acabou de ser anunciada a próxima serie pra tv:
Titled
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, or
G-Witch for short, the show is being targeted as “a work that even young generations will support,”
according to a statement from Koji Fujiwara, Bandai Namco’s Chief Gundam Officer (a job title I would like
immediately).
Aside from the title and release window, details on the new series remain sparse. It’s unknown, for example, if the series will be set in one of
Gundam’s several previously established timelines—whether the iconic Universal Century, the
timeline of the original series and the
majority of the franchises’ successors, movies, manga, novels, and games, or one of the other alternates like
Gundam Wing’s “After Colony” setting or
Iron-Blooded Orphans’ “Post Disaster”—or an entirely original one. It’s also unknown what the series is even
about, although a fantastical title like
Witch from Mercury potentially suggests that the series could focus on a
female protagonist, a rarity for Gundam.
The idea of a spacebound “Witch” could even draw parallels to one of the most iconic concepts from Gundam beyond its titular mobile suits: the Newtype, a name given to human beings who have evolved from life in the space colonies during the Universal Century, with latent psychic abilities. Newtypes—and artificially developed iterations of them known as Cyber-Newtypes—are a
hallmark of the Universal Century timeline in particular, although variations on the concept have been riffed on in other
Gundam material. So if
The Witch from Mercury wants to play with the concept as well, it could be very interesting indeed beyond
more giant robot astropolitical action.