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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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* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Distant Prologue]]: ''Prologue'' takes place many years before the main series. {{spoiler|Eventually revealed to be 21, not 13.}}
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: ''Prologue'' features corporate agents committing mass murder leaving minimal survivors. The main series initially focuses on a ''relatively'' lighthearted school setting. This comes up again at the end of the cour when things start getting dark again after the school setting is used to introduce the characters. Writer Ichiro Okouchi has stated this was intentional to make the series appeal more to the franchise's actual target audience of teenagers while keeping it ''Gundam'' and while ''Prologue'' was originally supposed to air later to introduce the darkness, but was moved up to address the beginning being too slow and to make clear to older fans it's still ''Gundam''.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Suletta desperately wants a normal (or what she thinks is normal) school life.
* [[Named After Their Planet]]: An odd human example where Prospera and Suletta use the surname Mercury.
* [[No Social Skills]]: Suletta is relatively ''OK'' talking with adults, but hasn't seen another minor in her life and has a very warped idea of what a school is. This makes her interaction with her peers very difficult.
* [[Official Couple]]: {{spoiler|After a cour of [[Will They or Won't They?]], Suletta and Miorine drop any pretense the marriage is purely a political thing}}.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: A problem Suletta suffers from in episode 11, due to her exceptionally poor social skills. Everyone else however very quickly notices there has been some kind of misunderstanding and take steps to rectify this, though Suletta has beaten herself up enough that getting her to listen takes effort.
* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: {{spoiler|Aerial, her bits}}.
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