Gundam: the Witch from Mercury PROLOGUE is Now Streaming

With the much anticipated Mobile Suit Gundam: the Witch from Mercury’s October premiere fast approaching, its prequel episode PROLOGUE is now streaming digitally on Gundam Info, the official International Gundam YouTube channel. The PROLOGUE streams with Japanese audio and English, Chinese(Hong Kong, Simplified, Taiwan), Korean, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Thai subtitle options.

Meanwhile, the prequel episode will stream in Japan across various digital platforms such as Bandai Channel, Gundam Fanclub, Hulu, ABEMA, U-NEXT, and d Anime Store beginning September 4 at 18:00 JST. Initially, the PROLOGUE was exclusively seen at the July 14 and July 15 at the GUNDAM NEXT FUTURE -LINK THE UNIVERSE multi-venue event and July 21 at San Diego Comic Con 2022.

The official Mobile Suit Gundam: the Witch from Mercury Twitter account has also teased an announcement for September 4 at 17:30 JST.

#水星の魔女 #G_Witch pic.twitter.com/93NBbrmAh3
— 機動戦士ガンダム水星の魔女 (@G_Witch_M) August 28, 2022

PROLOGUE Story

At Fólkvangr, a front constructed inside an asteroid,
the Gundam Lfrith is undergoing operating tests in the Vanadis Institute’s laboratory.
The Lfrith has not yet managed to meet the conditions imposed by the council,
and test pilot Elnora Samaya is growing impatient.
That same day, her daughter is celebrating her fourth birthday…

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Gundam: the Witch from Mercury is directed by Kiznaiver‘s Hiroshi Koyabashi, and penned by Code Geass scribe, Ichiro Ohkouchi. The tagline of the series is “This witch…rides a Gundam”. The series will broadcast this fall in October 2022 on twenty-eight of MBS and TBS TV networks on their 5pm “Nichigo” anime block, as well as simulcasted internationally.

Story

A.S. (Ad Stella) 122―

An era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system.

A lone girl from the remote planet Mercury transfers to the Asticassia School of Technology,

run by the Beneritt Group which dominates the mobile suit industry.

Her name is Suletta Mercury.

With a scarlet light burning in her pure heart,

this girl walks step by step through a new world.

Cast

Kana Ichinose as Suletta Mercury
Lynn as Miorine Rembran

Staff

Planning & Production: Sunrise
Director: Hiroshi Kobayashi
Series Composition & Script: Ichiro Ohkouchi
Original Concept: Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino
Original Character Design: Mogumo
Character Design: Marie Tagashira, Juri Toida, Hirotoshi Takaya
Mechanical Design: JNTHED, Kanetake Ebikawa, Wataru Inata , Ippei Gyoubu, Kenji Teraoka, Takayuki Yanase
Chief Mechanical Animators: Shinya Kusumegi, Kanta Suzuki, Seimei Maeda
Co-Director: Ryo Ando
Setting Researcher: Seiichi Shirato
Sci-fi Researcher: Yuya Takashima
Mechanical Coordinator: Ryoji Sekinishi
Setting Cooperation: HISADAKE
Prop Design: E Wo Kaku PETER, Esuthio
Concept Art: Lin Junbun
Technical Director: Yohei Miyahara
Art Designers: Tomoaki Okada, Kenichi Morioka, Kazushige Kanehira, Junichiro Tamamori, Yasuyoshi Uetsu
Art director: Ayumi Sato
Color Setting: Kazuki Kikuchi
3DCG Director: Shinichi Miyakaze
Monitor Graphics Design: Kaori Seki
Director of Photography: Shota Kodera
Editor: Kengo Shigemura
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
Music: Takashi Ohmama
Produced by Bandai Namco Filmworks, Sotsu, MBS