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After a gap of several years detailed in 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]]'', ''[[Code Geass]]'', ''[[Princess Principal]]'', some episodes of ''[[Turn A Gundam]]'', as well as many spinoffs of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'') [[Mobile Suit Gundam - 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.</ref>) with a female protagonist, and the first to be simultaneously released (subtitled) outside of Japan.
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