Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury is a Japanese anime series based on Mecha. It was written by Ichirō Ōkouchi and directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi and Ryō Andō. Naohiro Ogata and Sunrise produced the series.Inc animation studio, the series made a name in the mecha world of anime. It was a sequence of the Gundam franchise. The series started streaming on October 2, 2022, with one season, which has 12 episodes.
The series started its episode streaming on various platforms like Crunchyroll and Netflix. The dubbed version of the series was released on February 6, 20232, in crunchy roll, and it licensed the series for the streaming of dubbed and original sub-versions. For the animation series, Sunrise and Medialink are licensed. The official Gundam youtube channel also streams the Gundam series.
Hiroshi Kobayashi and Ryō Andō directed the series, and the music is by Takashi Ohmama. The first season has 12 episodes aired from October 2, 2022, to January 8, 2023. The second season will be released and aired from April 2023 on JNN, MBS, and TBS channels in the original Japanese language in Japan. The media link released the series On their Ani-One Asia YouTube channel.
The Sunrise studio has one of the best animation studios for the series, and the Animation and character design are made with the most detail, which Animation Got so much craze these days. The Mechanical Design, Animation of the mechas, and the fighting were well created, and the detailing of each character in the series is to be appreciated.
The prologue episode which is released in July 2022. Season 2 will be released soon after April 2023. The series has a total of 4-5 hours of watching time. The dubbed version of the series was released. Crunchyroll and Ani-One Asia have the license for the series, and others like Netflix, etc.
Suletta Mercury is the main female protagonist in the series, and she is a student at the Asticassia School of Technology and a second-year student in the pilot department. She has a sensitive personality and so innocent nature, which is hard to communicate with others and a lack of connection with people. She has red hair, which is short, and blue eyes. She wears her school uniform, a white shirt, shorts, and black boots. She is interested in the Earth House, one of the Asticassia school’s departments.
Her hard work and skills made her a unique character in the series. She has trained to become a mobile suit pilot, and she pilots XVX-016 Gundam Aerial, a mobile suite created by the shin sei development corporation. This suit has several upgrades and new tech features like a remote controlling system and some drones, which are useful in combat, but the main feature is bit staves. Kana Ichinose is the voice actor for the original Japanese language, and Jill Harris is the voice actor for the dubbed English language.
Miorine Rembran is also one of the main female protagonists, and she is also a second-year student joined by the management in the school, and she is also a president of the Gundam-arm inc, which tells us she is from a rich family. She has grey hair and platinum eyes. She is uncomfortable with connecting with people, but she loves greenery and always spends most of her free time gardening.
She is an intelligent student in the mecha suits. She could understand the Macha suits and read books in less time than the other students. She is also a commander in the Earthhouse team. She also pilots the XVX-016 Gundam Aerial suit, also known as S011-0093.lynn is the voice actor for the Japanese, and Natalie Van Sistine is the voice actor for the English language in this series.
Guel Jeturk, Elan Ceres, Shaddiq Zenelli, Nika Nanaura, and Chuatury Panlunch are the other characters in the series with the most realistic and unique character designs. They have individual skills with individual mecha suits. These all are students in the Asticassia School of Technology.
All take training, and the Mecha piloting suits each individual with different skills and attributes. Each character gave life to the series, and the fighting and designing of the mechas are the ones that must be appreciated. In the series, there are other characters, including the Benerit Group, Jeturk Heavy Machinery, Grassley Defense Systems, etc.
The voice actors have taken an important role in the series with the most unique and dedicated voice for each character, which got a huge fan base in the series with design, Animation, music, and character building. The voice actors gave life to the characters in the series. Here are the other voice actors for the characters in the series as follows.
- Suletta Mercury: Kana Ichinose (Japanese); Jill Harris (English)
- Miorine Rembran: Lynn (Japanese); Natalie Van Sistine (English)
- Guel Jeturk: Yohei Azami (Japanese); Bradley Gareth (English)
- Elan Ceres: Natsuki Hanae (Japanese); Aaron Dismuke (English)
- Shaddiq Zenelli: Makoto Furukawa(Japanese); Alejandro Saab(English)
- Nika Nanaura: Yume Miyamoto,Haruka Shiraishi(Japanese); Bryn Apprill (English)
- Chuatury Panlunch: Miyu Tomita (Japanese); Brittney Karbowski (English)
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury character art:
The unique detailing of the mecha suits was upgraded with each battle, and the characters in the series combined their strength and skills in the battle. Each character has sufficient knowledge about battling with the mecha suits and piloting the suits in such a way that the battles make the series interesting. Everyone wants to have a suit or robot with that power and the skills it has, and people are more attracted in such a way that they always love to watch the mecha fighting without any second thought.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury plot:
The people gained enough knowledge and technology to travel across other planets. With that advanced technology, humanity changed their living into space, which they called Spacian, who are from space, and the Earthians, who are from Earth. The advanced technology led to mass destruction and conflict between the nations, which was used as a military power for the fight.
The Vanadis Institute developed the technology which is used for helping humanity in space. They are called Gundams. These are the mecha robots with affected and defense mechanisms used in the missions and the combat by piloting the mecha suits.
Suletta Mercury, a student, transfers to the Asticassia School of Technology. Every student in the school learns how to pilot a mechanical suit by using the skills and attributes of the suit. Miorine membrane joining s with the suletta Mercury is not a thing miorine does because she lacks communication and connection with people; that’s why she doesn’t have any friends alongside her.
The other students pilot the mecha suites, which are given and created with individual suite codes, skills, attributes, and the mecha suites for each. The Gundam Aerial has the system to learn and pilot the Gundams. All students with each ambition and goal pilot and prove themselves worthy pilots in the academy.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Review:
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury is a high-tech world in which humanity made huge progress in the past years. The development of humanity is divided into two, where the developed Spacians were the ones has the high tech and the required power to travel around space. The Earthians didn’t get that much technology compared to the Spacians, and the development progress of the Earthians will not come close to the Spacians who live on another planet in space.
The series made significant progress in the past episodes, but the robot suits are not new to the modern world. Still, it has gained enough fan base with the continuation and the past series of the Gundam. The design of the characters was well developed, and the powers with the unique upgrades of the mechanical l suits impressed the audience.
The series focuses on technology, politics, wars mecha suits which concludes the show as the high technology with advancement in humanity leads the world to competitions, politics, and chaotic situations; due to that, the Mecha piloting suits are required to control and save humanity in required situations.
There was a time when the mecha suits were used as the most powerful weapons to attack the countries, which led the world to a massive situation. Due to that, the mecha suits were destroyed and erased from history, which they called Venadis. The Witches are the ones who change the destiny of the barren planet because the series revolves around how female protagonists change the world and save the planet. The story and character were changed interestingly, attracting the audience.
The series has 12 episodes in season 1, with interesting twists and plots. If you have interested in the super mecha robots and virtual technology with piloting the highly developed mecha suits, it’s one of the best in the robot series. The average running time is 23min each episode. The series has thrilling politics and, most interestingly, combating the Gundams, which are mecha suits. The franchise made this series with a female protagonist who is quite different from the previous series made by Gundam.Inc.
Battle on the Barren Planet: Mobile Suit Gundam and the Witch from Mercury:
Overall the anime can be watched with interesting plots and battles. Let us see the witches from Mercury who saves the world by using mecha suits.
- Overall Series:-9.0/10
- Storyline and Plot:-9/10
- Visuals and Animation:-9.5/10
- Fightings and choreography:- 9/10
- Characters Design:- 9/10
Mobile Suit Gundam, Don’t think it will ruin your time, it can be one of the best mecha robot anime when you watch it, so it is the one you can count on. I recommend this anime for robot lovers and high-technology anime series.
Our Rating: ⭐ (3.9/5).
