Gundam: Witch From Mercury’s New Trailer Takes Us All to Giant Robot School

The subsequent chapter within the Mobile Suit Gundam saga lastly has a stable launch date, and our newest look at it but provides a have a look at its actual premise—and maybe not fairly so many huge robotic fights as you would possibly first anticipate.

Sunrise has launched a brand new trailer confirming that The Witch From Mercury, the following mainline collection in the Gundam franchise, will start airing on October 2. The new trailer for the collection places the highlight on the now-teenaged Suletta Mercury—who we noticed as an cute struggle felony/toddler within the wonderful Prologue episode streamed final week—as she makes her strategy to the Asticassia School of Technology, a navy academy for the following era of Mobile Suit pilots run by the megacorporations which have shot humanity to the celebrities in Mercury’s “Ad Stella” timeline.

While we do get to see some flashes of the collection’ new essential go well with in motion, the Gundam Aerial, the main target right here is on one thing Gundam hasn’t actually explored earlier than—what’s, basically, a highschool setting, even whether it is Giant Robot School. Gundam’s younger protagonists are normally flung into insurgent teams or the factions of struggle with little time for training whereas they learn to survive wielding horrifying weapons of battle. Flipping that and setting a collection at a navy academy is an intriguing twist on the kind of highschool drama that anime loves, whereas additionally interrogating the types of conflicts Gundam normally asks of its younger, traumatized heroes.

And in the event you thought the college setting would possibly keep away from that, there’s certainly at the least some robot-on-robot motion to seize your consideration right here, in addition to the intriguingly framing of Suletta’s piloting of the Gundam as an virtually supernatural entity, with flashcards describing her because the present’s titular witch, piloting “the cursed Mobile Suit.” Gundam’s interrogation of its titular heroic mecha as each Wow Cool Robot and a horrifying extrapolation of humanity’s functionality for violence has been a factor for the reason that very first anime collection, however it’ll be fascinating to see how The Witch From Mercury explores that in its stunning setting.

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury begins airing in Japan on October 2—a worldwide simultaneous broadcast continues to be deliberate, however the worldwide dwelling for the collection has but to be confirmed.

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