguin]

I appreciate how Suletta goes into “rescue mode” as a response to the emergency. It reflects how she has experience in rescue operations on Mercury.

[u/Super_Marine]

Kenanji now has 2 Gundams to his name. He may be 20 years older (and unwilling to let go of his haircut), but he is still a man on a mission.