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This past weekend The Witch From Mercury brought a surprisingly rapid-fire end to the latest Gundam show—and in one of its most satisfying moves, finally delivered on the sapphic love story it set up from the get-go. But in truly making queer love the heart of its endgame, the series also pushed a closer examination of one of the franchise’s most enduring ideas.

Gundam is a franchise about giant robots to many, but one of its oldest non-mecha hallmarks had its queer subtexts made text in Witch From Mercury's finale.

Honestly, the most radical, shocking thing about G-Witchs ending might be how definitive of an ending it is.

A lot of expected elements of sci-fi epics and Gundam, in particular, get checked off this week, but you can feel Okouchi and the rest of the team reaching out to comment or put their spin on them as they necessarily put it all together.

What sort of anime have the folks here at oprainfall been watching? New, old, it's all on the table for our intrepid reviewers.

Apparent as it is that were heading into finale territory, without certainty of a follow-up season, we can see that the show simply isnt going to have the space to resolve all the various conflicts its built up and utilized throughout its run.

This is the sort of aftermath, downtime, catch-up episode everyone needed after the big blow-ups last week.

Given the gravity of her big reveal in an episode lousy with massive moments two weeks ago, it makes perfect sense for this one to round back to Girlboss Gendou.

After the events of the previous episode, pretty much everyone is going through a rough time, so what better time than now to round back to Guel Jeturk?

Once again Witch From Mercury sacrifices nuance for blunt effectiveness.