TrentinArt, 'Why Suletta & Miorine Don't Need to Kiss,' YouTube, 2023 (14:08 minutes)

A video by Youtube user TrentinArt exploring their favorite part of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury (2022) -- the relationship between protagonists Suletta and Miorine. It is an example of material produced by fans that can be used together with scholarship in art historical research on anime.

The video explores the controversy the relationship provoked among anime and Gundam fans around the series. The debate regarded the lack of a kiss between the two characters. Many fans felt the two were in a romantic relationship that they wanted to see concretized in a kiss between them. Through formal and iconographic analysis of the series focused on interactions between the characters, this fan's video takes the position that the history of the series shows it was not necessary for the two characters to kiss for there to be a romance between them.