Gundam: Witch From Mercury‘s New Trailer Takes Us All to Giant Robot School

The next chapter in the Mobile Suit Gundam saga finally has a self-coloured release date , andour latest lookat it yet gives a spirit at its real assumption — and perhaps not quite so many jumbo golem fights as you might first expect .

Sunrise has released a new trailer confirming that The Witch From Mercury , the next mainline series inthe Gundam franchise , will begin air on October 2 . The newfangled trailer for the series puts the public eye on the now - teenaged Suletta Mercury — who we saw as anadorable war criminal / toddlerin theexcellent Prologue episodestreamed last hebdomad — as she makes her way to the Asticassia School of Technology , a military academy for the next generation of Mobile Suit pilots run by the megacorporations that have flash humanity to the stars in Mercury’s“Ad Stella ” timeline .

While we do get to see some flare of the series ’ new main suit in natural action , the Gundam Aerial , the focus here is on something Gundam has n’t really explored before — what is , fundamentally , a high school day setting , even if it is Giant Robot School . Gundam ’s young protagonists are normally flung into rebel groups or the factions of war with trivial time for education while they see how to survive wielding horrifying weapons of battle . flick that and set a serial at a military honorary society is an challenging wrench on the variety of gamy schooling drama that anime fuck , while also interrogating the form of engagement Gundam ordinarily expect of its young , traumatized heroes .

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And if you opine the schoolhouse setting might avoid that , there is indeed at least some robot - on - robot action to grab your attention here , as well as the intriguingly frame of Suletta ’s piloting of the Gundam as an almost supernatural entity , with flash card describing her as the show ’s titular witch , piloting “ the cursed Mobile Suit . ” Gundam ’s question of its titular epic mecha as both Wow Cool Robot and a horrifying extrapolation of humanity ’s capableness for fury has been a affair since the very first anime series , but it ’ll be riveting to see how The Witch From Mercury explores that in its surprising context .

Mobile Suit Gundam : The Witch From Mercury begins air in Japan on October 2 — a worldwide cooccurring broadcast is still plan , but the international home for the series has yet to be substantiate .

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