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'''''Mobile Suit Gundam:
The series starts with special prequel episode "Prologue" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGW2JRxWUU&list=PLJV1h9xQ7Hx_jXtO1GrrS0to_ojc672HG&index=1 free on the franchise's official YouTube channel]) where Earth Sphere's corporations have agreed to ban GUND technology, a system developed to connect the human brain to [[Artificial Limbs]] that has since developed into a method of controlling mobile suits, making a class of which known as Gundams whose users (male or female) are known as Witches, that's highly efficient but also has a habit of crippling the user. To enact their ban, their newly formed "Auditing Organization" Cathedra launches an attack the asteroid base of GUND's creator Ochs Earth Corporation intent on purging the technology and its creators through a violent raid. [[Genocide Backfire|Two survivors escape the raid on the newest Gundam]], Elnora Samaya, one of GUND's senior developers and test pilots, and her exactly four year old daughter who has shown herself to be an inexplicably skilled user of GUND.
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After a gap of several years detailed in the short web fiction [https://en.gundam.info/about-gundam/series-pages/witch/music/novel/ "Cradle Planet"], Elnora Samaya, now operating under the alias Prospera Mercury, sends her 17 year old daughter Suletta Mercury to the Asticassia School of Technology as an unwitting pawn in her revenge plot along with her companion, the custom [[Super Prototype]] Mobile Suit Aerial (who is definitely not a Gundam). While a skilled Mobile Suit pilot from her years of work on [[Death World|Mercury]], and eager to experience a real school like [[Wrong Genre Savvy|she has seen countless times in anime]], Suletta has also never seen another child in her entire life and is completely, totally unprepared for a ''normal'' high school despite her hopes and piloting ability, let alone cutthroat Asticassia School of Technology. [[Hilarity Ensues]], soon to be followed by more [[Mood Whiplash]].
Written by [[Ichiro Okouchi]] (''[[Overman King Gainer]]'', ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' anime, ''[[Code Geass]]'', ''[[Princess Principal]]'', some episodes of ''[[Turn A Gundam]]'', as well as many spinoffs of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'')
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* [[Char Clone]]: Char's traits are split into two here. Prospera is the masked (wo)man known only by alias with brightly colored hair with a hidden revenge agenda {{spoiler|and is secretly related to one of the main cast, being Aerial/Eri's actual mother and not just creator}}. Meanwhile, Guel is the rival pilot who pilots a red mobile suit.
* [[Crystal Prison]]: Shown during the ending credits "Kimiyo Kedakakuare" as part of a metaphor about Suletta and Miorine needing to open up to each other.
* [[Cyberpunk]]: Augmented humans, warring [[Mega Corp]]s, {{spoiler|souls in machines}}.
* [[Death Song]]: "Happy Birthday", of all things, is used as one multiple times in the series.
* [[Death World]]: Mercury, true to reality, is totally inhospitable. Its population actually lives in orbital space colonies and is there primarily to mine the [[Unobtainium|otherwise rare but vitally critical]] Permet.
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* [[Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling]]: Aerial is clearly under "responsible" in "Cradle Planet", and Suletta '''absolutely''' falls under foolish.
* [[The Generic Guy]]: Nika's appearance, inspired by her [[Aerith and Bob|totally normal name]], was made exceptionally plain, with the 11th episode confirming even the most outlandish part of it (her two tone hair) is actually just an exaggeration of the lighting.
* [[Gundamjack]]: A very unusual example occurs when {{spoiler|Guel, taken hostage, tries to escape on one of the terrorist's
* [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]: {{spoiler|While seemingly superior to beam weapons in power, use of kinetic weapons with physical ammo in space is banned by treaty due to the debris left behind, leaving them the signature weapon of terrorists.}}
* [[Little Big Brother]]: Eri and her younger sister Gundam Lfrith in "Prologue". {{spoiler|Suletta and Aerial/Eri since, due to what happened to her, Aerial/Eri is still child sized in the intro and astrally, while Suletta is a grown teenager}}.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: The official website lists 41 named characters for the first cour, with a prominent character {{spoiler|the original Elan}} missing due to be a [[Walking Spoiler]]
** [[Cast Herd]]: The four heads of Peil Technologies, six minor Earth House members, Shaddiq's five wingwomen, and [[Those Two Guys]] Petra and Felsi all operate primarily as their group.
* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: {{spoiler|The first cour ends with a random terrorist getting flattened by Aerial's hand. Miorine is horrified to see Suletta so casual about being covered in blood.}}.
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* [[Sibling Team]]: Suletta and her mother both consider Aerial her pilot's sister. {{spoiler|Aerial and her bits are Suletta's sisters in [[Cloning Blues|a literal sense as well]].}}
* [[The So-Called Coward]]: Students initially mistake Suletta's fear of her own social incompetence as indication she's a general pushover and coward. When Guel tries to take advantage of this, he's quickly shown Suletta is the most experienced pilot at the school, having about a decade of real world experience in hazardous conditions as well as ample simulator time, so mobile suit operation is something she is ''not'' afraid of.
* [[Spider Tank]]: The BTz-48 Clibarri, which is very briefly seen [[Jobber|getting destroyed in a three on one fight]] and [[All There in the Manual|only given a name on the official website]].
* [[Spoiler Opening]]: The opening features {{spoiler|Eri and Suletta playing around in the intro is a strong hint they're not actually the same person}}.
* [[Stellar Name]]: What are the odds someone named [[Wikipedia:BepiColombo#Mio_(Mercury_Magnetospheric_Orbiter)|Mio]]<nowiki>rine</nowiki> [[Wikipedia:Rembrandt (crater)|Rembran]] winds up engaged to someone from Mercury?
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHPrEdA8Z7k The pitch video for GUND-ARM Inc. from episode 8] is animated as though it was a badly done live action video, with new failures visible upon every viewing. The flaws include every green screen mistake possible, random farm animals ruining the shot, visible jump cuts, a star whose fatigue level visibly changes between cuts, layering errors, clumsy use of sample effects found in free or OS pack-in video editing software, and wooden backup singers. There's a scene where even the normally unflappable Prospera privately [[So Bad It's Good|laughs at]] her daughter's work.
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Felsi and Petra are two otherwise minor Jeturk members who are seen providing Jeturk/Spacian/Non-Earthian prospective on events. Despite not being related, their names are both taken from geological terms (Felsic rock and "Petra").
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* [[Tyke Bomb]]: "Cradle Planet" makes clear both Suletta and Aerial are this for their mother, even if she genuinely loves them in addition to planning their use as instruments of revenge.
* [[Unobtainium]]: Permet, a material which enables wireless FTL communication. It's most prominently seen powering the [[Brain-Computer Interface]] GUND uses, but it has many other uses.
* [[Yandere]]: Sophie Pulone can quickly switch between crazed, obsessive fangirl of Suletta and mass indiscriminate murder of civilians she hopes will attract Suletta's attention.
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