Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury (TV)

[Ryllharu]

WTF. I don't know where you got that reaction from. You find it in some Outrage Industry youtuber or the dumbass MAL comments?

The series is very openly making an homage to Revolutionary Girl Utena with how the school setup works and how Miorine is being used by her father's consortium as a trophy to be won. Shots, framing, set-pieces for the dialogues, the entire structure of the whole episode is a very deliberate act to mimic Utena. You completely missed the point that Miorine and the rest of Spacian society don't care about who is her "groom," but that doesn't mean it is a genderless society just from the first episode. It also makes visual references to dozens of other Gundam series that I don't recognize, but super-fans will. Including Miorine spitting up in her own helmet after taking a hit. That level of detail.

And yes, the subs and the Japanese dialogue both refer to Suletta/Ericht as "girl" a lot, so you're just objectively wrong about that last part. All-girls school? I count at least three guys who are named in the main cast, and four girls in the same.

We should be in awe of Suletta winning because she completely overwhelmed the current champion. Doesn't matter that Aerial is very overpowered by being a GUND-ARM in a generation where there are no more of them, and she just placed a monumental target on her back by openly revealing she has one of them. Given the title of episode 2, I expect that issue to be fleshed out next time. The Consortium and its military branch Cathedral (that Miorine's father still runs) is probably going to want her killed and Aerial destroyed.

Deturk gets goaded into missing them because of the broadcasted verbal fight between Suletta and Miorine in the Aerial's cockpit. From his view, a timid and shy girl who hides behind his own lackeys after challenging him just casually called the reigning champion trash. He was toying with Miorine, but Suletta enraged him. So yeah, he missed. Guns are hard to use when you're not calm. Even harder when you're using one via a joystick and the slightest finger twitches from rage are quivering the bead off target. His own brother warns him not to lose his cool, but he does anyway and even throws away his spear. He lost then, regardless of whatever weapon Suletta used on Aerial to respond.

We should also be impressed that she surgically disassembles his mobile suit without killing him or blowing it up. The way her bits work, killing him would be effortless.

And the episode itself reveals that the stupid games the students are playing with each other via this Dueling bullshit they've built for themselves has much wider implications out in the greater solar system. One CEO nearly killed Delling the same way he killed off Ochs/Vanadis in an assassination because his idiot son was at the top of the rankings.

All upturned by an isolated, socially stunted girl with more bravery than self-awareness. Sent to the academy by her mother with no allies aside from an overpowered Mobile Suit that the girl talks about like it is her sister.

And yes, there's even more than that going on. Spoil yourself with the official website (particularly in Japanese?) if you want to know. I regret opening a spoiler post elsewhere and seeing the details.