Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury (TV)

[Ryllharu]

I've stayed out of this thread because apparently everyone thinks this anime is good and that Suletta isn't the worst character ever.
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I fucking hate Miorine with my guts, the most obnoxious type of character, spoiled, confident, and despite that always getting what she wants.
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This anime really is one of the worst Gundam-anime I've ever seen, some of the most hateful characters, and its only saving grace is that I'm having fun hating them.

I'll agree with you partially. Suletta is steadily becoming the worst character in her own series. She had a few moments of early active recovery from her stuttering initial state. But shortly after Elan episode, she reverted to being passive, and I don't mean her personality. I mean her role in the story. She is being dragged through "her" own story which is about the biggest flaw a script can have.

But the framework they have here is good. It feels like you're missing the bigger hints at what the series is actually playing at (though a lot of people are too). [edit: Including me. People have pointed out from the first few episodes that the timelines didn't match and Suletta couldn't possibly be Ericht. They've since been vindicated.] We're watching the POV of the innocent bystanders in Elnora's revenge plot. Like Prospero from the Tempest that they're blatantly referencing, Elnora has all of this plotted out to take revenge on Delling and the rest of Benerit group. She's using her own children and the children of her enemies as pawns in whatever this unrevealed plan happens to be. Probably in an irredeemably unforgiveable way.

Elnora is getting everything she wants. Miorine definitely isn't. In fact, Miorine has made more compromises on her goal than anyone else in the series has so far. She wanted out. She wanted to go to Earth and be a farmer. Now she's stuck in the absolute center of the nightmare that Elnora built for the Benerit Group to fall into. The absolutely last place she ever wanted to be. She just happens to be good at it, since she is her father's daughter as much as she'd prefer to only be her late mother's daughter.

No different from the way many other gundam series handle socio-political stuff. This is corporate infighting and collateral damage toward innocent children (like Miorine pointed out, their entire generation knows nothing about the cause of the whole conflict).

Different strokes for different folks. I like the world-building they've set up with the corporate hellscape politically. They're still teasing out when everything goes belly-up. Many Gundam settings go this route before things go completely upside down. I like G Gundam because of how it removes all the bullshit baggage from the IP and has fun with it. I liked 00 most of the way through until the very end. UC is too lore-heavy for me. I fucking hate Gundam SEED. IBO was very one-dimensional and bored me to tears; I dropped it a little over halfway into the first cour with absolutely no regrets.

And yes, this one is written by the Valvrave guy. A lot of people who hated that hate this. There's plenty of similarities. I liked Valvrave, and I like this. So far it is actually better executed.

GUND prosthetics WAS a good idea. It was being developed 21 years ago. Then someone shot them all down and made them forbidden via a multidisciplinary agreement, and no one had the guts to overturn it since. Also, no one had a machine that didn't obvious kill its pilot. Machine superiority was never disputed because even 21 years ago they kicked ass. Gundams did have a major weakness though, and we'll see how they handle against that next episode I suppose.

Agreed. The point is that the kids need to break the ban on GUND Format, and the result, while well-intentioned, will probably result in an all-out war between the companies and Earth when everyone pulls the Gundam they were developing in secret like Peil out of their asses.