Miriam Gomez

What the heck happened here? As a diehard U.C. fan I have generally enjoy most all of non U.C. mecha such as Turn A, Gundam X, IBO, and OO just to name a few. I even got some enjoyment out of build fighters even though the whole high school premise was really not for me, I felt it made up for it with the cool fights and action scenes. I can pick apart my most favorite gundam shows but still have plenty of thought provoking sessions about what I just watched and over look huge flaws of some series, which finally brings to The Witch from Mercury. This show from the getgo put a bad taste in my mouth but endured because well, its gundam. After a few cringy seasons for gundam build fighters I though my tolerance was pretty high but boy was I wrong. This show does NOT feel like a gundam show. Even though there are a lot of cool mobile suit designs and Gundam ariel is a fairly fresh and interesting design i must say i cannot stand the characters in this show. Most all of the characters either have a personality of a wet blanket or are just a tragic japanese high school trope with the sassy pink poofy haired big mouth girl to your doofy comic relief dude or your cringy main character that is brain dead and void of a likeable personality. This high school drama setting for gundam is not a good look for a supposed mecha series and I really hope Bandai steers away from this formula. I don't know who this was made for but it isn't made for long time gundam fans. I crave the days of a more serious toned series closer to 8th ms team or in the modern day a series more like hathaways flash or thunderbolt. I know this reviews is long but its only because I care about this franchise and I really wanted this to be good and I tried hard to enjoy it and savor the things I liked about it but the cons just far outweighed pros. I would also like to add that I have never left a review for a show in my life and somehow this show compelled me to do one. I guess we will just have to wait for the next hathaway movie. Summary: if you like high school drama more than mecha this is the show for you. If you are more into a tonely serious gundam that debates the morality of war and humanity itself don't waste your time and just rewatch iron blooded orphans or kick back to stardust memory. Thank you for reading this far.