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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-Witch's 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.