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Line 2: {{Needs Image}} '''''Mobile Suit Gundam: ~~the~~The Witch from Mercury''''', officially abbreviated as ''G-Witch'', is a 2022-2023 [[Gundam]] TV series. Rather than feuding governments typical of a Gundam series, its Ad Stella timeline depicts a future where space has been settled by [[Mega Corp]]s that dominate over Earth, and the nearest thing to law is corporate policy that can change on a relative whim. Accordingly, rather than an open war, the first cour of the series is set in a seemingly peaceful era where different corporations and branches of these corporations and their leaders fight each other use assassination, blackmail, and the like against each other. 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. Line 8: 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]]'') [[''Mobile Suit Gundam: ~~- the~~The Witch from Mercury]]'' is the first non-Gunpla based ''Gundam'' TV series since ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS]]'' ended seven years prior in 2015, and is the first of the Reiwa era. It is also the first ''Gundam'' TV series (but not the first ''Gundam'' '''work''' <ref>The first being manga one-shot ''[[New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Sidestory: Tiel's Impulse]]'', and the first of significant length being ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam École du Ciel]]''. Other prior, non-TV series, works in the franchise with a female main protagonist include ''[[Advance of Zeta Re-Boot: Gundam Inle - Black Rabbit Had a Dream]]'', ''[[Gundam Breaker]] Battlogue'', ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation]] Code Fairy'', and the weirdly named ''[[Despair Memory Gundam Sequel]]'' manga, all of which ''also'' have strong cases for [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot\|being into girls]]. Also a decent number of video games with a customizable protagonist and later web animation oneshots.</ref>) with a female protagonist, and the first to be simultaneously released (subtitled) outside of Japan. {{tropelist}} Line 26: * [[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. Line 57 ⟶ 58: * [[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"). Line 67 ⟶ 69: {{reflist}} {{Gundam Franchise}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Pages Original to All The Tropes]]