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[[Mobile Suit Gundam 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 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, a class 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.
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]].
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* [[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.
* [[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}}.
* [[Rivals Team Up]]: Attempted in episode 9 when Suletta, needing pilots to side with her in a team battle, ask Guel to join her. He clearly ''wants'' to, but is unable to because of issues with his father.
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: Suletta and Miorine.
* [[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
* [[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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