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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]].
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>Earlier, 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, every one of which ''also'' has a strong case 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.
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 ''[[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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* [[The Bard on Board]]: Significant direction is taken from ''[[The Tempest]]''.
* [[The Bard on Board]]: Significant direction is taken from ''[[The Tempest]]''.
** [[Inspiration Nod]]: Prospera and Aerial=Prospero and Ariel. As ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' is referenced by name in the series (showing [[William Shakespeare]] and his works remain well known so far into the future), one wonders if Prospera was drawing from ''The Tempest'' when choosing that alias.
** [[Inspiration Nod]]: Prospera and Aerial=Prospero and Ariel. As ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' is referenced by name in the series (showing [[William Shakespeare]] and his works remain well known so far into the future), one wonders if Prospera was drawing from ''The Tempest'' when choosing that alias.
* [[Birthday Hater]]: Elan is extremely offput when asked for his birthday {{spoiler|because he's an orphan surgically
altered and mentally conditioned to stand in for the real Elan, assuming the risks of using GUND tech while the real Elan safely gains the battle experience through memory uploads. As such he ''doesn't remember'' his real birth date and couldn't reveal it even if he did.}}
* [[Bokukko]]: The inner monologue of Aerial (a [[Humungous Mecha]]) in ''Cradle Planet''. {{spoiler|As the series progresses, it becomes increasingly clear opening song ''Shukufuku'', where the singer uses boku, is from her addressed to Suletta.}}
* [[Bokukko]]: The inner monologue of Aerial (a [[Humungous Mecha]]) in ''Cradle Planet''. {{spoiler|As the series progresses, it becomes increasingly clear opening song ''Shukufuku'', where the singer uses boku, is from her addressed to Suletta.}}
* [[Bottle Episode]]: A few early episodes feature no mobile suit fights, as if to save budget for the following episode where the fight takes up nearly the entire episode.
* [[Brain-Computer Interface]]: GUND Format allows this, though it can potentially turn the user into a vegetable.
* [[Brain-Computer Interface]]: GUND Format allows this, though it can potentially turn the user into a vegetable.
* [[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.
* [[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 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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Little Big Brother]]: Eri and her younger sister Gundam Lfrith in ''Prologue''. {{spoiler|Suletta and Aerial since, due to what happened to her, Aerial/Eri is still child sized while Suletta is a teenager}}.
* [[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}}.
* [[Mega Corp]]: Beneritt Group is large enough to outlaw a particular technology and send kill teams to enforce it and owns large space colonies while having component groups that wage war on eachother. It's implied they aren't the only one in the setting.
* [[Mega Corp]]: Beneritt Group is large enough to outlaw a particular technology and send kill teams to enforce it and owns large space colonies while having component groups that wage war on eachother. It's implied they aren't the only one in the setting.
* [[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''.
* [[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.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Suletta desperately wants a normal (or what she thinks is normal) school life.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: A problem Suletta suffers from in episode 11, due to her exceptionally poor social skills. Everyone else however very quickly notices this and take steps to rectify this, though Suletta has beaten herself up enough that getting her to listen takes effort.
* [[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}}.
* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: {{spoiler|Aerial, her bits}}.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: A feature of Aerial in the opening, ending and Gunpla {{spoiler|which never actually shows up in the show proper before Aerial is upgraded at the end of the first cour}}.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: A feature of Aerial in the opening, ending and Gunpla {{spoiler|which never actually shows up in the show proper before Aerial is upgraded at the end of the first cour}}.
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* [[Screw Destiny]]: Lyrics to opening theme ''Shukufuku'' {{spoiler|which is Aerial telling Suletta they don't have to be pawns in their mother's revenge plot}}, something continued in, but not the focus of, the ending theme ''Kimiyo Kedakakuare''.
* [[Screw Destiny]]: Lyrics to opening theme ''Shukufuku'' {{spoiler|which is Aerial telling Suletta they don't have to be pawns in their mother's revenge plot}}, something continued in, but not the focus of, the ending theme ''Kimiyo Kedakakuare''.
* [[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]].}}
* [[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.
* [[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}}.
* [[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.
* [[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").
* [[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").
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: {{spoiler|By not mentioning how long has passed since ''Prologue'', the main series lets the viewer infer that Ericht is Suletta until the sixth episode reveals ''Prologue'' occurred 21 years prior even though Suletta is 17, not 25. There's enough holes, not to mention the absence of chronology itself being suspicious, that a perceptive viewer will suspect it earlier}}.
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: {{spoiler|By not mentioning how long has passed since ''Prologue'', the main series lets the viewer infer that Ericht is Suletta until the sixth episode reveals ''Prologue'' occurred 21 years prior even though Suletta is 17, not 25. There's enough holes, not to mention the absence of chronology itself being suspicious, that a perceptive viewer will suspect it earlier}}.
* [[Tsundere]]: Miorine and Chuchu. Miorine is a classic example, while Chuchu is just hostile to outsiders and perfectly friendly once someone is among her friend group.
* [[Tsundere]]: Miorine and Chuchu. Miorine is a classic example, while Chuchu is just hostile to outsiders and perfectly friendly once someone is among her friend group.
* [[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.
* [[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.


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