The other big inspiration behind Witch from Mercury is Shakespeare's The Tempest. There are a number of very clear, and clearly intentional, parallels between the two stories.
@@Dragoran5836 why? I want to see some of the main companies and their leaders burn. Torn apart like a Leo after meeting Deathscythe. The backstory calls for a cataclysmic ending and only that would enable the healing moment, and the hope for a happy future, to occur.
wait how? is magiacian sutella's mom and grey haired girl and sutella the king's son and magician's daughter? if so that seems wierd. i mean sure the spirit is called ariel like the GUND format mobile suit but i dont see very many other similarities.
It's quite funny that a bunch of questions you had already been answered in episode 6, like how they might introduce more powerful Mobile Suits in the future, or how the status quo might change.
Yes, this series isn't wasting any time. It hauls serious ass. Watched all eight current episodes last night, and it's got a lot of characterization jammed into it, while not feeling confusing or cluttered.
I've always liked 08th MS Team because you get a scale of how big the mobile suits are and how an armed force would operate and maintain suits in the field.
@@thomasffrench3639 Just because it's lighthearted (by UC Standards) doesn't mean it can't depict the harshness of war effectively while also being a fun watch.
No other gunddam has animated in a way the depics the weight of gundam in earth gravity as well as 08th. 08th is by far my favorite gundam show, great love story that pays out, you get the harshness of war. You get a view from both sides, and see both sides has good and bad people. And you get right into a good show, no need to tell somebody, it gets good on ep x. Its just good watchin start to finish. WfM has a fantastic ep 0 prolog, but besides 1 short fight in ep1 its kinda a slog starter. Been tryin to get my buddy to try out gundam, an the prolog got him interested, but he dropped the show ep 3. ): probably not going to get him to watch gundam any time soon.
I love how the show ended up subverting the expectation that they will quickly overcome the flaw for its rival Gundams. They managed to stay consistent within its rules while still having high tension and emotions. It was a really wonderful ride.
Funnily enough, the special program they did this week had a preview of art for the upcoming Episode 7, and it does have both Suletta and Miorine in dresses. Not only that, but Suletta's dress has similar features to the dress Loran used.
@@Zeek0079 I didn't like it at first but later I've grown to love it for how it is. If you search Chars Counterattack High Streamer, the designs are really weird. Also late UC gets weirder and weirder design. In my headcanon, it kind of made sense
"Hopefully they don't completely change the status quo on the sixth episode" Sixth episode: (Elan is strapped to a wall and laser'd to death and Aerial is probably sentient)
So I haven't even finished the video, yet, but "I can't wait for the part where SULETTA TURNS INTO A CAR!" made me gut laugh and almost cry. I really dug Revolutionary Girl Utena as my first "not on TV" series anime I pursued and also fell in love with. I'm digging G-Witch on so many levels - it is unusual for me to feel this strongly about a Gundam series!
In universe the reason Gundams kill their pilots is that the Gund-Am system is a mind machine interphase that was pulled from prosthetic limbs but putting an entire mecha through that system its too much for the pilots if they use it to its full potential or for too long. The researchers in the prologue seemed to consider this a solvable problem due to the tech being new. It is likely that either the AI in Ariel is responsible for it being safe or Sulletta is special in some way.
They pretty much reused the concept of the Alaya-Vijnana system from IBO. The bandwidth required to further control a Gundam is too much for a human nervous system and starts to cause strokes and nerve damage.
@@lpsoldin3162 Except that now, there is an AI inside the Gundam, allowing to bypass the problem of a Data Storm happening and fucking the Pilot´s brain
I came from the future to tell you that they didn’t solve the issue at all. What they did was merging Eri and Aerial. Like how Shou Tucker fused Nina and Alexander.
Just watched Ep 6. It didn't change the status quo, but the very ending did go somewhere quite dark I admit I wasn't expecting. Before I was kind of neutral toward the series but now I am definitely invested to see where it goes.
you are new to Gundam? this is very light compared to majority of previous Gundam. Anyone revealing themselves to be a clone/cyber newtype has a 0% survival rate
The thing about finding a suit on par with the Gundam, it’s established in the prologue and in the model kits that this universe had drone suits (bit like in wing) but they made suits that counter drones. You see this suit in the prologue and since the Gundams weapons act like drones (funnels/bits for other Gundam universes) this suit is basically a hard counter to it. In the show you see a experimental Gundam using this technology and is used by one of the main characters and it still as the flaw but they just use clones to pilot them (like cyber newtypea in UC Gundam) making it like Rock Paper Scissors. The main conflict with the Gundam (at least the main one) isn’t the death thing, it’s the legal thing and the main characters constantly have to look over their shoulder to avoid being arrested. Ep 7 fixed this by having most of the companies invest in Gundam to see where the technology goes but (I’m hoping for) it means the main characters will always be under the watchful eyes of all the companies and not just the main guy which should lead to difficulties just a bit different from the difficulties shown in earlier episodes.
It's easy to be surprised by things when you are completely unaware of literary history. Gundam Wing only borrowed ideas from books as old as the 1940's. Nothing original about it's depiction of A.I.
Yep Learning Computer in 79 original Gundam also an AI. Term machine learning not out yet but that is a major part of it and it constantly takes in all battle data from it's side and improves it's functioning.
@@lpsoldin3162 like how people think the book "neuromancer" introduced cyberpunk, when it was far from it, it POPULARISED cyberpunk like how gundam popularised this concepts
@@luckyowl10 In fairness it's obvious from very early on that the EVA's are organic beings, which should immediately disqualify them as mecha, but it doesn't because they look cool and at the time I imagine it was a unique concept. Also the "Get in the damn robot" meme.
Apart from Code Geas, Witch of Mercury has quite a few bits that give me Macross flashbacks. Especially the pair of Suletta and Elan are esentially Ranka Lee and her brother, minus the physical sibling relationship (probably). Also the flamboyant hair colours and styles and the colour-changing clothes, the sky displays inside the colony... But that's not necessarily negatives. While it reminds me of Macross it's more than enough of it's own identity to be more like nods than outright copies. Besides I really like Macross Frontier, so there are worse places to copy from. ^^ As far as Code Geas parallel's go, I'd say Earth House is the far better candidate to be CG's Japan/Eleven parallel, what with how suppressed and disrespected they are, while Mercury is a place that in the series most people barely know anything about beyong it existing.
What gets me hooked on a Gundam series, and Macross which got me into this series, is the stakes being raised so quickly to unimaginable levels. Within 3 episodes (or not even halfway through the first), the protaganists circumstances go from idly enjoying or getting through life and then suddenly being thrusted head first into a multi layered conflict they never wanted to be a part of it! So from the start, my eyes are wide open and deeply invested in the protaganists as they try to navigate this world that chose them rather than the other way round. Witch from Mercury has chosen to this in a different way. There's no conflict going on in public, and the biggest players in the story are outside the school. Although Suletta wanted to go there, she doesn't know how to navigate school the regular way, let alone this other side she knows little about. Her current circumstances are hilarous, slow, sympathetic, unclear and out of her control - but I am deeply invested in it and want to see it to the end!
What I like most about Mitch from Mercury is the character "Guel Jeturk" at first he starts out as a baddie but then you see him develop as a character and cheer him on! I like this side character more than the main bride and groom.
I mean iron blooded orphans undid a whole lot of the gundam tropes you bring up. Im curious if you've made it all the way through Arc becasue the whole death of pilot thing and actually messing up the pilots like they threaten is followed through in that one.
Hope you do a video on G-Witch's first season now that it's over. Until Season 2 in April. There is a post credit scene to episode 12 that really slaps.
Ahh this is the sort of commentary I needed- unbiased, straight to the point, and I got a few laughs in. Six months later the whole show took a pretty dark turn. The Gundam as a whole is amazing, giving different perspectives on different qualities of life. I’m not gonna sit here and pick which series had the biggest “they suffered so much” moment cause damn, the whole franchise really knows how to break your heart.
I love watching these older g-witch videos, back before we figured out that this show is essentially sapphic neo-feudalist Shakespeare's the tempest in space.
One thing I loved about Witch from Mercury and Iron Blooded Orphans was that the protagonist role was shared between two partners, Orga & Mika and Suletta & Miorine. In both shows, one is a leader who is the heart and mind, and the other is an ace pilot who is the body and spirit.
Oh great, now I will imagine Suletta dressing as Zero to start a rebellion OR her in a dress........I would like the dress part lol. But seriously I will admit that after 3 episodes, the show was very slow to the point where I would have given up on it but thankfully since Suletta is a soild character, I went through the 6 episodes we have so far. Definitely love the fights we did get, I ship Suletta with two of the guys we met, Miorine is EASILY my least favorite character in the show, the mobile suits are cool and the prologue was indeed bad ass. I would say this is a good gundam show so far though my one friend did stop it a bit due to the whole heavy focus on the school setting and not much happening yet but at least it is not an Isekai, a harem, a silly comedy anime or another Cross Ange so we should be good.
Witch from Mercury review starts at 05:15 Also more than half of the episode wasnt even about Witch from Mercury but a bunch of references from Code Geass and other Gundam anime.
I do hope that they go a bit deeper into the cost of using gundams. To me that was one of the more interesting parts of IBO, that the protagonist wasn't immune to the downsides of a gundam and that delving into Barbatos' "I win button" was a response that needed to be measured with its toll. And I also hope that we go beyond the scope of school duels at some point, though there is already some stuff that points in that direction. All in all though, fun so far. Especially nice for mecha fans to see mecha animation that doesnt look like it comes from a blender tutorial.
Something you missed during the Code Geass Utena comparison. The writer translated the Anime into LN form so is deeply familiar with RGU as well. Just a though. Also, please don't kick OG gundam under the bus. Yes it's older but it's still quite good and holds up well.
MSG Thunderbolt still continue to be my fav because how different it is to other Gundam plots & it's simply have more mature theme to the price of war. As Gundam WFM, I still have mix feeling with the corporate drama as so far it looks more of a bleached version of such dystopian future. Hopefully, we will see the more darker looks of corporate war.
So if this was made before the season finale what are your thoughts now? It seems very complicated and I hope that the next season will reveal all of the questions I have
I love my Iron Blooded Orphans. Unicorn is also a great show. I better not try to re-watch Gundam Wing because I think it wont hold up to my memories from childhood... Witch from Mercury is hopefully going to be a great show.
@@shawnjavery It'd feel so because the characters thoughts are not properly laid out, imo. In truth, Orga's just tired. Mind-wise. As per what young people are, they're inexperienced, impatient, and reckless. It was a dangerous factor for him and his members, because as the first season had shown, his recklessness had mostly been paid off, albeit with a high cost and it got to him thinking that power (physical) = good. In preventing to not lose more of member, Orga then associated power (influence) = safety and strive to get more, which is why he allied himself with Mc Gilis who seemed to be quite a promising partner at that time without knowing the internal conflict between Gjallarhorn tops nor paying attention to the growing jealousy inside his own circle as well (Saisei member). His ignorance in politics and his unwillingness to go slow to cautiously develop Tekkadan cost him big in the end. All because of his inexperience and immaturity in the grand scale of things. What he wanted for his brethren was a home. A home which he had actually gotten in S1. And yet, oblivious to this fact due to being an uneducated kid, he strived for more thinking he hasn't gotten it. It's the same case as the time when he was asked by his aniki of what he thought of tekkadan and its members are. He couldn't articulate it well that they're family, a brotherhood. He knew what he wanted to give to his brothers, and yet he didn't know what to call it, which is home. Tekkadan is a tragedy. S1 is how their legend rise, S2 is about how they fall.
I tried rewatching wing and seed while stoned this year. The experience was so bad (i remembered why i hated seed in the first place and dropped wing halfway after being confused about everything thats happening, just like what happened in my childhood), so fucking bad, that i ended up deciding to watch the entire UC timeline instead (with no prior knowledge or experience about anything about it). I thank wing and seed so heavily today, if not for their shitty writing i wouldnt have had the courage to get into UC. Like holy shit. Decades worth of gundam i consumed in 3 months.
@glass reflection wing started airing ytv in late 2000. Wing was finished in japan a few years prior. I remember stumbling upon it at amost minight in october of 2000. It was only episode 5 or 6 at the time.
I was hoping someone would cover this. I think that this might become a contender for the most appealing Gundam for a wider audience than your typical Gundam fans.
I’m extremely excited for where witch is heading cause episode six was definitely shocking to say the least because the prologue was what I expected gundam to be and the starting episodes were good and very wholesome but like I knew something darker and dramatic was building up then episode six was most definitely the pay off this show ruined the happy birthday song for me 😭😭😭. I love this corporate business politics that this show is going with instead of like the more government and war based the originals were also the character designs are stunning love the diversity this show has and seeing hand drawn mechs again is so satisfying
No, you should watch seventies tv anime. Future Boy Conan for example Space Battleship Yamato. Harlock. Gundam (the movies are NOT substitutes) Hurricane Polymar. Cutey Honey. Heidi! So many great series that you shouldn't skip just because they're old.
The fact that Ashita No Joe and Rose of Versailles is just sidelined is pretty telling on of how unfamiliar Glass Reflection is with 70s where he can’t really say much.
So far they havn't stopped the GUND system from killing their pilots, but they are dealing with it at the moment by using disposable proxies which is really as bad, if not worse.
I like this for the intro alone. I actually LIKE seed and destiny (mainly because Shinn eats shit and deserves it), but I totally feel you. Iron-Blooded Orphans lost me at the end, 00 was a neat, suave bishonen take, MS08th Team was a Vietnam allegory, and Turn A was such positive hope, it strays from the "Kill em all Tomino" formula. Unicorn is great as a visual piece, and Thunderbolt felt like something out of MTV's Liquid Television from the 90s in grit and horror. I've been wanting to check this out, and now I feel like taking the plunge.
Watching this now that the show is over and hearing "I can't wait for the episode where Suletta turns into a car" had me yell out "IT'S ERI IN THE PROLOGUE THAT DOES IT"
How can your prefer the worse paced movies over the original series? The pacing of Gundam is some of the best I’ve seen in television in all honesty. So much stuff happens in that show without feeling rushed. It’s crazy.
The og series is long and verry old making a hard to watch show to especially to people who havent seen a gundam series. Since you need to understand at least MSG to understandand any other show in UC timeline the movies are easier to recomend to people who just need a place to start l. Dont get me wrong i love the original but you gotta admit it can be hard to get people into gundam
While the 0079 Movies did trim a bit too much and some of the character development is lost, overall there was a lot of fat to trim from the original series that didn't really add anything. A lot of this came from the older Monster of the Week design.
@@MrTigracho Even so, I'm glad giant robots are back. Plus having LGBT+ characters in it, doesn't bother me in the slightest. Yeah yeah, Yuri has been around for much longer than this, but I still appreciate it, when media adds LGBT+ characters, rather than shunning it. Especially when homosexuality wasn't as welcomed back in the 90s.
Arkada my dude, *Gundam 00* Season 2 is fun. You need to revisit the title from Season 1 all the way to the movie. Because the movie is actually the culmination of Aeolia Schenberg's plan that he annaunced since episode 1 namely "the dialogues to come".
Season 2 is just a bad knockoff of Zeta and the movie was garbage On rewatch I did like season 2 more than season 1 which surprised me. But that’s more because season 1 was dull on rewatch, and season 2 is much more tolerable if you know to ignore all the coordinator nonsense. 00 was my first Gundam and was what made me a fan. But it doesn’t hold up for me. It’s still pretty good unlike SEED. But UC or IBO are so much better to me now
@@zionistsarewarcriminals Aside from an oppressive independent military forces that branched out from Earth Federation (A-Laws/Titans) as one of the villain factions, Gundam 00 S2 is nothing like Zeta.
@@zionistsarewarcriminals Nah, the A-Laws part is really the least interesting part from 00 S2 coz it has the least nuance. Just like how most of Titans in Zeta are mustache-twirling villains.
Great video. I was skeptical about this new Gundam series, but now I'll definitely watch it. I like your humor btw. Thanks for recommendation! Would love to see a video of your personal favorite Gundam series and your personal dislikes and why of course. I also started with Gundam Wing!
It partly because its old and mired in history. All the different canons and universal century lore is a lot to expect for a newcomer to figure out. Not that its impossible but its a barrier to entry that competing shows just dont have. An advantage to fans of old can be a detriment to a new fan.
I'm going to highly disagree. Gundam had success under shows like Wing, but the problem is that after Bandai Namco, had their violent breakup with their previous agreement with Cartoon Network, that content pipeline through joints like toonami dried up real hard towards the 2010's hence Cartoon Network having the death of Mizugi and Toonami but just before the era of streaming really exploded. So stuff like Wing can get super hyped but what happens when the American audience wants more wing but they a few dud series in betweeen? Or they get a wicked hit like Seed but then the destiny season comes out and implodes on the audience?
1. They failed to present a lot of their best content to The West and when they did it was done with no fanfare or advertising. Many people never realized when they even brought over 0079 or Zeta. 2. Gundam has a lot of Gundamisms that put people off. The character writing stands out as extremely awkward, especially in Universal Century releases. So many people were interested in Gundam thanks to Wing and maybe even G Gundam Fighter, but when all we got to follow up on those was SEED many years later, the majority of people moved on and were disappointed. Gundam 00 comes across as a poor attempt at recreating Wing, while still somehow failing to avoid major plot holes and a jarring transition to the second act. Iron Blooded Orphans was a breath of fresh air that brought a lot of people into Gundam again, because it wasn't just repeating previous story lines (like SEED and 0079, 00 and Wing) and it had good international coverage. Everything else beyond that is something fans have to go out of their way to acquire and find, except for Gundam Unicorn which has it's own baggage as a UC sequel that breaks a lot of UC's dynamics. Almost none of the series are available for streaming. Buying Gundam series on disc is more expensive than most anime, and it's a big investment for series that are all heavily flawed, often in ways that make people regret such a purchase. I love a few Gundam series, but it's such a mixed bag when it comes to quality. Shows like Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato provide everything that Gundam attempts to be without any of the flaws Gundam has consistently carried forward as a trademark design.
1:32 I did as well. I felt the same with season 2. Getting the dual core was a major issue imo especially when it came to new type power as well with it. Power creep made no sense why meisters were winning most battles when humanity gotten a fucking army of gundam like mobile suits at this point and before were steadily getting better at countering the meisters, the movie was so bad too. Im so glad gundam iron blooded orphans came along and I enjoyed it.
As long as they don’t pull a Pale Rider and power Aerial with dead orphans, this should be a great series. Edit: After episode 8 I can never look at Tomatoes the same way again.
The orphans in the aerial would probably argue against the declaration that they are in fact dead. Also Elnora is alive so eri is definitely not an orphan, yet.
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The other big inspiration behind Witch from Mercury is Shakespeare's The Tempest. There are a number of very clear, and clearly intentional, parallels between the two stories.
Lets hope it has just as happy ending
Didn’t expect Shakespeare to be a mecha fan
Might as well watch Zetsuen no Tempest at this point. The show also literally inspired from Shakespeare's The Tempest.
@@Dragoran5836 why? I want to see some of the main companies and their leaders burn. Torn apart like a Leo after meeting Deathscythe. The backstory calls for a cataclysmic ending and only that would enable the healing moment, and the hope for a happy future, to occur.
wait how? is magiacian sutella's mom and grey haired girl and sutella the king's son and magician's daughter? if so that seems wierd. i mean sure the spirit is called ariel like the GUND format mobile suit but i dont see very many other similarities.
It's quite funny that a bunch of questions you had already been answered in episode 6, like how they might introduce more powerful Mobile Suits in the future, or how the status quo might change.
I actually had to go check what episode we are currently on for the same reason.
Episode six and already a new gundam was introduced and trashed. This is gonna get good
they always do that because they want to sell toys. Most enemy MS will be single use and the MC will get an MK2 by season2
Oh damn. That fast? Great! Now I'm jazzed!
Yes, this series isn't wasting any time. It hauls serious ass. Watched all eight current episodes last night, and it's got a lot of characterization jammed into it, while not feeling confusing or cluttered.
I've always liked 08th MS Team because you get a scale of how big the mobile suits are and how an armed force would operate and maintain suits in the field.
08th MS Team and War in the Pocket are my favourites for how they portray Gundams as giant destructive machines and the heavy cost of war.
@@MAPLECRASHtv 08th MS Team is like the most lighthearted UC Gundam show.
@@thomasffrench3639 Just because it's lighthearted (by UC Standards) doesn't mean it can't depict the harshness of war effectively while also being a fun watch.
No other gunddam has animated in a way the depics the weight of gundam in earth gravity as well as 08th. 08th is by far my favorite gundam show, great love story that pays out, you get the harshness of war. You get a view from both sides, and see both sides has good and bad people. And you get right into a good show, no need to tell somebody, it gets good on ep x. Its just good watchin start to finish. WfM has a fantastic ep 0 prolog, but besides 1 short fight in ep1 its kinda a slog starter. Been tryin to get my buddy to try out gundam, an the prolog got him interested, but he dropped the show ep 3. ): probably not going to get him to watch gundam any time soon.
08th ms team is amazing. so much vibes
I love how the show ended up subverting the expectation that they will quickly overcome the flaw for its rival Gundams. They managed to stay consistent within its rules while still having high tension and emotions. It was a really wonderful ride.
Funnily enough, the special program they did this week had a preview of art for the upcoming Episode 7, and it does have both Suletta and Miorine in dresses. Not only that, but Suletta's dress has similar features to the dress Loran used.
Turn A gundam fans in shambles
Loran best girl
I love that they gave Witch of Mercury 12 episodes instead of 25
It was horrible
Turn-A was a masterpiece, sunrise at midnight episode still gives me chills to this day.
I wanna watch Turn-A its one of last 4 series i have left to watch but i hate the maustache on the gundam and i cant get over it
@@Zeek0079 I didn't like it at first but later I've grown to love it for how it is. If you search Chars Counterattack High Streamer, the designs are really weird. Also late UC gets weirder and weirder design. In my headcanon, it kind of made sense
And the soundtrack by Yoko Kanno 🔥🤓
That word gets thrown around so much that it's hard to take it seriously. This comment being an example of why.
"Hopefully they don't completely change the status quo on the sixth episode"
Sixth episode: (Elan is strapped to a wall and laser'd to death and Aerial is probably sentient)
Happy birthday to you (too soon?).
Nah, I laughed way to hard this. Thank you, I needed this XD
season 2, aerial is more than sentient.
She’s wayyyyy more than sentient lol
I just saw this video today and, man, he as wrong about most of everything that he said 😂 Good animes are really unpredictable
Sulletta isn’t a car silly! -- she’s the Gundam!
.......omg 0_0
Setsuna: Another one like me?
So I haven't even finished the video, yet, but "I can't wait for the part where SULETTA TURNS INTO A CAR!" made me gut laugh and almost cry. I really dug Revolutionary Girl Utena as my first "not on TV" series anime I pursued and also fell in love with. I'm digging G-Witch on so many levels - it is unusual for me to feel this strongly about a Gundam series!
If we're willing to add Gunbuster 2 to the inspirations, "she turns into a gundam" is not off the table yet.
So episode 6 really kills the "they might just drop the gundams killing pilot theme" concern.
In universe the reason Gundams kill their pilots is that the Gund-Am system is a mind machine interphase that was pulled from prosthetic limbs but putting an entire mecha through that system its too much for the pilots if they use it to its full potential or for too long. The researchers in the prologue seemed to consider this a solvable problem due to the tech being new. It is likely that either the AI in Ariel is responsible for it being safe or Sulletta is special in some way.
They pretty much reused the concept of the Alaya-Vijnana system from IBO. The bandwidth required to further control a Gundam is too much for a human nervous system and starts to cause strokes and nerve damage.
@@lpsoldin3162 Except that now, there is an AI inside the Gundam, allowing to bypass the problem of a Data Storm happening and fucking the Pilot´s brain
I came from the future to tell you that they didn’t solve the issue at all. What they did was merging Eri and Aerial. Like how Shou Tucker fused Nina and Alexander.
@@LesEnfants1972 OUCH
Just watched Ep 6. It didn't change the status quo, but the very ending did go somewhere quite dark I admit I wasn't expecting. Before I was kind of neutral toward the series but now I am definitely invested to see where it goes.
Happy Birthday to you… 😢
@@JerzyMuller If they keep using the song like that I might not want to celebrate my next birthday...
@@omnimon91 my birthday is at the end of this month and sort of fraeaking out
you are new to Gundam? this is very light compared to majority of previous Gundam. Anyone revealing themselves to be a clone/cyber newtype has a 0% survival rate
The thing about finding a suit on par with the Gundam, it’s established in the prologue and in the model kits that this universe had drone suits (bit like in wing) but they made suits that counter drones. You see this suit in the prologue and since the Gundams weapons act like drones (funnels/bits for other Gundam universes) this suit is basically a hard counter to it. In the show you see a experimental Gundam using this technology and is used by one of the main characters and it still as the flaw but they just use clones to pilot them (like cyber newtypea in UC Gundam) making it like Rock Paper Scissors. The main conflict with the Gundam (at least the main one) isn’t the death thing, it’s the legal thing and the main characters constantly have to look over their shoulder to avoid being arrested. Ep 7 fixed this by having most of the companies invest in Gundam to see where the technology goes but (I’m hoping for) it means the main characters will always be under the watchful eyes of all the companies and not just the main guy which should lead to difficulties just a bit different from the difficulties shown in earlier episodes.
I want to know this mans thoughts after the insanity of ep12
It's amazing how Gundam Wing predicted AI in the 90's. Looking forward to what the Witch of Mercury will bring to the table.
It's easy to be surprised by things when you are completely unaware of literary history. Gundam Wing only borrowed ideas from books as old as the 1940's. Nothing original about it's depiction of A.I.
Yep Learning Computer in 79 original Gundam also an AI. Term machine learning not out yet but that is a major part of it and it constantly takes in all battle data from it's side and improves it's functioning.
@@lpsoldin3162 like how people think the book "neuromancer" introduced cyberpunk, when it was far from it, it POPULARISED cyberpunk like how gundam popularised this concepts
The number of times I muttered, "It's on my list, Ark, I'll get to it," while watching this episode was significantly higher than I expected.
I love that this show is Gundam Utena! You have gained a new suscriber.
12:30 oh boy. If only he knew
after ep 6, I still think aerial is like an EVA
Plz Evas arent even mechs
@@Zeek0079 If you consider spoiler content they aren't 100% mechs, but NGE is still one of the most famous mecha anime ever
@@luckyowl10 In fairness it's obvious from very early on that the EVA's are organic beings, which should immediately disqualify them as mecha, but it doesn't because they look cool and at the time I imagine it was a unique concept. Also the "Get in the damn robot" meme.
@@Zeek0079 cmon, EVA appear in multiple SRW title, therefore EVA is a mech
As my first Gundam series this totally lived up to the hype. The intrigues and brutality was so good, I really hope it earned another season
Apart from Code Geas, Witch of Mercury has quite a few bits that give me Macross flashbacks. Especially the pair of Suletta and Elan are esentially Ranka Lee and her brother, minus the physical sibling relationship (probably). Also the flamboyant hair colours and styles and the colour-changing clothes, the sky displays inside the colony...
But that's not necessarily negatives. While it reminds me of Macross it's more than enough of it's own identity to be more like nods than outright copies. Besides I really like Macross Frontier, so there are worse places to copy from. ^^
As far as Code Geas parallel's go, I'd say Earth House is the far better candidate to be CG's Japan/Eleven parallel, what with how suppressed and disrespected they are, while Mercury is a place that in the series most people barely know anything about beyong it existing.
Every early Sunday I've been looking forward for latest Suletta memes and NFL season since last Fall.
Gundam IBO holds a special place for me
Such a good Gundam franchise opener!
What gets me hooked on a Gundam series, and Macross which got me into this series, is the stakes being raised so quickly to unimaginable levels.
Within 3 episodes (or not even halfway through the first), the protaganists circumstances go from idly enjoying or getting through life and then suddenly being thrusted head first into a multi layered conflict they never wanted to be a part of it!
So from the start, my eyes are wide open and deeply invested in the protaganists as they try to navigate this world that chose them rather than the other way round. Witch from Mercury has chosen to this in a different way. There's no conflict going on in public, and the biggest players in the story are outside the school. Although Suletta wanted to go there, she doesn't know how to navigate school the regular way, let alone this other side she knows little about. Her current circumstances are hilarous, slow, sympathetic, unclear and out of her control - but I am deeply invested in it and want to see it to the end!
What I like most about Mitch from Mercury is the character "Guel Jeturk" at first he starts out as a baddie but then you see him develop as a character and cheer him on! I like this side character more than the main bride and groom.
I mean iron blooded orphans undid a whole lot of the gundam tropes you bring up. Im curious if you've made it all the way through Arc becasue the whole death of pilot thing and actually messing up the pilots like they threaten is followed through in that one.
IBO is normal Gundam in season 1,but after season 2 its Gundam from the POV of the villains
Hope you do a video on G-Witch's first season now that it's over. Until Season 2 in April. There is a post credit scene to episode 12 that really slaps.
too soon.
Yeah i'm definitly a new gundam fan. My first was IRon Blood Orphans... i was scared by the end.
I appreciate how you are one of the only anime youtubers who talks about Gundam
I haven't seen every Gundam series but I have seen Gundam OS, Wing, Waltz, UC, 00, Iron Blooded Orphans, and now enjoying Witch from Mercury
"I can't wait for the episode where suletta turns into a car!!"
Well... if some theories are true....
Ahh this is the sort of commentary I needed- unbiased, straight to the point, and I got a few laughs in. Six months later the whole show took a pretty dark turn. The Gundam as a whole is amazing, giving different perspectives on different qualities of life. I’m not gonna sit here and pick which series had the biggest “they suffered so much” moment cause damn, the whole franchise really knows how to break your heart.
I love watching these older g-witch videos, back before we figured out that this show is essentially sapphic neo-feudalist Shakespeare's the tempest in space.
Hey, can we talk about how Arkada absolutely called it on Suletta looking great in a dress?
6:00 Aged very well after episode 7.
I still like Seed for Mech designs and world building.
Astray and Stargazer even had good story and interesting characters.
One thing I loved about Witch from Mercury and Iron Blooded Orphans was that the protagonist role was shared between two partners, Orga & Mika and Suletta & Miorine. In both shows, one is a leader who is the heart and mind, and the other is an ace pilot who is the body and spirit.
This sounds like Armored Core's Arena Mode + Revolutionary Girl Utena. Especially the corporations thing.
Rose of Versailles, Ashita no Joe, Heidi and Akage no Anne: "forget about us, did you"?
Probably doesn’t know they exist
@@thomasffrench3639 GR probably does, just a minor oversight on his part.
Oh great, now I will imagine Suletta dressing as Zero to start a rebellion OR her in a dress........I would like the dress part lol. But seriously I will admit that after 3 episodes, the show was very slow to the point where I would have given up on it but thankfully since Suletta is a soild character, I went through the 6 episodes we have so far. Definitely love the fights we did get, I ship Suletta with two of the guys we met, Miorine is EASILY my least favorite character in the show, the mobile suits are cool and the prologue was indeed bad ass. I would say this is a good gundam show so far though my one friend did stop it a bit due to the whole heavy focus on the school setting and not much happening yet but at least it is not an Isekai, a harem, a silly comedy anime or another Cross Ange so we should be good.
Congratulations, you got to see her in a dress
@@Herr_Gamer Yes and it was glorious!
Witch from Mercury review starts at 05:15
Also more than half of the episode wasnt even about Witch from Mercury but a bunch of references from Code Geass and other Gundam anime.
I'm realllllly interested to hear your take now that we are deeper in.
5:55 And that happened in Ep 7 just a few days after the upload xD
But great video and I will definitely have to watch Turn A Gundam at some point
I do hope that they go a bit deeper into the cost of using gundams. To me that was one of the more interesting parts of IBO, that the protagonist wasn't immune to the downsides of a gundam and that delving into Barbatos' "I win button" was a response that needed to be measured with its toll.
And I also hope that we go beyond the scope of school duels at some point, though there is already some stuff that points in that direction.
All in all though, fun so far. Especially nice for mecha fans to see mecha animation that doesnt look like it comes from a blender tutorial.
Something you missed during the Code Geass Utena comparison. The writer translated the Anime into LN form so is deeply familiar with RGU as well. Just a though. Also, please don't kick OG gundam under the bus. Yes it's older but it's still quite good and holds up well.
Have you ever watched Armored Trooper VOTOMS? its another great mecha series and I was wondering what you thought about it.
More people need to watch VOTOMS. Just a shame that none of the sequels hold a candle to the 1983 original.
I'm from Toronto, Was Gundam Wing on YTV? I only remember watching Gundam Seed on it.
MSG Thunderbolt still continue to be my fav because how different it is to other Gundam plots & it's simply have more mature theme to the price of war.
As Gundam WFM, I still have mix feeling with the corporate drama as so far it looks more of a bleached version of such dystopian future. Hopefully, we will see the more darker looks of corporate war.
The moment I associate Corporate War and Mechas, I immediately think of Armored Core.
"As of the 6th epsisode they don't change the status quo" Uhh Happy Birthday?
So if this was made before the season finale what are your thoughts now? It seems very complicated and I hope that the next season will reveal all of the questions I have
In episode 7 we see suletta in a dress lol, your wishes have been heard
"Turns into a car"
Maybe I should finally watch Utena.
suletta: miorine was a woman who may have become a mother to me
Omg PAUSE! My two favorite animes (Code Geass& Revolutionary Girl) made a baby?!?!?!
I love my Iron Blooded Orphans. Unicorn is also a great show. I better not try to re-watch Gundam Wing because I think it wont hold up to my memories from childhood...
Witch from Mercury is hopefully going to be a great show.
IBO felt like things went to shit out of nowhere in season 2. Definitely had good moments but ended up feeling a bit preachy to me.
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It'd feel so because the characters thoughts are not properly laid out, imo. In truth, Orga's just tired. Mind-wise.
As per what young people are, they're inexperienced, impatient, and reckless. It was a dangerous factor for him and his members, because as the first season had shown, his recklessness had mostly been paid off, albeit with a high cost and it got to him thinking that power (physical) = good.
In preventing to not lose more of member, Orga then associated power (influence) = safety and strive to get more, which is why he allied himself with Mc Gilis who seemed to be quite a promising partner at that time without knowing the internal conflict between Gjallarhorn tops nor paying attention to the growing jealousy inside his own circle as well (Saisei member).
His ignorance in politics and his unwillingness to go slow to cautiously develop Tekkadan cost him big in the end. All because of his inexperience and immaturity in the grand scale of things.
What he wanted for his brethren was a home. A home which he had actually gotten in S1. And yet, oblivious to this fact due to being an uneducated kid, he strived for more thinking he hasn't gotten it. It's the same case as the time when he was asked by his aniki of what he thought of tekkadan and its members are. He couldn't articulate it well that they're family, a brotherhood. He knew what he wanted to give to his brothers, and yet he didn't know what to call it, which is home.
Tekkadan is a tragedy. S1 is how their legend rise, S2 is about how they fall.
I tried rewatching wing and seed while stoned this year. The experience was so bad (i remembered why i hated seed in the first place and dropped wing halfway after being confused about everything thats happening, just like what happened in my childhood), so fucking bad, that i ended up deciding to watch the entire UC timeline instead (with no prior knowledge or experience about anything about it). I thank wing and seed so heavily today, if not for their shitty writing i wouldnt have had the courage to get into UC. Like holy shit. Decades worth of gundam i consumed in 3 months.
I love this gundam series the most probably my favourite in a long time and it has my favourite main character out of all the gundam franchise
Gundam Wing was my introduction to Gundam and Gundam Seed is my absolute favorite.
"Happy birthday to you..."
I'm curious if you're planning on doing an update to this video now that The Witch From Mercury has finished.
I'm watching Turn A Gundam right now and I think it's great. Loran and Suletta are my favorite Gundam protagonists.
@glass reflection wing started airing ytv in late 2000. Wing was finished in japan a few years prior. I remember stumbling upon it at amost minight in october of 2000. It was only episode 5 or 6 at the time.
I was hoping someone would cover this. I think that this might become a contender for the most appealing Gundam for a wider audience than your typical Gundam fans.
I’m extremely excited for where witch is heading cause episode six was definitely shocking to say the least because the prologue was what I expected gundam to be and the starting episodes were good and very wholesome but like I knew something darker and dramatic was building up then episode six was most definitely the pay off this show ruined the happy birthday song for me 😭😭😭. I love this corporate business politics that this show is going with instead of like the more government and war based the originals were also the character designs are stunning love the diversity this show has and seeing hand drawn mechs again is so satisfying
Kinda hard to tell someone the payoff is on ep 6, :/
No, you should watch seventies tv anime. Future Boy Conan for example Space Battleship Yamato. Harlock. Gundam (the movies are NOT substitutes) Hurricane Polymar. Cutey Honey. Heidi! So many great series that you shouldn't skip just because they're old.
The fact that Ashita No Joe and Rose of Versailles is just sidelined is pretty telling on of how unfamiliar Glass Reflection is with 70s where he can’t really say much.
Gundam Wing was my first taste of the franchise to! I’d do anything to see the OZ Taurus again.
So far they havn't stopped the GUND system from killing their pilots, but they are dealing with it at the moment by using disposable proxies which is really as bad, if not worse.
I like this for the intro alone. I actually LIKE seed and destiny (mainly because Shinn eats shit and deserves it), but I totally feel you. Iron-Blooded Orphans lost me at the end, 00 was a neat, suave bishonen take, MS08th Team was a Vietnam allegory, and Turn A was such positive hope, it strays from the "Kill em all Tomino" formula. Unicorn is great as a visual piece, and Thunderbolt felt like something out of MTV's Liquid Television from the 90s in grit and horror.
I've been wanting to check this out, and now I feel like taking the plunge.
Something borrowed, something blue.
Watching this now that the show is over and hearing "I can't wait for the episode where Suletta turns into a car" had me yell out "IT'S ERI IN THE PROLOGUE THAT DOES IT"
CAN YOU HAVE A REVIEW FOR A SEASON 1
I'd love to see an update with your opinion now that the first season has concluded.
I absoutely LOVE it whenever you mention Code Geass. Still hoping you'll do a review of the movie re-telling/continuation.
How can your prefer the worse paced movies over the original series? The pacing of Gundam is some of the best I’ve seen in television in all honesty. So much stuff happens in that show without feeling rushed. It’s crazy.
The og series is long and verry old making a hard to watch show to especially to people who havent seen a gundam series. Since you need to understand at least MSG to understandand any other show in UC timeline the movies are easier to recomend to people who just need a place to start l. Dont get me wrong i love the original but you gotta admit it can be hard to get people into gundam
While the 0079 Movies did trim a bit too much and some of the character development is lost, overall there was a lot of fat to trim from the original series that didn't really add anything. A lot of this came from the older Monster of the Week design.
@@lpsoldin3162 yep I’m aware that it had to be a movie, not a tv show
"Hopefully it doesn't pull a Gurren lagann and completely change the status quo on the 6th episode." I'm so sorry for your loss my friend
I was just watching an older gundam video and was looking forward to a video on this series lmao
i cant wait you comeback to this series
Bouncing off your turn a comment the writer got his start on turn a and his first full length series was King Gainer directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino
Great video love the references and jokes. So glad to hear about the new Gundam. Gundam Hathaway was fascinating and now we got a new one so cool.
You know a man is an OG when he's citing Utena lol. Damn. Haven't heard that name in years.
should I be nervous that all of his subtle callouts mean something to me now?
Did you not enjoy Iron Blooded Orphans? I thought it was pretty great, and it was very different when you compare it to other gundam series.
I really hope this helps revive the mecha genre in anime. I miss giant robots so much.
SAME
I don't know man. I feel like this show is mostly famous due to the Yuri train that started with Lycoris Recoil. Is not famous because of Mecha.
@@MrTigracho Even so, I'm glad giant robots are back. Plus having LGBT+ characters in it, doesn't bother me in the slightest. Yeah yeah, Yuri has been around for much longer than this, but I still appreciate it, when media adds LGBT+ characters, rather than shunning it. Especially when homosexuality wasn't as welcomed back in the 90s.
Arkada my dude, *Gundam 00* Season 2 is fun. You need to revisit the title from Season 1 all the way to the movie. Because the movie is actually the culmination of Aeolia Schenberg's plan that he annaunced since episode 1 namely "the dialogues to come".
Season 2 is just a bad knockoff of Zeta and the movie was garbage
On rewatch I did like season 2 more than season 1 which surprised me. But that’s more because season 1 was dull on rewatch, and season 2 is much more tolerable if you know to ignore all the coordinator nonsense.
00 was my first Gundam and was what made me a fan. But it doesn’t hold up for me. It’s still pretty good unlike SEED. But UC or IBO are so much better to me now
@@zionistsarewarcriminals Aside from an oppressive independent military forces that branched out from Earth Federation (A-Laws/Titans) as one of the villain factions, Gundam 00 S2 is nothing like Zeta.
@@androyus I know. Those were the only good parts of S2 on re-watch.
@@zionistsarewarcriminals Nah, the A-Laws part is really the least interesting part from 00 S2 coz it has the least nuance. Just like how most of Titans in Zeta are mustache-twirling villains.
@@zionistsarewarcriminals wtf since when 00 have coordinator
Man idk how ichiro okouchi does it, the man is so talented.
Lilique aka Chubby mechanic girl from Earth House is Biscuit 2.0. Yep, she’s next major supporting character to die. Also 4:51
Great video. I was skeptical about this new Gundam series, but now I'll definitely watch it. I like your humor btw. Thanks for recommendation! Would love to see a video of your personal favorite Gundam series and your personal dislikes and why of course. I also started with Gundam Wing!
Episode 6... Just who the hell do you think we are?! I'm hoping part 1 doesn't end off on a cliffhanger. I mean who am I kidding... It will
We need a Gundam tier list video.
Been a while since I watched GR… Nice to be back.
Hell yeah been waiting for a gundam review of the witch of mercury thanks glass reflection your awesome.
I don't understand how a franchise like this has failed so hard in the West. The stories are well told and it's serious tones are phenomenal.
A lot of westeners really dont like mecha for a number of reasons (some valid, mostly a lot of misconceptions due to watchin 1-2 lackluster shows)
It partly because its old and mired in history. All the different canons and universal century lore is a lot to expect for a newcomer to figure out. Not that its impossible but its a barrier to entry that competing shows just dont have. An advantage to fans of old can be a detriment to a new fan.
I'm going to highly disagree. Gundam had success under shows like Wing, but the problem is that after Bandai Namco, had their violent breakup with their previous agreement with Cartoon Network, that content pipeline through joints like toonami dried up real hard towards the 2010's hence Cartoon Network having the death of Mizugi and Toonami but just before the era of streaming really exploded.
So stuff like Wing can get super hyped but what happens when the American audience wants more wing but they a few dud series in betweeen? Or they get a wicked hit like Seed but then the destiny season comes out and implodes on the audience?
If I had a nickel for every time Ξ Gundam copypastes his exact same post on a Gundam-related youtube video I'd be rich by now.
1. They failed to present a lot of their best content to The West and when they did it was done with no fanfare or advertising. Many people never realized when they even brought over 0079 or Zeta.
2. Gundam has a lot of Gundamisms that put people off. The character writing stands out as extremely awkward, especially in Universal Century releases.
So many people were interested in Gundam thanks to Wing and maybe even G Gundam Fighter, but when all we got to follow up on those was SEED many years later, the majority of people moved on and were disappointed. Gundam 00 comes across as a poor attempt at recreating Wing, while still somehow failing to avoid major plot holes and a jarring transition to the second act.
Iron Blooded Orphans was a breath of fresh air that brought a lot of people into Gundam again, because it wasn't just repeating previous story lines (like SEED and 0079, 00 and Wing) and it had good international coverage. Everything else beyond that is something fans have to go out of their way to acquire and find, except for Gundam Unicorn which has it's own baggage as a UC sequel that breaks a lot of UC's dynamics.
Almost none of the series are available for streaming. Buying Gundam series on disc is more expensive than most anime, and it's a big investment for series that are all heavily flawed, often in ways that make people regret such a purchase.
I love a few Gundam series, but it's such a mixed bag when it comes to quality. Shows like Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato provide everything that Gundam attempts to be without any of the flaws Gundam has consistently carried forward as a trademark design.
After War X SHOULD have came after Wing on Toonami.
1:32 I did as well. I felt the same with season 2. Getting the dual core was a major issue imo especially when it came to new type power as well with it.
Power creep made no sense why meisters were winning most battles when humanity gotten a fucking army of gundam like mobile suits at this point and before were steadily getting better at countering the meisters, the movie was so bad too. Im so glad gundam iron blooded orphans came along and I enjoyed it.
I don’t see anyone on UA-cam talking about this show! Thanks for talking about it. Also, Turn A is a masterpiece 👌
Yes, yes she does look great in a dress.
10:15 the e2s2 smash this moment so hard
Happy Birthday too you!
As long as they don’t pull a Pale Rider and power Aerial with dead orphans, this should be a great series.
Edit: After episode 8 I can never look at Tomatoes the same way again.
The orphans in the aerial would probably argue against the declaration that they are in fact dead. Also Elnora is alive so eri is definitely not an orphan, yet.
Well...Aerial is powered through dead clones instead of orphans,if that makes you feel better.
'I can't wait for the episode where Suletta turns into a car'
SO uh. Not a car specifically, buuuuuuut