Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Anime Sets October 2 Launch with New Visual, Trailer

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, the franchise’s first anime series in seven years and first-ever with a lead female protagonist, continued to build its monumental hype today with the release of a new key visual, trailer, opening theme song info, more cast members and an October 2 at 17:00 JST premiere time.

Key Visual

On top of keying us in to Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury‘s epic soundtrack, action and characters, the new trailer also provides a preview of the anime’s opening theme song, “Shukufuku” (“Blessing”) by YOASOBI (BEASTARS S2 OP)

 

The newly announced additional cast members are as follows:

Yohei Azakami (Ayumu in When Will Ayumi Make His Move?) as

Guel Jeturk

Natsuki Hanae (Tanjiro in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) as

Elan Ceres

Makoto Furukawa (Shirogane in Kaguya-sama: Love is War) as

Shaddiq Zenelli

Yume Miyamoto (Shiho in Tomodachi Game) as

Nika Nanaura

Miyu Tomita (Riko in Made in Abyss) as

Chuatury Panlunch

 

Hiroshi Kobayashi, who directed TRIGGER’s original anime KIZNAIVER, is helming the series at studio Sunrise alongside Code Geass co-creator Ichiro Okouchi as scriptwriter and series composer, joined by this full platoon of staff members:

Source: Comic Natalie, Official Twitter