Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Episode 2
Added 2023-01-01 02:04:26 +0000 UTC:3 happy new year!!
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the Gaydom lol
One G. O A. T. One Dream
2025-03-08 18:48:31 +0000 UTCLooking back, to think that even here, MioMio's dad and Mama Mercury were "working together" is quite the eye opener...and that Prospera was literally playing the strings of almost all the major players
FlaschenJoe11
2024-09-11 18:29:58 +0000 UTCYou should try watching Iron Blooded Orphans
Alex
2023-04-14 22:34:56 +0000 UTCBruv, this is my first gundam since Gundam 00. its so different already lol
Morrighan
2023-01-12 13:10:27 +0000 UTCThe voice actor for Miorines father is the same guy who does Askaladds voice
RevealingStorm
2023-01-10 05:46:19 +0000 UTCI assume the president lady isn't evil and might be Suletta's mom in a disguise because she has the same prosthetic arm, and I assume the presidents of the companies send their children to the school. But I might be wrong, this is my first time watching gundam since Gundam Build Fighters 🤷🏻♀️ (Also the Spacians are extremely xenophobic towards Earthlings and I think people that live on planets in general, so I think the pink haired chick's disdain is somewhat justified)
Pubbles
2023-01-05 06:40:59 +0000 UTCSo there isn't a ton of lesbianism in Gundam but same sex relationships do crop up. Though this show is basically a Gundam version of Revolutionary Girl Utena which is one of the most Sapphic animes of all time.
Alopex The Wanderer
2023-01-03 05:23:15 +0000 UTCGlad you're getting into mech anime and Gundam. Best thing about Gundam is that there are multiple continuities and most (besides the original Universal Century timeline) have two or three entries at most. So each one is a different experience and if you don't like one another can suit you better. As a Gundam veteran, I'd recommend you try out Turn A Gundam first. It's one of the lesser known series, but still so good, and much less of an emotional gut punch than a lot of the other Gundam universes. Even though I love it, I recommend you skip Iron Blooded Orphans. That entire series is basically "Every Variety of Child Abuse: The Anime" and I know that would definitely not be something you'd want to deal with. It treats the issues of childhood poverty, child soldiers, and child SA seriously, but it is correspondingly brutal as it is serious. I also recommend saving G Gundam for if you watch a Gundam series and get too sad. That one is very different, and deals with some surprisingly deep subject matter, but is much more fun and lighthhearted.
James Gheen
2023-01-02 05:14:13 +0000 UTCIt's gotta be the Quattro shades though lol
Soof the Sentret
2023-01-01 14:27:41 +0000 UTCYes! More gundam! Also as a side note at the end of each episode there's credited art related to the episode (and the next episode is not only grade S for content and character development but has a banger art piece at the end)
Soof the Sentret
2023-01-01 14:27:08 +0000 UTCTL:DR Yuri and Yaoi have been a thing for a LOOOOOONG time. Of course Japan would know their way around it.
N00B
2023-01-01 11:56:13 +0000 UTC:D I’m so happy I could give some New Years presents then!
aliciaxlife
2023-01-01 11:09:58 +0000 UTCHoly smokes!! That is an insanely cool fun fact about the development
aliciaxlife
2023-01-01 11:09:20 +0000 UTCWhere I am from, New Year is basically what Christmas is in the west, so this and Mob are like New Year’s presents under the tree.
Sander
2023-01-01 09:33:14 +0000 UTCshow's an interest in Mech anime! *Puts on aviator sunglasses, and leans back*, "Ladies', and Gentlemen....we got 'em!"
MONDO
2023-01-01 06:00:00 +0000 UTCAlso, sorry for double posting, but there have been several interviews in the Japanese Anime magazine, New Type, with the two main voice actress, as well as the the director and writer of the show. So, we know some stuff about the development of the show. The main creator of Witch said that this show was always intended to be a story about two people, so neither Suletta or Miorine are intended to be THE protagonist, they are both co-protagonists in equal. And, Miorine didn't exist until very late into the pre-production phase. Suletta's partner for most of the pre-production phase was meant to be a different woman who we only know was described as being the mistress of the villain, and she was didn't go to the school like the rest of the characters. So that plus the "mistress" description makes it seem like proto-Miorine was probably older than Suletta, and that Suletta was probably going to NTR Delling.
RF
2023-01-01 05:13:38 +0000 UTCThe original creator of Gundam said in an interview for the movie that he intended the MC and his rival/villain to be romantically coded. Most of the gay stuff in Gundam, sapphic or otherwise, tends to be mostly coded or where they get so close and do almost everything except call it what it is, the sort of Mei/Kiana approach. I think the first outright "no beating around the bush" gay gay character in Gundam was in Turn A. Blooded orphans had a handful of also explicitly gay characters, including two very important members of the main cast, but that wasn't until the very end of the series, a sort of "ok, now that the show is over we can say they are gay for each other in the epilogue" kind of thing. Witch is the first time the main couple of the show is gay and also they don't wait until the very end to confirm it.
RF
2023-01-01 04:52:57 +0000 UTCThanks for the video, Happy New Year
TrinitytheApostle
2023-01-01 04:03:47 +0000 UTCGood addition, and that's definitely something i also overlooked, i think i maybe heard of that before, but i thought it was a western thing. But certainly one of my views on Gundam was that they always felt far more forward thinking than western stuff. Like Star Trek later than the OG gundam was still on with the Socialism Vs Capitalism stuff and there Gundam was with Spacenoid centric philosophies and fully rethinking what the priorities of humanity would be in the far future.
cody raugh
2023-01-01 03:52:05 +0000 UTCMore to the point, Japan just has different cultural attitudes towards this kind of thing. Namely, there's this longstanding (as in, goes back to the Meiji Era) idea that a lot of teenage girls just have a "phase" of being into other girls, and that it's perfectly normal and even cute just so long as they "grow out of it" as they get older. It's thought of as an innocent, childish thing that only becomes a concern if you keep doing it as you age, like being a chuuni or whatever. "Bloom Into You" has a really good example of this attitude (and how much damage it can do to an ACTUAL lesbian who gets treated as her ex-girlfriend's childhood indiscretion and told they need to stop "playing at dating"). So it isn't a question at all of an anime being "woke" enough to have its two teenage girl protagonists in a relationship in the first place; the real question is whether it's going to take that relationship seriously the whole way through. For what it's worth, I think they 100% will, because Gundam tends to be committed to whatever can be wrung for the most emotion and drama, not whether it conforms to the cultural expectations of their audience.
TyrianPurpleHaze
2023-01-01 03:16:08 +0000 UTCI'm afraid most of the previous gay stuff has been man on man, so no, not much lesbian content. Though a previous series *did* feature a Polyamorous relationship (tragically) becoming a Monogamous lesbian marriage at the end of the show.
Gore17
2023-01-01 03:09:52 +0000 UTCWhich to elaborate. This means i think we'll have one of the most real, soulful and best written gay relationship in this show because i very much doubt the writers are putting the typical western "representation" before writing and just are naturally building this one and if they do end up putting it through the Gundam wringer and both of them live or even if one dies, then you know it's the true-true.
cody raugh
2023-01-01 02:42:46 +0000 UTC"its a Gundam" turned into such a meme template ^^ Yeah her father is the one who gave the order to attack the comapny of Sulettas parents.
Sven Hegenbart
2023-01-01 02:38:59 +0000 UTC"Is Gundam that woke?" Id say no, but Gundam has something else, they're practical and forward thinking. It's more of a "why wouldn't there be?" Than a "we're out here signalling" And part of that with Gundam is you have almost every flavor of relationship from the most toxic to the most wholesome, the most deep and true, and the most shallow and convenient. And while i think this particular series will be spared it, all of them are beaten and battered by the horrors of combat and war and don't necessarily recieving the endings theg deserve. Some of the worst relationships survive and gain power, while some of the most wholesome die horrifically. But besides selling plastic models, the original author of Gundam pushed the boundaries of the children's show he was put in charge of, and made it into a exploration of the human condition and a expose on the horrors of war. (OG Gundam is targetted towards kids and has some of the most horrific warcrimes imaginable included in it, full on Nostalgia Critic "80s movies 'put your annoying kid infront of the TV and let the PTSD shut them up'")
cody raugh
2023-01-01 02:29:52 +0000 UTCHappy new year! And a new Gundam reaction, you shouldn't have, such a nice gift. :p
Gore17
2023-01-01 02:27:22 +0000 UTC
