Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Reveals Translated Prequel
The Witch From Mercury has made landfall during a busy fall anime season, with the new series taking place in the Mobile Suit Gundam universe introducing mech fans to a very different universe from many of the other realities that they've come to know over the years. With Suletta Mercury fighting in a world where Gundams are outlawed, the series had unleashed a prequel episode that first introduced this new story and a new novel has been translated into English to further expand on this mech story.
The new English Prequel to the story of Suletta Mercury can be found on Gundam's official website, which you can navigate to by clicking here, with the novel written by Ichiro Ohkouchi and the translation provided by Eriko Sugita. This universe adds quite a shade of paint onto the Gundam universe, introducing a galaxy that is run by corporations and have outlawed Gundams, rather than working to make them weapons of war, as was done in the past when it came to the conflict between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon.
Mobile Suit Witch
On top of this new novel translation, the latest mech series took the opportunity to share an English version of the anime's opening theme from "Yoasobi/The Blessing" titled "Shukufuku", which gives anime fans a quick rundown of what they can expect from the latest entry in the Mobile Suit Gundam series:
If you haven't had the opportunity to check out Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, you can catch them on Crunchyroll, with the Bandai Namco series releasing the following official description:
"A.S. (Ad Stella) 122 ― An era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system. A lone girl from the remote planet Mercury transfers to the Asticassia School of Technology, run by the Beneritt Group which dominates the mobile suit industry. Her name is Suletta Mercury. With a scarlet light burning in her pure heart, this girl walks step by step through a new world."
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