New Gundam Anime Reveals its First-Ever Female Lead

A brand new trailer for the anticipated Mobile Suit Gundam anime was simply revealed at Bandai Namco’s Gundam Conference on Tuesday. The Witch From Mercury (Kidō Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo) is the primary tv sequence from the franchise in seven years, and can characteristic Gundam’s first-ever feminine protagonist. The trailer reveals her look, and that of her cellular go well with, the Gundam Aerial, which is slated for a toy line someday in the course of the summer season. The anime was first introduced in September of 2021, and is now formally scheduled for an October launch of this 12 months.

The Witch From Mercury follows Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, which ran for two-seasons from 2015-2016. The fifty episode sequence was well-received by audiences and targeted on large-scale army battle inside the close to photo voltaic system. There has been no information but in regards to the timeline throughout which The Witch From Mercury goes to happen or the plot of the sequence. Considering that Iron-Blooded Orphans had short-range melee weapons impressed by medieval swords and polearms, maybe the brand new anime will take a extra mystical method.

From James Whitbrook’s earlier reporting on the announcement:

The concept of a spacebound “Witch” might even draw parallels to one of the vital iconic ideas from Gundam past its titular cellular fits: the Newtype, a reputation given to human beings who’ve developed from life within the area colonies in the course of the Universal Century, with latent psychic skills. Newtypes—and artificially developed iterations of them referred to as Cyber-Newtypes—are a hallmark of the Universal Century timeline particularly, though variations on the idea have been riffed on in different Gundam materials. So if The Witch from Mercury desires to play with the idea as nicely, it could possibly be very fascinating certainly past extra big robotic astropolitical motion.

There may even be a prologue undertaking titled Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Prologue. It will debut this summer season, forward of the anime, on the Gundam Factory in Yokohama earlier than making a tour of the franchise’s institutions throughout Japan and China, together with the Gundam metaverse undertaking on the future web site of the Gundam Base Virtual World. They additionally revealed two cellular fits that will probably be current on this prologue, named Lfrith and Beguir-Beu.

According to the convention, excessive grade 1/144-scale fashions for the three newly revealed cellular fits are already in manufacturing.

The anime will premiere in October.