Sayla Mass - Follow-up Appearances

Follow-up Appearances

Because her voice actress, You Inoue, was on safari in Africa while Zeta Gundam was produced, Sayla only appeared in non-speaking cameos in this series. Amuro Ray was then intended to be romantically involved with fellow Karaba member Beltorchika Irma, but an offhand remark by Fraw Bow (roughly, "Are you still mooning about Sayla? You can't be stuck on her forever.") indicates that the two may have been involved at some point between series, perhaps as a reference to the novels. Sayla was later shown sitting outside a beachside villa in Episode 37, quietly listening to Char's speech at the Federation Assembly in Dakar on the news.

Sayla's silent cameo does not happen in the Zeta Gundam compilation movies, as Karaba's seizing of the Federation assembly and Char's Dakar speech is removed from the script. However, at the end of the movie, Sayla is seen relaxing on a leisure chair in her bathing suit, watching news updates and conversing with Kai Shiden, now a freelance journalist who has come to speak with her about her brother. Her voice is stock footage, due to You Inoue's death due to lung cancer in 2003, thus explaining why her role was not expanded.

In Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Sayla showed up mid-way through the series with Judau Ashta's (presumed dead) younger sister, Leina. Within the last 3 episodes, she appears again, bringing Leina to see Bright Noa, where she passes him a letter from his family. She also asks Bright whether he's heard of Char, and commented that Char has distorted their father's ideal, implying Char's future action in the second Neo Zeon movement. She later takes Leina to a lunar spaceport to reunite with Judau, who is to join the Jupiter Energy Fleet.

Finally, in Char's Counterattack, Sayla doesn't make a single appearance. However, in a flashback of the One Year War, Char comments that if his sister hadn't been there when he was fighting Amuro in space, Lalah Sune may have not been killed. Char also keeps a family photo of him and Sayla, which he often looks at in his private times.

Sayla did not appear in the Dynasty Warriors: Gundam video games due to the death of her voice actress Yō Inoue in 2003, but she was mentioned in Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 to explain the reason for Kai Shiden's friendship mission. Frau Bow was used as a replacement for most of Sayla's role in these games.

The announcement of an animation for Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin may result in a new voice actor being announced to replace the deceased Yō Inoue.