We briefly got to meet the blood-red - pulse Gundam and its orphic pilot from The Witch From Mercury afew month ago , but now with the launching of a new prologue series in advance of the main show ’s autumn launch , we have our first proper look at just what the next chapter in the Gundam saga will look like .

To plain off the launch of the Gundam Next Future result , today Bandai and Sunrise revealed new detail and the first teaser trailer for the next entry in the Gundam enfranchisement , Mobile Suit Gundam : The hag From Mercury . The serial , set in a new timeline of continuity for theesteemed mecha franchise — known as A.S. , or Ad Stella , the 11th prescribed timeline in the saga — follows a vernal cleaning woman list Suletta ( voiced by Kana Ichinose ) , come from a colonized Mercury in a future tense where humanity has , as it has done so in many Gundam timelines , ramify out civilisation into the principal . In Witch from Mercury ’s slip , it ’s thanks to the backing and control of massive potbelly .

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The first official distaff champion of a mainline Gundam series , Suletta pilots the Gundam Aerial — a potent new Mobile Suit developed on her homeworld — and becomes a second - twelvemonth piloting student at the Asticassia School of Technology , controlled by a weapon and Mobile Suit development pudding stone do it as the Beneritt Group , where she trains alongside fellow pilots in the prowess of mechanised combat .

The raw lagger introduces us to Suletta and a few more of her fellow students at Asticassia , as well as glimpse of the Aerial and the other main mecha of the series in fighting . One thing not seen in the trailer , but confirmed in a new video highlighting , of course , the Gundam Aerial ’s approaching gunpla model kit , is the reveal that the mecha ’s shield can break up into a series of remote controlled , laser blasting drone units :

Typically , this kind of arms in Gundam , often known as Bits or Funnels , carries avery specific connotation : in the primary Universal Century timeline , they ’re almost exclusively used by enhanced spacenoid archetype who have acquire into the existence eff as “ Newtypes , ” herculean psychics who are believed to be humankind ’s destiny as it find a future beyond Earth ’s solemnity in the stars . While Newtypes primarily exist solely in the Universal Century Gundam story , there have been several altitude - timelines where analogs be , and it ’s possible that Suletta is at least some Riffian on this Graeco-Roman Gundam concept . There ’s been clues before , from the name Witch From Mercury right wing to the glow red purpose elements on the Gundam Aerial , conjure up parallels to the Psycho Frame Newtype - enhancing technology seen on anterior Gundams like the Unicorn . But you do n’t just give a Gundam protagonist a cluster of lagger lasers and not gestate fans to guess they ’re a child soldier in a psychical gun , so to speak , so it ’ll be interesting to see what Mercury does with its very challenging hero .

Mobile Suit Gundam : The Witch From Mercury is set to debut on Nipponese TV this October , with a planned international simulcast program ( with a currently undisclosed supplier , but I think you could make afairly fair guessas to whomight scoop upa new Gundam show ) . The Witch From Mercury Prologue prequel anime , now airing in Japan , will make its external debut at the series ’ San Diego Comic - Con panel next week .

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