Mobile Suit Gundam

The Gundam Lfrith takes flight.Screenshot: SunriseMobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, the first mainline Gundam series since 2016, won’t properly start until October. But if you want to know what to expect beyond the short glimpses we’ve had already, you’re in for a treat: a new prequel episode just dropped online.The Witch From Mercury Prologue, which made its debut in Japan a few months ago, is now available to stream on the official Gundam Info YouTube channel, the first time it’s been officially publicly made…

Image: SunriseMobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, the first main series in the legendary mecha franchise since 2016's Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, is set to kick off with a simultaneous broadcast in and out of Japan this October. But if you can’t wait that long for a glimpse, a special prologue episode is on the way very soon.Sunrise has confirmed that The Witch From Mercury Prologue, a one-off episode set before the events of the primary series, will begin streaming on the Gundam Info YouTube channel…

Image: Titan ComicsKamen Rider has existed in many forms in its long history, from TV and film to, of course, creator Shotaro Ishinomori’s own classic manga. But how do you bring a series that has such a peculiar history in the west to contemporary Western comics? As part of our ongoing look at Titan Comics’ new Kamen Rider Zero-One series this week, io9 recently spoke to writer Brandon Easton and artist Hendry Prasetya over email about their history with tokusatsu, and the particular challenges of adapting a legendary…

Some excellent pop culture art is debuting this weekend.Image: Gallery 1988/Spoke ArtResidents of Los Angeles and San Francisco each have awesome pop culture art shows to visit this weekend—but if you don’t live in those cities, io9 is bringing the shows to you, right here, right now.The first is called “4x4 Etc.,” the latest collaboration between artists Dave Perillo and Tom Whalen. We’ve covered the concept in the past, where each artist creates four-inch by four-inch prints, usually in sets of two, of characters that…

Image: SunriseOne of Mobile Suit Gundam’s most-maligned series is finally available to stream this week—which means, hopefully, Gundam fans old and new alike will use it as a chance to re-evaluate what has often been seen as the black sheep of early Gundam.Over the weekend Crunchyroll announced that as part of its ongoing expansion of its Gundam catalog three more pieces of the esteemed mecha franchise had been added to the platform: Awakening of the Trailblazer, the movie sequel to the 2007 series Gundam 00; Char’s…