Gundam anime offers official explanation for what’s going on with Chuchu’s hair

How does the Witch from Mercury scene stealer fit those pink poofs in a mecha pilot’s helmet?

The current anime season is packed with big-name productions, but Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury is doing a lot to stand out. It’s the first Gundam series with a female mecha pilot protagonist, but supporting cast member Chuatury Panlunch has also been getting a lot of attention from fans, thanks to her brash personality and bold character design.

チュチュのヘルメット問題
①そもそも何も被らない
②ヘルメットじゃなくてバイザーみたいなの付ける
③ヘルメットの横や後ろが開いてる特注のタイプ
④ユウキ・コスモ理論。被ったらなんかいい感じに押し込まれる
⑤そもそもモビルスーツに乗らない
⑥乗る前に死ぬ

さあどれだ pic.twitter.com/VWUAs8VyvR

— あさぎりれいさ (@reisamk3) October 23, 2022

Even by anime standards, that’s a pretty outlandish hairstyle. What’s even more shocking, though, is that Chuchu, as she’s also known, somehow manages to fit a pilot’s helmet over her head.

▼ Same person

チュチュの髪の毛のこのボリュームをスーツヘルメットにどうやっておさめてるんだよ！！！！笑#水星の魔女 pic.twitter.com/wXBIEH4Qte

— なこむ@迷走中 (@sianbluck) October 23, 2022

So what’s happening to those prodigious pink poofs? Fans have speculated that maybe Chuchu pops them off like plastic model parts…

取り外したんでしょ pic.twitter.com/ABrcni0sG6

— 花寺秀介㌠@巻き込みリプ文句馬鹿&猿芝居ストーカー&ブラック運営は呪詛 (@SyankaraZ3) October 24, 2022

…or that maybe they can detach on their own and fly around like the helper battle pods called funnels within the Gundam franchise.

チュチュがヘルメットを装着したとき予想図。#水星の魔女 pic.twitter.com/NW5VQjOzzx

— ゆきよし ゆきぞう (@yoppen9679) October 22, 2022

But the mystery has finally been solved, thanks to the release of an official design sheet for Chuchu by the Witch from Mercury Twitter account, which reveals that…

◆◆チュチュ設定集解禁◆◆

本アカウントをご覧の皆さまに、
パイロットスーツを着たチュチュの設定集を公開！

チュチュの登場した #水星の魔女 第4話は、
各種配信サービスにて配信中です！

▼放送・配信情報https://t.co/bxEEPSO7py

#G_Witch pic.twitter.com/LVIqt1iWqR

— 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 (@G_Witch_M) October 27, 2022

…she scrunches those poofs down with a swim cap-style head covering that attaches under her chin, as diagramed in the 1-2-3 sequence at the sheet’s top left.

Chuchu has been seen wearing the cap prior to the design sheet’s release, but the official artwork lets us know that she doesn’t untie the poofs or do anything else to straighten the bunches out prior to just slinging the cap across the top of her head.

【朗報】チュチュさん、特徴の有りすぎるヘアスタイル、ヘルメットに収まる。　#水星の魔女 pic.twitter.com/7l5aBEQzFN

— heichimin (@heichimin_) October 23, 2022

▼ Preview for Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

Of course, the design sheet implies that there’s some seriously powerful, potentially cranium-crushing compression going on, and some online commenters aren’t 100-percent buying the official explanation. Maybe we’ll eventually find out that the ability to wrap the cap so tightly is the latest case of Gundam’s recurring theme of new powers awakening in people as part of the next stage of human evolution.

Source: Twitter/@G_Witch_M via Jin
Top image: YouTube/ガンダムチャンネル
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