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Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Side Story Manga Launches in Spring (Updated)

posted on by Joanna Cayanan
Side story set years after Vanadis Incident

The March issue of anime series in seven years, will get a side story manga that will start serialization in the magazine in spring.

mogmo is credited for original character design.

The side story manga is set several years after the Vanadis incident. A witch named Vilda Miren is a survivor, and she travels around the earth with a "curse."

The Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury anime also has a novel adaptation, which started serialization in Gundam Ace in November.

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The show is the first main Gundam television anime series with a female protagonist. The anime Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired.

YouTube channel outside of Japan on September 1. The prequel anime also debuted on streaming services in Japan on September 4, and later aired on MBS and TBS on September 25.

The anime's official website YOASOBI's opening theme song "Shukufuku" (The Blessing) for the anime. The anime's Japanese website published the short story on October 2.

Update: The manga is titled Kidō Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo Vanadis Heart and it will launch in the magazine's May issue on March 25. Source: Gundam Ace April issue

Source: Gundam Ace March issue



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