Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
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Waiting for the prologue... Maybe the 21st..
First episode is out.
On crunchyroll. Subtitles were borked earlier but seem fixed now.
Available on YouTube in other areas or VPN.
Prologue is on YT.
On crunchyroll. Subtitles were borked earlier but seem fixed now.
Available on YouTube in other areas or VPN.
Prologue is on YT.
And they were trying to fix that issue in the prologue only to get hit with a probably illegal as fuck death squad instead.
That's when any Gundam series is at its best - when there's shades of grey on BOTH sides. (Although yeah, in this opening Prologue episode, the 'Evil Minister' is a bit over the top and clearly nuts.
Meanwhile it seems some folks are having fun with the new show.
https://twitter.com/taisaruFont/sta...^1576877685200285696|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=
They made the douchebag's Mobile Suit more show accurate.
https://twitter.com/taisaruFont/sta...^1576877685200285696|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=
They made the douchebag's Mobile Suit more show accurate.
Tis but a scratch!
I can't believe I've lived long enough to see Revolutionary Girl Utena in a Gundam show. The whole academy with dueling and the winner gets to be engaged to the girl who is also looking after a 'garden' on the campus and the 'start' of the story is our female protagonist winning a duel and becoming engaged to another girl.
It wasn't until googling that I found out the head writer for Witch for Mercury actually had written Utena light novel adaptions with the original creator of the manga in the 1990s. He's also the main writer of Code Geass and a lot of other things from Sunrise studios over the years.
It wasn't until googling that I found out the head writer for Witch for Mercury actually had written Utena light novel adaptions with the original creator of the manga in the 1990s. He's also the main writer of Code Geass and a lot of other things from Sunrise studios over the years.
Another anime where LGBTQI+ representation is show as accepted only in a fantastic setting. Because it's the future and in the future people will do the most crazy things.
I suspect that for Japanese queer people are like aliens or giant robot: it's fun reading story iabout themel but no sane person person would really believe to meet them in real life.
I suspect that for Japanese queer people are like aliens or giant robot: it's fun reading story iabout themel but no sane person person would really believe to meet them in real life.
Lycoris Recoil had a male/male gay relationship and wasn;t even subtle about it and outside the John Wickiness wasn't that fantastic a setting.
I'm enjoying the show and episode 6 really got dark
Since it looks like Elan was incinerated and another 'copy/duplicate/whatever' will then be dispatched.
BTW, I'm thinking Suletta's own history may not quite be what we think since the opening to this episode drops that Prospera's (Suletta's mother persona in the mask) revenge plot is 21 years old. Does this mean it's been 21 years since the original company was destroyed in the prologue? Which means it's been 21 years SINCE the prologue where we saw her daughter Ericht turn 4 and pilot the Gundam.
Suletta does not look 25 years old. The way she talks about Aerial, the way she said she 'heard her' clearer... Elan seeing a human shaped light figure approaching him. Maybe Ericht became Aerial so you have a human mind in that Gundam which is why there's no 'feedback' to the GUND system and Suletta is clone of the original
BTW, I'm thinking Suletta's own history may not quite be what we think since the opening to this episode drops that Prospera's (Suletta's mother persona in the mask) revenge plot is 21 years old. Does this mean it's been 21 years since the original company was destroyed in the prologue? Which means it's been 21 years SINCE the prologue where we saw her daughter Ericht turn 4 and pilot the Gundam.
Suletta does not look 25 years old. The way she talks about Aerial, the way she said she 'heard her' clearer... Elan seeing a human shaped light figure approaching him. Maybe Ericht became Aerial so you have a human mind in that Gundam which is why there's no 'feedback' to the GUND system and Suletta is clone of the original
New rule don’t let Suletta sing Happy Birthday to you, it’s the kiss of death.
so the 'first' season wrapped up. I hadn't gotten around to watching 12 (the second season is supposed to begin airing in April).
The series definitely seems to be entering a darker mode moving forward.
The series definitely seems to be entering a darker mode moving forward.
Guel Jeturk kills his own Father as Guel pilots an enemy mobile suit and they are unaware who each other are.
Sulletta ends the episode with a truly exceptionally graphic and deranged moment where she saves Miorine (and her injured Father) from an enemy by splatting the human with Ariel's giant robot hand. "severed arm seem floating away", Suletta then climbs out of Ariel and acts all cheery and happy towards Miorine even extending a hand dripping in blood and tissue.
It 100% appears Suletta is some kind of psychologically conditioned or something by her "Mother" and may be part of the theory that she may have genetically-engineered and the 'brain' of her real daughter from the Prologue (Ericht) is a part of the Gundam Ariel.
But it definitely appears that the 'trigger' phrase is the Mom saying "If you run you gain one, if you move forward you gain two"
It also plays into the 'mythos' of calling her Mom and those who worked with the Gundams (and piloted them) "witches" in that it is rather like 'casting a spell' to use conditioning to have words trigger effects
Sulletta ends the episode with a truly exceptionally graphic and deranged moment where she saves Miorine (and her injured Father) from an enemy by splatting the human with Ariel's giant robot hand. "severed arm seem floating away", Suletta then climbs out of Ariel and acts all cheery and happy towards Miorine even extending a hand dripping in blood and tissue.
It 100% appears Suletta is some kind of psychologically conditioned or something by her "Mother" and may be part of the theory that she may have genetically-engineered and the 'brain' of her real daughter from the Prologue (Ericht) is a part of the Gundam Ariel.
But it definitely appears that the 'trigger' phrase is the Mom saying "If you run you gain one, if you move forward you gain two"
It also plays into the 'mythos' of calling her Mom and those who worked with the Gundams (and piloted them) "witches" in that it is rather like 'casting a spell' to use conditioning to have words trigger effects
While I have been enjoying the show, I have also been kinda waiting for the inevitable switch from the school setting to the more traditional war setting.
just some rambling speculation
Since we have seen people (like the fake Elans) who have been modified to use the gund arms, it is likely that Suletta is also modified in a similar way. which could leave room for a 'reveal' later if an original Suletta joins in.
and modifying existing people to get better at using mobile suits would fit into the franchise's earlier use of cyber-newtypes. And the first cyber-newtype we saw in the franchise was 'Four' back in Zeta (at least I think she was the first) and the first double/modified human we saw in this show was the forth Elan, but then the number four tends to be associated with death so this might not be a connection.
and modifying existing people to get better at using mobile suits would fit into the franchise's earlier use of cyber-newtypes. And the first cyber-newtype we saw in the franchise was 'Four' back in Zeta (at least I think she was the first) and the first double/modified human we saw in this show was the forth Elan, but then the number four tends to be associated with death so this might not be a connection.
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Crunchyroll has released a dub of the Prologue.
This Gundam make me remember the old G-Gundam at school. Or perhaps the real robot fight version of Gundam Build Fighter series.
anyone here still watching this? season 2 have been fantastic.
Heh, the SAL got Cyloned.