Mobile Suit Gundam

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The latest entry in the vast Gundam franchise, The Witch From Mercury, was one of our favourite anime of 2022—and now it’s back and looking better than ever, even as things get much more dangerous for its heroes Suletta and Miorine.With just a month to go before the series returns, Sunrise has released a new trailer teasing the second season of The Witch From Mercury. The footage begins with a rough recap of the first season, which saw series protagonist Suletta Mercury arrive at the mobile suit training academy…

Image: SunriseIt’s only been a couple of months since Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury was off our screens, but one of the best anime of 2022 is already ready to come back for more—and real soon.Over the weekend, Sunrise confirmed that Witch From Mercury’s second 12-episode season will begin airing April 9 in Japan (and presumably also in worldwide via Crunchyroll, where the first season was simulcast). The new date was announced with a small teaser animated from the season’s teaser trailer, featuring…

Image: Studio Ufotable/AniplexIt’ll only be a couple of months before Ufotable’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba returns for its third season. Season two received high marks when it came out, and its theatrical Mugen Train movie was a box office hit. Now as that season’s being nominated for awards in the anime community, studio Ufotable and Aniplex setting the stage for Tanjiro and friends’ next adventure.Just before the weekend started, Aniplex released a new preview highlighting the primary villains of season three’s…

Screenshot: Sunrise/CrunchyrollMobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury has very much been a Gundam show from the get-go—in lockstep with the wider franchise in the ways it plays with some of the series’ most enduring elements, and in how its worldbuilding extrapolates Gundam’s longstanding critiques of capital and the military industrial complex. But in its first season finale, it reminded us it’s ready to get its hands very dirty.The 12th episode of the series, simply titled “The Witch from Mercury,” brought a…

Left to Right: The EG Gundam RX-78-2, HG Gundam Aerial, EG Strike Gundam, HG Gundam Lfrith, EG Nu Gundam, and the HG Darilbalde.Image: BandaiIt all comes down to taste! If you’re worried and want a guaranteed basic starting point, the aforementioned Entry Grade line is a great place to start. There are three kits in the series so far: the classic Gundam RX-78-2 from the original series, the Nu Gundam from Char’s Counterattack, and the Strike Gundam from Gundam SEED. There’s variations here too, ranging from the cheapest,…

Image: Disney/LucasfilmFrom start to finish, 2022 felt like a weird year, one where the stability of nearly everything we’ve taken for granted was greatly tested in some form or fashion. Southwest Airlines currently being in the middle of a massive travel nightmare feels like a pretty apt comparison; everyone’s either confused or pissed off (or, well, both), and there’s a general sense of feeling lost as we all try to process what went down this year. That collective desire we all have for the year to end is more out of…

Photo: Russ Martin/FXWhat else is there to say about What We Do in the Shadows, which just wrapped up a fourth season as delightfully brilliant as the ones that came before? This year, we saw Nadja open a nightclub, Nandor get married, Laszlo become weirdly obsessed with home renovations, and Colin Robinson grow up in the oddest (and yet most musical) way possible. But special props, as always, go to Guillermo, who not only continued to kick ass and be under-appreciated, but got an especially nice moment when he nervously…

Image: Toei AnimationOne Piece’s theatrical movies have generally been fine. Well, they used to be terrible until creator Eiichiro Oda started getting more hands-on with them, but generally they all ended in the same way—Monkey D. Luffy and his crewmates, and maybe a few more popular characters, teaming up to fight some new, ultra-powerful, non-canonical foe. But Red is different in almost every way, and for the better. It fills out Luffy’s backstory by introducing Uta, the daughter of One Piece’s most enigmatic…

io9 inhaled a lot of TV this year. We do it for work, we do it for fun, we do it when we really should be sleeping. We’ll be getting into our favorite shows of the year next week, but today we’re celebrating the individual moments that stood out: big twists, shocking reveals, notable brawls, character revelations, and…Read more... io9 inhaled a lot of TV this year. We do it for work, we do it for fun, we do it when we really should be sleeping. We’ll be getting into our favorite shows of the year next week, but today…