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My thoughts on the Gundam: Witch from Mercury Episode 0/1

most g-witch haters: hating on lesbians

me, a g-witch disliker: intensely critical of gundam releases since iron blooded orphans (the pinnacle of all mid) and disappointed in the disparity between a baby killing soldiers in the prologue and finding out "oh they actually settle debates at school with gundam fights xD", the latter of which, being, just barely removed from gundam build fighters just with some added terrorism and war in the backdrop is extremely disappointing

all im saying is, if the school setting is like 95% of this show you can unfollow cause i will slander it every week just as hard as i have tokyo revengers. for me, it's not even about that its set in school, code geass is too and they still managed to have some sick as fuck moments and its the same writer, but i do not trust any gundam AU to be good because IBO was fine in the first half but became complete dogshit by the end of the 2 seasons (50 episodes) and this show only has 25 so I don't want to waste my time if it is mostly set in school

it did not go over my head that it's basically utena, the author wrote some of the novels for that franchise

But I am relatively disappointed with the jump from the serious space politics in the prologue to the military school juvenile drama of Episode 1 and the MC being in a lesbian romance doesn't really change the quality of writing for me. Happy for y'all but it was pretty disappointing to see the tone change up, and if it remains a story about what was relatively petty at school (granted Guel is a fucking dickhead, but you'd have to be watching w your eyes closed not to be able to glean that much)

As far as having a lesbian main character in a major mecha franchise that isn't a new one, that's all well and good, I'm happy for that since Tomino originally said something akin to only Fujoshi really understand what gundam is about, and I don't think he meant that there's romantic subtext in the most explicit sense but detected aspects of their character that people who didn't try to pair characters together couldn't see as clearly as the shippers did (which is hilarious since no creator would ever say this now). Now in G-Witch there's overt context which you would have to willfully be ignorant to ignore the setup for, especially when they recreated shot for shot entire scenes and tropes from Utena.

Still, I don't really care who ends up with who in the majority of things I watch, so the tone jump between the prologue and episode 1 really pissed me off.

I've seen Code Geass, and this whole school shit better be a smokescreen, cause if we have to unironically watch student duels for the next 10 episodes I'm reducing this series into the ground bro you're gonna have to block me to avoid the slander

I'm kinda just tired of everything that isn't part of the UC, or 00 being dog shit

IBO was bad, build series is cool in a cool robot kind of way but it's really annoying me that the writing is this piss poor for a pilot episode