Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
2022
Original language: Japanese
- animation
- sci-fi & fantasy
- action & adventure
The story
A. S. (Ad Stella) 122 ― An era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system. Suletta Mercury, a lone girl from the remote planet Mercury, transfers to the Asticassia School of Technology, run by the Beneritt Group which dominates the mobile suit industry.
What it’s like
Bright, saturated anime palette with clean cel shading, glossy hard-edged mecha against pale corporate whites, and a lot of sun-washed school corridors and open orbital sky. The look swings between airy daylight classroom scenes and sudden hot-red or dark-steel combat sequences, with fast kinetic camera moves and sharp hard cuts during duels. Sound leans on orchestral-electronic score with bright piano and swelling strings in quiet moments, plus heavy, mechanical thuds and beam whine in fights. Vibe: sleek, earnest, sun-bleached techno-drama with a teen-school warmth. Good for a focused weeknight watch, a binge across a few evenings, or anyone wanting a character-driven story with a bit of tension. Pacing starts slow and social, then tightens into long, escalating episodes of duels and reversals. Emotional register is hopeful but anxious, following a reserved young woman learning to trust others while a rival and a corporate system press in around her. Combat is frequent and stylized, with mecha damage, blood-free but serious injury, and some violent deaths; there is heavy stress and some cruelty, and romantic and yuri undertones build gradually. For fans of mecha and school-life drama who like gentle character bonds set against a cutthroat corporate world.
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