WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Episode 9 of SAKUGAN, "END OF VACATION," now streaming on Crunchyroll.
Memempu has always been portrayed as a mature young woman, having graduated from university and become widely regarded as a brilliant genius. She’s innovative, intelligent and passionate. While this all of this is still true, her idea of maturity is remarkably childlike. In Episode 9, the team of four find themselves in a vacation and SOS situation, thanks to a cave-in in the Labyrinth. This allows the adults to enjoy some time to relax, but Memempu only takes the opportunity to become even more high-strung.
While the adults are seemingly enjoying their stranding on an isolated island without any ability to call for help, Memempu continuously tries and fails to execute plans to escape. The adults' laxness adds her idea that they're immature and her proactiveness makes her the most "mature" person there. Memempu's ideas of maturity and the recent fight between Gagumber and Zackletu have helped her grow something of an independent, individualist streak. While the rest of the team had no issue with the fight, Memempu couldn’t fully grasp how people could continue to work together after a physical fight.
Memempu also couldn’t understand how people could work as a team if they weren’t all on the same page. Naturally, this comes from her general lack of experience working with others. Much of Memempu's previous work was academic and presumably solitary. The one person she wanted to team up with the most aligned with her ideas and goals perfectly and supported her for them. The only dissenting person Memempu has ever worked with is apparently Gagumber and they bicker constantly.
Since the journey began, Memempu gained a new reason to find the place in her dreams: to ensure that Gagumber doesn’t die. While the premonition was understandably terrifying, she lacked so much confidence in her father that she didn’t tell him until nine episodes in. In true Gagumber fashion, he tells Memempu that he wasn’t planning on dying. In fact, in Episode 9, he puts to rest the distrust and miscommunication that had been festering in her mind. He teaches her that even, though people may not always agree, this doesn’t mean they can't work together.
Memempu's ideas of maturity, while commendable for someone her age, lack the nuance that comes from with working with others and general real life experience. Memempu continues to get a crash course in being a Marker and growing into the adult world she already thinks she’s in and is smarter than. The miscommunications needed to be addressed before going forward, seeing as terrorist attacks and Labyrinth environmental issues are only getting closer. One would hope that she’ll have enough trust in her team to work together. At the very least, Memempu needs to trust in the fact that she and Gagumber care about each other enough to work well together as partners operating the same machine. With so much danger on the horizon, they need to be able to trust their safety to each other.
