Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury (TV)

[Ryllharu]

I just watched the prologue and unless the main show is totally different, this should be a banger. Really liked the grounded presentation of the story; only thing I'm not sure whether it's an issue or not is the linework, the art looks kind of weird in a hard-to-explain way. Also the animation during battles could be smoother.

Which version of the Prologue did you watch? There are three.
AnimeCon (~mid-July), GundamInfo prescreen (9/1), and Official Release (9/25). The official one is completely uncut and has the most polished animation.


The Ad Stella setting is really interesting.

The major conflict is still Spacians vs Earthers, but instead of military and moral stuff the settings normal have. It seems to be centered on rampant Corporate power and monopoly control. Space Faction want to be the only MS makers. I mean, it could do a total tone shift like 00 did at the mid-point, and the series is a split-cour already.

Hopefully, it isn't all loaded with transhumanism like Gundam normally is in terms of genetic superiority and "Childhood's End" type trash that they're always cranking out with the Newtypes, but more protheses and supplemental/replacement organs because the legitimate and very real dangers of space: cosmic rays, radiation, and prolonged zero-G ravage the human body. Stuff we know from science today thanks to all the real-world space agency studies on the long-term effect. WFM is very grounded just talking about that stuff.

The 'danger' came from the Ochs Corporation adapted the GUND-Format into a MS, which as a huge robot, causes significant higher drain on a person's mental faculties unless they are able to sync with it better like Ericht does. What Ericht is doing isn't any different from the younger generation being much more natively tuned to technology of the era. Like a child who very intuitively uses a smartphone. Human-Machine Interface, not Brain-Machine Interface as in IBO or the Innovado bullshit from 00.

Ericht thought of the Lfrith Gundam exactly as the Professor described it, like another child. She spoke to it and personified it. As a result, she didn't struggle to sync with it like her mother and the others do because to some degree they're afraid of it. She jumped right down to the bottom layer of connectivity with it because she treats the technology differently. The way she speaks of the Gundam Aerial in the end of the 2nd trailer convinces me she still thinks of her branch of technology that way.


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edit:
First episode of the main series is out.

Make sure you're using V2 when they're out. Someone botched the subs and they're off by 13 seconds.
And about 8 minutes in they're off by an additional 13.5 seconds, so simple delay retiming won't fix it.