Gundam: The Witch From Mercury’s Prologue Has Landed on Youtube

Mobile Suit: Gundam has been telling its mech anime tales for decades, exploring countless universes where the war instruments are the primary factor in clashes between warring armies. The next series in the mech franchise is titled The Witch From Mercury, following the series’ first female protagonist, and will arrive this October, but fans can catch the first episode of Mobile Suit Gundam’s return on the Official Gundam Youtube Channel now. It’s time for anime fans to get into the robot once again.     

Even though Mobile Suit: Gundam first arrived in the 1970s, the mech series has remained the most popular mech anime within the medium, as life-sized mobile suits walk under their own power in Japan and countless new stories continue in the anime and on the silver screen. Besides The Witch From Mercury, Gundam also revealed a new movie in Japan earlier this year that remade the notorious “lost episode” of the first season. While the franchise is also working on a sequel to the Gundam movie following the spiritual successor to both Amuro and Char, Hathaway, Netflix is also working on a live-action adaptation of the popular franchise.

The Official Gundam Youtube Channel released the first episode of The Witch From Mercury, before its October release, which gives mech fans an idea of the story that will feature the franchise’s first female protagonist who will pilot a new Gundam of her own:

The first episode premiered both in Japan and at San Diego Comic-Con earlier this year, giving fans an in-depth look into this new take on the world of Gundam. 

If you’re unfamiliar with the story of The Witch From Mercury, the official description for the new Gundam story reads as such:

“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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