Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, the primary mainline Gundam sequence since 2016, received’t correctly begin till October. But if you wish to know what to anticipate past the quick glimpses we’ve had already, you’re in for a deal with: a new prequel episode simply dropped on-line.

The Witch From Mercury Prologue, which made its debut in Japan a number of months in the past, is now obtainable to stream on the official Gundam Info YouTube channel, the primary time it’s been formally publicly made accessible to followers outdoors of Japan. Set many years earlier than the occasions of Witch From Mercury, the prologue introduces a brand new alternate timeline in the Gundam continuity—its eleventh, the truth is—referred to as Ad Stella, and a future the place humanity is slowly colonizing the celebs with the assistance of GUND Format expertise—cybernetic and mechanical prosthetics and physique modifications that assist “Spacians” adapt to non-terrestrial environments.

But when the GUND Format begins getting used to develop human-machine connections in Mobile Suits, a burgeoning company and guerrilla battle between impartial mecha improvement institutes and the Earth authorities’s personal improvement council places the household of younger Ericht “Eri” Samaya within the crossfire on her fourth birthday.

You can watch the complete prologue episode above, which to date units the stage for all the types of traditional beats you may anticipate from the legendary mecha franchise—Earth/house colony stress, youngster troopers, political machinations, tragedy, and a few very cool big robots, together with the brand new Gundam Lfrith, a neon-pink-hued prototype for Mercury’s eventual essential swimsuit, the Gundam Aerial. If that is what we are able to anticipate from the principle sequence going ahead, we’re in for a deal with.

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury is ready to start airing in Japan this October, with a simultaneous worldwide broadcast deliberate by way of a presently undisclosed platform.

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