History Anime / MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury

* HideYourLesbians: Suletta and Miorine are engaged for most of the show's runtime, their romantic arc is the focal point of the show, they openly discuss a potential marriage with clear joy, and [[spoiler:during the DistantFinale the two are shown wearing rings and Suletta's sibling refers to Miorine as "sister-in-law."]] Despite this, a magazine that referred to them directly as "married" (quoting a statement from one of the voice actresses) had this mention edited out, and an official statement from Bandai could be read that their relationship is "up to the viewer."

* HideYourLesbians: Suletta and Miorine are engaged for most of the show's runtime, their romantic arc is the focal point of the show, they openly discuss a potential marriage with clear joy, and [[spoiler:during the DistantFinale the two are shown wearing rings and Suletta's sibling refers to Miorine as "sister-in-law."]] Despite this, an official magazine that referred to them directly as "married" (which was largely just quoting the claims of one of the voice actresses) had this mention edited out, and an official statement from Bandai claimed that their relationship is "up to the viewer."

* HideYourLesbians: Suletta and Miorine are engaged for most of the show's runtime, their romantic arc is the focal point of the show, they openly discuss a potential marriage with clear joy, and [[spoiler:during the DistantFinale the two are shown wearing rings and Suletta's sibling refers to Miorine as "sister-in-law."]] Despite this, an official magazine that referred to them directly as "married" (which was largely just quoting the claims of one of the voice actresses) had this mention edited out, and an official statement from Bandai claimed to see their relationship is "up to the viewer."

* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: The Benerit Group was built up as the GreaterScopeVillain for the majority of the series, being responsible for numerous atrocities and ruining Earth through exploitation and proxy wars. [[spoiler: Then came Episode 21, when the Space Assembly League, who up until then had been staying in the background, suddenly becomes the main villain while Benerit is rendered essentially powerless.]]

* MakeWayForTheNewVillain: The Benerit Group was built up as the GreaterScopeVillain for the majority of the series, being responsible for numerous atrocities and ruining Earth through exploitation and proxy wars. [[spoiler: Then came Episode 21, when the Space Assembly League, who up until then had been staying in the background, suddenly becomes the main villain while Benerit is rendered essentially powerless.]

** Finally, episodes are released on Sundays, the say of the Sabbath in Christianity. As in, Witches' Sabbath.

[[labelnote:Characters]]Miorine Rembran on the left and Suletta Mercury on the right. Behind them is XVX-016 Gundam Aerial.[[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[ArcWords "If you run, you gain one, but if you move forward, you gain two."]]''[[labelnote:Characters]] Miorine Rembran on the left and Suletta Mercury on the right. Behind them is XVX-016 Gundam Aerial.[[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[ArcWords "If you run, you gain one, but if you move forward, you gain two."]]'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:This witch...rides a Gundam.]]

** GUND is phonetically similar to the Old Norse word "gandr" (as in Jörmungandr), whose meanings are typically associated in context of supernatural entities or beings. It also means "magic staff" or "magic wand".

** GUND is phonetically similar to the Old Norse word "gandr" (i.e. Jormungandr), whose meanings are typically associated in context of supernatural entities or beings. It also means "magic staff" or "magic wand".

** There are also several references to ''Theatre/TheTempest'', which involves the sorceror Prospero (Lady Prospera) and his daughter being exiled to a remote island, and plotting on the man who exiled him with the help of a servant spirit named Ariel. [[spoiler: Episode 21 even introduces Calibarn, a Gundam described as a monster, based on Prospero's monstrous slave Caliban.]]

* DevelopmentHell: [[invoked]]An in universe example with the Schwarzette. Supplementary materials reveals that it was originally built as a successor to the Darilbalde, meant to improve all of its aspects. However it ran into a long string of problems, most notably repeated issues with the control system and eventually those problems lead to the line being put on ice. Once that Gundam's resurfaced and Vim obtained data from Prospera, the control systems were reworked to include GUND-Format, turning the Schwarzette into a GUND-Arm machine.

* DeflectorShields: The Gundam Lfrith and Aerial are shown to have some kind of protective barrier around their physical shields that deflects incoming beam weapons. Asticassia's {{Artificial Outdoors Display}}s are protected by something similar, preventing stray shots from ventilating the space station's walls during duels. Those only work with the green, low-output beam weapons enforced by the school's dueling rules, however.

** Episode 12 drastically changes the nature of the story, setting it on a DarkerAndEdgier path. [[spoiler:Delling gets mortally wounded while protecting Miorine during the terrorist attack on Plant Quetta. Guel accidentally kills his own father while escaping, much to his horror. Then, in TheStinger, a terrorist is about to kill Miorine and Delling until Suletta in Aerial arrives in time and crushes the terrorist like a bug. Miorine is traumatized by both the brutality of the murder and Suletta's calm and cheerful nature right after doing so, [[YouMonster leading Miorine to call Suletta a murderer]].]]

''Witch From Mercury'' was noted by Sunrise and the creators as being the first Gundam anime TV series to feature a female protagonist,[[note]]and the fourth overall, as various spin-off media such as ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamEcoleDuCiel'', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDCE73Stargazer'' and ''Literature/MobileSuitGundamTwilightAXIS'' featured female protagonists before her. Also a few [=OVAs=] of standalone short stories featured a female protagonist for an episode.[[/note]] who also is the first franchise's LGBTQ protagonist. It is also the first mainline Gundam series to premiere in the Japanese Reiwa (2019-present) period and the first new (non-Gunpla based) alternate universe ''Gundam'' series since 2015's ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans Iron-Blooded Orphans]]''.

** Suletta is the franchise's first LGBTQ protagonist. ''Gundam'' may be no stranger to HoYay, but her growing relationship with Miorine is fundamental to the series' plot [[spoiler:and ultimately culminates in the two being HappilyMarried by the epilogue]].

''Witch From Mercury'' was noted by Sunrise and the creators as being the first Gundam anime TV series to feature a female protagonist,[[note]]and the fourth overall, as various spin-off media such as ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamEcoleDuCiel'', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDCE73Stargazer'' and ''Literature/MobileSuitGundamTwilightAXIS'' featured female protagonists before her. Also a few [=OVAs=] of standalone short stories featured a female protagonist for an episode.[[/note]] who also is the first franchise's LGBTQ lead protagonist. It is also the first mainline Gundam series to premiere in the Japanese Reiwa (2019-present) period and the first new (non-Gunpla based) alternate universe ''Gundam'' series since 2015's ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans Iron-Blooded Orphans]]''.

Set in the year 122 of the Ad Stella (A.S.) calendar, an era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system. A lone girl from the remote planet Mercury transfers to the Asticassia School of Technology, run by the Benerit Group which dominates the mobile suit industry.

''Witch From Mercury'' was noted by Sunrise and the creators as being the first Gundam anime TV series to feature a female protagonist,[[note]]and the fourth overall, as various spin-off media such as ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamEcoleDuCiel'', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDCE73Stargazer'' and ''Literature/MobileSuitGundamTwilightAXIS'' featured female protagonists before her. Also a few [=OVAs=] of standalone short stories featured a female protagonist for an episode.[[/note]] and the first new (non-Gunpla based) alternate universe ''Gundam'' series since 2015's ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans Iron-Blooded Orphans]]''. It is also the first mainline Gundam series to premiere in the Japanese Reiwa (2019-present) period.