Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022)

Original title

機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女

Directed by

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Genre

mecha

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 24 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 99 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A girl from Mercury enrolls in a prestigious space academy where corporations and students battle using giant robots. She gets entangled in corporate conspiracies and personal conflicts as she pilots a mysterious mobile suit.

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What happens

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女, Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu: Suisei no Majo) is a Japanese mecha anime television series and the fifteenth mainline entry in Sunrise's long-running Gundam franchise. It was directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi with scripts by Ichirō Ōkouchi, and aired from October 2022 to July 2023. Set in a society where powerful spacefaring conglomerates dominate the economy, the series centers on mobile suits called "GUND-ARMS," which were derived from "GUND," a medical technology originally designed to mitigate physical disabilities caused by space habitation. The Witch from Mercury is notable for being the first mainline Gundam series to air entirely during Japan's Reiwa era and the first televised installment to feature both a female and LGBTQ protagonist, Suletta Mercury. Thematically, the series explores issues of capitalism and political corruption, drawing stylistic inspiration from Shakespeare's The Tempest and early-modern witch trials, especially as metaphorically reflected in its central GUND technology. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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