Too much comics rot the brain, And I love it!

To be honest, I’m more inclined to celebrate the first episode’s anniversary but the finale is also good. At first I wasn’t sure what to do with that ending. I think that I was more concerned about what people would think about the ending than about what I thought. That was a problem I grappled with for a long time, because I was putting the show not only against my own expectations but against other Gundam fans’ expectations which was a losing game from the start. Once I rewatched it on a context completely removed from all the Discourse, I was able to appreciate it in my own terms. The show still has things I didn’t like that much among others I absolutely love and it holds a special place in my heart. It may not be the best Gundam but it is my favorite Gundam.

Even after three years, the show still manages to spark discussion (which made me amazed at the people who hate it, to be honest, they could be doing some better things with their time…) but I don’t want to dwell on it. I think that one of the most important messages from G-Witch is that disabled people deserve a happy and fulfilling life. Suletta started off as someone very worried about being considered “useless” and at the end, she’s cherished and taken care of. Most importantly, she’s happy with her life and she’s in a place where she gets to decide and plan her own future. This extends to the rest of her family, who are still alive and well despite their disability. I think that the show could had examined the topic of disability more, but the fact that they decided to explore it at all, when other shows normally don’t, is still very important.

Another thing I liked was that Miorine was able to step out from the cycle of violence in which her father, Prospera and other adults dragged her in. Her solution might had been naive and idealistic and later she even admits that it didn’t 100% work, but she’s the kind of person who will keep trying to learn from her past mistakes and make things better without resorting to violence. A lot of Tomino’s Gundam stories are about how the previous generations keep failing the children and burdening them with the sins of the past. This also happens in G-Witch but the endgame is that children can carve their own future and even teach the adults that they can go to a new direction and start fixing things as well. I think this message is important and valid.

Also, the two girls got married at the end, so that’s a win. (Even if Sunrise/Bandai won’t recognize it until Gundams 90th anniversary if we’re lucky)

Thank you, Witch from Mercury and may all blessings find their way to you.

Ramona, 2006

2006 was 6 years ago =(

The podcast “you must remember this” mentions on her episode how Crawford actively turned herself into “a lady” or more specifically picked one idea of being a lady and comittef to it.

There Is even quoting a fluff article it was made of her and it was shown how she had an specific desk for writing letters and if my memory doesn’t betray me had a dressing gown for that fact.

Jury strikes me as a person whose family comes from money (I have a further head canon that family line of Arisugawa Takehito wasn’t ended with him, it just lost the aristocrátic title) but she does seem extremely commited to a certain STYLE.

She didn’t pick the regular “Ojou sama” aesthetic, she either went for either old Hollywood glamour or a paralel Japanese style (I don’t know if there is one, but if they are retro rockers, the changes are more than zero)

Ignore how crunchy this looks I’ll make a better resolution version maybe or never

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"It must have serious value!"

Delicious~

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Chapters: 18/19 Fandom: 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Anime) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Suletta Mercury/Miorine Rembran, Gundam Aerial | Ericht Samaya & Suletta Mercury, Gundam Aerial | Ericht Samaya & Prospera Mercury & Suletta Mercury Characters: Miorine Rembran, Suletta Mercury, Gundam Aerial | Ericht Samaya, Prospera Mercury, Chuatury “Chuchu” Panlunch, Norea Du Noc, Nika Nanaura, Earth House (Witch from Mercury), Yushura Mirzakhani, Sophie Pulone Additional Tags: Modern AU, Cambio de cuerpos, sheenanigans, misterio, sulemio Summary:

El día a día de Ericht Samaya siempre es el mismo. No importa cuánto se canse ni cómo se sienta, tiene que seguir siempre adelante para ayudar a su familia. Un día se topa con una forastera y todo comienza a cambiar.

THE GHOST IN THE SHELL | Trailer | July 7, 2026

Wasn't expecting the addition of a Cowboy Bebop-ish saxophone there.

Like the original manga is a different entity to the two animated movies which is separate from the show Stand Alone Complex which is unrelated to the live-action movie (which recycles elements of both the show and the movies with... mixed results) which is in turn unrelated to the mini-series GITS: Arise.

In the original manga (which this new show is drawing from) and Stand Alone Complex, she is explicitly bisexual, with both former and current girlfriends and boyfriends.

In the original animated movie and its sequel Innocence her preferences doesn't really come up in the plot, as her being lonely and alienated from other people and herself is kinda the point of the first movie as she's not sure she's a real person or an android that's been tricked into thinkings its human with false memories. You could interpret her friendship with Batou as being romantic, but between the two movies I'd say it's more firmly on the side of them being close platonic friends and that's it.

Arise is the only one to firmly underline that she's straight if I remember correctly, which is one of several reasons I don't really like the mini-series much ( even if it has some interesting parts, like how the cost of the maintenance of cybernetic bodies basically traps those who become cyborgs for government gigs in effectively indentured servitude where they can never earn enough to buy their own bodies to free themselves). It's effectively a recycled version of SAC but less good, and with Motoko designed to look 16 years old for some reason.

The live-action movie I've not gotten around to fully seeing, and while there were elements that certainly fit with the wider franchise outside of just straight references to the movies and SAC (extrapolating from a scene in the movie where it shows that Motoko's body is a default design appearance-wise that's also used for store mannequins, the internal explanation for why Scarlett Johanssen is playing a character with a Japanese name is that they ARE Japanese, but the corporation that turned her into a cyborg defaults to white-appearing bodies as most of their potential customers are in America and Europe or something?). It's a frustrating watch, where the people who made it had evidently seen enough of the prior franchise to reference stuff, but not to understand what they're talking about. Like how ScarJo's original Japanese face is visible if you remove the literal white cybernetic "shell" face off, for example? Or how in a franchise that previously had cybernetics as just a part of every day life for people in the setting, the American movie tried it as tragic and dehumanising when, say, Batou gets the prosthetic eyes of his manga/anime counterparts after getting blinded on the job, for example.

Great theme song too, with hints in the title sequence to Motoko's past that don't become obvious until the second season.

Stand Alone Complex doesn't directly adapt any manga storyline but instead focuses on longer story telling on philosophical concepts and the dynamics of the team which, in my opinion, makes it the most faithful adaptation to the spirit of the Manga (and yes you do see Motoko's girlfriends, though not a lot).