Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

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Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女, Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu: Suisei no Majo) is a Japanese mecha anime television series and the fifteenth mainline entry in Sunrise's long-running Gundam franchise. It was directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi with scripts by Ichirō Ōkouchi, and aired from October 2022 to July 2023. Set in a world where numerous companies have advanced into space and constitute a huge economic zone, the story concerns the Mobile Suits known as "GUND-ARMS" ("Gundams" for short), weapons that were developed out of diverted health technology "GUND" which compensates for physical disabilities caused by living in space. The Witch from Mercury is the first TV series in the Gundam franchise to feature both a female and LGBTQ protagonist, Suletta Mercury. Thematically, the series focuses on capitalism and political corruption, drawing stylistical inspiration from Shakespeare's The Tempest with elements from witch trials, which inspired the titular...

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