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NEWS: Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Anime Reveals Franchise's 1st 'Female Hero' in Main Series


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darkchibi07



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 12:48 am Reply with quote
About freakin' time! Cool

Now we wait and see if they can craft a good, memorable story out of this.
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Kicksville



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 12:49 am Reply with quote
The main Gundam design didn't look very interesting at first, but the line art and model look pretty good.

Hopefully staff details and such soon. I hope it's good.
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catone2



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 12:51 am Reply with quote
Why does it have to follow the G-Reco/IBO style mobile suit designs? Ah well, I hope the story is as far away as possible from those two.

Music sounds like 100% Sawano.
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VPedge



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 12:55 am Reply with quote
The suits look like hot garbage imo I should have honestly expected this tho after i saw those new suits being added to gundam extreme
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Engineering Nerd



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:07 am Reply with quote
Yeah the music beats sound way too Sawano.

Is this the first time we have a main featured Gundam female pilot that is literally the poster girl for the series? I think I may have missed someone from UC era who may have the similar treatment.

That being said, I want to buy the HG gunpla of that Gundam, despite how much it resembles Iron Blood Orphan series whose thin torso may not be everyone’s cup of tea
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Zeniatus



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:16 am Reply with quote
Twilight Axis erasure. Everyone forgets it had the first female protag animated because the adaptation was dog water.
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Egan Loo



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:24 am Reply with quote
Zeniatus wrote:
Twilight Axis erasure. Everyone forgets it had the first female protag animated because the adaptation was dog water.


The six Gundam: Twilight AXIS anime shorts, with a total runtime of 26 minutes, doesn't quite qualify as a "main series."
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GNPixie



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:25 am Reply with quote
Engineering Nerd wrote:

Is this the first time we have a main featured Gundam female pilot that is literally the poster girl for the series? I think I may have missed someone from UC era who may have the similar treatment.


Chris from 0080? 0080 had 3 lead characters (Al, Bernie and Christina) but the story itself was largely about Al.
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Kicksville



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:31 am Reply with quote
0080 is an OVA. I think that's why they were very specific about the description:
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the first ever "female hero" in a main Gundam television anime series

No one else qualifies as protagonist for a "main Gundam television anime series"
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Kitsu Kyouno



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 2:35 am Reply with quote
Finally! A girl as true main character, a new era is born.

Female Lead Supremacy
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Zeino



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 3:09 am Reply with quote
Gundam Aerial looks like the original RX-78 Gundam and Gundam Barbatos had a child together. My only baseline for the series so far is the hope that it will be magnitudes better than AGE which was the last time they went for a younger audience.
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Scion Drake



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 4:01 am Reply with quote
Heh Aerial does sound like Ariel.
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Dayraven



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 4:23 am Reply with quote
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Gundam Aerial looks like the original RX-78 Gundam and Gundam Barbatos had a child together.

Similarity to the RX-78 is to be expected — the main character’s mobile suit nearly always gets its colours and a relatively conservative design that serves as the base for the aesthetics of the Gundams in any given series.
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Jay_Stone



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 4:26 am Reply with quote
This looks so good
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kgw



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 4:49 am Reply with quote
Kicksville wrote:
0080 is an OVA. I think that's why they were very specific about the description:
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the first ever "female hero" in a main Gundam television anime series

No one else qualifies as protagonist for a "main Gundam television anime series"

Female main character, maybe. But "female hero"? Sayla Mass, Emma Sheen, Haman Khan (yeah, I know), Elpeo Ple (Elpi Pru), Roux Louka… and that's just UC TV series.

In any case, we will see.
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